Teixeira signs with Yankees [Archive]

ATRAIN

12-23-2008, 03:30 PM

Here you go Mono.......oh yeah and fuck you.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3790141

Free agent first baseman Mark Teixeira has reached agreement with the New York Yankees on an eight-year contract worth more than $170 million, a source involved in the negotiations tells ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney.

The Yankees swooped in on Teixeira on Tuesday when it was believed the Boston Red Sox or the Washington Nationals were the likeliest of his future employer. The Red Sox's offer was believed to be in the range of $170 million, and the Nationals reached out with an offer perhaps greater than that of Boston.

monosylab1k

12-23-2008, 03:37 PM

This is a match made in heaven. The biggest douchebag in baseball signs with the douchiest franchise in baseball.

He'll fail in New York like every other big name free agent does.

Whisky Dog

12-23-2008, 03:38 PM

Now the Yankees have 2 overrated players who never win jack shit. As much as I liked the mid 90's Yankees who had so much heart... I now reverse it and have that much dislike for these bloated chokers.

Thunder Dan

12-23-2008, 03:38 PM

as I said before, we are witnessing the end of professional baseball

Melmart1

12-23-2008, 03:38 PM

Fuck you, Mark Teixeira. You planned on signing with those pinstriped bastards the whole time, but you and your agent drew this out for as long as possible. I hope you are absolutely miserable and suffer the same fate as your other fellow ex-Ranger on the other side of the infield. I hope you get booed by the sorry-ass fickle Yankees fans and never win a WS ring as long as you live. Fuck you!

ATRAIN

12-23-2008, 03:40 PM

This is a match made in heaven. The biggest douchebag in baseball signs with the douchiest franchise in baseball.

He'll fail in New York like every other big name free agent does.

They seem to sign guys like 3 seasons too late. Damon hasnt done shit there. Abreu sucks. Burnett will get hurt again. Sabathia will gain 50 lbs and suck ass. The Yankees is a good place to wind down your career and command some big money. I bet the Red Sox are saying....just kidding we didnt want you anyways and laughing at the yanks.

florige

12-23-2008, 03:40 PM

Fuck that asshole!! It took him this long to decide just to sign with those assholes!!!! Screw you!!:bang

Thunder Dan

12-23-2008, 03:41 PM

I hope the Yankees get really really good and sign just about every free agent and the discontent within the smaller markets leads to the collapse of MLB teams in those cities, and MLB turns into the Yankees playing the Red Sox, Dodgers and Giants. The players association will then be bitch slapped

ATRAIN

12-23-2008, 03:42 PM

Melmart1

12-23-2008, 03:42 PM

Fuck that asshole!! It took him this long to decide just to sign with those assholes!!!! Screw you!!:bang

You and everyone in Baltimore should disown that piece of shit.

ATRAIN

12-23-2008, 03:43 PM

Fuck that asshole!! It took him this long to decide just to sign with those assholes!!!! Screw you!!:bang

Its like Mel said Boras waited as long as he could but he knew where he was going. Someone needs to find Borras and beat the shit out of him. He is the baseball anti christ.

K-State Spur

12-23-2008, 03:43 PM

Keep spending Yanks, I'm sure that Wall Street businesses will buy up all those unsold luxury boxes...eventually

Thunder Dan

12-23-2008, 03:44 PM

Keep spending Yanks, I'm sure that Wall Street businesses will buy up all those unsold luxury boxes...eventually

they spend on these big contracts and ask for the city of New York to pay for their stadium

ATRAIN

12-23-2008, 03:45 PM

they spend on these big contracts and ask for the city of New York to pay for their stadium

Guess the slumping economy isnt affecting the yanks. Now teams like the astros on the other hand cut Wigginton to free up some money off the budget, god it sucks to root for a team that doesnt overpay lol.

ATRAIN

12-23-2008, 03:47 PM

anyone know what the yankee payroll is going to look like this year? Its still sweet to see teams with not even a qtr of their payroll to have a better team....ex TB Rays.

Thunder Dan

12-23-2008, 03:47 PM

why does he get this much attention? He is a good player, but they are acting like he is one of the top players in the league the way they are cutting out of programming to break the news.

No offense to Rangers fans, but he played in Texas- the land of great hitting stats. You can bring a crack addict there and he hits .330

Thunder Dan

12-23-2008, 03:48 PM

Guess the slumping economy isnt affecting the yanks. Now teams like the astros on the other hand cut Wigginton to free up some money off the budget, god it sucks to root for a team that doesnt overpay lol.

dude, I'm an Indians fan- our owner hardly has enough money to buy a Cadillac let alone own a baseball team

ATRAIN

12-23-2008, 03:48 PM

florige

12-23-2008, 03:49 PM

I had a feeling that he wasn't going to sign with us. But the fucking Yankees?!? Gawd I hate those fuckers with a passion!!!
Tex is a piece of shit! I might go to a game just boo that fucker!!

