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Derek Jeter to retire after 2014 season

Started by YouCrawl_IQuall, February 12, 2014, 02:50:39 pm

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YouCrawl_IQuall

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/derek-jeter-announces-retirement-on-facebook-%E2%80%94-effective-after-2014-season-192654656.html

Honestly didn't realize he was 39

superior_wang

Quote from: YouCrawl_IQuall on February 12, 2014, 02:50:39 pm
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/derek-jeter-announces-retirement-on-facebook-%E2%80%94-effective-after-2014-season-192654656.html

Honestly didn't realize he was 39

yanks need a huge overhaul anyway.

 

ErieHog

A little surprised.  I thought he might try to hang around long enough to get to 3,500 hits.
No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed suicide for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. No one pays for them. No one is hunted down to account for them. It is exactly what Solzhenitsyn foresaw in The Gulag Archipelago: "No, no one would have to answer. No one would be looked into." Until that happens, there is no "after socialism."

ucahogfan

Unless Jeter has an Andrelton Simmons type year in the field, he will go down as the defender who cost his team the most runs over his career in the history of the game.  He was one of the best offensive SSs of all time and a great face for the Yankees, but the fact that he won 5 GGs all in his 30s shows just how rigged those awards can be.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/44294/a-few-notes-on-derek-jeters-defense

ucahogfan

Quote from: superior_wang on February 12, 2014, 04:54:41 pm
yanks need a huge overhaul anyway.
They don't have the farm system to overhaul their organization.  They always try to win by overpaying players in free agency.  That makes them an old team that is always in a win now mode.

jrulz83

We'll have to endure another summer of vomit inducing goodbyes. Not that I hate Jeter, just his uniform and the media slobbering over itself. It will be interesting to see who they overpay to fill his spot in 2015.
Lenin is cautiously optimistic.

hawkhawg

Quote from: ucahogfan on February 13, 2014, 03:33:59 pm
Unless Jeter has an Andrelton Simmons type year in the field, he will go down as the defender who cost his team the most runs over his career in the history of the game.  He was one of the best offensive SSs of all time and a great face for the Yankees, but the fact that he won 5 GGs all in his 30s shows just how rigged those awards can be.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/44294/a-few-notes-on-derek-jeters-defense

Jeter holds almost every post season record in the Book.

ErieHog

No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed suicide for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. No one pays for them. No one is hunted down to account for them. It is exactly what Solzhenitsyn foresaw in The Gulag Archipelago: "No, no one would have to answer. No one would be looked into." Until that happens, there is no "after socialism."

ucahogfan

Quote from: hawkhawg on February 13, 2014, 05:05:17 pm
Jeter holds almost every post season record in the Book.
What's the point of this?  I said that Jeter will go down as one of the best offensive SSs of all time.  The reason he holds almost every postseason record in the book is because he spent his career on the Yankees and played in the playoffs pretty much every single season of his career.  Doesn't Andy Pettite hold the record for most postseason innings pitched or something like that?

hawkhawg

Quote from: ucahogfan on February 13, 2014, 06:33:52 pm
What's the point of this?  I said that Jeter will go down as one of the best offensive SSs of all time.  The reason he holds almost every postseason record in the book is because he spent his career on the Yankees and played in the playoffs pretty much every single season of his career.  Doesn't Andy Pettite hold the record for most postseason innings pitched or something like that?

Point was: so what. He was worth it and you know he is not that bad of a short stop (I agree he didn't deserve the gold gloves).  And He is a major reason that Yankees only missed playoff twice in his career.

ErieHog

Quote from: hawkhawg on February 13, 2014, 08:05:54 pm
Point was: so what. He was worth it and you know he is not that bad of a short stop (I agree he didn't deserve the gold gloves).  And He is a major reason that Yankees only missed playoff twice in his career.

Calling him a bad shortstop is an insult to playing bad shortstop.  He has been *abominable* for a long while.   
No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed suicide for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. No one pays for them. No one is hunted down to account for them. It is exactly what Solzhenitsyn foresaw in The Gulag Archipelago: "No, no one would have to answer. No one would be looked into." Until that happens, there is no "after socialism."

OnTheHillHogFan

Quote from: hawkhawg on February 13, 2014, 08:05:54 pm
Point was: so what. He was worth it and you know he is not that bad of a short stop (I agree he didn't deserve the gold gloves).  And He is a major reason that Yankees only missed playoff twice in his career.
Yes he was a bad shortstop defensively
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Baseball Hog

Derek Jeter will go down as the most fortunate decent to good player of all time.  Derek Jeter has had the luxury of batting at the top of a potent lineup his entire career.  I'm not going to take the time, but I can guarantee if you were to compile career stats of the 2 guys batting behind him for his whole career it would be the highest in MLB history. 

The dude has probably seen more fastballs than any 1 or 2 hole hitter in MLB history.

 


acey33

Mr Yankee has had a Hall of Fame Career