When I saw the now “infamous” article and tweet stating that
the New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira would be “OK” with waiving his
no-trade clause to facilitate a deal this winter I can’t lie, I got a little
bit excited. I didn’t bother to check the source, I thought maybe a responsible
site like Yanks Go Yard would have done that for me (and that was not tongue in
cheek, the site is responsible and a friend of The Greedy Pinstripes) but after
doing some research and digging around one thing is clear, at least to me, and
that is that Mark Teixeira isn’t “OK” with anything.
This is slowly becoming old news now, the story broke late
in the week last week, but I wanted to wait this one out before I began to
write about it. Why? Sometimes the little guys, no matter how much Joel Sherman
doesn’t want to admit it, get the news first. I bring up Sherman specifically
because we here at TGP had the Curtis Granderson to the Mets deal not only
first, but 100% correct, days before Sherman stole the show. Sherman was
credited for it and when I linked him to my blog post and tweets day before
asking for accountability I was blocked and I am still blocked on his Twitter
to this day. So with this instance I wanted to wait around to see if anyone
would pick up on it, maybe even speculate on it, but I have seen nothing. Absolutely
nothing. When you see smoke there is usually fire but in this case there isn’t
a stick of wood to be found.
When no one is talking about something or none of the beat
writers or experts are even talking about, trying to confirm, trying to fact
check etc. that usually means it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and
sounds like a duck. This is a duck! Mark Teixeira did not give the Yankees the
green light to trade him and he definitely isn’t going to follow Billy Eppler
to Los Angeles to play for the Angels alongside the monster contracts of CJ
Wilson, Albert Pujols (who is also a first baseman) and Josh Hamilton (who is
playing for the Texas Rangers).
This is a duck and it’s not happening.
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