Rumors & All,Teixeira Not Guest of Peter Angelos at Yesterday's Game

I had gone to a tailgate before the Ravens-Steelers game yesterday and of course as you could guess the big talk amongst my friends was not about the crucial game, but about Mark Teixeira.

Wow, chatting about Orioles baseball in December - who would have thought that?

As posted yesterday, there was a rumor posted on the Orioles Hangout site by Roy Firestone that a few media outlets picked up that free agent slugger Mark Teixeira was to be the guest of Peter Angelos during last night's game at M&T Bank Stadium.

The rumor was immediately shot down by MASN's Roch Kubatko, Baltimore Sun's Peter Schmuck, and WNST; soon thereafter there were subsequent posts by both men on their respective blogs that indeed he was not with Peter Angelos in his suite.

Well, in the interim, both men -- unfairly, to say -- have taken their lumps for simply checking out sources and doing some investigation before posting their reports. I guess fans were hoping for the best case scenario, whether it was fact or not.

Teixeira may or may not have been at the game, as a few comments were left on their blogs and the Orioles Hangout noting that he and his wife were at the Hilton across the street from Camden Yards for lunch.

I guess if he did attend the game, he went as a fan -- not as a guest of Angelos.