No Game IGT

[MFS62]

Well, there's the NCIS marathon for a while (you can't just eat one pistachio).
Then, maybe some work around the house.

How about you?

Later

[bmfc1]

Dana Brand's new book "The Last Days of Shea", Red Sox-White Sox in a key pitching match-up for me in my fantasy league, and then a barbecue.

[ashie62]

Rutgers-Cincy 4pm ESPN anyone?

[Guest themetfairy]

Rutgers-Cincy 4pm ESPN anyone?[/quote:1u371uei]

I'm there! Go Scarlet Knights

[Frayed Knot]

Why I'm going to be glued to my TV so as to follow Jeter's historic pursuit of of Gehrig's NYY hit record of course.



Not that I don't already know the answer to this question, but has the chase of any [u:3d8z1z81]club record[/u:3d8z1z81] ever received this amount of outside coverage?
I mean, the talk from inside the club and fans is understandable, but this is being treated like some historic MLB-wide record about to go down.
ESPN - which has otherwise practically shut off what little attention they normally pay to baseball now that college football has started - is giddy with anticipation.

[Valadius]

NCIS is always a good diversion.

[Guest Kong76]

Re: Jeter, I hate the little **** ... but passing Gehrig is pretty big.

[Frayed Knot]

And who, when they think of Gehrig, doesn't think of number of base-hits?

[Guest Kong76]

We can refer to him as The Iron Shetland!

[MFS62]

What I'd love to happen to Jeter does involve iron, and lightning.
But there may be wimmins and chillins reading this. So, use your own imaginations.

Later

[metirish]

And who, when they think of Gehrig, doesn't think of number of base-hits?[/quote:3k65l92f]


I would say I'm a big baseball fan and I didn't know until all of this attention that Gehrig was the all hits leader on that team.

I'm sure I will avoid the papers when it happens , stories of Jeter's immortality started appearing weeks ago. I imagine Harper and Klapisch are sitting on articles that they practically ejaculate on nightly.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

US Open tennis. John Isner.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I'm whippin up some green chile stew and picking up Triple D, and we're going to a BBQ here in Long Beach with my compadres.

�Viva not working!

Happy Labor Day, all.

[metirish]

Pirates with a loss today have 17 straight losing seasons.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Will there be a movement to rename Jeter "The Pride of the Yankees."

Or maybe he'll get one of the lesser coveted Gehrig nicknames, like "Tanglefoot" or "Buscuit Pants."

"Biscuit Pants"?

[Fman99]

The State Fair (again, 2nd trip for the wife and kids, 3rd for me), then a nap, mowing the lawns, and roasted shrimp with red peppers.

No Mets game, this drives me batty. How does any team get a scheduled off-day on Labor Day? They should stop letting Heath Bell's kid make the schedule.

[metirish]

No hits tonight , I can't take it. The local ABC station saw fit to send Joe Torres a non sports guy to cover what they are calling " the jeter meter". I can't take this shit , get it over with and be done.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

We spent the whole day at Central Park. No Met game is sad on the one hand but liberating too.

[stevejrogers]

No hits tonight , I can't take it. The local ABC station saw fit to send Joe Torres a non sports guy to cover what they are calling " the jeter meter". I can't take this shit , get it over with and be done.[/quote:1rfxrmgs]

Just wait until the 3,000th hit countdown!

Knowing the Daily News, they just might start it as soon as he passes Gehrig.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Last day of summer?

Well, Coney Island it's gotta be. (With the tail end of the weekend's rockabilly festival and a Pin-Up Girl competition to boot-- apparently, my pregnant fiancee is a boob fan.)

[metirish]

We were there Saturday and caught some of the live Rockabilly playing on Cha Cha's roof , we stood there with our ice creams on the boardwalk looking up and lamenting how in our younger days sans kid we would be up there.

[Frayed Knot]

Michael Kay's intro to yesterday's telecast:
"The pages of the calendar have turned and have been punctuated by a steady torrent of hits. With the consistency of a metronome, Jeter had made sure the hits just keep on coming. ... One by one, hit by hit, the greats have fallen as he moves up the ladder, putting the games deities in his rear-view mirror. ... Four more hits to stand atop the Yankees' Mt. Olympus."

