Johnny Damon: Cocky and Funny
 

Idiot' Damon is swinging away in book


JEFFREY FLANAGAN

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.

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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.

seems like a real dickhead

asshat

Well there goes my fondness for Johnny Damon. Seriously, is he like 10 years old?

Some day he'll wake up, smell the coffee, and realize that he's no longer a baseball player posing as a teenager with girly hair. Then I hope reality smacks him in the head like that collision did a couple years back.

dola
 

Wow. People like Johnny Damon make me hope that the Buddhists are right about karma.

What a fool.

You hadn't figured that out already?

The next thing you know rock stars are going to start having sex with groupies!

Yeah, I saw that this morning in the Star online. What a dumbass

SI

Maybe Fozzie hit damon in the head?

Don't hate the playa, hate the game.

I didn't realize that the 2 Ws in WWJDD? stood for Who Won't.

That's awful. I remember him having twins (because he started that season so poorly and he was on my fantasy team), and I can't believe he would just shit on them like that. I don't care if he gives them more child support every month than I make in a year, you can't do that to your kids.

Is the money he's going to make off this book really worth throwing himself in the gutter? It's not like this guy was Canseco, who couldn't get any lower. This guy was king of the world to those who didn't know any better.

To be honest, I would probably act the same way. I may act that was earlier in my career, but I'm sure alot more athelets act the same way, they just don't write a book about it. Except Wilt...

I don't get the motive behind writing this book. Money? He's showing the world he's cool or something?

I mean I know most athletes are self absorbed but he's taking it to a new level.

I don't hate him as a result of what he described...I just view him as quite the moron now.

Would you dump your wife and toddler twins, though? I have no problem with someone wanting to live "the lifestyle," but shit, if you have other commitments you took on before you became God's gift to women, you damn sure better honor those first, or you're a Grade A Asshole in my book. From what I can tell, it wasn't like he and his ex-wife grew apart, he just decided to act like a 14-year old in a porn shop, and completely ignored any responsibility he had to his wife and kids. Completely unacceptable.

Count me as another guy who doesn't know what would happen to him if random hot women wanted to sleep with him. But I don't understand the book either.

JD is obviously trapped in adolescence.

Bingo.

As a father, I could never imagine abandoning my kids that way to chase poon. But that's just me.

His new wife has a nice pair of....... eyes... yeah eyes...

Yeah, she looks like a winner. And I'm sure she'd never be the type of mantrap who would try to divorce Damon and take half his money or "forget" to use birth control a couple of times so that she's set for the rest of her life.

SI

Huge tracts of land...

yes she does. big eyes. big bouncy eyes.

Not really the modest type, either. And who the hell keeps a picture like that for a file photo except maybe tabloids?

SI

His ex-wife had me sold, right up to the point where she said she was studying forensic science. Yep, she got her new life's calling from CSI!

Now I'm having to rethink this whole thing.

Didn't Britney Spears say the same thing, tho? Methinks there are a few too many dumb people watching CSI.

SI

I think so, but that's not exactly a ringing endorsement for his ex-wife...

WOW! Look at those mugumbo's!

Oh, my bad. I was thinking it was the current wife.

SI

I guess I'm alone here. JD = new hero.