MFY--Whiny SOBs!

[seawolf17]

I want Pedro to miss the whole year, then have the Yankees deal him back to us in the offseason for peanuts.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: You know, it's hateful and selfish and shameful of me for this to have crossed my mind, but this injury may allow Pedro to maintain his Mets-and-only-Mets stateside resume, despite having now been property of five different organizations.

Except that he inked a two-year deal w/the Yanx.
Not that that means he'll ever pitch for them next year ... only that they have to pay him for it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, I said, "may."

[Ceetar]

So what's the story on this Jeter book I'm hearing about that exposes him as the whinny selfish SOB we all know him as?

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: So what's the story on this Jeter book I'm hearing about that exposes him as the whinny selfish SOB we all know him as?

It's just a few excerpts that have started to leak out from the upcoming unauthorized bio by Ian O'Connor. Billing it as "unauthorized" makes it sound more hard-hitting than I'm sure it's going to be. Think about say Sean Hannity writing an unauthorized bio of Ronald Reagan or Eleanor Clift writing one on the Clintons and you get the idea.
The few blurbs so far deal with the diva wars he and Alex have had over the years.

[bmfc1]

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/4/25/2131603/derek-jeter-alex-rodriguez-relationship

Good point by Neyer about whether a team captain should act in that manner.

[batmagadanleadoff]

If you're interested in a no-pulled-punches account of Derek Jeter -- and who here isn't? -- then get the 2011 Baseball Prospectus annual. I'll quote BP's Jeter entry below. Anyone who would rather wait until they buy their own copy of BP can skip the rest of this post.

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Jeter led the Majors in ground-ball percentage. This was not just a mechanical failure, but a seeming inability to drive the ball. Perplexingly, Jeter got off to a great start, hitting .330 in April. By the end of the [2010] season, the little September hot streak (.342/.436/.392 in Jeter's final 19 games) that followed his reluctant turn to Kevin Long was the subject of great rejoicing throughout the land -- in between, the shortstop had hit only .247/.321/.337, and the cheering for a few paltry singles should have been embarrassing to all involved, given the heights from which Jeter has descended. The same reticence should have been observed by coaches and managers who voted for the Gold Glove; though Jeter made few errors, he also reached relatively few balls. Even if one makes the optimistic assumption that Jeter can turn his offensive game around, a third rebirth of his glove would be unprecedented. For years, Jeter's bat more than made up for the singles he allowed with his leather. That is still true, but the margin is shrinking and will soon vanish altogether. Despite this, as the offseason commenced, Jeter pushed for a contract of four years and up, which suggests at least one of the following: (A) while Jeter may be the closest thing the modern Yankees have to Joe DiMaggio, he lacks DiMaggio's sense of dignity; ( never mind winning, it's money that matters; (C) the emperor has no clothes but doesn't know; (D) the emperor has no clothes but doesn't care. The Yankees more or less satisfied him, giving him three years and a player option for a fourth, in the hopes that he will play as no aged shortstop has played before. Why is it each is the last to find That his legs are gone - that his eyes are bad, That the quicker reflexes have left his mind, That he hasn't the stuff he one day had, That lost youth mocks, and he doesn't see The ghost of the fellow that used to be? Grantland Rice, To Any Athlete

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

BP's writeups had much more of a hard-edged glint to 'em this year, didn't they? (I remember laughing out loud when I read this one, actually.)