And though I expect (and to a degree understand) MFY fans & crew to make a big deal over this, even that is more than a bit over the top for what is the 15th best club hit record of all time.
Then throw in that the national media is turning this into a passing of the torch just somewhat shy of the Ripken/Gehrig record ...

[metirish]

Jeez , not surprising that Kay would fawn all over it like that. They don't teach that in journalism school do they? The non sports guy that the local ABC station sent talked about the dignity of Jeter .

[MFS62]

Yankees play-by-play man John Sterling, on how he'll call Derek Jeter taking over the Yankees mark for career hits. (Mark Feinsand, New York Daily News, as re-printed in Baseball Prospectus)
"I like things to be spontaneous. Besides, there's not much you can do with it. The number one Yankee in hits in history? The names are Gehrig, Ruth, DiMaggio and Mantle�what an honor. What else is there to say?"

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Is he fucking kidding? This is John Sterling we're talking about. He knows his call will be replayed on hundreds, if not thousands, of stations. And those of us who have endured his self-promotional calls over the years know he's already been rehearsing his call for at least three months.

Later

[metirish]

Ian O'Connor really should know better but he can't help himself I suppose. In the part I highlighted I am not sure if he is talking about Jeter or Gerhig , can someone read this?

O'Connor: Jeter�s is a legacy of labor

NEW YORK � Derek Jeter wore a Michigan T-shirt to the office Monday, a reminder of what he was and where he has been. In a different life, the Kalamazoo Kid was something of an emotional wreck, a bonus baby wishing he had taken that Ann Arbor scholarship instead of those big Yankee bucks. Eight hundred grand bought an 18-year-old Jeter an ocean of tears and a summer of grim isolation. He was all alone in a faraway hotel room, alone with the demons assuring him he would never secure a single big-league hit, never mind 2,700 and change. No Yankee coach had a clue the sixth overall pick in the 1992 draft was practically sobbing himself to sleep and seeking long-distance solace in calls to his girlfriend, mom and dad. Jeter showed up for his rookie-ball chores with the same approach he carried like a lunch pail to two Labor Day games with the Rays: Ready to work overtime. A 35-year-old Jeter started Game 1 at short at 1:09 p.m., and started Game 2 at short six hours later. It didn�t matter that the Yankee sweep saw the captain go 0-for-4 in the afternoon, and then 0-for-4 in the night, when he somehow made two outs in two at-bats during an eight-run third. Like another division title, this latest franchise record will come. In the end, one indisputable fact didn�t show up in the box score: With Jeter on the verge of supplanting Lou Gehrig as the most prolific Yankee hitter of them all, the captain stands as a living monument to the very things that shaped Gehrig�s legacy ��� consistency, durability and grace. He�s not the greatest player of all time (Willie Mays holds the title), and he�s not the greatest Yankee of all time (Babe Ruth retired the trophy). But no icon in the Bronx or beyond has been greater at showing up at the park with an unwavering focus and an unyielding commitment to the all-for-one, one-for-all cause. �That�s what you try to do year in and year out, be consistent,� Jeter said. �I think a lot of times it goes overlooked.� Nothing about Jeter goes overlooked now, not as he closes in on Gehrig. A star forever defined by his intangible qualities is finally being honored by the game�s most tangible measurement: hits. Lots and lots of hits. Jeter wants to play into his mid-40s, and so the question must be asked? Can he make it all the way to 4,000 hits? Can he do the unthinkable and break Pete Rose�s record of 4,256? �Come on, man, you�re talking about 1,500 hits,� Jeter said. �People mention [4,000], but I don�t sit here and think about what�s going to happen six or seven years down the road � I try to do whatever I can that particular day to help us win, and it�s not always getting a hit.� More than anything, Jeter has helped the Yankees win just by being there, inning after inning, day after day. He has started 123 out of a possible 123 playoff games. This year could be his 11th of playing at least 150 regular-season games, almost all of them at a position that puts maximum stress on the body and mind. Jeter has taken on and outlasted all comers at short. In the early days he was compared to the Mets� Rey Ordonez (remember him?), and then to three sluggers � Alex Rodriguez, Nomar Garciaparra and Miguel Tejada � who lost their positions, their good names or both. Jeter�s the last man standing for a reason. �He stays within himself very well,� manager Joe Girardi said, �and I really believe that�s because he�s always been so good at controlling his emotions. �I think only the greatest players are able to do that, and you could see that from Day One, when he was a rookie. I was amazed at how relaxed he always seemed to be.� Girardi came back to Jeter�s mind-numbing consistency. �I think that�s what every organization is looking for in a player,� he said. �I think that�s what every manager is looking for in a player. I think that�s what every teammate is looking for in a player.� Girardi came back to Jeter�s numbers, the batting averages, the runs, the hits. �He makes it easier on all of us,� the manager said, �because you can just pencil him in every day.� Jeter has played through every imaginable strain and nick to every imaginable ligament and bone. Along the way he�s defied the laws of gravity and age, improving his range to the shock of the metrics crowd that had buried him beneath its unfriendly math. Jeter hired a new fitness trainer to amp up his lateral movement. He listened to first base coach Mick Kelleher, who spent the winter studying film of every single ground ball hit the shortstop�s way in 2008. Kelleher told Jeter he needed to set his feet earlier on the delivery of a pitch, and needed to take deeper angles on grounders to his left or right. The result? �Jeter�s become Benjamin Button,� said a founding metric father, Oakland general manager Billy Beane. Only there�s no madness or mystery to the method. Jeter had enough talent as a high school player in Kalamazoo for a Yankee scout, Dick Groch, to sell him hard to his bosses way back when. �Isn�t this kid going to Michigan?� asked Bill Livesey, one of those bosses. �No, he�s not,� Groch told him. �The only place this kid�s going is Cooperstown.� As a temp in �95, Jeter began building his Hall of Fame career with a single through the left side against Seattle�s Tim Belcher. While standing on first base, Jeter heard future teammate Tino Martinez tell him, �This is the first of many.� Jeter made Tino a prophet after spilling a man�s blood and sweat, not to mention a boy�s tears. Hitless or not, the shortstop didn�t need to work double time on Labor Day to prove his legacy will be one of relentless, old-fashioned work.

