Newsday's Kat O'Brien profiles Brian Cashman's pursuit of Mark Teixeira.

Teixeira never was really an option," Cashman said. "It was something I kept pushing, but it was not really being accepted by above me . . . I guess persistence paid off. I knocked on that door, I guess, just enough that someone finally answered. Hal really gave me the OK to pursue it over a few-day period. And at that point, I still thought the Red Sox were getting him."

Via Tim Dierkes.