Full Count » Reports: Mark Teixeira a Yankee

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Dumbfounded

Makes no sense!!!

big tony

what a jerk he is !!!!!!!!!!

IAN

WOMP WOMP WOMPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Bubba

No surpise. Makes it easier to hate them.

Megan

Wow. Seems like the fact it took so long for him to come to a decision and the offers are similar that he wanted to go to the Yankees all along. All it took was one offer in one day to sign??

corey

nice to know that the yankees can spend almost a half a billion dollars while people in this country lose there jobs and homes, and the yankees can ask for more money for statium from the city and state

Gary

Wow. i will truely have to hate him now….what a piece of trash…went to the highest bidder which almost always seems to be the Yankees. I agree with Corey, disgraceful what the Yankees spent…only positive is that it pretty much leaves Manny screwed

rick

SO WHAT!!!!!!

Anne

Those damn Yankees! Let’s just hope that this works out about as well as their signing of A-Rod!
A big “welcome back”! to Mikey Lowell….

shannon

I am happy that we get to keep Mikey Lowell, they can have Texiera. i am amazed that he went there though, now where does Manny go??

David

I love how everyone is all “so what” or “they can have him” with regard to Tex to the Yanks. Until 3:30 today, just about everyone was getting ready to celebrate Tex to the Sox. Gotta love Sox fans.

Frank

All along it made no sense that they Yankees wouldn’t be making a play for him. It sucks but everything happens for a reason. They got Arod and haven’t won anything. Just hope the Sox can pickup a big bat. As good as Bay was the offense wasn’t the same w/o Manny in lineup.

http://weei.com Tim

You cannot buy chemistry, a team full of all-stars will not get by our hard-working, srappy boys!

Fearful

The current CBA expires in 2011. I hope this off season finally forces the owners to grow a set and make a stand for a salary cap starting in 2012. I could get behind a lockout if it means this sort of thing never happens again.

P.S. Screw you Steinbrenners.

Kim August

There goes the season. The yanks will win by 20 games! SUCKS!

Bostonsports29

teixeira and borass and the stupid you know whos can go fall in a ditch and leave earth forever….bunch of greedy pigs spen 400 million on your stupid greedy steriod team while the whole country is in a econmic meltdown

GO RED SOX!!

Chuck

LETS GO YANKS #27!

http://MocoSpace.com Sox Fan

Wow – Great job Henry, Luccino and Theo. We trusted you with this one and you blew it. Who the hell are you going to sign now to compete? Lowe? Try dishing out the cash for once.

http://weei.com Ken G

The Red Sox should have made a very strong offer with a 48 hour deadline and walk away instead of letting the Yankees and Boras do the same thing they did with Johnny Damon.

Dave

When the Yankees signed Mussina the Red Sox signed Manny. When the Yanks signed Arod the Red Sox countered with Schilling. In this case I don’t see the Red Soz being able to match the Yankees this time. Hopefully Beckett comes back and pitches lights out along with Leser.

Marc

Once again fooled by the Yankees. The Red Sox brass should be ashamed and all of the Red Sox fans who are now saying we didn’t want him anyway.

Mark

The worst part of this is that the Yankees can still go out and get Manny too! They paid a whopping $26M luxury tax and have reduced their payroll by $85M (before the recent signings). Add Texeria, with CC Sabathia and Burnett and they only added $62M a year. Manny for another $20M can easliy fit! YIKES !!!

We better go get Peavy and Penny.

Marc

Doesn’t matter who the get it is over. Go Bruins, and Celtics…

http://WEEI LOCKY

MONEY DOESN’T PREVENT INJURIES. LET’S HOPE THE CURSE STRIKES THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER THE SPOILED KID ALWAYS GETS HIS ASS WHIP IN THE END. KEEP THE FAITH! GO SOX!!!!

Edwin P

What a bunch of bull!! Sox fans were salivating to have Mark Teixeira as their new first baseman, to hit behind Ortiz and ship Lowell off in a trade during spring training. Yankees pulled off a move that everyone thought Boston had in the bag. Offseason scoreboard reads Yankees 3 and Red Sox 0!!

The Evil Empire retuns!!! Go Yankees!!!

Whatever!

Well, Mr. Boras, try to sell Varitek to the Red Sox now!

Ryan

If the Sox were willing to offer $160m-$170m, what’s another $10m, it sucks not getting Tex, hurts even more that he went to the Skanks.

anskynaf

Awesome signing by the Yankees. Lowell is now back but what’s going to happen to Varitek? Yanks will still be under last yr’s payroll. Manny got screwed on this deal.

