Wow…I didn’t think the Giants would pull that one out. I turned off the game.

As for the Yanks and Tex/Manuel….I think their thinking may go a little like this:

“Teixeira is good. Probably very good. But (as Russ mentioned earlier) he’s not one of the top players in the game; He’s just one of the top free agents in this class. To get Tex, we need to go a minumum of 8 years. To get Manuel, we need to go a minimum of three years. Manuel is a MUCH better offensive player than Teixeira. He’s an overall elite player, not just the top of this FA class. If we can committ fewers years and dollars to get the better player…why not do it? Besides, how many of Tex’s 8 years will be close to as good as three years of Manuel? Swisher should be fine at 1B and is as young as Teixeira, and Manny will give us the protection we need for A-Rod.”