Johnny damon -- bad politics, bad judgment...and destined for a bad year?

Johnny Damon has already shown poor judgment in selecting presidential candidates, but you'd think that he'd be able to soundly appraise probably the one thing he knows a bit about -- baseball, specifically the athletes who hurl this stitched sphere towards hitters like himself. So it's puzzling to see him quoted in the Times as saying that Toronto's pitching is "probably the best" and that he'd "put them up against anybody".

We know that Burnett just stymied the team, and we're all for improving bi-lateral relations with our nippy neighbors to the north, but with comments like those make you wonder how much Damon actually follows baseball.

What's most alarming, though, is that Steve Goldman wrote recently that a line of .256/.310/.385 isn't unrealistic. And neocon corner outfielders who can't hit, field, or string together reality-based sentences harm society more than they help it.