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Hey, Chipper was one of those guys whose father was a Mickey Mantle worshiper (see also: half the white guys in America at mid-century) so he could have come to the Bronx and made the standard Stepford speech: "I AL-WAYS-WANT-ED-TO-BE-A-YAN-KEE-AND-WEAR-THE-PIN-STRIPES" and maybe even mean it. Giambi did the same thing and wanted his number, he settled on 25, to add up to Mantle's 7 as a tribute to his father's idol.
But it's all kind of funny in that Cashman was insisting that the Yanx weren't going to make any move but this Teixeira injury seems to have changed his mind. In addition to Chipper he's reportedly contacting, or floating the idea of contacting, the oft-injured and currently un-connected Scott Rolen, as well as Derrek Lee who hasn't played since 2011. No mention so far of FA Carlos Lee or singer Peggy Lee.
Meanwhile, Johnny Damon, who has some Yanqui past and has played some 1B in his career*, was publicly begging the Yanx for a contract last week but was turned down.
That Cashman is looking around for someone might indicate that they're afraid that Teixeira's wrist injury is going to be more than the stated eight weeks or whatever the original estimate was, or just a general concern of the effectiveness of hitters coming off wrist problems. Either that or he's on too many pain meds from his own busted joint.
* on edit: 8 times for a total of 12 innings, I thought it was a little more than that.
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