Teixeira: Public comments hurt Sox in negotiations

Unfortunately horseface Tex never said to the Red Sox that the Yankees was his team. If he did the management wouldnt travel all the way to Texas to see him. How do we know that Boras wasnt behind the reports to the media? I cant wait to see this prick in Fenway. After Arod he will be the most hated Yankee.

it just proves that he signed "for money." you know what pisses me off? We get angered by the AIG people--crucify them in the press and on the Hill, yet we don't show the same "anger" toward a bunch of overpaid and in some cases cheaters drama kings and cry babies.

Ok, I am calling total BS on that. Tex needs to realize that the media here in Boston does not nd to have managment confirm a story. Just like every where really, but Boston is so baseball rabid that any whisper we hear is taken for Gospel. And if memory serves me correctly here, the Sox NEVER commented on their neg. w/ the p***ant to begin with. God I can't wait to jeer his @$$ when he gets to Fenway.

Can these guys ever string a sentence together that makes any sense? If the Yankees were his team all along as he says, how did the Sox media statements work against them? Wouldn't have mattered either way, and now he is just making silly statements to make the New York press happy.

What a bunch of crap!! The Red Sox kept quiet just about the whole time until he called and asked them to Texas...his agent was the big mouth. Boras did the same thing he always does, plays other teams and sneaks around with the Yankees. Why do you think Varitek ended up with poop for a contract? Teixeira's wife didnt want to come to Boston, so when the Yankees play in Boston, I hope she stays in New York with her millions. The Red Sox dont need another Manny, which is exactly what Teixeira has become. Let it go Teixeira...you got what you and wifey wanted. Now shut up about it!!

I dislike this guy more & more!

... and if he had signed with the Red Sox, the quote would have been "Oh, they were my #1 choice all along".

If the Yankees were Teixeira's number one all along, how did the Red Sox public comments really effect his decision? It actually worked to his benefit as it probably helped him get a larger contract from the Yankees.

Boras doesn't negotiate through the media? Since when?

Message to the Softy:Buck up whimpy!This is business,you played your hand and lost so quit crying or trying too cover your tracks by blaming your signing with the Yankees on teams that didn't play by your rules!!What a loser! Enjoy NY,you'll now be playing with your Steroid buddy,and now you 2 can lose some more games together..Can't wait to see you get shut out in Boston.....

Come clean Mark-- it was all about the $180 million... what's with the bs about wearing pinstripes? Jailbirds wear pinstripes!

This is Boras talking through Teixeira. Boras wants to be able to lie, so he doesn't want negotiations public. It's transparent.

He really makes no sense every time he opens his mouth. Let's see how good he feels about his Yankee experience when he faces Lester, Daisuke, Beckett, and Co., 20 times a season for the next 8 years.

I'm perfectly content with going after Miggy Cabrera when Detroit has trouble making payroll in June...

He is welcome to join Yankee greats Don Mattingly, Mike Mussina, and Alex Rodriguez in the pantheon of those who never won a championship. Money is apparently his sole motivator.

As with Alex Rodriguez, it looks like the Sox dodged themselves a bullet. New York can have him.

So basically Mark-My-Words is saying that the Yankees were his team all along, but the Red Sox hurt their chances by not being quiet enough -- which doesn't matter in the least because the Yankees were his team all along.

Makes a lot of sense.

Pardon me, but I think it might have been the money.

What an idiot. The only thing that hurt the Red Sox chances of signing him was the the Yankees added more zeros to their offer than the Red Sox did.

"HIGHEST PAID THIRD PLACE TEAM EVER"

It didn't really matter if the Red Sox FO leaked or didn't leak the info, right Tex? Right! Then STFU.

If the Yankees were going to be the team all along, why pick now to take gratuitous shots at Sox management? Also, if you want to keep negotiations classy, why have Boras as your agent? This guy is a great hitter. There are others like him out there in the future. A guy like Mauer is more important to what the Sox are looking to do in the future.

Who needs you Teixeira?...you're nothing but a postseason singles hitter anyway.

This guy is a true ball player. Being a fan of the pinstripes I've had enough of A Rod and having to be in the public eye. Sox fans be honest you wanted this guy yet now that he a Yankee you have to hate him right ? Of course you do yet if he wore red that would be your boy. Can't wait for the season to start, can't wait to read the hater comments. Are there any intelligent sox fans out there or must you say the Yankees suck ?

I remember when we were all gaga at the prospect of getting A-Fraud to sign with the Sox. Chalk up two arrogant windbags we will ultimately be better off without. I can't wait until Big Tex goes 0 for 5 against the Sox in Fenway with at least 3K's. That will be sweet.

These comments are rich coming from a Boras client.

Mark, not for nothing but it was YOUR AGENT doing the public negotiating.

"but in reality, the Yankees were gonna be the team, like I said all along, if all things were equal, "

So no matter what the Sox did, the husband of Leigh Teixeira still wants to go NY, so what is he complaining about ? Or am I missing something ?

So is it just me that thinks this, if it was always going to be the Yankees then the fact that other teams went through the media is nothing but an irrelevance. I mean it in the sense, how could it have worked against the Sox if they were never in with a shout?

But hey, why let that get in the way of Teixeira crying to the media and saying "Oh woe is me".

so what texiera is saying is he mislead the red sox, and just lead them on to get a better deal from the yankees, sounds a true whore to me

This guy is a stiff. Henry's public comments had nothing to do with his decision. He wanted top dollar, and hoped all along that the $$$ came from New York so his precious wife could shop on Madison Ave. He and New York deserve each other.

Yeah, right.

"I always had the Yankees in my sights, but was bargaining in good faith with the Red Sox, until they shot themselves in the foot by talking to the media."

When he's done playing baseball, he'll probably be selling real estate in Florida.

Why not the Yankees, no pressure to win in this decade, they've already lost with Ho-Rod and Jeter doesn't have much range so Tex won't have to make many difficult catches plus he'll get paid a ton of money with little expectation they'll win the W.S. Good choice Tex. And NYC, if anything, is a great place to raise a family.

Horse face is going to pay for this.

hmm,

"like I said all along, if all things were equal, the Yankees were the place that I wanted to go. " & "Being a Yankee and wearing the pinstripes into the new Yankee Stadium, it doesn't get any better than that."

So it really didn't matter what the Sox offered.

I hope I don't have to read another thing about Teixeira for the rest of the season. And I hope when he comes to Fenway there is no fuss made. Anything out of the ordinary will just be viewed as though we want him to be a Red Sox. Sportswriters need to let it go!!!

Oh please. When you admit that you planned to sign with the Yankees all along and were just playing everyone else in the negotiations, you hardly have standing to criticize how the Red Sox handled the process. Typical arrogant pinstriper - he belongs in the Bronx with the rest of those losers.

And the 180 million had nothing to do with it. FU Teixeira. Just shut your piehole and play.

The more I hear from Teixeira, and other baseball players like Ramirez, the more obvious it becomes they don't have a clue about what the rest of society has to do to make ends meet. It sickens me to hear them pass on million dollar offers because they weren't done according to their rules. How unbelievably pompous of Teixeira to state that he dismissed other teams that didn't bend to his every demand and therefore he went with the Yankees who knuckled under to his commands (and also happened to heap on him 180 million dollars). What planet does this guy live on? Obviously not planet earth where people are desperate to simple be employed.

Lars Anderson. Need i say more. Actually yes. Hey Yankees good luck in 2015 with 40 year old Alex Rodriguez and 35 tear old Teixiera. Mr. Anderson will 27 years old, entering his prime.

What's the point of the comment, Teixeira always knew he was going with the Yankees so it wouldn't have mattered anyway. Just a lot of BS just to keep the media happy

God, why couldn't the Red Sox just keep their mouths shut like the Yankees instead of blabbing to the media.

he's a piece of crap, him and the yanks deserve each other.

