I saw a post game interview with him on MLB Network where he said the boos didn’t get to him because it reminded him of when he was a kid and he’d come to the Orioles games and boo the other teams himself! Did you do that when WEARING YOUR YANKEE CAP TO THE GAME AND HAVING ALL THE O’S FANS GIVE YOU A HARD TIME the way you said they did when you became a Yankee? What a douche.

I almost — ALMOST — started to feel bad for Teixeira yesterday. This seals it that I would do it all again. One day he’s a fucking Yankees fan as a kid, the next he was idolizing the O’s? No. Fuck him.

his comments are two-faced and he makes it sound like he had no choice. Don’t act like you were forced to sign with NY. I think most people objectively understand why you did, but just say it. They paid you more money and you have a better chance to win. That’s it. Don’t insult my intelligence by stabbing me in the back while giving me a reacharound.

was how Tex said the same things to the Orioles press and the National’s press. We weren’t the only team and fan base that Tex sweet talked to get a fatter contract. He said the same shit to both organizations and no one is calling him out on that. Fuck him. He can take his extra $40 million go to hell.

My wife surprised me with tickets to the game, and this was the best Orioles game I’ve been to in at least 10 years.

This was my first Opening Day, and as a fan, I needed this. I needed a game with a full stadium, more O’s fans than Yankees fans, and loud as hell at that, and I needed a game where the O’s held on and won. This is the type of atmosphere I want to see at the Yard every game. I know the team has a long way to go before they can contend, and before the fans are back at the park in huge numbers like this, but it was very cool to see a sampling of what it can be like again.

The last O’s-Yanks game I was at was actually the one where Jack Cust tripped twice between 3rd and home. And I still complain about that game. Yesterday, Jack Cust, you were avenged.

I’ve usually stayed mum on Teixeira, but I will break my silence this little bit. My nephew went to school with him. They played different sports but did kind of cross paths a little because they were both on athletic teams. He was a nice enough guy for being a super star at that age. Yeah, he liked Mattingly, but this love for all things Yankees we heard when he signed was PR overload. I’ll also say there is not a lot of surprise that he went to the Yankees. At least that’s the feedback I hear.

Just man up and say it was business and pipe down on the BS. I’m not stupid, and understand the decision. I just hope the Yankees keep overpaying long contracts they’ll later regret , ignore the minor leagues, and Teix wins zero rings which he covets along with the big paycheck. Nothing personal, it’s the Yankees.

is the sheer condescension of it all. I mean… at least A-Rod was actually in a situation where he had to defend something to the media that was (to the media) undefensible. You sort of expect him to make up stories.

Tex is making up a bunch of bull for absolutely no discernible reason. Just say you wanted to play for a winner or you thought you could get the most money from the MFY and leave it at that. The sheer idea that you’re making up a ton of BS every time the reporters interview you and none of it correlates to any of the other BS you make up is simply insulting to our intelligence/

the ‘guess the opening day lineup’ thing? I doubt it, I can’t remember ANYONE picking MelMo to bat cleanup…that won’t last!

“Note: This is sloppy, malicious, cherry-picking blogging by me. Mr. Teixeira said more, and he spoke diplomatically, but I want it to sound like this, so it’s going to.”

Yes, bloggers can have it all— knee-capping and honesty at one go, and an entertaining read in the bargain. If only somebody paid for this stuff, bloglife would be blogperfect. ‘Course, then we’d all bloglive all the blogging time, and not a lot would get blogdone outside the blogosphere. Oh well, a guy can blogdream, can’t he?

Worst run-on sentence I may have ever seen. Off-topic.

Good job getting 180 million and going 0-4 buddy.

The Orioles get an opening day win against the Yankees and the biggest topic is how big of a jerk Teixeira is?

Why should we care a whit about Teixeira? He’s a Yankee. So what if he didn’t sign. And as for all the anger at the lame PR spin commenting from him, get real. When haven’t we heard this sort of dribble from pro athletes?

Thanks to it being nationally televised, I got to watch more than half the game out here in Seattle, even with an early afternoon start time. I got to see Brian Roberts demonstrate once again why he is the best leadoff man in the AL. I got to watch Adam Jones show he maybe is that perenial All-Star some think he might be. I enjoyed seeing Markakis be Markakis, Huff actually start out an April by hitting the ball and Melvin even get on base a couple of times. I saw our new shortstop make a crucial defensive play and then, as if that wasn’t enough, hit a homerun. I watched Guts turn in a decent pitching performance and Sherrill come in and nicely wrap things up.

While I realize it is only one game, for at least one day I’ve been able to entertain the thought that Baltimore might actually turn in a decent performance this season. I’m sure the rest of the rotation will blow that thought out of the water soon enough. But at least from the non-pitching side, I’m seeing the makings of what could be a pretty good team.

