"Two weeks before Christmas, I talked to [my wife] Leigh about it again, and we kind of decided that, hey, the Yankees are where we want to be. Cash [Brian Cashman] might want to give Leigh a hug, because when I asked her during the process, 'Where should I go, where should I go?,' she'd always say, 'I just want you to be happy.' Finally she said, 'I want you to be a Yankee,' and it was a done deal. Once we got the contract figured out, it was a no-brainer for me."
(Mark Teixeira, via Extra Bases/Boston.com, 1/06/2009)
"The five teams we negotiated with, I could've played in any of those places. But once my wife told me (on Dec. 12) that she wanted me to be a Yankee, it was pretty much a done deal... The Yankees hadn't made their decision yet but that's when we made our decision."
(Mark Teixeira, via Nationals Journal, 1/06/2009)
Like they say on Broadway: Break a leg, Teix! Make that both legs, while you're at it.
Lerner family got played like a cheap fiddle. Make that a very cheap fiddle. Teix knew two weeks before Christmas the Yankees would get their man.
Blame his wife: she wanted him to be a Yankee. Meanwhile, despite $180M deal, Teix is still in the doghouse because he's only halfway through his honey-do list this offseason.
Need more salt in the wounds? Cashman pulled off his big sales pitch at a Washington D.C. hotel "early in the free agency period" (via NY Daily News, 1/06/2009):
Teixeira was impressed by a meeting he and his agent, Scott Boras, had with Yankee GM Brian Cashman early in the free agency period at a Washington, D.C. hotel. As part of the visit, which Cashman described as "a big baseball conversation," the GM gave Teixeira a video of Yankee Stadium. "He put his college recruiting pitch in there," Teixeira said with a smile.
It hurts. Be angry, Nationals fans. We've been had.
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