Jeter now at .249/.297/.297 so he's getting a lot of practice at making futile runs the 90 feet from home to first.NYCSox said:What the hell does that even mean? Is this another empty platitude to running full speed to first no matter what?
Every day of the Jeter farewell tour is better than the next!RedOctober3829 said:Standing ovation for Jeets tonight after a sac bunt. I'd say this is rock bottom but its not.
"How could you not vote for him?! He had intangibles like dock rope!"TheYaz67 said:Yeah, the ballots being private is why Jeter will not get 100% - no public shaming is possible.
That and I am counting on at least one Boston sports writer to do the right thing and stick it in George King's eye. Can't wait for King's outraged column if he comes up just short of 100%....
HriniakPosterChild said:Exactly, rest in November.
Mantle dipped below .300 because of his last year. Second last year didn't help either. I felt bad for him for that.WayBackVazquez said:His career BA is now under .310, which is kind of fun legacy-wise.
NJ Fan said:
WayBackVazquez said:His career BA is now under .310, which is kind of fun legacy-wise.
Probably filmed the last part on Sept. 7 when they had 48,110 for Jeter Day. Place was 98 percent full that day.Madmartigan said:Pretty sure they had to CGI fans into Yankee Stadium at the end there.
Well, one guy did, but he's banned, hence Joe's qualification of including just HOFers.glennhoffmania said:
Don't be so obtuse. Didn't you know that no one else in the history of MLB has ever run as hard to 1B on every play as Jeter?
glennhoffmania said:It's really nice to see that he's willing to give up some of his free time to make a commercial honoring himself.
Did anyone see the Gatorade Jeter farewell ad? He owns NY. What an amazing career and life for that matter...
Trlicek's Whip said:
What was his career BA before this season? Has it been a huge drop?
glennhoffmania said:Please feel free to use it whenever you want. I obviously was half joking and I expected to receive multiple angry responses from Yankee fans. I don't know if I'm disappointed or relieved by the lack of such replies.
That sort of parallels the JoeD/Ted storyline. DiMaggio had a relatively short prime, from 1936-42 before the war. Ted had a very long prime, and what a prime it was. DiMaggio played 13 seasons in all, Ted was over 20, counting the war years.WayBackVazquez said:Yeah, it was .313. He was in the top 80 or so all-time, now he's outside the top 100, and behind Nomar.
The great thing is that after all of us who were lucky enough to see his calm eyes are dead and gone, only the numbers will remain. Some Sox fan 100 year from now will get to give the Yankees fan at the bar shit about how this Jeter guy wasn't very good, he just played a long time. The Red Sox had a SS who was much better, but just didn't last very long.
TheoShmeo said:I liked this advert better.
http://deadspin.com/a-more-honest-version-of-gatorades-derek-jeter-ad-1636414327
terrynever said:That sort of parallels the JoeD/Ted storyline. DiMaggio had a relatively short prime, from 1936-42 before the war. Ted had a very long prime, and what a prime it was. DiMaggio played 13 seasons in all, Ted was over 20, counting the war years.
terrynever said:That sort of parallels the JoeD/Ted storyline. DiMaggio had a relatively short prime, from 1936-42 before the war. Ted had a very long prime, and what a prime it was. DiMaggio played 13 seasons in all, Ted was over 20, counting the war years.
The actual advertisement doesn't quite work as intended, though. First, there's the choice of music—Frank Sinatra's "My Way," which not only draws an unfortunate parallel between late-era Jeter and the senescence of another limpid-eyed New York icon, but also reminds the viewer that Jeter was a vain and selfish player. (He refused, for example, to move off shortstop, which he played incompetently, when the Yankees traded for Alex Rodriguez.) Second, there's the fact that the conceit rests on the idea that Jeter has never once, over the 20 years he's played in New York, thought to take to the streets and talk to the commoners, raising certain questions about his supposed love affair with the city. Third, there's Jeter's visible discomfort, which may be the result of a bad actor's attempts to feign wistfulness—he's an actor in an advertisement here, after all, not the subject of a short documentary—but nonetheless lends the whole thing an air of unease. Add it all up and this is, at best, less kitsch than a set of allusions to a kitsch concept of New York as a big apple that never sleeps, filled with honest working people, Sinatra, "classiness," and so on. It's basically like watching Billy Crystal and Rudy Giuliani blow one another for a minute and a half.
I thought the Nike one was fine, and the Gatorade one was ok, but this is just dreadful.Madmartigan said:Here's another Jeter commercial -- this one produced by MLB -- that will begin airing this weekend:
http://m.mlb.com/video/v36394899/thanks-derek
Dreadful seems kind once you've seen it.Lose Remerswaal said:I thought the Nike one was fine, and the Gatorade one was ok, but this is just dreadful.
Lose Remerswaal said:I thought the Nike one was fine, and the Gatorade one was ok, but this is just dreadful.
jon abbey said:Three straight multihit games to open his final homestand, including three balls pulled with power (one HR, one to the warning track, and a double into the corner in the 9th today, on a 97 MPH Morrow FB no less).
Joe Girardi said his plan is to have Jeter in the starting lineup every day for the final seven games of the season. “Obviously some of those days are going to be DH days to keep him going. . . . Now he’s swinging the bat and I’m going to keep him in there,” Girardi said.
One can only dream! Jetes and A-Rod back together again! :fap:h8mfy said:From today's NYT game story:
“Hopefully, he keeps getting two hits and decides he wants to play again next year,” Gardner said, smiling. “Hopefully he changes his mind. We’ll see.”
Make it one of those gigantic locks. I've never been so happy to see a player retire. Hope the memory of these last two years fades away soon.jon abbey said:You guys have no idea how much I am looking forward to locking this and all other Jeter threads in about a week.
Us Sox fans will make sure that these last couple of years are never forgotten.terrynever said:Make it one of those gigantic locks. I've never been so happy to see a player retire. Hope the memory of these last two years fades away soon.
Why?BornToRun said:Us Sox fans will make sure that these last couple of years are never forgotten.
He played in 17 games last year and lost the rest to injury. Why do you think that OPS+ means anything?joyofsox said:OPS+ of 52 and 75???
BornToRun said:Us Sox fans will make sure that these last couple of years are never forgotten.