The public comments mattered, he said, then he said "the Yankees had a leg up all along." In other words, it didn't matter one bit. Leigh's husband should fit in just fine with Madonna's mannequin. Glad I'm a Sox fan and not a long-suffering Yankee fan.

He is full of it. It all has to do with money. Money talks!!!!

Uh....isn't this a non-story? We know that Leigh likes the stores in NYC better, we know that the Portuguese Pig had the Yanks in "(his) sights all along," and we know that Boras is being Boras. Teixeira held out for the most moolah, was desirous of being in pinstripes...but if so, how did "talking to the media" work against the Red Sox? Whatever, Mark. Hope you're happy, and that Leigh doesn't bankrupt you shopping. Nice pop-outs last week, too...

It was really the Yankees all the time, but I just wanted you to behave like I wanted you to behave.
That makes it easy, you twit. It's a pleasure not to have you here. Maybe you and A-Rod can double-date Madonna.

My respect for this guy just went to zero. Texieira admits he was playing the Sox to get the Yankees to raise their offer. When he says, "in reality, the Yankees were gonna be the team" he means the negotiations were just a ploy for leverage. Which was EXACTLY what the Sox were accusing him of in those "public remarks". No wonder, then, he has a problem with the Sox: They were TELLING THE TRUTH.

The Yankees and you deserve each other. Enjoy third place, clownboy.

"Spurning" offers. Good grief. The guy made a decision, selected where he wanted to work.

If as Teixeira said, he had wanted to go to the Yankees, then he used the Sox, so he should be pleased . Apparently no amount of publicity was going to change that. Earlier he made the statement that his wife wanted to go to NY. I guess he still wants it both ways. This was a publicity stunt, to give the Yankees bragging rights.
They used their money to sign outlandish contracts, while asking NY city for more money to finish their new stadium. Was this another type of bailout, even before they were fashionable.
Maybe the Yankees invented Bailouts.

The Yankess were gonna be the team, the Yankees were the place I wanted to go, made the most sense, blah blah blah.
The Red Sox public comments may have hurt them, but you were going to the Yankees anyway regardless of what the Sox did

Thanks for clearing that up Mark

What a chump. Now I have no bad feelings about this guy ending up on the Yankmees. Everyone made their offers public... that's why you chose not to join them? Not the fact the Yanks put up the biggest dollars? Thank god for Youk!

"Being a Yankee and wearing the pinstripes into the new Yankee Stadium, it doesn't get any better than that."

I'm sure you'll thrill to Hank Steinbrenner's public rants and insults when you hit a slump. You might as well be wearing his leash.

After your public life is exposed and publicized in the NYC rags, you might not be be so sensitive to the comments other teams made about your free agency.

Being a Yankee used to mean being part of a team. Now they're just a collection of overpriced free agents reaching for that last big pay day.

We are all painfully aware by now the Sox never were in the running for Mrs. or Mr. Teixiera so I could care less about his or their reasoning for choosing the Yankmes !! I knew it, apparently way before him or his wife, and said so way back at the end of the season !! One question a reasonable person would have to ask is, If in fact it was going to be the Yankmes all along, Why did it take so long and why the "Extra" 10 mil ?? I mean you did say if all things ere equal !!

GO SOX 2009 !!

That's a bit disingenuous and self-serving by our Mr. Teixeira. He and his agent want the negotiations to be kept from the public in order to control the flow of information and preserve the impression (real, imagined, or fabricated - as in Manny Ramirez) that there are other suitors. Ball clubs revealed their intentions about Teixeira publicly because they knew that Mr. Boras was misrepresenting their intentions in order to advance Mr. Teixeira's interests and exploit the restrictions against collusion in which the clubs must govern themselves.

In hindsight, I'm glad the Sox didn't spend the money on Teixeira. Now they're locking up young talent who are going to be good for years to come. I'd rather have that than several contracts that take players into their forties.

Does anyone care? All these egos, your plan was always to go the Yankees! Good luck.

Well, it just goes to show that Teixeira cares more about money than winning... It's been almost a decade since the Yankees have tasted champagne, and hopefully it will be at least another decade or more until they do again. I was completely ambivalent about the whole Teixeira thing, unlike A-Rod back in '04..... Now that he's shown he's a punk, let's hope Josh Beckett drills him in the ear hole.... Another Yankee scumbag.... Let's make sure he hears the noise at Fenway this year... A new public enemy # 1........

Please, enough already. I'm sure that his agent has never utilized the media as means of communication. Take your big salary and enjoy your time in New York and we will just keep winning championships in Boston.

So his agent can play all sorts of games with reality to drive the price up, and the Red Sox are supposed to sit in their seats like good little third graders and take. If you don't want to negotiate in the press then don't hire Scott Boras as your agent. I'm just as glad the Yankees got him. His arrogant attitude will fit right in with the rest of that group!

What a scumbag! First he says the red sox negotiating tactics worked against them, then he goes on to say the Yankees were his team all along. Thank you very much for signing with the Yanks. We just got rid of one idiot, we don't need to replace him with another one.

youkilis is better anyway....

Whatever. He was going to the Yankees. That was CLEARLY where he was going because the Yankees didn't make any offers until they heard what everyone else's final offer was and then they beat. it. Mark....save us the sob story.

"They had a leg up all along" And Texeira claims all along that he wasn't stringing along the Red Sox. His recent comments would seem to contradict that....
I hate to sound bitter, but if Texeira really is that much of a snake, I'm glad that he didn't end up with the Red Sox.

To me, it seems a bit absurd that he thought he could keep negotiations completely private. People are going to ask, speculations are going to be made. It's just the nature of the media. If anyone wants to be a big name in baseball, they've got to accept that at some level, even if they don't particularly like it.

Eh. Whatever. I'll take Youk over Texeira, any day!

Damn, I wish that Boston would forget about this guy. He wasn't coming here.....period!! Besides....we don't need him! With Youk here, we're all set at first for a long time. Not only that, it would have been stomach-churning had the Sox traded Mike Lowell (who I'd rather have than a hundred Teixeira's) to make room for this Yankee suck-up. Let New York have him and Leigh.....they all deserve each other.

This is amazing - he was deceptive and we were not, so it's our fault that he signed with NYY, even though that's where he always wanted to play! Thank heavens John Henry figured out the score and walked away. We need (and have) team players with character.

"It made the most sense for my family. It made the most sense for me and my career and where I wanted to go."

Translation

"money. money. money money money... money. I am a sell out. Money.

Let me get this straight ...
The kid says the Yankees were his No. 1 all along, ("if all things were equal, the Yankees were the place that I wanted to go,") and then the public nature of the negotiations, which was the media's doing and not the Red Sox FO's, hurt the Red Sox? That makes no sense. He's talking out of both sides of his rear end.
The fact that the Yankees were his No. 1 hurt the Red Sox.
I've got a feeling the media is gonna chew up this dope and spit him out, a la some other high-ticket F.A. the Red Sox wanted and, thankfully, didn't get.

So how could it have worked against them if the Yankees were your first choice and many smart people close to this knew that you and that pimp of an agent (yesm Tex, what does that say about you?????) were wasting everyone else's time? You suckered the Yankees into overpaying you. I am glad you are not coming to Boston and we don't have to look at your chronically constipated looking face.

He will fit right in with that bunch of frauds in NY, Arod wanted Boston, Damon wanted Boston, Roger wanted Boston, gee what do you think happened, Mark? You werent worth the dough like the rest of them, so now NY is your home. Good luck you fraud

The more this guy speaks ... the more respect I lose for him. I hope the sox make him look foolish and it turns into an A-Rod deal.

OK, Mark, let me see if I get this straight. You are trying to tell us that Scott Boras agreed not to negotiate through the media? And that the Red Sox hurt themselves in making public comments about signing you when you wanted to sign with the Yankees anyway? You are more of a dunce than we thought.