Melmart1

12-23-2008, 03:50 PM

He will get booed like every Yank. So can anyone project the opening day lineup?

You don't need to project it. Now that the Yanks have both Tex and CC, all we will hear 24/7 is how great they are, how formidable they are, how great an organization they are, how they wasted no time after not making the playoffs in filling up their holes and becoming an instant contender again. ESPN stands for Everyday, Sucking Pinstriped Nuts.

ATRAIN

12-23-2008, 03:52 PM

I had a feeling that he wasn't going to sign with us. But the fucking Yankees?!? Gawd I hate those fuckers with a passion!!!
Tex is a piece of shit! I might go to a game just boo that fucker!!

Ill go with you man, SHIT I hate the redsox too and I would buy a Sox jersey just to wear to that game no matter who they were playing. Thats how much I hate the yanks.

K-State Spur

12-23-2008, 03:52 PM

ATRAIN

12-23-2008, 03:55 PM

FromWayDowntown

12-23-2008, 03:55 PM

Yay baseball!!

Nothing like perpetuating a system that allows transactions which make your 6-month long season -- which struggles to keep attention -- almost completely irrelevant in many of the cities that host teams.

Way to Go!!

Melmart1

12-23-2008, 03:56 PM

The upside of this is that now a lot teams can finally start trading or signing players, this frees up a lot of potential resources for the teams that were courting him. That is one of the parts of this that pisses me off the most -- how Boras basically handcuffed all the teams, rendering any trade or signing talks useless until we knew what this putz was going to do.

FromWayDowntown

12-23-2008, 04:01 PM

I'm going to be pumped to see David Price shut out the Yankees in Game 6 of the 2009 ALCS to send the Yankees home yet again.

If a non-playoff year in the Bronx brings this kind of spending, getting close and losing to the Rays will ensure that the Yankees' payroll pushes half-a-billion for 2010; I think the Yankees will just acquire the Royals, Pirates, Marlins, and Nationals.

I actually heard guys on ESPN this morning lamenting that there are 8-year-olds who haven't ever seen a Yankees' title; I'm sure there was some tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also sure that there was some this-shouldn't-happen to that observation. But the league-wide competitiveness freak in me thinks its pretty awesome that the Marlins have won more titles in this millenium than the Yankees.

Melmart1

12-23-2008, 04:01 PM

And another thing ... somehow Teixeira outranked Sabatthia, meaning that the Brewers get screwed out of their first-rounder in the next draft, rather than the Angels. Complete and total bullshit!!!!!!!!!!

Melmart1

12-23-2008, 04:19 PM

Oh, and anyone that thinks the economy isn't affecting the Yankees, watch this:

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The whole thing is good, but the Yankees part starts around the 6:00 mark. At those prices, even people who can afford them refuse out of principle. Maybe they will find some other rich schlub (there are certainly plenty in NYC) to take all the seats but eventually it is going to hurt them. Or at least, I sincerenly hope it hurts them. :)

bostonguy

12-23-2008, 05:29 PM

I would have liked him but oh well. Yanks may just have enough to break the Red Sox curse and win a damn playoff series for the first time since 2004. :lmao

2centsworth

12-23-2008, 05:51 PM

I'm a huge Yankees fan, but this is getting ridiculous. A billion dollar payroll while Pittsburgh can't crack 25million.

T Park

12-23-2008, 09:08 PM

Today's move was a black eye for the sport IMO.

A team that asks the city for additional funds to help pay for its new stadium, goes out and signs 450 million in FAs?

Warlord23

12-23-2008, 10:13 PM

Baseball has become increasingly irrelevant since the last few years, first with the steroids controversies, and with this idiotic non-salary-cap system. The NFL and NBA seem to have understood that parity is what keeps the popularity of a sports league widening. Baseball seems oblivious to this, and the results are ridiculous.

Marklar MM

12-24-2008, 02:47 AM

4 box seats for the season...$810,000:wow:wow:wow:wow

$202,500 per.

timvp

12-24-2008, 08:09 AM

The only thing worse than the Yankees are their fans*. Baseball is almost becoming less of a sport than college football.

* wife not included in that statement

Borosai

12-24-2008, 10:10 AM

Maybe trying to buy a championship will work this year. :rolleyes

Duff McCartney

12-24-2008, 01:47 PM

The NFL and NBA seem to have understood that parity is what keeps the popularity of a sports league widening. Baseball seems oblivious to this, and the results are ridiculous.

