This will be Derek Jeter's final season
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For all the Jeter fans:
http://mlb.si.com/2014/02/12/derek-jeter-greatest-moments-yankees-retire/?eref=sihp
The part that gave me goosebumps:
http://mlb.si.com/2014/02/12/derek-jeter-greatest-moments-yankees-retire/?eref=sihp
The part that gave me goosebumps:
Jeter means just as much to baseball as he does to Yankees
Nauseated already, and spring training hasn't even started.
Nauseated already, and spring training hasn't even started.
Andrew said:
It's worse than nausea. I'm actually concerned that I'm not going to be able watch baseball this year. Like at all.
To wit:
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Pujols on Jeter: "On and off field, he's the way you want your kids to grow up, Only Jesus is perfect, but he's pretty close to that guy."
12:26 PM - 13 Feb 2014
Jeter's pretty close. To that guy.
Andrew said:
The guy blows his entire payload weeks before the season starts. This is ballwashing, to 11, in February.
Andrew said:
Holy crap.
I'm not even going to get into the stupid "winner" thing, but can anyone point out how Jeter has been the greatest ambassador of baseball for 20 years?
I just came here to post that Pujols quote. I'm now starting to think this might actually end up being a pretty hilarious process, as people start to try and one-up each other in the absurdly effusive praise department.
I'm now expecting there to be a fully-functioning religion sprouted up around Him and His teachings by August/ Sept. "Intangibles" will be their "the Force." Emphasis on moving forward, "not laterally. We don't do that."
I'm now expecting there to be a fully-functioning religion sprouted up around Him and His teachings by August/ Sept. "Intangibles" will be their "the Force." Emphasis on moving forward, "not laterally. We don't do that."
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It's ironic. The Yankees are universally hated and yet so much attention and love are directed at Rivera and Jeter when they say they are quitting. Part of it is because they never fucked up publicly, like so many of their peers did over the past 20 years. Part of it is because our modern media fixation is on tearing public figures apart whenever possible. We don't have heroes anymore and we don't want anyone anointed as one.
Thank you so much. I have been laughing uncontrollably for the past few minutes.Orel Miraculous said:
Jesus was finished at 33. Jeter was still going strong at 38.
Jesus went to his left with the best of his day. Jeter, not so much.
Jesus could hit a home run whenever he wanted. Jeter needed Jeffrey Maier to get his pop fly over the wall.
After games, Jesus had a trick of making wine out of water that kept his disciples happy. Jeter would sit in the VIP section and order champagne for his entourage.
Jesus made the Hall of Fame after a three-day wait, though he was clearly not a unanimous choice. Jeter has to wait five years and will get 95 percent of the votes.
Jesus went to his left with the best of his day. Jeter, not so much.
Jesus could hit a home run whenever he wanted. Jeter needed Jeffrey Maier to get his pop fly over the wall.
After games, Jesus had a trick of making wine out of water that kept his disciples happy. Jeter would sit in the VIP section and order champagne for his entourage.
Jesus made the Hall of Fame after a three-day wait, though he was clearly not a unanimous choice. Jeter has to wait five years and will get 95 percent of the votes.
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soxfan121 said:
If by this you meant that you think the Yankees will go out by hosting and losing the AL Wild Card Game, well done I say. Just enough ignominy to go around.
Jeter is retiring because of A-Rod's sins. Or maybe Alex is the Christ figure here. He definitely thinks he is. A-Rod sacrificed for his union and couldn't go to Boston. Then he ended up in Hell.jon abbey said:
terrynever said:
Hell for Arod is a net worth of 300 million and non-baseball earnings of 20 million a year, and 61 million more coming from the Yankees. Take me Lucifer I am yours.
I wonder if Jeter recovers if MLB did not start testing for HGH or if Biogenesis never happened? I mean, even Jesus would have been tempted to use HGH to recover from his ordeal on the cross.
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Uh, Trout?LeoCarrillo said:
The Yankees FO must have been doing back flips behind closed doors after the announcement. Average ticket prices for home games this season have already jumped just in the past 24 hours, and they can run retirement specials out the ass on YES all season. Plus, they avoid the awkward situation of whether or not to resign him for 2015 if he wanted to continue playing.
SemperFidelisSox said:
Might be a gimmick they arranged with Jeter to boost ticket sales, in exchange for his raise. If he has a good 1st half look for him to announce his unretirement. Tickets are non-refundable.
terrynever said:
Trout grew up in southern New Jersey and was a Phillies fan.