I don't buy it. The non-Yankee teams were long shots at best and they all knew it. From the article, "but in reality, the Yankees were gonna be the team, like I said all along, if all things were equal, the Yankees were the place that I wanted to go." That tells the whole story. The Yankees would be given a chance to match any offer and get him. The title of the article is way off. Tex's comments regarding the Red Sox are really just excuses. With any luck, he and A-Rod can watch the World Series on TV.

I can understand how a player would rather play in New York than Boston. What I don't understand is how Teixeira can blame the Red Sox for going public with negotiations. Is he joking? He should be grateful that information became public because it raise his price tag. Besides, his agent was the one who leaked the information to media outlets to build a market. If Teixeira doesn't realize that, he's a dope. Personally, I think the Yankees overpaid to get him.

Good ridance - moneygrabing Tex forgets that once he decided to have Boras as his agent for his negotiations- ALL BETS ARE OFF - tex is the second coming of Afraud and like Giambi, also before him, will fail to bring a championship to the hated yankees. Long live the drought.
As for the Sox, how is 3 in five sounds? 3 in 5

See: Jason Giambi. Glad the Sox didn't sign him.

jajaj, what a douche!!!!, i'm so glad we don't have this guy in our team...he's gonna do exactly what A-fraud has done in NY....NOTHING!!!!

Really, so Tex and her husband would have accepted $12 million less from his non-first choice if only they had kept their mouths shut?

What did the Sox say publicly? I don't remember. We all knew they were going for him but what did any of them say?

This kid needs to stop trying to answer these questions. He's coming off as a snivelling maggot now. You like the Yankees. We get it.

If Teixeira didn't like the public nature of our negotiations then he wouldn't have liked the public nature of playing in Boston. Basically, it would have been the worst 10 year deal ever.

And for that, I am thankful Tex! Have fun losing with the Yankees =)

The article just proved that Teixeira just used all the other teams to drive up the price the Yuckees would offer him. Why even bother negotiating with teams that he knew he would not be willing to go to? His statement that the "public comments that the Red Sox made..." is just an excuse for his shameless pursuit of money - I'd have better respect for him if he just said that he's looking out for the best economic interests of his family. No need for rationalization by pounding on someone else.

The public comments hurt the Sox? But it was going to be the Yanks anyway, which we all know, b/c Boras was going to call the Yanks and give them the chance to beat whatever other highest offer was on the table. So it really had nothing to do with what the Sox said or didn't say, or what they offered. So let's just say: "NO STORY: TEXEIRA GOING TO YANKS NO MATTER WHAT AS LONG AS HANK PULLED OUT HIS WALLET." Let's let this end.

I can't decide which Yankee I despise most: Damon, Teixeira, or A-Fraud.
But I think Teixeira may be taking the lead.

Hiring Scott Boras and claiming that you don't want to negotiate in the media is like dating Jenna Jameson and claiming that you want to save yourself for your wedding night.

Teixeira's concerned about publicity and being in the news, and he choses to play in New York City? Is he serious?

What money???

Pray this moron doesn't reproduce.

Well if the Yankees were your team all along Mark, why did you waste everyone else's time?
But honestly, who gives a rats patoot? I surprised myself buy feeling actually relieved he didn't come to Boston. Mike Lowell is a gamer, a talented guy, and true class act. I'm glad we have him and Youk. Two great team-mates who love to play the game instead of a guy whose priority seemed to be whomever was gonna pay the most. I'm not trying to knock the guy. But, there's just a certain caliber of player I like to have on our team and I'm not sure he was it (I loved Manny, but he needed to go, for the same reason). A team you love to love instead of a team you love to hate.

Not classy... (cf. The Office)

Two words for Texie, and they're NOT "Happy Birthday"

What is this 1997? The Yankess aren't that good Tex.. You'll regret it.. Just ask Arod and Jason G...

That's great. Glad Tex ended up where he wanted to go . Hope he enjoys his stay with the Yankees.
BTW, now that ARod is hurt, Texeira gets to be The Man.
And we'll see how much he loves being in NY when his team starts losing and the fans turn on him because he's making a gazillion dollars, but the team isn't winning, or filling that new stadium. The NY media should be as much fun for him and his family as it has been for ARod. Good times all around.

Who cares?! plain and simple. Seems like so long ago now I almost forgot...just like all the Manny crap...drop it, forget about it and let's move forward already.

I am so happy the Yankees were foolish enough to spend $180MM on a Steve (sic) Boras client who never wanted to come to Boston. His dig at the Sox and other teams for daring to speak publicly about negotiations despite 'requests' from Sir Boras shows either naivite or disingenuosness. Probably the latter. If memory and the facts serve right, it was Boras and Teixeira who played fast and loose with the media, with his 'loving' the Angels, or wanting to be closer to home, as in hometown Baltimore & Nationals, and who acted so unethically with the Red Sox that the ownership were furious.

Had he come to Boston, Youk would now be at 3rd, Mike Lowell would be looking for work, Lars Anderson would be in a trade package, Lowrie and Pedroia would have to rework their systems. Awful!!! Teix is a .290-30-100 hitter with a GG. So is Youk, plus we get to keep Mike and Lars, and Pedroia and Lowrie can settle back into this GG infield. Ironically, he's one of the first Yankees I have ever seen who really doesn't look good in pinstripes.

Is this guy a knucklehead or what. If you were going the Yankees the whole time, how did the Red Sox hurt their chances by talking publicly? Have fun getting your lips waxed with A-fraud....

... lying scumbag!

My sense is that Mark Teixeira is kind of a creepy guy who has a weird personal dislike of Boston, and that his time in New York is going to end badly for the Yankees. He obviously dislikes the Boston Red Sox' organization, and had he signed with the Red Sox, it would have only been to make money. He wouldn't have been a motivated player. It's better that the Yankees outbid the Red Sox so that we can trade for a slugger mid-season from a team like Detroit.

"...like I said all along." (?)

Mark the public comments had nothing to do with your decision , it was the $$$$$ signs you greedy liar. Your Agents a greedy npunk and so are you. Good luck in New Yorkmwhy don't you ask Alex how wearing the pin stripes feels. I hope myou like the microscope because you are now underm it.

you stilll think you're so freakin' smart Theo?

OMFG, who care what Mark Texerieira thinks about what the Red Sox "...said during negotiations"....?

He makes it sound like he was negotiating the release of 1,000 hostages somewhere or serving as an abitrator to end a railroad strike.

Just a suggestion for self-absorbed idiots like this: You got your money, so just go play baseball. Nobody cares what you have to say.

Great Tex...enjoy your stay with a has been and destined runner up team for the future several years, and oh yeah, have fun with A-Rod. Simply put you're a Yankee now, so now we Hate you too..

Gosh! He REALLY doesn't get what he's stepped into, does he? I can hardly wait for his first trip to Boston. I'm sure he'll get a warm welcome.

I guess his agent's VERY public campaign was ok.

Beyond all of this, let's stop demonizing this guy and others and play ball and win.

So let's see....The Yankees were where he wanted to be all along. Therefore all other talks and negotiations were a ruse to jack the price up as much as possible. However, because the Red Sox went "public" it hurt them and their quest for the latest "Golden Boy". Is all of that one huge contradiction or is it me???

The Red Sox Public comments had nothing to do with it. He decided long ago he wanted to play for the yankee's. What purpose does bad mouthing the Red Sox serve. Not a classy comment. Comments like that destroy his credibility to me.

"I think always had the Yankees in my sights, and one thing that my agent and I had asked every single team is, we're not going to negotiate through the media, and we ask you not to," Teixeira said. "The Yankees were really the only team that did that." Teixeria's quote.
Let's cut the crap, Scott Boras is a liar, he uses the media all the time. What really pisses me off is the way his clients make these stupid ass comments. Teixeira was going where the most money was, and why he thinks he has the best chance to win with the Yankess proves it. They have won how many times in the last nine year? So give us all a break, sshut up and stink up New York and every other city you play in.

