Teixeira....180mil over 8 years WOW...

BarrelORum said:
No I get it. I am a Redskins fan, always have been. When the Redskins traded away Champ Bailey for Clinton Portis I was pissed. Bailey is a shut down cornerback and that is a rarity in the NFL. Portis is a good to great back, but productive Runningbacks are a dime a dozen in the NFL. But I thought Champ Bailey was a great player and as a Redskins fan, I was happy to have him on my team. That said, when discussing the merits of Champ Bailey when he was a Redskin, he was a great player. I don't care how good of a person he may be, he's a mutt, and the extent of my compliments to him begin and end at his production on the field.
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got you, but i like some of the things that Hines has done around the Burgh as a PERSON and i think i posted the info once that he actually set up a $1Million fund to help black/Korean kids in Korea deal with the racism they face, so i think that is pretty cool.

you gotta love a guy that when he gets hammered coming across the middle he gets up with a smile on his face.

ok, enough of this discussion - -have a great tree holiday, BoR
 
Another obvious example of the financial benefit of a GT education....
 
BuzzCzar said:
got you, but i like some of the things that Hines has done around the Burgh as a PERSON and i think i posted the info once that he actually set up a $1Million fund to help black/Korean kids in Korea deal with the racism they face, so i think that is pretty cool.

you gotta love a guy that when he gets hammered coming across the middle he gets up with a smile on his face.

ok, enough of this discussion - -have a great tree holiday, BoR
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Your buddy Ray Lewis has many charities; they all do (their agents take care of everything).

Regarding the earlier post, the O's offered a similar amount but for one less year. A player like him could have made a fortune in the local community; he probably can do the same being in a big town market.
The O's have lots of young talent, only lacking pitching now. He could have built a long term winner in Baltimore. But I wish him well and hopes he hits 90 homeruns while the Yankees lose every game. Hey that wish worked with Tashard Choice too last week.
 
GTland03 said:
we will be seeing some of that cheddar.
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did you guys know that Teixeira endows a scholarship to, i think, his high school due to the death of a high school friend.. i think i can dig it up, lets see

check the link
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1149324/2/index.htm

Two of the most formative events of Teixeira's life occurred in Baltimore. When he was a freshman in high school, on the way home from soccer practice one day, his father told him that his mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer. And when he was a junior, preparing to play an American Legion baseball game, one of Mark's best friends was killed in a car accident. Nick Liberatore was sitting in the backseat of a car parked on the side of Interstate 95 when a trucker fell asleep at the wheel and plowed into him. Every Wednesday night for the next year Teixeira and his friends went to the Liberatores' house for dinner. After Teixeira signed his first professional contract, with the Rangers in 2001, he asked Mount St. Joseph principal Barry Fitzpatrick how much it would cost to endow a scholarship in Liberatore's name. Fitzpatrick told him he would have to start with $75,000. "Mark took out his checkbook and wrote the check right there," Fitzpatrick says.
 
BuzzCzar said:
did you guys know that Teixeira endows a scholarship to, i think, his high school due to the death of a high school friend.. i think i can dig it up, lets see

check the link
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1149324/2/index.htm

Two of the most formative events of Teixeira's life occurred in Baltimore. When he was a freshman in high school, on the way home from soccer practice one day, his father told him that his mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer. And when he was a junior, preparing to play an American Legion baseball game, one of Mark's best friends was killed in a car accident. Nick Liberatore was sitting in the backseat of a car parked on the side of Interstate 95 when a trucker fell asleep at the wheel and plowed into him. Every Wednesday night for the next year Teixeira and his friends went to the Liberatores' house for dinner. After Teixeira signed his first professional contract, with the Rangers in 2001, he asked Mount St. Joseph principal Barry Fitzpatrick how much it would cost to endow a scholarship in Liberatore's name. Fitzpatrick told him he would have to start with $75,000. "Mark took out his checkbook and wrote the check right there," Fitzpatrick says.
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Tex is a really good guy. Pretty much everything the baseball team has in the lockerroom/gameroom is donated from Tex. Big screens, xbox 360's, leather couches, etc.

Its pretty nice stuff.
 
GTland03 said:
Tex is a really good guy. Pretty much everything the baseball team has in the lockerroom/gameroom is donated from Tex. Big screens, xbox 360's, leather couches, etc.

Its pretty nice stuff.
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The son of one of my consultants (former coworker) is a rather hot pitching prospect here in the PNW. He's accepted a verbal to Oregon, which is getting back into baseball next year, after several years hiatus. I bring this up because Phil Knight, Chairman of Nike, is alumni there. (Hence the odd football uniforms.) He's basically donated them a state of the art facility.
 
Congrat"s to TEX but I still hate anything YANKEE--especially BIG 10 football!!
 
BEEFENSE said:
Congrat"s to TEX but I still hate anything YANKEE--especially BIG 10 football!!
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the big 10 is dominated by the midwestern states, not really the bastion of "yankees" which would be New England, New York, Connecticut and so on; maybe Pennsylvannia fits in there too, but not cleanly

The Big Ten Conference is the college athletic meet, Division- I, which is considered to be one of the oldest events of its kind in America. This conference boasts of a rich tradition.

The membership list of the Big Ten Conference consists of the Midwestern US that includes the regions of Iowa, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. The Big Ten Conference witnesses the participation of major football teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision also known as FBS, the most respected and challenging level of the NCAA Division- I.
 
Definitely a Yankee hater here...but beside that...with that kind of money, hope Tex remembers Ma Tech and gives back BIG TIME!
 
midatlantech said:
Your buddy Ray Lewis has many charities; they all do (their agents take care of everything).

Regarding the earlier post, the O's offered a similar amount but for one less year. A player like him could have made a fortune in the local community; he probably can do the same being in a big town market.
The O's have lots of young talent, only lacking pitching now. He could have built a long term winner in Baltimore. But I wish him well and hopes he hits 90 homeruns while the Yankees lose every game. Hey that wish worked with Tashard Choice too last week.
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ill go along with BOTH of those!!!
 
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