Mike Trout: Still a Phillies Fan
As for the "face of baseball" business, I never got the impression that Jeter was the face of baseball any time in the last decadel. Over the last several years the face of baseball has seemed to be guys like Verlander, who actually have personalities in interviews and on social media rather than someone like Jeter who just spouts the requisite clichés and flashes a winning smile.
Jeter was never the face of baseball. That's not some anti-Jeter whining, it's just a fact. People who talk like that are McCarveresque-level stupid.
Who decides who the face of any sport is?
I'm an unabashed Jeter Hater but I have to admit that there's no one player who I think more reflects the general public's image of baseball than Captain Intangibles.
Said differently, if Jeter isn't or wasn't the face of baseball, who is? David Ortiz? Stephen Drew? Who?
I'm an unabashed Jeter Hater but I have to admit that there's no one player who I think more reflects the general public's image of baseball than Captain Intangibles.
Said differently, if Jeter isn't or wasn't the face of baseball, who is? David Ortiz? Stephen Drew? Who?
I thought the supposition that there is one face of baseball ludicrous. Even in all-star promos, they show like 6 or 7 guys. Okay, Jeter is one of em. But as if they're in MLB headquarters right now looking through a slide show of possibles. Silly.
TheoShmeo said:
It's not a sport that lends itself to one face. Even the transcendent players don't become the face of the game (in modern times). Think of all of the HOF players and candidates - there is not one that outshines the others to that extent.
I think you could say that Michael Jordan was the face of basketball for a time, or Gretsky was the face of hockey - at least to someone looking at the sport from outside it. Baseball, not so much.
My bad. Doesn't change the fact that he's an East Coast guy and might want to come home if the Angels don't lock him up.derekson said:
Rovin Romine said:
Wayne Gretsky, who's Wayne Gretsky?
..as hockey falls into further oblivion (in fairness that's probably an honest typo). Though the Québécois faction would likely get a good kick out of that one
Face of the Yankees, face of baseball, same thing.
More seriously, this is what the media gets to do whenever an iconic player is ready to retire. If the player is in a large market, better. If that player spent his entire career with one team, better still. In the modern era, if that player is also perceived as "clean" and has no taint of PEDs on their career, awesome. Double bonus if the guy has intangibles.
Might as well get used to it for this season. There aren't too many players like that. Gotta let the media do what they do.
More seriously, this is what the media gets to do whenever an iconic player is ready to retire. If the player is in a large market, better. If that player spent his entire career with one team, better still. In the modern era, if that player is also perceived as "clean" and has no taint of PEDs on their career, awesome. Double bonus if the guy has intangibles.
Might as well get used to it for this season. There aren't too many players like that. Gotta let the media do what they do.
Its possible even MFY fans might get tired of the year-long ball-washing that CI will receive this year.
Peyton will be envious.
Peyton will be envious.
Maybe. For me, the discomfort at hagiography will likely be cancelled out by the satisfaction of knowing the Yankees don't have to worry about a contentious contract debate this season and can move ahead with future SS plans, drama-free.bankshot1 said:
Just depends on how high the bullshit really gets.
Adirondack jack said:
Wayne Gretsky, who's Wayne Gretsky?
..as hockey falls into further oblivion (in fairness that's probably an honest typo). Though the Québécois faction would likely get a good kick out of that one
My spelling is awful - I make no excuses for that. I don't really follow hockey. The last time someone tried to talk to me about it, I said, "I'm sorry, I don't follow tennis." They looked *so* offended.
EvilEmpire said:
Just wait until someone "convinces" him to stick it out for one more year and he announces it with a three page post on Facebook in Sept.
Agree with this, Evil. Jeter actually did the organization a favor in terms of game-planning for the future. And he won't come back in 2015, no matter how his 2014 season ends. It's more likely he might retire early if his legs break down again.EvilEmpire said:
I am glad we have returned to the good old days when 39-year-old players played like they are 39.
Not to hi-jack the thread, but the Yankees will have one of the more interesting internal contract debates this year,and there appears no way to avoid the drama.EvilEmpire said:
Not with Jeter, but with the anti-Jeter, the yin to CI's yang, the other side of the Yankees, the dark side that baseball doesn't want to acknowledge, and whether to welcome back Arod with open arms or pay-off baseball's bad-boy and send him to his baseball after-life.
Not me. Shit, I've been working guerrilla to undermine. Wrote this headline for a fawning, sappy column: JETER TOUCHED LITTLE LEAGUE KIDS ALL OVER NYglennhoffmania said:
Just so there'd be a hint of subtext that he was a molester. Not that anyone noticed.