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I reactivated my Netflix and Sugar is coming in the mail.

I would have a salary cap for teams , at the minimum and maximum level . I don't care for IL play but do like the Mets versus yankees but still I would do away with IL play. The "traditional rival" is fine for soem teams but there is not enough to go around the rest of the leagues. I don't care about the DH and anyway it helps me identify better with the NL version of baseball.

What FK said and what really pisses me off is that the various media outlets don't even pretend to be partial , how many pages are the Daily News going to give to this chase on a daily basis. It's not a Mets jealousy for me either , at least the Snooze still sends it's beat writer to cover them, unlike the NYT. One writer and I am sure it was Harper wondered aloud if Jeter could chase down Rose and then commended the Great One for scoffing at such nonsense ....see Harper loves to do that crap....

The Captain is in a slump but John Harper hits for the cycle in this article , use your imagination as to what a Harper cycle on Jeter would be. Derek Jeter's silent treatment speaks volumes about chase of Lou Gehrig's Yankee record In a world where the Yankees almost never lose anymore, Derek Jeter's unlikely detour on the road to pinstriped immortality is practically inconsequential. But it sure is odd. Hard to say which is more un-Jeter-like: looking as if he's allowed the Lou Gehrig milestone to get to him at the plate, where he is now officially slumping, or pulling a no-show with the media after the game last night. No doubt he'll say he didn't want to intrude on Nick Swisher's night, after Swisher hit two home runs, including a walk-off shot to right in the ninth to give the Yankees a 3-2 win over the Rays. But obviously it's bugging Jeter that his expected coronation as the Yankees' all-time hit leader has turned into intrigue. As in: what's wrong with the captain? Jeter has built up such a resume as a clutch hitter that you wouldn't think he is suddenly feeling the pressure to get the four hits necessary to pass Gehrig. Then again, the Yankee shortstop is so famously about team and winning that you wonder if trying to reach such a personal achievement is messing with his baseball equilibrium. Not only is he 0-for-12 in three games the last two days, but he struck out three times last night for the first time all season. If this were an Alex Rodriguez production, we would assume that he is trying too hard to attain such glory, much the way he has tried too hard to deliver for the Yankees in postseasons past. So what about Jeter? He has always seemed pressure-proof over the years, but this isn't like failing in big games in October. Maybe he's just uncomfortable enough with all the attention surrounding his chase of Gehrig's 2,721 hits that indeed he is trying too hard to get it out of the way, as Joe Girardi suggests. Girardi seemed as bewildered as anyone else when he admitted he didn't know if Jeter was pressing because "I've never seen Derek press, so I don't know what it looks like if he does." It's not as if Jeter is racing the clock or anything, but who knows? If it somehow gets in the way of Jeter's selfless approach to playing the game, maybe it gets in the way of his simplistic approach to hitting as well. Last night Jeter didn't look right, that's for sure. Rays lefty David Price has some nasty stuff, but the Yankee captain seemed baffled at the plate, striking out twice looking at fastballs, and once swinging at a slider at his shins. In other words, he had the look of a hitter who was overthinking at the plate, which is the polar opposite of Jeter's style. Nobody keeps things as simple as he does, whether it's his see-it-and-hit-it approach to hitting, his lead-by-example style of captaincy or his avoid-controversy-at-all-costs dealings with the media, and obviously it works for him. Talk to him about hitting and he'll tell you that he never guesses on a pitch, doesn't even want to know when someone in the dugout has discovered a pitcher is, say, tipping his curveball. "If I know it's coming," he said recently, "I'll get overanxious and swing even if it's not a strike. I'd rather not know." He'd rather trust his extraordinary hand-eye coordination, not to mention, the short, quick, inside-out swing that Scott Brosius once labeled "slump-proof." Talk to him about most anything else and all paths lead to simplicity, which also means revealing nothing of himself about injuries last year or a change in his training regimen that may or may not be responsible for his seemingly dramatic improvement defensively this season. He does admit to taking criticism of his defense personally, saying, "You can take it as a challenge or you can go sit in a corner and sulk about it." His buddy, Jorge Posada, takes it a step further, saying, "He looks for something negative to motivate him." Maybe it helps keep the blinders on. You want simplicity? A couple of weeks ago in Boston I asked Jeter why for years he has had what in some ways is the worst locker in the tiny visiting clubhouse in Fenway Park, nearest the entrance and right in the flow of the constant media traffic. Jeter pointed to the door next to his locker leading to the dugout and said, "Easy in and out." Simple works for Jeter, and you have to think that maybe it is part of the reason he has been such a clutch player over the years. As Reggie Jackson once said about him, "He thinks the game but doesn't overthink it. It's a skill in itself that not many guys have." Call it part of Jeter's genius. Of course, maybe nobody can go forever without overthinking the failure-driven science of hitting, and surely he'll will get past this soon enough and go back to his MVP-like season. But it turns out even Jeter isn't always the unflappable captain. Who knew? jharper@nydailynews.com

So anyone care to explain Kyle Singh's signature call " going for the sandwich " , instead of calling a strike a strike he would say it's part of the sandwich , I was rolling on the floor laughing at the kid. What gimmicks are in store for tonight's game?

I've never noticed but now have a reason to tune in tomorrow.

Great to see Carlos back.

I like this one too 2. Stop worrying about comparisons with the Yankees, because in the Hal Steinbrenner/Brian Cashman Era, they are not fading. I read that a lot from media guys who then go and stir that pot .

I think being in the same city as the other team makes for an easy to make comparison for the bashers. What's happened the last few Septembers adds to it. The espn skit they did of the top ten mets errors a while back sticks out as something on a national level , still I doubt the West coast version of Lupica cares about the mets.

It's not just him , somethign called "Baseball Wives" , it may have been a one show gig but Hamels was on it , Posada and Damon I think...

I'd be game for someone like Alderson coming in but then I would see no need for Minaya , if they brought someone like the senior men mentioned would that person be taking one of Jeff's titles? John Lackey wants close to CC Sabathia cash So do I but it ain't happening.

The guy is a moron , pure and simple.....there are so many things wrong with the image. I'm guessing some stylist or something told him that that suit was class and that the turned up collar was way cool. I caught their reality show one night and as they go it was horrendous.

It will be worth watching them in the next few years. They have a long term plan by all accounts and the ownership and GM seem to be on that same track.

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.

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 .

Steve Finley for the D-Backs. I say Finley only becasue LFWS asked who else could it be great thread btw , nice boxes too.

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.

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.

Pirates with a loss today have 17 straight losing seasons.

WTF are they going silent for in the sixth inning , protesting something?

The guys a proper prick , I hardly ever see him pitch but he is top five of players I dislike.