If the Sox ever sign another Boras client they should have their heads examined. This guy preferred to go to the empire because of the do-re-mi. The facts are that they haven't won anything for eight years and they aren't going to win this year either.

Now this is a smart man. I mean beans or caviar? I mean a has been buch of micks or a multicultural metropolis. I mean getting the 27th World Series vs, oh sorry, can't round that number up, too small (10 minimum). I mean red sox nation, lol, ( a group of six kennedy's, some being dead, swilling beer and farting beans) vs The New York Yankees.
Come on now, even you ignorant fools could understand his choice

Tex will be just like A-rod, hit home runs in games that are out of control already against guys who are "getting there work in". I really can't believe we are still talking about this. Do we remember who our first baseman is? Take Youk anyday.

I guarantee that the media sources were were primarily Boras. That has been his pattern in all of his negotiations. Where did new of the other interested suitors in Manny and Tek coming from.
No team (or anyone for that matter) gains anything from putting out acurate information on your side of a negotiation.
Teixeira is as phony and disingenuous as A-Rod - they will be perfect together

Better for the Sox to stick with their system of bringing players up through the minors. Tex isn't worth 140 mill more than Youk. He'll win as many championships in NY as Giambi did - zero

The Sox already have a GOLD GLOVE first baseman with almost identical numbers who just signed a long term deal for a fraction of what the Yanks paid this jerk. Who really won?

This guy is like every sanctimonious, self-centered, smug pretty boy whose face you want to break. This one comes with an axe to grind (Dan Duquette) who will rub the Sox noses in it every chance he gets. As the saying goes every dog has his day. He should keep his mouth shut and just play ball. God, I hope Sox pitching owns him forever and ever, Amen.

Teixiera isn't fooling anyone; we all know his wife makes the decisions in his household...

I agree with Ray (101) -- "if all things were equal," he was going to the Yankees all along. But he negotiated with the Sox so his price would go up. It never sounded like he told the Yankees to match the Sox' final offer, did it?

He used the Sox to help him take advantage of the Yankees. He and the Yankees deserve each other.

He is where he wanted to be. Win or lose, the Sox are better off without him. In a few years he'll be another unhappy Boras client trying to get more money one way or another.

What a bunch of whiners! For 170 Million a year you all would be cheering him saying it was the nail in the Yankee coffin. He is a great player and will produce many memorable moments in the best rivalry in all of sports. Do not forget about the Rays too.

What a load of BS. What the Sox (or any team other than NY) said in the media had NOTHING to do with his decision. Seems to me like he's taking a jab to 'fit in' with the team, the NY media, and NY fans. If I remember correctly, at the time - just before signing - he asked his wife where SHE wanted him to play, and she finally 'opened up' and said New York. She DIDN'T open up and say, " New York, because Boston and the other teams spoke publicly about the negotiations. WHY would he 'need' the privacy when it came to negotiations? It's not like people weren't going to find out the terms of any contract he was going to sign...

The sixth tool is the head, he ain't got that.

Get you everyreadys ready! Welcome to Boston Mr. Texerieira! Go Sox!

I love the comments about never winning a Championship. hmmm how many Socks can we put in that category? Red Socks could have had him long before
these negotiations. Keep buying into the Red Socks Nation, as they laugh all
they way to the bank as everyone else loses their job.

Mark, Who cares....

Funny how you guys all loved him and couldn't wait to pencil him into the Sox lineup...you sound like a bunch of spurned women. Go curl up with a cosmo and watch Sex in the City reruns ladies.

tex should really come clean and explain the thought of playing in boston for psycho, hate-filled fans didn't appeal to him. and we have to know mrs tex didn't relish the idea of her husband being called 'the portuguese pig' by you classy fans in this blog.

Tex is just a money-grabbing jerk who likely wasn't upfront and honest with any team he dealt with. I'd like to see ZERO articles on him or about the so-called negotiations and I predict he'll wallow through a mediocre season where he shows everyone what a singles hitter looks like.

As Johnny Carson once famously stated: may the sweat of a thousand camels infest his armpits!

sounds to me like he's thinking that he may have made a mistake in the team he chose ... from the beginning, no matter what credentials he 'may have' brought to the table (or field), he's a man of LITTLE integrity ... i personally feel the same vibe from him that always got from mirror boy, and frankly, am thrilled that he's playing for the enemy, so it'll be especially sweet to watch the wilt of another OVER-PAID ny punk !

GO Sox !!!

He should have just signed with yankees. he wanted the red Sox bid to get more money that he will not be able the spend. Good luck in NY where you produce
or live a life of hell.

He's just another piece of a failing system that the yankees have developed over the last decade. They can't get it through their thick skulls that champions are built through young talent not bought through free agency. Bad management and bad scouting has put them in a position to have to buy their way into contention because the last core of talent they did develop (jeter, posada, b. williams, rivera) are either gone or on their last legs. they have no farm system left to rely on. (oh yeah ian kennedy and phil hughes) mediocre at best. Texeira took the money and ran just like (giambi, johnson, and a-rod). sit back and watch them implode.

I am going to thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy watching the Red Sox take the AL East this season.

And can we get a roll call for making "Horseface" Teixeira's official nickname? It's got a nice ring to it...

To quote the great Bluto Blutarsky:

"DEAN WORMER---DEAD!!"
"JETER--MEIR---DEAD!!"
"TEXEIRA---DEAD!!..."Bluto's right guys....completely psychotic but absolutely right!!

I understand that Scott Boras and Teixeira were responsible for the AIG bonus mess also, but they are trying to blame the Red Sox, claiming that the Red in Red Sox is proof that the Sox are communists. Fenway Park is the Kremlin, they say. Did we really want this guy playing in Boston?

Been reading these ridiculous comments and you gotta love this vineyard full of sour grapes. Classic SAWX fans trying to justify why they lost tex to the so called "evil empire". They lost because management played a stupid game of chicken with Boras and lost. None of us EEMPIRE guys understood why that comment about being out of the negotiations in any way could help their interests. I mean who among us actually believed the sox were out of this thing after that embarrassing trip to texas? Apparently, only Tex who incidentally, was the only one who mattered. Ohhh and is Big pappsmear EVER gonna stop whining about Jason Bay? Hope he has fun pining for Manny ...and seeing all those lovely breaking balls in the dirt. Not to worry, walks are just like hits...unless your as fleet-a-foot as ole number 34, that is.

I read all 102 comments about Tex and the Yankees. You're all pissed off cause he's not a Red Sox. And yes there is no other place to be but in pinstripes.

Tony

Yankees4ever...if Teixeira had done to the yankee staff what he did to the Red Sox staff, you would be singing a different tune. The very least he could have done back in December was to keep his mouth shut, not invited the Red Sox to his home. However, he knew that if he did that the Yankees would up their offer..which he was right. The amount that the Red Sox offered him was never put out there until AFTER he signed with the Yankees. Teixeira blaming the Red Sox now is only him trying to get the monkey off his back. He knows when he comes here he will be one of the most hated yankees...is he scared? Or is he worried that he will be treated the way Red Sox fans are treated when they go to Yankee Stadium? I wonder if he even thinks of how he will be treated when he goes to play the Angels... he played them too, and the Orioles and the Nationals. Be a man Teixeira, you said you had your site on the Yankees, you said your wife didnt want to come to Boston, she wanted you to go to the Yankees, now be man enough to stand up to it. I think its funny that after it has come out that his wife told him she wanted him to play for the yankees, he says he had his sites on the Yankees all the time. Wiggle that finger Leigh and Mark will wiggle too!!!

