Adios El Capitan

[Lefty Specialist]

What would be funnier is him hitting .180 with no power and striking out in every crucial situation, but the Yanks being unwilling to sit him down for the good of the team because he's Derek F'n Jeter, and he's got to get a fruit basket and a Winnebago from every team they visit.

[Ceetar]

Lefty Specialist wrote: What would be funnier is him hitting .180 with no power and striking out in every crucial situation, but the Yanks being unwilling to sit him down for the good of the team because he's Derek F'n Jeter, and he's got to get a fruit basket and a Winnebago from every team they visit.

And with 'unnamed team players' saying it's all a distraction.

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: What would be funnier is him hitting .180 with no power and striking out in every crucial situation, but the Yanks being unwilling to sit him down for the good of the team because he's Derek F'n Jeter, and he's got to get a fruit basket and a Winnebago from every team they visit.

Oh sure. But there's also something about THE YEAR OF JETER getting transformed into THE MINUTE OF JETER via the very 1st AB (first pitch?) of the season that's almost too delicious to even contemplate. One wonders how many mediots would immediately declare the entire 2014 baseball season not worth watching once that happened.
Of course he might also try to pull a Mariano and change up his retirement plan by a year, but there's a difference here: unlike Rivera, I don't think the Yanx would offer Jeter a contract for 2015. That I think, as much as the stated 'I want to do other things' reason, is why he decided that this will be his final season.


Side note: Watching Jose Altuve smack two hits off CC Sabathia--who I think lost the equivalent of Jose Altuve during the off-season--was kind of comical.

[bmfc1]

Here we go... enjoy "The Jeet Index":
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/derek-jeter

[metirish]

Here we go... enjoy "The Jeet Index": http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/derek-jeter

OMFG...what an embarrassment, and then there is this, TRIPE

Shape up, CC, or doom DJ's farewell
April, 1, 2014

By Ian O'Connor

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: 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.

At least the Astros had someone smart in their marketing department. They scheduled post game fireworks last night. The season-long fellatiation of El Capitan is scheduled to begin tonight. It would be great if they attracted a small crowd.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

bmfc1 wrote: Here we go... enjoy "The Jeet Index": http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/derek-jeter

Are you sure that's not an April Fool joke? Because otherwise it's just, well, embarrassing.

[Lefty Specialist]

Let the bizarre gift-giving begin.....

[Ceetar]

I'm sure this info is out there somewhere on like Cribz or whatever, but what do these guys do with all this junk?

[Benjamin Grimm]

They probably have a trophy room in their mansion.

My guess is that somebody in the Houston front office said, "Hey! Let's give Derek Jeter some kind of footwear that he'll never wear!"

[MFS62]

Ceetar wrote: I'm sure this info is out there somewhere on like Cribz or whatever, but what do these guys do with all this junk?

Derek probably re-gifts it. The gifts probably all have his name on them, so what greater gift can he give?
(SM= 98)
Later

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

So, you guys want one of these? Supposedly they'll be sold during MYF road games.

I like how the Blue Jays are sort of floating there, off the map.

[Edgy MD]

They left out Panama.

Woe to all the NL teams who miss out.

[Guest d'Kong76]

We should get in on this action!

Jeter in The Hall 2015!

The funniest thing that could happen this year along this
wonderful journey is that he fails one of the new piss tests
or something.

[Lefty Specialist]

Boy, it'll really grind my gears if they sell these at Citi.

[Guest d'Kong76]

They'll be in The Jeter Pavilion once the circus leaves town
and they can set things up.

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Boy, it'll really grind my gears if they sell these at Citi.

If they were selling Mariano retirement tour shirts at Fenway last year (and they were) then Jeter shirts at CitiField is a near certainty.

[Lefty Specialist]

Then consider my gears ground. Can someone buy one, rip it up and put the video on YouTube? kthxbye.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: Boy, it'll really grind my gears if they sell these at Citi. If they were selling Mariano retirement tour shirts at Fenway last year (and they were) then Jeter shirts at CitiField is a near certainty.

I don't recall seeing the shirts at Citi though. But I don't think I looked either.

[stevejrogers]

d'Kong76 wrote: They'll be in The Jeter Pavilion once the circus leaves town and they can set things up.

Would not shock me if it wasn't at The 7 Line's kiosk, under the auspices of the 7 Line's owner also running a line of non-Met specific crap apparel.

[Ceetar]

SteveJRogers wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: They'll be in The Jeter Pavilion once the circus leaves town and they can set things up. Would not shock me if it wasn't at The 7 Line's kiosk, under the auspices of the 7 Line's owner also running a line of non-Met specific crap apparel.

this one maybe?

[Guest d'Kong76]

PSA: Today is Jeter's last home opener ever. Ever!

[Frayed Knot]

PSA: Today is Jeter's last home opener ever. Ever!

I have a funny feeling that the media is going to over-do this angle of Jeter's season
HIS LAST SHIT EVER IN THE COMERICA CLUBHOUSE TOILET!!! ... film at eleven.

[Ceetar]

When players like Jeter retire, do they breakup with their ladies in the away cities?

[Lefty Specialist]

.....or their cabana boys?

[Guest d'Kong76]

Frayed Knot wrote: I have a funny feeling that the media is going to over-do this angle of Jeter's season HIS LAST SHIT EVER IN THE COMERICA CLUBHOUSE TOILET!!! ... film at eleven.

They're tweetin' and a twattin' #DEREKBM

[nymr83]

a side-show to the season-long-national-jeter-blowjob: the yankees brought out Pettite, Rivera, and Posada to say goodbye today, as the other members of the alleged "core 4" (Andrew Marchland calls them that on ESPN.com today and i've heard it used before)

but my questions would be; 1. "core" of what? and more importantly 2. "why 4, or why these 4?"

I'd think you'd have to answer the first question by saying the "core of the recent yankees dynasty", but while its easy to put a start-date on that group (the post-strike era) its hard to put an end date, because the 1996 championship team looks almost nothing like the 2009 team. its easiest to say the 1996-2001/3 team was a dynasty and the 2009 team was an isolated winner (previous WS appearence 6 years earlier, none since) and if so, my question becomes: why Posada? Bernie Williams (and possibly Paul O'Neil) was a bigger contributor to Yankee championships and to the dynasty than Posada was.

[Ceetar]

I think it's all because they came up at roughly the same time.

which of course is fudging it a bit. Jeter barely played in 95. Posada got into one game and one postseason game. (Jeter didn't get into any). no AB and didn't play in the '96 playoffs at all. Rivera sucked and was converted to a reliever fulltime in '96.

But Bernie was there prior to that so he must have been part of the reason they sucked then right?

[HahnSolo]

Oh, god how I wish Mr.-does-everything-the-right-way had gotten thrown out at second after jogging and admiring the ball he thought was going out today. They almost had him too.

[Zvon]

I don't read these Skankee threads. It's American League business, so I don't care. But I have to share that todays Daily News had 1/2 a page on the Mets and 6 pages of Jeter. This is going to be one long season in that regard.