My Twitter is absolutely blowing up with rumors about the Mets pursuing Johnny Damon this offseason now that he wasn’t offered arbitration by the Yankees.

I’m not sure any of them are substantiated, but I figured this was as good a time as any to link up this post from late October, when I pointed out what a downright Mets-ish move signing Damon would be.

I want to reiterate one thing about Damon that bothers me, though, and it has little to do with the player he is on the field:

Johnny Damon is a massive sellout.

This isn’t a good reason not to sign a baseball player, I realize. It’s an emotional thing, not the type of thing that should dictate front-office decisions. But here’s what I wrote in October:

I really don’t begrudge baseball players for taking the largest contracts offered to them, but leaving the Red Sox for the Yankees while shaving his caveman beard and cutting his hair was just too much. C’mon, guy. At least get yourself a beard clause in the contract. He makes Mark McGrath look like Ian MacKaye.

And here’s Reel Big Fish on the matter.