This guy is a joke, he said that he wanted to go to the Yankees from the beginning but why didn't he just sign with them the first day instead of insulting the Red Sox. Neither him or his golddigger wife should put his feet on Fenway Park

I guess A-Roid wasn't enough in the creepy/weird department. The Yankees being what they are, they just HAD to 'collect 'em all'.

"One thing that my agent and I had asked every single team is, we're not going to negotiate through the media, and we ask you not to. The Yankees were really the only team that did that."

Oh really? I bet that's not how it happened at all. On day 1, Boras went to the Yankees, and said Tex wanted to play for them. The Yankess told him to go out and get his best offer, and we'll beat it. I bet that Boras ad the Yankees only spoke twice. Once to tell them that Tex was going to the Yankees, and the second to tell them howe much money was on the table. both agent and player are jerks. What surprises me is that no one EVER seems to take a "hometown discount" to play for the Yankees, even though half of MLB seems to want to play there. Every free agent they sign gets top dollar. Ortiz, Pedroia, Youklis, and Beckett ALL took less money to stay here. Those guys put their money where their mouth is. Not these whiny jerks who play for the Yankees.

This guy just comes off as more and more of a moron every time he speaks. What difference did it make if the Red Sox made comments to the media when the Yankees were "The Team" all along. I was all for getting him, but now I'm glad he's not here-what an idiot.

At this point, who cares! Our first baseman is better and we still have a proven winner at third. He never won anything and probably won't win with the New York Drama Club.
Let's play ball and forget what might have been...besides the Rays are better than the Yankees, even 425 million later.

So if "the Yankees were gonna be the team, if all things were equal, the Yankees were the place that I wanted to go." You Yankee fans should be thrilled that he let Boras bamboozle the Red Sox and force the Yankees to make such a high offer so Tex could go were he wanted to in the first place. You should also thank your politicians as well because the extra money the Yankee's had to pay Texeira probably came out of your pocket considering you paid for some of the New Yankee Stadium for a team that is amoung the largest revenue makers in the country. So although we did want him, it worked out that the Red Sox's involvement was only going to drive up the cost for the Yankees as this interview pretty much proves he wanted to go to NY all allong. So if I am a Yankee fan I will continue to wonder if all these stars want to come to NY why do we need to pay them a kings ransom each time? Of course I am sure Tex will have many more Yogi-isms to discuss with the NY media over the next few years. With A-Rod out of the lineup for a while whom do you think the tabloids are going to focus on in the short term. Go Sox

Enough of these overpaid primadonnas with their petty complaints.
Remy must go!
Bring Lou Merloni up to work with Don.
ATL Dan

He will be another massive new york failure just like a-rod. i am glad the red sox didn't waste a penny on the loser.

"horseface"? boy-are u guys jealous! as a yank fan, should i refer to certain (good looking) red sox as "baldy", "the lumberjack" and "the ape"?

... and the horse's butt you rode in on!

I love lengthy comments made to the press about how much one wants to avoid publicity at all costs.

Oh, and to the moronic author of comment #96:
from 1919-2003 -- zero titles.
from 2004-present -- two titles.

Theo seems pretty smart to me.

Does garbage like this always come out of Teixeira's mouth or is it something new? His agent is _Scott Boras_ and Scott loves it when teams are active in media channels about their desire to sign a player. It drives up the price and creates unreasonable expectations amongst the fans that the player will be signed regardless of the price.

Mark should try telling the truth, which you can be sure his team and agent have already instructed him not to do.

The truth is that he was happy to take the biggest paycheck from whichever big market team offered it and it was Scott's job to drive up the price. He did so by making the Sox think they were about to sign him and getting their "best, last offer" then calling Brian Cashman and offering him the chance to keep a franchise player away from Boston that NY could use but really didn't need. The Yankees where happy to do this of course.

I would be the greatest show of disdain for him if every time he came to bat the whole stadium went silent & everybody turned their backs, quiet enough to hear a pin drop & no matter what he does no sound is made, until his at bat is over. It would help if the announcers didn't even say his name correctly but that will not happen.

It is truly interesting how Tex felt the need to take the moral high ground when in fact he just did what he wanted and was in his self-interest. He wanted more money and he wanted to make his wife happy. And his agent played teams off of each other to get the highest possible offer. There really is nothing wrong with that. That's the negotiating game in professional sports today. But then when he starts blaming the Red Sox, when he basically admits he used the Sox, is outrageous, and frankly, pretty stupid. Clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

"Come clean Mark-- it was all about the $180 million... what's with the bs about wearing pinstripes? Jailbirds wear pinstripes!"

Oh they do, huh? A pinstripe is a very thin line over a base color on a fabric. Never saw that on a "jailbird". Maybe Teixeira was turned off by the lack of intelligence in Boston as well.

Why is that a contradiction? He said all things being equal, the Yankees had the leg up. If all contracts were the same, the Yankees would be the favorite as he preferred them over the Red Sox. If the Red Sox had a better offer than the Yankees, maybe the Red Sox would have been his choice. But the fact that they had to announce everything and comments DIRECTLY from your owner saying "The Red Sox will not be a factor in the negotiations for Mark Teixeira" are what turned him off from the Red Sox completely, and are his reasons for mentioning such. What's so hard to understand about that?

this comment section has been brought to you by Kleenex.... WAHHHH!!!! I'm a red sox fan and im sad that yankees have now stolen damon arod and tex right from under our noses... poor babies... why dont you brag about your 2 ws rings some more...

What does it mean when Tex says, "the yankees kept kind of quiet?" Tex is so full of himself it is sickening. A little honesty would go along way> However he hasn't even got the courage to say what he really feels. He has to say his wife wanted to be in New York. Sounds just like Tiger Woods blaming his caddie for his mistakes.

Hey Tex, how about a nice hot cup of "Shut the *ell up!

What a joke... just another dishonest moneygrubber... perfect fit in NY. It's fine, he's happy, and we're better off. Time to move on :)

The Yankees gave him way too much money.

New York Yankees!!!
We DA Best
Mark Teixiera
all day! Dont hate Boston fans we taking it this year.
ya lost to the rays while we dominated Dem it took 86 yrs to win a championship what player wants to deal with a team like dat ! haa haa
its over for ya
Boston red sucksssssssssssssssssssss
losersssssss

I would like to know which story is true.

1) The initial shocked and surprised reactions that immediately followed his signing with The Yankees.

or

2) This story of premeditation and great Yankees business practice

..and let the pandering to NYC media begin. are you that afraid of being ripped by the press and fans when you go 0-for-5 that you feel the need to kiss their masses before opening day? just ask a-roid how that feels.

remember, " It doesn't matter 'bout the money...."

lol, u know the more teixeira talks, the more he sounds like A-rod. now that i think about it, all the yankees sound the same like they are made on an assembly line or something. yeah, they're really expensive toys that break by the end of the year that dont live up to their expectations.

You would think that Boras would tell him to keep his trap shut so that Boras has a chance to deal with the Sox in the future. Between the Manny fiasco and the PW'ed wimp going to the Yankees. it is lucky that the Sox would have any dealings with Tek even on their terms. I wonder who he thinks is going to bid on his prize Matt Holiday this year. LOL.

Texiera- what a jerk. Chris Carter and Lars anderson will probably replace him and he will prove to be not worth what he got. They can use the extra money to bet anothe hitter at mid season for a cheaper price, or a catcher. Let the Yankees have him.

"I read all 102 comments about Tex and the Yankees. You're all pissed off cause he's not a Red Sox. And yes there is no other place to be but in pinstripes."

Sorry, Tony, the stripes you wear at San Quentin don't count. And you don't get it - because you don't want to. We all know what this guy is now - he's A-Roid, take two. We're GLAD he's not with the Sox, just like we're GLAD we didn't score A-Roid. And we're laughing at you.

