kcchief19
04-07-2005, 08:49 PM
Idiot' Damon is swinging away in book
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JEFFREY FLANAGAN
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<!-- begin body-content --> Remember that innocent, lovable image that Johnny Damon once portrayed as he came up through the Royals system?
Say bye-bye to that.
Damon probably torpedoed that for good now that his long-awaited book Idiot: Beating The Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life has landed in the bookstores.
Damon reveals himself as the stereotypical self-indulgent, sex-crazed ballplayer who used women and dumped his wife after finally making it to the big time. Damon writes that he made the decision to divorce his high school sweetheart, Angie Vannice, at the start of the 2002 season. The couple have 5-year-old twins.
After telling her to leave their home near Boston and go back to Orlando, Damon said, Vannice came back against his wishes. At that point, Damon writes, he told her, “ ‘There's no reason for you to be here' … Just to push her buttons I added, ‘I was with three more girls while you were gone.' ”
After Vannice left for good, Damon said he really started to have some fun.
“If you're good-looking and a ballplayer, girls want a piece of you,” he wrote. “For the rest of the (2002) season, I met some women, some good, some bad. I had some one-nighters that I had never gotten to experience before. It was fun. I ended up having to carry around a separate cell phone for the women to call me. I didn't want them to have my main number because my phone would have been ringing off the hook and it just got tiring.”
Damon said he never had problems finding women once he left Vannice.
“After I broke it off with one woman, she told me, ‘I don't mind if you see other girls, too,' ” Damon wrote. “Most women weren't so flexible. I remember one who was clearly a one-night stand who'd call me up and tell me she'd told all her friends we were dating …
“One (other) time, I was propositioned by two girls at once, but I passed. Two girls might be able to handcuff me and kill me. Mostly, they just want more of your life than you can give them. I'm sure some of them wanted to get pregnant.”
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So what does Vannice think of the book? Naturally, she's embarrassed by the book's details.
“I have never said or done anything to promote this,” she told the Boston Herald. “I tried to make things as smooth as possible for the kids' sake.”
She blames the divorce on Damon's new wife, Michelle Mangan, whom she calls a “home-wrecker.”
“In baseball, as the wife, you are always the last to know,” Vannice said. “I found pictures of him and her together. He told me at the time we were breaking up that there were three (other women) and he couldn't decide between the three of them….
“I had 15 years with the guy. Then all of a sudden, I'm the scum of the earth. I'm kicked to the curb.”
Damon writes that his ex-wife just didn't understand.
“I wanted to live, have fun, not pick out furniture,” he wrote.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/11329591.htm
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Normally I would say there are two sides to every story, but it would be hard for Johnny's ex-wife to do more of a number on him than he does on himself. Call me old fashion, but this guy is an absolute tool.
I also like the part where he turns down a threesome because he's afraid they will handcuff him and kill him. He's also afraid of girls who just wants him to knock them up, but the article makes no mention about any fears of getting herpes from Ron Mexico.
On the upside, it sounds like the most accurate title for a memoir ever.
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JEFFREY FLANAGAN
http://www.kansascity.com/images/common/spacer.gif
<!-- begin body-content --> Remember that innocent, lovable image that Johnny Damon once portrayed as he came up through the Royals system?
Say bye-bye to that.
Damon probably torpedoed that for good now that his long-awaited book Idiot: Beating The Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life has landed in the bookstores.
Damon reveals himself as the stereotypical self-indulgent, sex-crazed ballplayer who used women and dumped his wife after finally making it to the big time. Damon writes that he made the decision to divorce his high school sweetheart, Angie Vannice, at the start of the 2002 season. The couple have 5-year-old twins.
After telling her to leave their home near Boston and go back to Orlando, Damon said, Vannice came back against his wishes. At that point, Damon writes, he told her, “ ‘There's no reason for you to be here' … Just to push her buttons I added, ‘I was with three more girls while you were gone.' ”
After Vannice left for good, Damon said he really started to have some fun.
“If you're good-looking and a ballplayer, girls want a piece of you,” he wrote. “For the rest of the (2002) season, I met some women, some good, some bad. I had some one-nighters that I had never gotten to experience before. It was fun. I ended up having to carry around a separate cell phone for the women to call me. I didn't want them to have my main number because my phone would have been ringing off the hook and it just got tiring.”
Damon said he never had problems finding women once he left Vannice.
“After I broke it off with one woman, she told me, ‘I don't mind if you see other girls, too,' ” Damon wrote. “Most women weren't so flexible. I remember one who was clearly a one-night stand who'd call me up and tell me she'd told all her friends we were dating …
“One (other) time, I was propositioned by two girls at once, but I passed. Two girls might be able to handcuff me and kill me. Mostly, they just want more of your life than you can give them. I'm sure some of them wanted to get pregnant.”
***
So what does Vannice think of the book? Naturally, she's embarrassed by the book's details.
“I have never said or done anything to promote this,” she told the Boston Herald. “I tried to make things as smooth as possible for the kids' sake.”
She blames the divorce on Damon's new wife, Michelle Mangan, whom she calls a “home-wrecker.”
“In baseball, as the wife, you are always the last to know,” Vannice said. “I found pictures of him and her together. He told me at the time we were breaking up that there were three (other women) and he couldn't decide between the three of them….
“I had 15 years with the guy. Then all of a sudden, I'm the scum of the earth. I'm kicked to the curb.”
Damon writes that his ex-wife just didn't understand.
“I wanted to live, have fun, not pick out furniture,” he wrote.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/11329591.htm
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Normally I would say there are two sides to every story, but it would be hard for Johnny's ex-wife to do more of a number on him than he does on himself. Call me old fashion, but this guy is an absolute tool.
I also like the part where he turns down a threesome because he's afraid they will handcuff him and kill him. He's also afraid of girls who just wants him to knock them up, but the article makes no mention about any fears of getting herpes from Ron Mexico.
On the upside, it sounds like the most accurate title for a memoir ever.