If anything baseball has almost as much parity as the NFL. Hell maybe even more so than the NBA in the past few years. I mean since 2000 how many teams have won the WS? Alot..I can only think of won that has one it more than once..and that's the Red Sox.

In the NFL...since 2000 the Patriots have won it three times in that span. In the NBA...Lakers and San Antonio have both won it 3 times.

I'm a Yankee fan but I'm still skeptical about these signings. They don't really mean much unless you can produce..and the Yankees have had horrible signings the past few years. Yeah the Yankees have the highest payroll..and I'm sure they had it this past season too..but they don't win championships with it...and last year they didn't even make the playoffs.

The Reckoning

12-24-2008, 03:56 PM

my worst nightmare is to have been born in yankee stadium

JamStone

12-24-2008, 04:09 PM

If anything baseball has almost as much parity as the NFL. Hell maybe even more so than the NBA in the past few years. I mean since 2000 how many teams have won the WS? Alot..I can only think of won that has one it more than once..and that's the Red Sox.

In the NFL...since 2000 the Patriots have won it three times in that span. In the NBA...Lakers and San Antonio have both won it 3 times.

I think this is a strong point. I think it would be different if the Yankees made these moves after just winning the World Series for the third straight time. It's been close to a decade since the Yankees won it all, 6 or so years since they've been in the World Series.

Not saying it's a good thing, but the Yankees did need to upgrade both their starting pitching and the middle of the line-up. It's just that when they make moves, they're egregious about it.

And, as a lot of the Yankees haters point out, it guarantees nothing. If so, then what's the huge deal? If people think the Yankees still can't win it with these signings and the contracts will backfire, then they shouldn't care about the signings that much.

I think it helps the Yankees a great deal. Starting pitching is upgraded, even if they don't produce what the Yankees expect. It's still better than their starting pitching last year. And, even if Teixeira is average by his standards offensively, at least he replaces what Giambi or Abreu would have given while upgraded defense at first base.

The Yankees still are poor defensively in the outfield, and their middle relief and set up pitching is somewhat suspect. So, it doesn't make them the clear cut team to beat.

Duff McCartney

12-24-2008, 05:55 PM

I think this is a strong point. I think it would be different if the Yankees made these moves after just winning the World Series for the third straight time. It's been close to a decade since the Yankees won it all, 6 or so years since they've been in the World Series.

It's exactly my point..it's like these small market teams cry about the Yankees payroll and how much they spend on free agents. When was the last time they won it all? 9 years ago?

On the other hand what other teams have won the World Series in that span? They don't have the payroll the Yankees have but they are all major market teams save for a few...Arizona, Florida and arguably St. Louis.

It has nothing to do with the market size of your team...nor payroll. It's about talent and chemistry. Hell the Red Sox have the second highest payroll in the league...but when they win championships and sign players nobody says shit. If the Red Sox would have gotten Teixera...everybody would be lauding them. With tremendous zeal.

K-State Spur

12-24-2008, 06:51 PM

It's exactly my point..it's like these small market teams cry about the Yankees payroll and how much they spend on free agents. When was the last time they won it all? 9 years ago?

They have proven to be human in short (best of 5/7) series. But to some extent, those losses have covered up the problem.

The Yanks have only lost the division three times since '95 - so over the course of 162 game seasons, even the Bosox haven't been able to outdo them very often. Once the sample size becomes large enough - that payroll gives them an almost impossible advantage.

JamStone

12-24-2008, 06:58 PM

After all of Cashman's talk about cutting at least some payroll, the Yanks payroll will actually be about $15-20 million higher next year...despite having over $50 million coming off the books from last year.

The 4 highest paid players will play on the same team...great f'ing economic system.

Inaccurate as of now.

Pavano, Mussina, Abreu, Giambi, and Pettitte made approx $77 million last season.

Sabathia, Burnett, and Teixeira are scheduled to make about $63 million next year if their annual is an average of their contract divided by years, lower than that $63 if it starts off with a lower salary and gets bigger annually.

So, if they don't sign another free agent, they did cut some of their payroll. Even if the re-sign Pettitte for say $10 million (as rumored), that's still technically cutting "some" payroll.

Melmart1

12-24-2008, 07:11 PM

It's exactly my point..it's like these small market teams cry about the Yankees payroll and how much they spend on free agents. When was the last time they won it all? 9 years ago?

It's not just about how much the Yankees win the WS ... it's about how other teams can compete for free agents. What if one of those FAs that the Yanks overpaid was all that another team needed to compete -- the final ingredient? But they can't pay the type of money the Yanks are throwing at them?