We know how desperately you want to believe something else. That's why you came here, to a Red Sox blog, to prop up your sad little worldview. That's the way it is, we guess, when you're in third place and going nowhere.

im sure tex. is a fine player, but all the crap ive heard in the offseason has been from him and his wife...who needs that? im glad they are in NYC and they can feed on that misery...

"why dont you brag about your 2 ws rings some more..."

Hey Stevearino, why don't YOU brag about all your recent Series.... uh.... oh, riiiiight.... Well, but there's always the Mets.... oh, right.... Well! How 'bout them Knicks? Jets?

Never mind, little Stevie. Just keep replaying that Giants win, year before last. It's gonna have to hold you awhile.

what a phony

Just to confirm, as a transplanted Mass. native living in NYC for the past 10.5 years, the yanquis fans' comments here do in fact reflect the intelligence, or lack thereof, of the average gibbering idiot down here.

As many people have pointed out, if the south bronx PhD society was your destination all along Texiera, how did the alleged Boston impropriety impact your decision.....duh.......

I love my Red Sox but I can't stand Red sox fans. Do you know how dumb you all sound. "I like him even less now." "He's just a playoff sigles hitter." "He doesn't make any sense."
Yet EVERY single one of you, were begging for Texeira 5 months ago!!!!! You all sound like a bunch of scorned women without a date to the big dance. Your man rejected you.. BOO HOO!!! And you really think he's going to say nice things on a NY radio about the Sox now that he's a Yankee??? As usual, your Napoleonic narcissism has no logic except for chest-thumping your own egos.

REALLY?

Who cares.

tex you are fitting into the mold of a Boras client quite well....back up the bull, you agent screwed with 2 of the best owners in the American League Mr. Moreno of the Angels and Mr. Henry of Boston..you are simply a money sucking scum bag, if the Yankees were your team all along why do the dance with the Sox and Angels, why have the Sox Brass fly out to see you...lets be honest pal, you wanted every last penny, and hey, that is fine, but dont think you can fool the man in the street..now that you have signed on the line in NYC enjoy, win pennants, win world series' but shut up you bozo...you were not liked in Texas, or Atlanta, now you want to suck up to the NYY, go ahead, but one last question you spoiled prick, I thought
you said your wife wanted to live near home in Baltimore....jerk......how much fun will it be in October when you dont have an extra base hit...if you want to perserve your image, shut up....dont try to pretend that the Red Sox turned you off...enough is enough....bozo

In his own, MT always wanted to sign with the Yankees. For the Red Sox to sign him, he demanded an extra $40 million over what the Yanks were offering. Thankfully the Red Sox didn't buy into his demands. I still feel they will be better off signing Jason Bay for 5 years and will have a steadier, more dependable player in the long run. Hopefully they will step up to the plate on that one.

I'll take Youk at a third of the cost any day. Compare the numbers. Youk is a freaking steal. At this point, who cares about Teixeira??? Sox lineup looks pretty good without him. I guess we'll see if the half billion the Yankess invested this past winter was worth it come October.

So what are the plans for jeering Tex and Aroid at Fenway?

I hope a bunch of people bring face of Leigh Tex to the park and then for Arod bring the mirror, the syringe, the my cousin face. Its going to be fun for the Fenway Faithful this year to jeer these 2 guys.

Wasn't it Ken Rosenthal from FOX who "leaked" the story about Henry being in Texas and the deal being all but done? Wasn't it Boras talking thru the media saying how ALL these interested teams were making offers. HMMM, I think Leigh's husband should re-evaluate how this all really went down. What a classless punk.

1) All of you would have been happy if he signed with the Sox.
2) See number 1

Not surprised at his (M.T.'s) idiotic comment. He must have mail ordered his brains from the same outfit that supplied Ramirez his little thing. It's clear from his wife's influence that she wears the pants in the relationships.
Don't be surprised to catch M.T. shopping for (his) dresses at the NY fashion district holding hands w/ Borass.

And if the Yankees offered him 100 million quietly, he still would have signed there because they respected his wishes. What a croc, all his agent did was bargain to the press. He went with the deep pockets nothing more nothing less. It won't be long before he's caught with a stripper like A-Rod.

He was going for the ALMIGHTY dollar from day one. If the SOX had offered $1.00
more he'd be here. BORASS did the public negotiating and the more I hear from this guy the more I'm glad hes playing some where else. Hes a perfect fit for the Yankees who could grow a weed on there farm. Hes going to be 29 on April 11th and signed an 8 year contract.. to long and to much money for his age.

Redsox Fans, feel good about this.
He was never coming to Boston, he said the Skanks had a leg up all along.

He's making up excuses.
He did us all a favor and the Skanks paid alot more for him than they wanted.

wah-wah-wah Typical "RSN" has their panties in a twist ....wah wah wah wah.....

Hey Tex old boy. It would have been nice to get you, but we didn't so we moved on. I guess you can't! How about shutting up and quit whinning and see how good you can be for your team.

Nothing to really add to the above commentary except good luck staying out of the media in NY. NYC and Montreal (hockey) are not friendly cities to play your game. Produce or suffer the consequences. Tex you would do yourself well to shut your mouth.

Over my excitement about '09 Sox pitching, I had actually forgotten all about this doofus....

I will be SO GLAD to have ST finished so we can talk BASEBALL instead of this crap - it's simple, he and A-Fraud will find out what it's like to be in Boston on the first Yankees/Sox game this year - can't wait for them to come up to bat - no one can do it like the Nation!! And Youk, Bay, Pedroia, Tek and the rest of the team have more class and humanity in their little fingers than the whole money-grubbing Yankee bunch.

I can't wait until all you Red Sox fans are blasted by Tex. Someone wrote that Lester, Dice-K, Beckett & Co. are going to be a pain for Tex for the next 8 years. Who the heck is & Co? You have 3 pitchers that are good. The Yanks have 5 brand name guys who can be aces on most teams. Good luck trying to compete against the Yanks. And by the way, to everyone who thinks it's about the money, stop crying that the Red Sox didn't get their man. Instead they spent their off-season getting has-beens like John Smoltz.

" in reality, the Yankees were gonna be the team, like I said all along, if all things were equal, the Yankees were the place that I wanted to go. It made the most sense for my family. It made the most sense for me and my career and where I wanted to go. Being a Yankee and wearing the pinstripes into the new Yankee Stadium, it doesn't get any better than that. They had a leg up all along."

Which is it? Did they have a leg up or did the Red Sox shoot themselves in the foot? Texeira is fitting in fine with the rivalry. He knows his audience and say's the right things.

WHO CARESSSSSSSS???? Write about Juilo Lugo and his leg or something!!!!

you people from boston are such sanctimonious azzholes: the red sox, aka "the first losers" in the AL east had the second highest payroll in baseball. you all would be gushing superlatives about this guy had you gotten em, but you didn't, and now you're crying like the sore losers you've always been. at least the yankees know and admit what we are. the red sox hide behind the "blue collar" label when you print almost as much money as us.
ps, we have better prospects than you do.

GFY Tex.

Sounds like Teirxeira is trying to back step and blame his signing with the Yankees on the Red Sox.... because he is coming to play here REAL soon......maybe he cant handle the pressure after all. Does he seriously think that the fans at Fenway will be easy on him if they think it was the Red Sox staff's fault he didnt come to Boston? What a goober!!! He must be listening to dummy Damon too much. Hey Tex, put your wife in the same area as Damon's wife and A-Rod's call girl.

I just puked in my mouth a little bit. I don't care how good a player he is, I'd rather have players that can think for themselves. "Being a Yankee and wearing the pinstripes into the new Yankee Stadium, it doesnt get any better than that."
Let me break it down for you buddy boy. You know what else doesn't get any better? THE YANKEES OVER THE PAST DECADE. Meanwhile, Boston has won 2 rings.
2 primetime pitchers, A power-hitting first baseman, a new stadium all added, and N.Y. is still picked to finish second in our division. The times are a changin. Use your head

Another cry baby puss. Maybe he can go CHEAT at golf with Jay "waaah" Cutler.

