"There's no way I can go play for the Yankees", Damon said, "but I know they're going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need."
"Manny was already there," he said. "He sees me and says: 'You look Spanish. You have a little afro, I have a little afro. Let's go hit.'"