{"id":1615,"date":"2012-03-22T21:58:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2012-03-22T22:00:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:00:42","slug":"yanks-teixeira-good-guy-with-great-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/03\/yanks-teixeira-good-guy-with-great-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Yanks&#8217; Teixeira: Good Guy With Great Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To say <strong>Mark Teixeira<\/strong> has been a solid contributor with the <em>New York Yankees<\/em> would be an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>The first baseman, entering his fourth season in the Bronx after signing\u00a0 as a free agent, has belted over 30 homers and collected over 100 RBI in each of his first three seasons with New York.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1616\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/files\/2012\/03\/Mark_Teixeira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1616\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/248\/2012\/03\/Mark_Teixeira-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Teixeira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He also seems like a good guy and a class act, which he showed again on a recent <em>HGTV<\/em> episode of <em>My Favorite Place<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Rangers and Angels slugger showed off his 13,000 square foot home in Greenwich, CT. on the program and it was something to behold.<\/p>\n<p>The showcase of the five bedroom, eight bath mansion-like home was probably his home office, which had a picture of him catching the 27th out of the Yanks 27th World Series.\u00a0 It also boasts many signed baseballs and an autographed picture of Tex with former president<strong> George W. Bush<\/strong>, who once owned the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>The program showed the picture of Tex and W off nicely, but if he talked about the ex-prez we&#8217;ll never know since the shot cut away from the office before he could. Or if he could\/did &#8230; to be fair. I am always sensitive about slights toward W, so pardon me on that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad Tex picked the Yanks and vice-versa, and he certainly looks happy at home.<\/p>\n<p>Someday perhaps he&#8217;ll have his own HGTV program?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To say Mark Teixeira has been a solid contributor with the New York Yankees would be an understatement. The first baseman, entering his fourth season in the Bronx after signing\u00a0 as a free agent, has belted over 30 homers and collected over 100 RBI in each of his first three seasons with New York. 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