I almost started a thread on opening day; the title was going to be, "My new least favorite player is Mark Teixeira." I am from Baltimore, and grew up a diehard O's fan. (They are still my default AL team.) I can say that there is a particular low-key, blue-collar loyalty that fans in the city really genuinely admire. It's why folks -- including me -- still worship Johnny Unitas; he sort of embodied that vibe. Same thing with Brooks Robinson. Teixeira seems to be the antithesis of this. He claimed to be interested in playing for the O's or Nats because of his alleged interest in returning to the area, but, in the end, his greed got the better of him and he went elsewhere -- to New York, of all places. Basically, we Baltimoreans hate phonies, and Teixeira seems to be about as phony as they come.