Whether they win or not, the Yankees make it impossible for other teams to make a fair run at available guys. Which means the only way they can compete is through drafting and trades. The draft is unpredictable as touted players fall from grace and never make it to the bigs, and trade activity has been fairly minimal the last few years as teams hold on to their prospets -- often because they know they can't replace those prospects in free agency.

So the question is ... Why should the Yankees be able to cockblock the rest of the league from an entire source of talent? Yeah, the Red Sox can somewhat compete with them in money whipping, but who else can?

K-State Spur

12-24-2008, 07:14 PM

Inaccurate as of now.

Pavano, Mussina, Abreu, Giambi, and Pettitte made approx $77 million last season.

Sabathia, Burnett, and Teixeira are scheduled to make about $63 million next year if their annual is an average of their contract divided by years, lower than that $63 if it starts off with a lower salary and gets bigger annually.

So, if they don't sign another free agent, they did cut some of their payroll. Even if the re-sign Pettitte for say $10 million (as rumored), that's still technically cutting "some" payroll.

Depends on whose projections you look at. As of right now, they're about $25 million under last year's total, but that only includes their 16 players currently under contract. They could easily go well over that number filling out their roster.

Duff McCartney

12-24-2008, 07:59 PM

The Yanks have only lost the division three times since '95 - so over the course of 162 game seasons, even the Bosox haven't been able to outdo them very often. Once the sample size becomes large enough - that payroll gives them an almost impossible advantage.

Impossible advantage to do what? Win the division. That hardly matters. Your sample of 13 years and how many times did they win the championship? 4? 4 years of winning the title in 13 years...and none in the past 9.

I've said it before..signing players especially in baseball is for the most part irrelevant. It's not basketball or football where one player can change the entire team. Even the arguably "best" player in baseball (A-Rod) couldn't help the Rangers or Mariners. They were still horrible teams.

K-State Spur

12-25-2008, 12:23 AM

Impossible advantage to do what? Win the division. That hardly matters.

Doesn't matter if you're a fan of a team located elsewhere. But if you're an Oriole, Bluejay, or Dray fan - it's a bitch to have to deal with those 2 monster payrolls year in and year out.

The Devil Rays not only had to have things click early last year, but also had to catch the Yankees in a semi-rebuilding year at the same time. It's very conceivable that they could have the third best team in baseball this year and be on the outside looking in come playoff time.

Spurminator

12-25-2008, 11:00 AM

What baseball needs is a Scott Boras child pornography scandal.

Duff McCartney

12-25-2008, 12:13 PM

The Devil Rays not only had to have things click early last year, but also had to catch the Yankees in a semi-rebuilding year at the same time. It's very conceivable that they could have the third best team in baseball this year and be on the outside looking in come playoff time.

Then the problem is with the system. Not the fact that the Yankees spend millions more than other teams. If the Rays have the third best team in baseball and they aren't able to get in the playoffs, then as with college football, the problem is with the playoff system the way it's set up.

The fact that the Yankees spend so much is irrelevent at that point.

K-State Spur

12-25-2008, 02:02 PM

Then the problem is with the system. Not the fact that the Yankees spend millions more than other teams. If the Rays have the third best team in baseball and they aren't able to get in the playoffs, then as with college football, the problem is with the playoff system the way it's set up.

The fact that the Yankees spend so much is irrelevent at that point.

It's not irrelevant. Teams like the Devil Rays, Orioles, and Blue Jays have to fill the majority of their holes internally AND hope to catch the Yanks or Red Sox in a down year in order to have a hope at a postseason.

It's impossible to compete with those payrolls year in and year out. You have to everything right and hope that they're down at the same time.

dbreiden83080

12-25-2008, 08:33 PM

It's not irrelevant. Teams like the Devil Rays, Orioles, and Blue Jays have to fill the majority of their holes internally AND hope to catch the Yanks or Red Sox in a down year in order to have a hope at a postseason.

It's impossible to compete with those payrolls year in and year out. You have to everything right and hope that they're down at the same time.

Blame the system not the Yankees. It's not their fault that it is set up so that if you have mega revenue, with attendance and TV networks that you can have a huge payroll if you choose too, as long as you pay the luxory tax.. And there are too many damn cheap ass owners in baseball that refuse to spend and take a risk to win and bring fans back.

dallaskd

12-25-2008, 09:47 PM

I can't wait until the Rangers win a ring before Tex.

K-State Spur

12-26-2008, 12:54 AM

Blame the system not the Yankees. It's not their fault that it is set up so that if you have mega revenue, with attendance and TV networks that you can have a huge payroll if you choose too, as long as you pay the luxory tax.. And there are too many damn cheap ass owners in baseball that refuse to spend and take a risk to win and bring fans back.

I do blame the system. (although it should be noted that the Yanks fight any changes to the system tooth & nail.)