HOLY #$%*&@!!!!!

Well, so much for my thoughts on why the Yankees won't get Mark Teixeira. Good thing I didn't waste my time trying to rationalize that concept again.

Am I happy? No, not really. I'm just not too psyched about 8 years I guess. He's a great player and fills somewhat of a need (what do we do with Swisher and/or Nady now?) it's just that in the long run I think this deal will hurt us as any and all infield flexibility just flew out the window. How much longer will A-Rod mishandle slow rollers at 3rd. How much longer will Jeter be hurting us at SS with his diminished range and errant throws? How much longer will the Jeter/Cano double-play combo extend innings? Our poor infield defense may have gotten better but it looks to get exponentially worse over the next few years.

In the long run, whatever. He is an outstanding defensive 1B and he has a very impressive offensive resume. Ideally, the 2009 Yankees should be somewhat of a juggernaut. The 2010 and 2011 teams should also figure to go deep into October. It gets murky after that, it really depends on C.C. does with that opt out. I know this much for sure, it's pretty rare when you see a team commit $424 million dollars and 20 years to 3 players in one off season, let alone one decade.

And a big whatever to the money too. Boston apparently wouldn't budge from $168-170 mill over 8 years and we got him for $180. I gotta think that Boston really screwed the pooch by not offering another 1.25 - 1.5 mill per year. That's a less than 8K per game. Looks like those guys needed to "Cowboy Up". Unless of course they never wanted him anyway. That's believable, right?

The thing that's going to get lost in the wash is the simple fact that Teixiera really only wanted to be a Yankee. He met with us first and made sure we made an offer as suitors dropped left and right. Something tells me that will be the most overlooked part of this story.

But who cares, now the Yankees do have that offense everyone felt we needed and now we got someone to protect A-Rod (whatever the hell that means), can we just play the damn games already?