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Teixeira update: Touching all the bases

December 19th, 2008, 7:17 am · 2 Comments · posted by Earl Bloom, staff writer

The views are varied after the latest development in the Mark Teixeira saga.
Call it the Texas Twister, but it has thrown the baseball world into an uproar while the wait goes on.
Foxsports.com’s Ken Rosenthal still thinks the Boston Red Sox will land the switch-hitting first baseman but questions whether he is worth the numbers floating around.
The Boston Herald’s Sean McAdam is taking Red Sox owner John Henry at his word, that Boston has dropped out of the hunt.
In New York, the Post’s George King III reports Yankees GM Brian Cashman says his team wasn’t the one that outbid the Red Sox.
Yahoo! Sports’ Gordon Edes documents the Red Sox’s long and storied history of negotiating with Scott Boras clients.
In Baltimore, the Sun’s Peter Schmuck, long ago an Orange Couny Register colleague, says all bets are off.
Meanwhile the Angels are standing with their eight-year offer to Teixeira, which GM Tony Reagins calls a fair offer but won’t say if it’s a final one.
Only six more shopping days until Christmas, when Teixeira has said he would like to have this decided.
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     2 Comments

    • Eugene F. says:
      December 19, 2008 at 8:16 am

      “Best guess is that it’ll be Boston” - That’s the “best guess” Rosenthal can take, WHY?

      Why doesn’t he and almost every OTHER baseball reporter across the country come out and say these three things:

      1. I haven’t been in the room, so I really don’t know what’s been said.

      2. Since I haven’t gone to the “anonymous team source” card, I’m just venting my opinion because I’m just another lemming who thinks that Boston and New York are sexier places to play than Anaheim.

      3. John Henry said 2 days ago that Boston wasn’t going to give anyone else a 10-year deal and yesterday he said that the team is out of the running. But I’ll have the courage to write that John Henry is liar.

      Never have I seen a free-agent situation when people knew so little, but hoped for so much.

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    • AngelsFan says:
      December 19, 2008 at 6:53 pm

      Eugene, I couldn’t have written this any better myself and I LOVE it. All I can say is DITTO! Well done, my friend.

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