[Guest Edgy DC]

He's talking about Jeter in that second bolded paragraph. He's talking out his ass about Jeter.

Yes, he's really good at showing up. And no, Derek, you don't get overfuckinglooked.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

For his next act, Jeter will contract a disease deadlier and more horrifying than ALS.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

For his next act, Jeter will contract a disease deadlier and more horrifying than ALS.[/quote:2zdux50o]

Except that with his last act before dying, he'll cure it.

[Centerfield]

Maybe I just haven't been watching enough TV, but I don't really get bothered by the coverage Jeter is getting. I mean, unlike most of the praise heaped upon him, at least this one happens to be true. Being the lifetime hits leader of any club is impressive, and doing it for a club that has the history of the MFY's, in the age of free agency, and most importantly, from the shortstop position, is impressive.

It's when I start hearing things like "One hit as a Yankee is like three hits for any other team, so really, he's already passed Rose" that I start to hurl.

[Frayed Knot]

Well I'm the one to blame for bringing up the topic in the first place - probably a case of me over-reacting to what I saw as the over-reaction of ESPN-ites to the impending record.

I guess the start of the college and impending start of the NFL season combined with the appalling lack of real pennant races to seemingly steer what little time the 'Worldwide Leader' devotes to baseball chatter these days towards the latest Jet-arian accomplishment as if that should be every baseball fan's main focus during the holiday weekend. It's something I know wouldn't be the case for any other team record and to the ears of non-MFY fans and to most of those who live west of the Delaware river, it sounded like just another case of east-coast-centric, Jeter/Yanqui-stroking that they already believe is that network's raison-d'etre.