Adios El Capitan

[Guest d'Kong76]

[seawolf17]

BARF

[Guest d'Kong76]

It's so over the top, I was just speechless.

[dinosaur jesus]

That's just begging for some Photoshopping.

[Guest themetfairy]

seawolf17 wrote: BARF

This

[batmagadanleadoff]

Where's the E. Pluribus Unum?

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Since there are no team logos on here, or even Jeter's name, I suspect this is the work of an enterprising businessman looking to part silly MFY fans and their hard-earned dollars. I can almost salute him for taking advantage of their desires for what makes normal people barf.

On the bright side, Tom Verducci's Christmas shopping is DONE! He's furiously rounding up each cousin's T-shirt size as we speak!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Their company logo is, "Licensed only by the first ammendment!"

http://www.smackapparel.com/

[Benjamin Grimm]

Does the First Amendment explicitly protect the right to create hideous expressions of misguided sentiments?

[Vic Sage]

well, not EXPLICITLY, but i think if you read between the lines, then yeah.

[Lefty Specialist]

If I ever see someone in one of those shirts I will give them an Atomic Wedgie.

[seawolf17]

It's like The 7 Line for stupid people.

[MFS62]

"The house that Jeter built"?

Yeah, well, when you consider how easy it is to hit a home run there, I guess so.

I don't want to give that editorial writer a wedgie, I want to Valdespin him.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

If anyone ever hit Jeter with a shaving cream pie, would the world as we know it cease to exist? Or does he have a pie-repellent force field that would deflect it before it arrived at its target? I guess we'll never know.

[dinosaur jesus]

[Ceetar]

change "you'll always be the captain to me" to

"I enjoyed my time with the little captain"

[Edgy MD]

Fortune Magazine ranks the world's greatest leaders.

1. Pope Francis, Catholic Pontiff, Vatican by way of Argentina
2. Angela Merkel, Chancelloress, Germany
3. Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Moters, United States
4. Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, United States
5. Bill Clinton, Founder, The Clinton Foundation, United States
6. Aung San Suu Kyi, Chair, National League for Democracy, UK by way of Myanmar
7. Gen. Joe Dunford, Commander, U.S. Forces, Afghanistan, United States
8. Bono Vox, Lead singer, U2, Republic of Ireland
9. Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Buddhist leader, India by way of Tibet
10. Jeff Bezos, Annoying CEO, Amazon.com, United States
[bigpurple:26l3uc5a]11. Derek Sanderson Jeter, Shortstop and Captain, New York Yankees, United States[/bigpurple:26l3uc5a]

Wouldn't you feel stupid to be #12?

[Guest d'Kong76]

One last time, before the season starts this evening. I want
to make sure everyone knows, this is Jeter's last season. Last
one. There won't be another after this one. Embrace it!

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Fortune Magazine ranks the world's greatest leaders. 1. Pope Francis, Catholic Pontiff, Vatican by way of Argentina 2. Angela Merkel, Chancelloress, Germany 3. Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Moters, United States 4. Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, United States 5. Bill Clinton, Founder, The Clinton Foundation, United States 6. Aung San Suu Kyi, Chair, National League for Democracy, UK by way of Myanmar 7. Gen. Joe Dunford, Commander, U.S. Forces, Afghanistan, United States 8. Bono Vox, Lead singer, U2, Republic of Ireland 9. Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Buddhist leader, India by way of Tibet 10. Jeff Bezos, Annoying CEO, Amazon.com, United States 11. Derek Sanderson Jeter, Shortstop and Captain, New York Yankees, United States Wouldn't you feel stupid to be #12?

Even Olbermann made fun of this a few days ago, wondering how captaining a stacked roster backed with a top payroll to one championship in 13 years falls so high on FORTUNE's leadership scale.

[Edgy MD]

Clckbait?

[MFS62]

That's a pretty high ranking for a guy who has made 7748 outs in his career.

Later

[seawolf17]

Bono has a last name?

[Edgy MD]

Hasn't been on his stationary since about 1984, but YES!!

[HahnSolo]

So you're the Houston Astros. You've been in the AL for about 15 minutes. You've got very little history with the Yankees except for maybe: a) a combined no-hitter at old YS; Wang breaking his foot running the bases and Hank Steinbrenner getting ornery about it, and c) hosting Rivera's final series last season.
Now, knowing you have little history, but at the same time knowing this is the kickoff to Jeter's "farewell tour", do you have to do a ceremony/lame gift presentation?
My guess is they'll be forced into doing something, they'll bring out Clemens/Pettitte, give Jeter some stupid Texas-themed present and be done with it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think they already announced they would do something, before the 2nd game of the series iirc.

Cowboy hat or something.
edit -- those are some great Astro-MFY memories.

Weird also that the Astros closed last season vs the MFYs and open with 'em this year.

(predicting a Houston sweep)

[batmagadanleadoff]

The MFY's were the Astros opponents in the first game ever played at The Astrodome. Mickey Mantle hit the Dome's first hit and the first HR ever.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The MFY's were the Astros opponents in the first game ever played at The Astrodome. Mickey Mantle hit the Dome's first hit and the first HR ever.

Video of Mantle Astrodome HR

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: The MFY's were the Astros opponents in the first game ever played at The Astrodome. Mickey Mantle hit the Dome's first hit and the first HR ever. Video of Mantle Astrodome HR

President LBJ and Senator G. Hodges at the 1:20 mark.

[Frayed Knot]

I was wondering the same thing about the whole Jeter/Astros "history" and why that should possibly merit a send-off.
Maybe for an encounter so brief the 'stros should just give him a gift basket.

[Frayed Knot]

I never root for injuries, but ya gotta admit that there'd be a certain amount of hilarity to the situation if Jeter's hand had been broken when he got plunked in his first AB last night and had to miss like four months or something.