Yeah, meaning... he took the $$$$$$$$$$$$.....

I would only ever find some newly signed star's justifications to be credible if they hadn't taken the money, I mean, c'mon, "my wife likes to shop here", and, oh yeah, by the way, "I took the money"...

Or else he subrogated his professional responsibilty to pick the best offer to his wife's desire to shop, like Gretzky's decision to move to LA in order to enable his wife to "Act"..

So the factors of greater success in the 90's, better development and team chemistry, better managing and coaching, all were insignificant when his wife said she wanted to shop in NY,and the Red Sox conducting the same public relations as other teams hurt them. Honestly, I would develop a ridiculous justification too, if the reason I made a career decision was based on where my wife wanted to shop.

I'm glad we missed on this lightweight, he would have disrupted our chemistry with his big bubble head of thoughts. Tex, your wife is calling, stay home, she needs a driver to take her to Saks today.

And boycott Boras, he is anathema to the Red Sox, Boras turns them into an accomplice to the next better deal, he is bad for the Sox, bad for his clients, bad for the signing teams, and bad for the game, and Boras does not honor the agreements his clients have or the teams they have them with. Already, the Sox have told Boras what-fer with the Dice-K deal. Keep it going.

I say Beckett drops him in his first AB, and then

Yaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnn.....is it late April yet? How many more weeks will we have to endure of TMZ style news covering the reasons why the overrated Teixera didn't wanna go to the prom with us???

Who cares....let him be a Yankee and wish he had become a real professional baseball player and a Red Sox in the years to come.

Huge egos are a cancer on any team...keep them all in NY!

The Sox wanted this guy BIG TIME at $170M. Sox fans had already pencilled him into the lineup and were crowing about their new 1B. They fly to Texas, can't get Tex to bite, fly to Boston with their tails between their legs, Henry throws a hissy fit (not sure but did Theo bust up the hotel room furniture like he did when Contreras turned him down?) and THEN tries to play chicken with him in the national media.
Amateur hour at best.
And now the fans say he's a scumbag and come up with Horseface as a nickname for him. Too funny. And I'd say before you send Youk to the Hall of Fame , let's see if he can put up more than one good season in a row.

Comment # 152 is classic...Melvin Polanco...This is a truly intelligent man(boy).
New York Yankees!!!
We DA Best
Mark Teixiera
all day! Dont hate Boston fans we taking it this year.
ya lost to the rays while we dominated Dem it took 86 yrs to win a championship what player wants to deal with a team like dat ! haa haa
its over for ya
Boston red sucksssssssssssssssssssss
losersssssss

#152- Melvin Polanco--Yep..your right, what can I say..we lost to the Rays.and you dominated them..oh btw..what team did the Yankees beat in the playoffs?? Oops..sorry..the yankees didn't even make the playoffs...yeah..they were really dominating last year....You freaking moron

If he was upset that the offers were made public, I pray for his sake that he doesn't get off to another slow start. The New York media won't be merciful.

Typical over-paid hypocrate. He went for the money. He would be playing in Kansas City if their offer was the biggest.... and raving about the place. Sickening to listen to the swill. Just let him under-perform in the slightest and the Yankee fans will crucify him.

Tex is just another over paid cry baby added to the Yankees over paid,over rated,underachieving in the post season, (when it really counts)loser's club. GOOD LUCK to Hank and the BRONX CRY BABIES in your new stadium, looks like your going too need it. GO RED SOX

If the guy is really this lame, we're better off without him.

I'm noticing a trend or a tick if you will. Borass clients are eerily similar in their demeanor and persona. Say one thing mean another...innuendo, doublespeak, and outright lies and deception. I guess it's all in good cause since it's really all about money and little sustenance. I just hope JACOBY doesn't wind up like the rest of them!!

These comments are the best! Prior to the Yankees signing him this man walked on freaking water. He was a great player and a fantastic human being. Now he sucks and is an a-hole. I love you guys. You are an endless source of amusement.

Always whinning and crying about $$$$

As if the Sox don't outspend almost every other team in baseball.

The Low payroll rays whipped your asses last year. You guys are an expensive FAILURE.

LOL!

"like I said all along, if all things were equal, the Yankees were the place that I wanted to go. " & "Being a Yankee and wearing the pinstripes into the new Yankee Stadium, it doesn't get any better than that."
Basically this means,

"I am a very greedy baseball player. So, if the Red Sox offered me more money, things wouldn't be equal, and I would have played for Boston."

And who cares about being a Yankee in the New stadium. i thought it was always about playing in the house that Ruth built, and where all the greats played. First curse of Arod, and now curse of new billion dollar, overpriced luxury seats. (well, boston's seats are overpriced too, but you get the point.)

The one fact that keeps getting overlooked is that here we are a week before the season starts and Cashman still hasn't addressed his clubs biggest issue which is getting to Rivera. So Congrats on getting your guy Hank. Once again as has been the case over the last 8 years, building your prospect and having a philosophy about how to bring them along has, and will continue to be the benchmark on how to run a baseball franchise. I'm suprise, I thought Cashman would be taking notes over the past 6yrs. BTW Boras, can your boy pitch??? Maybe Bruney can come in the 7th and after he's wornout, him & Horseface can switch positions and he pitch the 8th. It just goes to show money doesn't solve everything.

Boo....Hoo...!!!!! You all couldn't wait to have him in a Red Sox uniform and then when the Yankees stole him away from you, just like they did with Johnny Damon....now he sucks and cant play baseball?

You sound like a bunch of scorned old ladies. Fact is, he wanted to play in NY, the Red Sox are a tired show now.

Tex is just another over paid cry baby added to the Yankees over paid,over rated,underachieving in the post season, (when it really counts)loser's club. GOOD LUCK to Hank and the BRONX CRY BABIES in your new stadium, looks like your going too need it. GO RED SOX

Man, you guys are whiners. You wanted him so bad, but the Yankees stole him just like they always do.

You should be pissed at your GM for not wanting to pay just a it more for him. Can't be cheap in the AL East!

Tex and Boras promise not to negotiate through the media and don't want teams to either. Translation: if teams talk directly about the offers it is collusion. We don't want the other teams to know each other's offer. We want to lie and play teams off one another and push the contract to 10 years 220 million. If you talk to the media we lose our leverage and it made me mad at the Red Sox. The media announcements by the teams interested cost Tex and saved NYY 40 million.

Whiners.

I expect to see plenty of these elite players turning down Sox offers as long as Epstein is running the show.

Must be a slow news day...

He's a YankMe, therefore we Sox fans hate him. We will thoroughly enjoy watching him implode along with the rest of those primadonnas. Nuf Sed!

OK, the Yankees were his team all the way, so if Borus lets out what is going on with the other teams, a), the Yankees will know how much is being offered and b). since no one knew what the Red Sox were offering Borus could put out that they were going to Texas on a call from Teixeira....that way the Yankees would up their offer thinking that the Red Sox were ahead of them. And we all know that the Yankees always want the player that the Red Sox want...good or bad! Look how many of the dumped Red Sox players the Yankees have picked up. Cashman does it every year.

JeterDamon, 2 in 90 years, and you other blue-ballers who obviously have too much time on your hands...The yanks gave this guy a mind-boggling full no-trade clause for the entire eight years of the contract. This, the money, and the possibility that the Sox might not be able to move Lowell is why he went with NY.

And let's not forget the Sox' unwillingness to get played by him and his agent.

