(AP Photo/Eric Gay)Just after signing with the Tigers, Johnny Damon was saying some things about how the Yankees handled their end of the deal and came off a little bit...uhhhh....douchey. Today, with the Yankees in Lakeland to face the Tigers, Damon spoke much more kindly about his former team. Here's the quotes from Chris Girandola and the AP:
"I got to see a whole bunch of them and, secretly, they all miss me,"...
"We definitely are on good terms; they're just doing things the way they want to and I have to do it my way. It's a little different for some people, but when it's all said and done, at least I can say I did it the right way also."
"Of course I would have loved to have helped to win another championship with them," Damon said of the Yankees. "New York is a great franchise, and I'm happy to have won a championship while there. I'm going to try to do everything I can now to help these guys win one."Damon also spoke about how going to the Tigers was a smooth transition for him, and the difference between New York and Detroit.
"The pressure to win [in Detroit] is different, obviously," Damon said. "Going from Boston to New York, it was already ingrained. There was no way I was going to wear my ring [from winning a World Series with the Red Sox] while in New York. That would have been tough to do that."Is he saying he's going to wear his Yankees championship ring in Detroit?
He did also mention once again that he knew he wanted to end up a Tiger. But we all know that what he's actually saying is since he couldn't get $8 million a year from the Yanks, his first choice became the Tigers.