Robert

You realize the Yankees payroll will actually be LOWER this year then is was last year?

brendonio

Gotta hand it to those Yankee douchebags, they don’t plan on missing the playoffs this year. I hope CC gags on Tex’s burning jockstrap while he’s still wearing it! Not bitter at all.

Roger

Boras and Tex both wanted the Yanks all along. Boras can just call them when other bids are in and he’ll always get more. It’s his personal ATM machine.

You can’t compete financially against the baseball equivalent of Fort Knox.

Tex will fit in where all the other overpaid egos like to call home.

Sad in the Heart

I do not know who to hate in this deal where we did not get Tex. But, I am so sick that the Yankees got him. I was sure that Theo was smarter that Brian. However, I still say, “In Theo I Trust!” I am still sad.

Sad in the Heart

$180 Million Dollars. They are not building a bridge, or a hospital. They are paying $180 Million for a baseball player. American values are so distorted and wrong.

Guillaume

I am listening to Whiner Line right now. You callers remind me of the kid in high school who really, really liked the pretty girl. When she, to know surprise, chooses the good looking, athletic hunk on campus, you badmouth her relentlessly when what you really wanted all along (and still do) was to get in her pants! You’re a jealous, low-life bunch of sh*t 4 brains! Deal with it. You can still pick up the librarian’s helper! Ha ha!!

Guillaume

Hey Anne! Your right. Let’s hope this deal works out for the Yankees like the A-Rod deal did. (Another MVP, and numbers only your cast of characters can dream about.)

Oh yeah! If I was ”Mikey” Lowell, after two winters of your team dangling this poor guy, I wouldn’t want to be welcomed back!

Guillaume

Hey “Sad In The Heart”… Epstein’s “Smarter than Cashman”? Because he’s your GM it has to be true? Carved in stone?? In Theo You Trust? Yeah, right!

You trying to kid me or are you kidding yourself. I believe it’s the latter.

When Boston makes a smart acquisition (IE: Ortiz or Matzu-whatever) I give them credit. Why is it so difficult for you folks to do the same? Are you that sorry a bunch? That envious of smart business?

You and the rest of your deluded cronies in and around Boston should pray that someone comes and takes you to some sort of detox facility. You’re all brainwashed, and in need of some help.

SteveB

Oh you poor Red Sox fans. Don’t complain about the money, because your very own owner John Henry was ready to sell the farm to get Teixeira. Teixeira was exactly what the Yankees needed. It puts you back in the rear view window where you belong. Hope you don’t cough too much from our dust in 2009.

Oh ps– the Yankees payroll is LOWER than 2008.

Merry Christmas.

Wayne

team play always will beat out individual superstars. the real problem is Boras needs to get over his Napolean complex or this will keep happening

yankees are STILL cursed!

Funny, the yankees have scooped up players from the Sox for years, Arod, Abreau….how did they work out for ya? 8 Years and HOW MANY rings? HAHAHA enjoy your new flop house!!! And its true…money can’t buy team chemistry, championships OR your curse away! HAHAHAHAHA

yankees are STILL cursed!

TEX = AROD 2, THE SEQUEL!!! HAHAHA Oh yea, didn’t the Red Sox LIGHT up that fat bastard CC in the 2007 playoffs??? Sorry SteveB and Guillaume, your team still blows! HAHAHA

Mark Dmersky

Boy, talk about Sour grapes ! Pick up 3 of the best players in baseball and you are still 14 M under last years payroll. A lot of companies would love to be able to do that ! You just hope Aunt Jamima’s boo boo on his wrist heals.

Go Yankees !!

Guillaume

REACTIONS FROM SOME OF YOUR BIGGEST AND BRIGHTEST:

Tony Massarotti isn’t pleased with how this turned out. “Instead, the Sox lost Teixeira for what amounted to about $10-$15 million over eight years, which is chump change for a franchise with an estimated value (including NESN and Fenway Park) or somewhere in the range of $1 billion.” He notes also that the Sox had plenty of contracts coming off the books, much like the Yankees.

Gordon Edes calls this a “staggering blow” to the Red Sox and Angels.

Big Poopi (not Big Papi, incidentally) chimes in with “What now passes as your average Red Sox fan is an ignorant, misinformed beer swilling nitwit who doesn’t know beans from buttons about business or professional baseball”.

Be angry with your ownership and front office, not the NY Yankees. They only do what other teams would do if they could. If you can afford and want it… buy it!

The Red Sox can afford it, but apparently don’t want it enough to buy it. That’s not the Steinbrenner family’s fault.

Professional athletes want (and get) real money… U.S. Tender, not Food Stamps or Taco Bell coupons!

Henry, Warner & the rest have to pay them what the market demands, or thye’ll keep losing out over a few extra bucks (a pittance in the grand scheme of things.) You all were salivating over the prospect of A-Rod until he went south on you.

