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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 22:39:27 GMT -5
At this late date, most of the actual baseball info I focus on is in regard to my fantasy team. Which unfortunately (& idiotically) includes defensive stats, which probably explains why no one in our league had Jeter on his roster even before his recent slide, but I digress.
Meanwhile, I need an OF, since apparently Ellsbury won't be suiting up for the remainder of the season.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 20, 2014 22:43:06 GMT -5
At this late date, most of the actual baseball info I focus on is in regard to my fantasy team. Which unfortunately (& idiotically) includes defensive stats, which probably explains why no one in our league had Jeter on his roster even before his recent slide, but I digress. Meanwhile, I need an OF, since apparently Ellsbury won't be suiting up for the remainder of the season. I would think that any fantasy player worth his tobacco juice would have picked Chief Robert Ironside at short before His Haughtiness. Shocker about Ellsbury... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 22:45:41 GMT -5
Isn't it just, though? The shocker is that he lasted this late into the season.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 20, 2014 22:45:42 GMT -5
I'd like to invite everyone to stay tuned to this thread as Dan and I count down the days to the end of the Derek Jeter era of Baseball. You're about ten years late, Ish.  Ah,my friend, it is all building up to a crescendo. For Sunday's game on the hallowed ground of Yankee Stadium, Derek the Great will be driven up to East Harlem where he will exit the royal procession and walk on the waters of the East River to the Bronx side and make a short jog to the ballfield. But one of the many miracles leading up to The Great Departure. I do hear rumours about the post season being cancelled due to a nationwide anxiety attack. |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 20, 2014 22:51:54 GMT -5
I don't remember this much of a fuss when Buddy Biancalana retired.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 23:13:35 GMT -5
Biancala didn't sleep with half of the female population of New York (&, one gathers, a goodly percentage of the male portion of the Yankees fan base as well) & keep the foundering gift-basket industry afloat in the process. In these perilous economic times, that's no small thing.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 20, 2014 23:35:58 GMT -5
Biancala didn't sleep with half of the female population of New York (&, one gathers, a goodly percentage of the male portion of the Yankees fan base as well) & keep the foundering gift-basket industry afloat in the process. In these perilous economic times, that's no small thing. I heard the percentage is closer to 30, women who rank an "8" thru "10" and who zryson approved as well. He never did build enough bedrooms in his Florida mansion |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 2:14:57 GMT -5
The Derek Jeter legacy-when supported by Big George's money gathering an all-star caliber team around him, the Yankees were perennial contenders and won several championships, when Big George passed and his money went away along with the All-Star cast, forcing Jeter to step up and be "the man", the Yanks were also-rans and perpetually failing to live up to people's expectations...
-M
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 21, 2014 3:29:03 GMT -5
The Derek Jeter legacy-when supported by Big George's money gathering an all-star caliber team around him, the Yankees were perennial contenders and won several championships, when Big George passed and his money went away along with the All-Star cast, forcing Jeter to step up and be "the man", the Yanks were also-rans and perpetually failing to live up to people's expectations... -M A fair assessment when we know Baseball is not a team sport but built on the success of one star performer. Carl Yaz I'm sure agrees with this,Willie Mays as well. The great Jeterino can probably play all positions as well as pitch if he wanted to. I remember Superman or Superboy doing this in several issues within the comics so I know its do-able. But think of what that would do to the confidence of his Yankee teammates. They have families to support and Derek knows it would be destructive to the sport to show the other 23 members of the team are not necessary. No,I think DJ was wise to play the game as well as one human can be expected to. Just like Superman, knowing that he shouldn't solve all the world's problems on his own for it would be detremental to the human spirit, Mr Jeter had to hold back some of His ability too. Perhaps this would be better discussed if I created a specific Derek Jeter thread.Let me think upon this  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 3:36:07 GMT -5
If Jeter is truly a candidate for apotheosis, then he would elevate those around him, instead these last few seasons he has dragged that line up down batting second when his production and "presence" in the line-up indicated he should be a bottom third of the line-up hitter not a first inning guy.
Let's be real, he was a good ballplayer playing on good teams and benefiting from a superior cast around him. That's not a bad thing, but let's keep our feet on the ground about what he is and what he isn't. Unless he gets a positive PED test in the last week of his last season, he's a surefire first ballot hall-of-famer, but he's somewhere in the crowd looking on at the those being talked about when the term greatest shortstop of all time is being discussed.
-M
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 21, 2014 3:36:59 GMT -5
Actually, this is the only team DJ needs behind him  |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 21, 2014 13:11:42 GMT -5
Four years after he died, Bob Sheppard will also finally retire today.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 21, 2014 14:09:24 GMT -5
I'm just grateful the Yank-mees aren't going to make the playoffs, so that I don't have to hear the national media fawning ....yada yada yada yada
The deep dark despair of a Red Sux fan in the waning empty days of September. Knowing the final games of the season his Holiness, The Great Jeterino, will deign to visit the crumbling Fenway arena and the masses will rise to their feet, singing hosannas to the baseball gods in honor of the greatest shortstop who ever lived, nay not Rico Putridcelli, nay not the Normar Nomore-para. Praises will rise to the Boston sky from fans and players both for the Sainted one, The DJ-the baseball god who touched down to earth and regaled us for 2 decades. Remember those days, Sir Richard and pass them on to your kin. The days when the holiest of Yankee Warriors was blessed by the citizens of Beantown. Amen You take that back! I am in no way, shape, or form a member of Sawx Naytion. As mrp correctly remembered, it's a Pirates' life for me. The only time I would ever root for the Red Sox is when they're playing the Yankees (or the Cardinals, Brewers, Reds, or Cubs). |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 21, 2014 15:25:57 GMT -5
The deep dark despair of a Red Sux fan in the waning empty days of September. Knowing the final games of the season his Holiness, The Great Jeterino, will deign to visit the crumbling Fenway arena and the masses will rise to their feet, singing hosannas to the baseball gods in honor of the greatest shortstop who ever lived, nay not Rico Putridcelli, nay not the Normar Nomore-para. Praises will rise to the Boston sky from fans and players both for the Sainted one, The DJ-the baseball god who touched down to earth and regaled us for 2 decades. Remember those days, Sir Richard and pass them on to your kin. The days when the holiest of Yankee Warriors was blessed by the citizens of Beantown. Amen You take that back! I am in no way, shape, or form a member of Sawx Naytion. As mrp correctly remembered, it's a Pirates' life for me. The only time I would ever root for the Red Sox is when they're playing the Yankees (or the Cardinals, Brewers, Reds, or Cubs). Ina similar vein, as some people say, "My favorite team is the Red Sox ; my second favorite team is whoever beats the Yankees." |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 15:43:05 GMT -5
Actually, this is the only team DJ needs behind him IIRC, Alba's the one he gifted with herpes as well as a gift basket. And/or Carey. Hell, maybe all of them. |
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