The truth is Tex didn't want teams to make their bids public in the hopes that they'd get into a blind bidding war. (Cabianni is right on the money on this.) This would allow Boras to lie about the size of the offers the way he did with Damon and Manny (telling the Dodgers that there were six teams bidding for his services). This way, the numbers may have skyrocketed over the 200 million dollar mark and Mr. Four Teams in Four Years would've chose the highest bidder. Couple this with the fact that his dream was to play for his hometown Orioles, not the Yanks, and you've got a guy who thinks he can manipulate the public any way he wants. (Anyone who buys into his incredibly superficial "Honey, I just want you to be a Yankee" line is dumber than he is.)

The Sox did the right thing, not playing Tex/Boras's game. And history suggests they'll be better off for it. Remember, the Yanks outbid the Sox for Contreras, Pavano, A-Rod, Javier Vazquez, Damon, etc., as well as working out a backroom deal that kept the Sox from trading for Bartolo Colon. As a result, we had to "settle" for the likes of Schilling (using prospects that would've been used in a deal for Colon), Beckett, Lowell, Mueller, Millar, Ellsbury, Crisp, and Bucholtz (obtained with a draft choice awarded the Sox in the Damon transaction).

I think it worked out, don't you?

seriously.......he didn't come here, who cares anymore?

Tex is Boras are more or less saying they are upset that the Red Sox made it more difficult for them to use the Red Sox in order to suck another 20 million out of the Yankees. As Tex wife already explained money and material things are obviously very important to the Tex family. Good for them. The more and more this guy and his lil batty wife talk the more I'm glad he went someplace else.

I know this will sound like sour grapes to the yankee trolls who run around the web but who cares you are a troll.

Tex is being grossly over paid. He's a great hitter and a good glove. However there are a lot of very good 1st basemen out there. Next year there will be other very very good options if they wanted to upgrade there and slide Youk over to the other side. In the end its the pitching that won the 2 WS titles. This team has plenty of pitching and all the offense they need to compete again this year.

Yankees4ever said: "Are there any intelligent sox fans out there or must you say the Yankees suck ? " Does he really need an answer? He does? Okay, as an intelligent Red Sox fan my reply is this: YANKEES SUCK!

Grossly overpaid? That'd be just $10mm more than the RS offered. In baseball terms, that's a rounding error, that I'm sure Epstein is kicking himself about now. Fact, is, the Sox WERE played by the Yankees, why else did they fly down the Texas - they believed they had a shot and were talking about him being in Boston up to the last minute when they totally blindsided. But they never did have a shot. The Yankees waited until Boston showed their hand and made a slightly better offer. That, combined with chance to play in the new stadium in pinstripes in the most famous city in the world, tipped the scales.

Sorry "Bean-town". Cute.

Warren, its a few more than 2 in 90 years:

Babe Ruth
Bernie Williams
Johnny Damon
Alex Rodriguez
Mark Texiera

That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more.

And the fact is that the Sox were totally played by the Yankees. Why else did they do to Texas the week before and were talking about having Tex in Boston up until the last minute? They got blindsided.

Matt, where was the "plenty of offense" during last years playoffs? You'd think they'd have done something to decrease their reliance on a few core hitters. Tex was the guy they wanted, since Lowell is still TBD.

Texeira never forgave the Boston organization for the "Duquette" treatment he got before he turned pro. While I don't really blame him for that, he could have been a man and been up front with it and not falsely let the Sox believe they were really in the hunt. This just proves he's a sleazy, lying two-faced scumbag like his agent. He's where he belongs, in the Bronx Zoo with all the other animals.

Jokes on everyone who wasn't the Yankees. Horseface's wife was looking for places to live in North Jersey during the negotiations with the Sox. He and his super agent, BoRAT, managed to use the Sox as leverage to ge tthe Yankees to overpay for his services. Nice.
Let's see this clown carry the Yankees while A-Rod is out...

See you in Fenway, horseface.

Go Red Sox!

If I recall correctly, the only public comments that the Sox made were after the ill fated meeting in Texas when they said, and meant, that there was another bid that they could not compete with.

Boras was the only person shooting his mouth off during the Tex negotiations. Maybe Mark should have gone with a different agent.

this guy's a meathead. don't know why I ever thought he would be an asset to this team. not the type of guy we want to build a team around. I like our team this year

Welcome to the rivalry TaCHERah. You are now a hated man in Boston. Get ready for one in your ear douchebag

GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

27TH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think Giraud back at #90 made a Lost joke. Good one. : )

Who gives a rats a*s what Gomer Pyle says to wfan. I hope the sox pitch him high and tight. He deserves to be a skankee. He fits right in with the bunch of has-beens that he joined.

the sox are a team with what appears to be a very good club house; this guy is a prima donna and belongs with NY. you know where he can shove his pin strips!

This is for "yankees4ever".. You are a complete idiot..... You think that if Teixeira was a Red Sox player that we wouldn't be whining? He was NEVER going to be a Sox player (learn how to read)..

This Momo said "Sox fans be honest you wanted this guy yet now that he a Yankee you have to hate him right ? Of course you do yet if he wore red that would be your boy. Can't wait for the season to start, can't wait to read the hater comments."...

Ok, first of all he wasn't going to be in a Sox uniform (or didn't you understand what he said - you dope) so he had no chance of being "our boy"... Idiot.. Now were just "Haters" because he's in a Yankee uniform? NO, again, you're an idiot who can't read or interpret meaning in the written word!

Tex said:

1. "I think I always had the Yankees in my sights"
2. "We talked with them all throughout the off season" (funny, we never knew anything about that...)
3. "but in reality, the Yankees were gonna be the team, like I said all along"
4. "if all things were equal, the Yankees were the place that I wanted to go"
5. "Being a Yankee and wearing the pinstripes into the new Yankee Stadium, it doesn't get any better than that. They had a leg up all along."

Hmm... I may not be the brightest man in the world but I sense that the Yankees were the only team he wanted to play for. If that be the case why string along the Orioles, Sox, Angels and Nationals if you weren't playing one big "Show me the MONEY" game?

Just face it - he's a LIAR and he deserves whatever treatment the Sox fans (and Orioles, Angels and Nationals) give him.. He wanted this and he got it (he knew what was at stake and he still whored himself to the Scott Boras "Milking Every Last Cent" out of all teams involved process!)..

When all is said and done Mark Teixeira is a liar, a cheater and a total whore! Deal with it "Spankme4ever"...

Lets give him a warm welcome. Seriously what a load of crap. Your agent is scott Boras. You wanted to be a Yankee.

Plus we get to keep Youk at first. I don't know about you, but whenever one of our pitchers induces a groundball, I just feel that much better knowing Youk is on the receiving end of that throw. Plus, we get to keep Mike Lowell, and I just love his defense and his offensive production. I think we are better off without Teixeira.

I personally am very sad that we missed Mark Teixeria.I believe he's a future Hall of Famer.I don't see any of those on our team.I keep hearing that baseball is a "buisness" and yet The Yankees 1st baseman exercised his buisness sence and made several MILLIONS more dollars to play for 'the evil-empire'.If Mr Henry wants to keep his money or waste it on race cars is his buisness.OPlaying baseball is Teixeira's.Mr Henry should have made Tex the highest paid player in baseball.The 2nd game against Mn proved that Youl can still play 3rd.Can Lowell?....I hope we never lose a game to NY but blame McHenry if we do.

LOL RED SOX you guys are so butt hurt

Make him the highest paid player for being unproven, yeah right. Jerry case, you're an idiot. And can Lowell play third? Of course he can, that wasn't the reason why they were thinking of replacing him though. He can possibly be a gold glover IMO. And don't blmae Henry, he gave him top of the line money for his position. And he is not going to be the best player ever. The only problem we have with our team is our ability to produce scores (The big bomb as well). Because we are usually patient on the plate we get a lot of people on base, but never score them. Most of the losses we have (From the POV of offense) we score like 2 runs in the 2nd or 3rd inning and never score again.