This is beginning to rival the Epic Brett Favre Retirement Party and Farewell Tour as the most annoying sports non-story to make headlines on a daily basis.
Breaking news: an announcement is coming soon! Yawn.
Personally, I’m rooting for the Nats to score him. I don’t like the thought of an 8-year deal to anyone, much less a mercenary like Teixeira. Wherever he lands, it will be his 4th team in just his 7th big-league season, not to mention the non-signing with the Red Sox back in the 1998 draft. I don’t know how he’s done it, but Teixeira has avoided any and all criticism for doing exactly what guys like A-Rod, Pedro and Clemens have done: pimping themselves out to the highest bidder.
I want to see the 2009 Red Sox with a healthy Mike Lowell at third and Youk at first where he plays error-free, hits like a fool and gives young and old alike nightmares about his beard.
Come on, Nats, you need Tex more than the Sox, make it happen.
"SURVIVING GRADY is Red Sox Nation's 'Mystery Science Theater 3000.' Brilliant, irreverent, and merciless." -- Stewart O'Nan, author, 
