(Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)By Coral Marshall - AngelsWin.com ColumnistPerhaps the scribes of ESPN’s miniseries “The Bronx is Burning” wrote it best when they had John Turturro as Billy Martin proclaim: “You’re damn right I know about Yankee tradition. We only won six pennants and five World Series while I was there and I was MVP of one of them, so I think I know a little something about Yankee tradition.”The Yankees do have a storied legacy and 26 World Series championships is hard to argue with. That being said, it is easy to see why one of the best (if not the best) position players in Major League Baseball would want to be a part of that tradition.But that doesn’t make it any easier when you are the team, or the fans of the team, that offered Mark Teixeira $160 million only to be turned down at watch him instead become a Bronx Bomber.That is money from which Catfish Hunter and Reggie Jackson — the original Yankee free agents — would have been hard pressed to walk away...
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