Johnny Knoxville photo from EOnline.com
Let’s see. Mark Teixeira gets an enormous contract from the New York Yankees. Mark Teixeira is also, historically, a very slow starter.
Yankees fans are somewhat notorious for booing their high-paid players who don’t perform well on demand.
Yeah, April and May should be a blast for the Teixeiras. I think the missus should stay away from the park until maybe June.
But, honestly, what did you expect him to say? “We really wanted to play in Baltimore but what idiots would turn down what the Yankees offered?”? No player would ever be that honest.
I watched a little of his interview with Hazel Mae on the MLB Network last night. I lost count of how many times he mentioned that his sister lives in New Jersey. It was his passive way of saying “See, it wasn’t about the money! Jersey is close to New York!”.
So the Red Sox were never in it. Will this shut up everyone bitching about how Theo couldn’t get it done? Teixeira is where he wants to be. At the very least, he’s where his wife wants him to be. And even if he isn’t, it’s the store we’ll be beaten to death with in 2009.
Follow up to the last post. In this article about Teixeira, I found a line that made me laugh out loud:
They talked about family, routines, influential coaches and Teixeira’s assessment of the Yankees. The hours seemed to fly by, said Cashman, who marveled at the lessons Teixeira had absorbed from former teammates like Chipper Jones.
Mrs Teixeira should have told her husband to sign with a city that doesn’t have a Hooters in it.
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Don’t know about you, but I cannot wait to see Michelle Damon and Leigh Teixeira sit together in the new Yankee Stadium!
Whoo Hoo!
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 12:17 pm ¶Saw your comments on 38P, sir. Well done. Thumbs up.
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 1:59 pm ¶Too bad Mrs. Rodrigues won’t be joining them in the stands this year…How do you think they will all get along with Madonna? Talk about wanting to be a fly on that wall….Good luck New York…more drama on the way…probably no guarantees of winning though.
Dori
Woo Hoo…..three days til Bronson!
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 2:42 pm ¶LOL, “they should’ve moved to a city without a Hooters in it..”
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 3:32 pm ¶Priceless. :)
Why is this still an issue? Teixeira was signed WEEKS ago, and people are still griping about it (although the gripes went from the “Yankees’ spending spree” to “the Sox got duped” to “Leigh Teixeira”).
The Teixeiras went where they wanted to go and got the money they wanted to get. That simple.
The entries and comments in the Red Sox blogs I’ve read around the internet are like those of a high-school girl who didn’t get the attention of the local stud. Get over it already.
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 5:47 pm ¶New information came out yesterday in the press conference and from John Henry, and people rare reacting to it. Let me know if there’s anything else you’re unclear about.
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 7:15 pm ¶That should read “are,” not “rare.” (Sometimes my World Series rings hit the other keys.)
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 7:16 pm ¶//(Sometimes my World Series rings hit the other keys.)//
This is pure awesomeness.
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 9:12 pm ¶