Gammons On Varitek, Teixeira

Teixeira said he had no problems at all with ARod. He said they actually got along. It might be a lie but he sounded really sincere. If he's lying he sounded really convincing. I don't know how much of this "testiness" Gammons saw himself but I don't like to hear gossip or hearsay coming from him.

Looked to me like Tex was lying the whole time. He doesn't care what team he went to he just wanted the best deal he could find.

Gammons is a moron

Its well documented that he did have a problem with Arod. I'm sure he sounded sincere because he a liar. He brought Henry all the way to Texas making him believe that he is going to sign only to tell him that he wants more money. He said it yesterday that he decided to be a Yankee 2 weeks before Christmas then why in the world did he brought Henry if that's the case? I hate to burst your buble but Tex is a jerk who gives crap about other people.

Like that bit about "apparently she doesn't like the stores on Newbury Street or something"...

Thats just bitter... uncalled for.

If Varitek retires or remains unsigned next year (unlikely perhaps) what happens to the Red Sox draft picks?

This was posted in one of the Yankee website.

I heard a radio interview with a reporter who said that Tex hates arod, going back to their days at Texas,

It's amazing that Gammons can even speak with Theo Epstein's dick in his mouth.

It's amazing that Gammons still claims he works for ESPN.

Joseph Phillips's comment at 6:45 is the funniest thing I've heard/read this week.

Last time I checked, Gammons was inducted into the Hall for his reporting. What have all of you people out there done for baseball? It's actually well documented that the two had some issues in the past, not to say that they haven't moved past it now that they are 180 million and 275 million dollar men. At least they better for what they are being paid.

JudgeNY- It just so happens that this is the prime year for him to pick the Yankees and keep his bias intact. Whine about missing Teixeira, insult his wife (never mind that the guy grew up worshiping Don Mattingly), set up the Yankees to be the favorites, and if the Red Sox do better, write about how great they are some more. I'm not impressed.

celtics464- It's pretty obvious that that isn't true. The Nationals reportedly had their offer at $190 million, but he passed that up because he wanted to play for a winner (a desire that led to the Rangers' trading him instead of re-signing him), and, like I just said, his favorite player was Don Mattingly. At the Yankees' press conference, he said he had season tickets to the Orioles games but wore a Yankee hat. And the Orioles were good back then. There's reasonable evidence that he was just waiting for the Yankees' official offer. Once he got it, it was a done deal.

NY got over the ARod/Jeter stupid crap, i dont ARod/Tex is really going to be an issue. Plus when your team losses 100 games i think everyone gets testy with one another.

As for Gammons, low blow on Tex's wife. Hall of Fame writer? Seems like he's starting to be that 80yr old grandpa who just says crazy things now.

Also, Gammons speaks as if the whole negotiations with the Sox were just to string them along, and that Scott always wanted Teixeira to signed with the Yankees.

Why in the world would Boras wanted Teixeira to go to the Yankees??? That would be a worse case scenario for Boras, since that would basically remove all suitors for his other client Manny. The best case scenario for Boras would be for Teixeira to sign with the Red Sox, and that would leave Manny available for the Angels and Yankees. Of course common sense doesnt matter when Gammons is writing about anything Red Sox related.

"Gammons sounds like he loves the Red Sox.. Has an interest in the Bosox.. or something like that.. Just sounds like a Boston PR man..."

I love it when Yankee fans always write this rubbish... Of COURSE he is a Sox fans.. Why do you think he does charity fund raiser numerous times per year with Sox players, brass etc and wrote for the Boston Globe for what? 15 years before going to ESPN??

lol @ yankee fans gettin all butt hurt cause Gammons doesnt kiss their ass. Hilarious.

LOL @ all Yankee haters that think Yankee fans care what they say.

"Yankee fans get mad at reporters because there's not one reporter who actually talks positive about the Yankees. the guys on ESPN always take shots, the NY papers dont even like the Yankees. Anti-Yankee media sells and gets ratings, that's just how it is"

You are correct for a fact on Sherman for what is it? The NY Post? It seems like that guy flat out dislikes the Yanks in some of his articles.

Have not noticed an awful lot of bias in Olney's articles, other than the extravagant FA spending spree of late he has been blistering them on.

I REALLY liked what Gammons said regarding Tek and only offering him like a lowball 2 million. really hope that's the max they will give him, the picks possible (even if only 2 comp) are worth far more than he is at any price and Boras really blew it with Tek over arbitration. Wonder it tek will dump him as an agent after this now???

"Gammons sounds like he loves the Red Sox.. Has an interest in the Bosox.. or something like that.. Just sounds like a Boston PR man..."

I love it when Yankee fans always write this rubbish... Of COURSE he is a Sox fans.. Why do you think he does charity fund raiser numerous times per year with Sox players, brass etc and wrote for the Boston Globe for what? 15 years before going to ESPN??

Posted by: johns | January 07, 2009 at 07:34 PM

Why is it "rubbish" when it's true? They are just reiterating that Gammons's Boston-NY reports should be taken with a grain of salt.

If you want to deem that as "rubbish" then Gammons's report is "rubbish" because OF COURSE there would be tension between teammates. It's called competition.

Do they get along? Who cares? As long as they put up numbers and get into the postseason. I'd rather take two rivalrous stars like Tex and Arod than two buddy-buddies that couldn't hit for a lick.

Stark loves the phillies. Law loves the Blue jays. gammons loves the red Sox. Olney Loves the yankees. Get over it guys!

Gammons isn't a Hall of Fame writer. To my knowledge, there are no Hall of Fame writers, only winners of the Spink award, which is given out once a year. Murray Chass won in 2003, and Gammons in 2004. Tracy Ringolsby the year after. No one can dispute Gammons' horrible, horrible bias. Everyone knows he's a Sox fan, and that's fine. But good national journalists take bias out of their reporting. Gammons doesn't even try, and he's inarguably the most biased national, high-profile journalist today.

Gammons is nothing but a soxs fan enough said...

Pete has always been a Red Sox fan as we all know.That's fine but to take shots at other reporters for being Boras surrogates while he shills for his boy Theo is mind boggling.I think Pete has gotten a lot worse since his health problems.He is always trying to be the hipster with his rock references which are a little embarrassing after awhile.Anyway,as others have said you have to filter his views through a Boston prism and move on.

Regardless of who you like and don't like I think the thing that should be pretty obvious to everyone is outside of the Yankees there is apparently not much of a "market" that will pay these players what they want anymore. Even the Red Sox and Angels (two of the bigger salaried teams) are turning their backs on big contracts.

K-Rod signing for considerably less was probably the first sign that the market outside of the Yankees was smaller and now the fact that guys like Lowe can't seem to get an offer even remotely close to what they had originally thought is a pretty good indication of what some of the even lesser guys can expect.

The A's signed Giambi for about a 1/4 of what the Yankees paid him the year before when he hit 32 HR's with 96 RBI's.

I digress.....if I am a guy like Varitek or Jon Garland I would have some serious issues with my agent right now for directing me against taking arbitration.