Johnny Damon was your boy until Theo and the idiots who make the command decisions at Fenway let him slip away for a few extra bucks. Now, he’s a bum to you. And don’t even start about broken loyalty, either. That argument borders on insanity

You will all dutifully hate Sabathia and Teixeira because the boys up in the offices inside Yawkey Way couldn’t pull the trigger. Boo hoo, poor you!

An aside to “yankees are STILL cursed!”: Blow it out your behind, you big baby! (That goes for the rest of you “In Theo I Trust” fools, too.)

Merry Christmas, Boston! Now go cry in your lousy Sam Adams!!

mr t

Sr. Teixeira, vai comer meu cou! Seu amigo Boras tembem!

http://www.longlivefixaris.com RedHawk

Two things…

1. From the Yankees’ actions, they were going to swoop in and outbid the highest bidder no matter what, so this talk that the Red Sox “didn’t go the extra mile” is pointless. Had John Henry not made his pronouncement last week and stayed in the bidding, the Yankees probably would have snuck in with a $250 million bid if that’s what it came to. What the Yankees what, the Yankees get.

2. The Yankees CAN’T sign Manny now. No team can sign more than three Type A free agents this off-season, and Teixeira makes three such free agents for the Yankees this time around. Looks like Manny’s stuck with the NL unless he can talk the Angels out of taking themselves out of the running for his services.

Personally, I’ve been in the “we can live without Teixeira” camp from the start of this off-season, so this doesn’t bother me all that much. It makes the AL East more interesting and that much more competitive. NOTHING is decided and I don’t believe any team is a clear cut favorite yet.

NattYouk

Sox fans, lets take this one on the chin (That’s what she said.) Yankee fans will relate, when they were winning world series in the 90s they were doing it with impressive drafting/development. Sox have L. Anderson coming up hopefully in 2010 who has great offensive potential. Along with Bowden, Buckholz, Masterson and the rotation we have. Drew, Lugo, Lowell coming off the books in what appears to be the best fitting years (Lugo would be nice to make disappear now, but I’d take he and Lowry combined for the 12 mil for a year or two.) Like Biggie said, “mo’ money , mo’ problems.”. Forget the 400 mil and the totally unrelated hosing/credit crisis. Sox, forget about Varitek and Lowe. Go with Brown and Kottaras behind the plate. Be happy you got a lefty an a righty. See what we’ve got going forward. Yanks will not mesh into a Championship team for ’09.

http://yahoo.com jack rossettti

Let see
Yankee to move into 1.3 billion stadium
sign C.C. and A.J. to improve pitching
sign Mark Tex. to stabilize lineup for next 8 year

red sox freeze ticket prices (already highest in baseball)
sign 22 year old japanese pitcher for Double A
still play in Fenway park, which should have been replaced at least two decades ago.

Great job john henry Hopefully fans will see through you and begin to boycott attending games

Paul

The more things change….
The AL East would have been slightly more competitive now, and much more competitive in 2-4 years, If MT had chosen to play in Baltimore, but it would appear that his agent would have none of that. So much for a level playing field and fan enjoyable competition. The Red Sox didn’t really need (or deserve) MT, but they had to “flex” for Boras. Silly posturing. The NYYankees have, no make that had, a real need for a 1Bman. In typical and historical Yankee manner they bought the best 1Bman on the market. Hopefully this will have the same effect as the last time the Yankees did this. For the RS Nation that would be, of course, no NY Yankee World Series. As was the case when the evil empire signed Jason Giambi. The second part of the Machievellan plan worked, however. The A’s who “should” have beaten the Yankees in the playoffs (with Giambi and Tejada) were never the same, and so the Yankee plan of taking away from your best rival so as to defeat him with your checkbook was a success. This page from the Yankee playbook was tried with Damon, and failed miserably. It was tried with the twin towers of Clemens and Pettite (after the Astros made it to the WS), and failed again. And now it is tried with the Angels (although one has to go back to pre MT day to find a Halo team that eliminated the Empire from the post season). Still the example is valid. Someone, and the Yankees are hoping it is they, from the East, most likely will have to go through Anaheim to advance in the post season. Better to cut them off at the knees with your check book during the off season than to risk a competitive scrum in October. Yankee baseball, the old fashioned way.
The more things stay the same…..
Mr. Teixeira you have a message from Mr. Ripken. Keep your pinstripes. You had your chance. Accept your destiny.

Tom

Funny that Shepperd claimed it was all a ruse, that reporter John Heymon was a Boras stooge, and that the Red Sox would get him in the end.

Good job, Pete, do you have any stock tips for us?

chris

We should just sign Manny