The sense of entitlement part especially.

Miller and Morgan called out Damon yesterday for not running out of the box on his misplayed hit to center. They showed an isolation camera of him jogging to first, then seeing the ball misplayed between 1st and 2nd, then turning the wheels on. He wound up on third, and Miller rightly pointed out that if he had run hard from the get-go, he might well have had an inside-the-park homer.

All day long, the Yankees looked complacent to me. To me it’s as if they thin, “Well we spent the money, now we get our title.” As Dave at Weaver’s Tantrum put it,

Xavier Nady ran through a stop signal from the third base coach, then stopped and placidly waited to be tagged. It contrasted badly with Roberts’ rundown which required several throws and pretty much the entire Yankee infield.

It’s OPENING DAY, and these guys already aren’t hustling? I think it’s going to be fun to watch this team implode in the Bronx this year.

To Everyone Saying “Get Over It…Tex Signed With The Yanks”:

It’s not that he signed with the Yankees, and it never has been. It’s that he maintained before, during, and after the signing, right through to this day, that he wanted to be an Orioles, and that in “a perfect world”, he would be.

That is hypocrisy. That is dissemblance of a staggering magnitude. It’s insulting. It’s egotistical and disingenuous. In the same way that A*Rod desperately wants everyone to like him, now Teixeira feeds us line after line and expects us to buy it because he can’t bear the thought of pissing anyone off.

What a baby.

I suggest a new chant for the rest of the seaon:

LLLIIIIIIIIIIIIII – - – AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR,

à la soccer-style chanting. Over and over again. Because I’m absolutely fine with him playing for another team that was willing to pay him more. But I won’t abide someone who lies to my face. Repeatedly.

Mora shouldn’t have tagged even though he was safe.

The Roberts pickoff took a little thunder away after Jonesy followed it up with a single.

If the experts predict this team will put runs across the plate, are we still destined to see an entire season of Diamond Dave over aggressive base running giving up outs?

or is the MFY batting order not nearly as intimidating as in years past?? I know that A*Rod isn’t playing, but still, I genuinely felt like we had the tougher lineup. Once Wieters arrives, there won’t be a truly easy out in the lineup (except maybe Izturis and Luke when he is scuffling).

was watching Gammons say on BBTN- and I know he said it because I had to rewind the DVR three times to be sure I was clear – was that this Orioles team “was going to get real good in a hurry!” Holy Shitballs, Batman – the sage of baseball on the four letter network complimented OUR TEAM!
That made my day!
Great win, dudes – now go get em tomorrow!

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You make a pretty good comparison there. Have to admit Simmons has been kind of a guilty pleasure of mine for some years now. Though we’re probably in trouble if actual journalists are trying to impersonate the Simmons schtick, because I think his primary function is entertainment, rather than journalism. I don’t expect, or even necessarily want, an unbiased take from Simmons because it’s his bias that makes him interesting – much of which is his Boston/New England homerism, to be sure, but not entirely.

That’s Bill Simmons the columnist. There’s also Bill Simmons the podcaster, and I find his podcasts strangely informative in a way that his column has never been. While many of his columns are just regurgitating old, played-out jokes and an obsession with 80s movie references, the BS Report is not the same thing. Many of them are formulaic in that he calls up X friend of his who is a noted fan of Y sport (or Z team in particular) to talk about what’s recently happened or what’s coming up, but sometimes he gets into really interesting discussions with random people. Within the last few weeks he’s had this ongoing fascination across multiple guests over the demise of newspapers as we know them, what has caused this and how papers might try to reinvent themselves. Unexpectedly erudite from someone who usually takes the low-brow humor route.

I guess what I’m saying in a very roundabout way is that blogs are interesting because you get to see some of the personality of the people who bring you the news. The downside of this in the case of sports is that you’re getting sportswriter’s personalities.

Teixeira would be as poor as he is ugly…unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world.

I didn’t get to go to Opening Day, but I am going tomorrow night and I will be booing Tiexiera all night. I’ve just got a bad feeling I’ll be outnumbered by Yankee fans.

Totally unrelated, except that it brings up some good Birdland memories: My wife and I are watching the Phils-Braves game, and the Braves just put EOF in. I predict good things for the Phils.

EOF is Birdland, in a way.

What’s with the media (Robothal and Cowherd, whoever that dude is) all bitchin and moaning about the boos yesterday? Should Oriole fans just bend over year after year or something? I don’t get it. Sure, places like the OH and sunspot created a paparazzi deal for Teixeira, but it’s society. And for real, Yankee fans have been just as brutal to any # of players in the past. I’m definitely proud of my fellow oriole fans.