This is a thread about Derek Jeter.

Black dress shirts are awesome but they are more "evening wear" than "professional wear", for example.

That polka dot tie better match his socks.

Now, Willie Randolph (the guy next to DJ in the SI pic) is wearing a SUIT.

http://espn.go.com/i/mlb/profiles/players/5587.jpg

!!

and jesse orosco is still around? he's been pitching in the big leagues since 1979!

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0708/grant_a_jeter_thunder_576.jpg

3000 hit = hr

to retire at the end of the season

https://www.facebook.com/derekjeter

he's going out on top, a final glorious season without a-rod

yeah jeets

Never forget the worst defense of any Hall of Fame-caliber shortstop, or the gift baskets:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/12/jeter-gives-gift-baskets-to-one-night-stands.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5v4IDna2pk

still got an edge, tho

love that Catherine Keener-type's delivery of "Derek Jeter?"

"The only player whom I would swear on my life does not fall under the taint of the performance-enhancing drug scourge, Jeter did it the right way for 19 long years.

While it might have been tempting for the singles and doubles hitter to cheat his way into a tool that he didn’t have, Jeter never strayed from the right way to play.

It was the only thing he knew how to do.

For 19 seasons, that’s what he gave to baseball.

And now, for one glorious season and well-deserved victory lap, it’s what baseball is going to give back to him."

"Jeter? More like ME-ter. And that goes for ME-riano, too.

Jeter will say that he made his announcement now because he didn’t want his status to be a distraction. But DiMaggio’s uncertain status didn’t stop the 1951 team from winning a World Championship. And what could be a bigger distraction than the creepy sand sculptures he’s sure to receive? Far better to take a cue from Todd Helton or Ryan Theriot and walk away without fanfare.

Instead, he’ll soak in the standing ovations and leave the team to face the future without a proper successor in place. Ruth gave way to Gehrig, Gehrig to DiMaggio, DiMaggio to Mantle, Mantle to Murcer, Murcer to Munson. Who’s going to take the torch from Jeter? Eduardo Nunez?

But hey, what happens in 2015 won’t be his problem. By then, Joltin’ Jeter will be gone. 'See ya,' as Michael Kay would say."

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=22810

Comedian's tale of having his date swiped by Jeter at a club (I recommend the audio version, beginning at 44:17):

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=22824

http://fansided.com/2014/02/13/comedian-tells-story-derek-jeter-stealing-girlfriend-hilarious/#!vKmom

The only player whom I would swear on my life does not fall under the taint of the performance-enhancing drug scourge, Jeter did it the right way for 19 long years.

I guess this dude forgot about Craig Counsell

and yes all the Jeter hookup stories are hilarious, though this pales behind the woman who got the same gift basket twice and of course "yeah, Jeets!!"

The anticipated tedium of this going away tour makes me happy i dont watch baseball anymore. Thank god.

the tour itself is not technically baseball, especially if you avoid ESPN and otherwise use mute.

I hope fans give him gift baskets at every stadium

ILB's favorite player passed Molitor on the hit list yesterday--will likely finish the year in 6th, behind Rose, Cobb, Aaron, Musial, and Speaker. SweetSpot pointed how unusually close he and Molitor are in some basic categories (ignoring all adjustments):

Molitor -- .306/.369/.448, 234 HR
Jeter -- .312/.381/.446, 256 HR

in my recollection, molitor was kind of insufferably held up as an example of "how to play the game" in the same way jeter is now.

cept there came a period where Molitor was not allowed to play defense. Such wisdom has eluded the Bombers.

He was fantastic during two of his three years in Toronto, including the one WS, so I'm biased--big fan.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/4/8/5594256/derek-jeter-yankees-gold-gloves

http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/imported_assets/2285376/Senior_Year_Computer_Lab.jpeg

From SB Nation--taken, they point out, the year Mike Trout was born.

The anticipated tedium of this going away tour makes me happy i dont watch baseball anymore. Thank god.

― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, February 14, 2014 5:47 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I truly hate this fucking guy. I knew I would regret tuning in to the all star game the other day and i did. Luckily I didn't make it past the national anthem. Football start soon?

see what you did, clemenza

can I just say YEEEEAH JEETS

Inesa Anderson has the Audrey Hepburn neck gene

Derek Jeter is a living incarnation of New York City's worst ideas about itself. I lived in New York for six years and living in New York means you get to treat the rest of the country like it's the kiddie table at cocktail party. "Oh, Chicago? Go have a seat with Dallas and Denver over in the corner." Jeter is the perfect delivery vessel for that very specific brand of provincial arrogance. If he had played in Houston, he would have been Craig Biggio Jr. and we would have been spared all this shit. In New York, only New York matters, and so Derek Jeter gets treated as the only baseball player who matters by a cadre of slobbering New York writers who still wish athletes would get shitfaced with newspapermen at Toots Shor's...

Athletes are supposed to be magical unicorns who materialize from a fucking cornfield and cause sportswriters to burst into uncontrollable epileptic fits of purple prose. Jeter gets a world of credit simply for not being anything. He is a blank canvas on which you get to fingerpaint all your stupid armchair analysis and expectations. That guy … that guy I barely know … he does it the RIGHT WAY. The worst, most childish thing about sports is the undying notion that the games are an apparatus of moral justice, that Jeter wins because he does things the right way. This overlooks not only the entire history of organized sports, but also the facts of Jeter's own career, which has featured the sort of pettiness and groupie-banging that would typically consign a ballplayer to the media shitlist.

http://deadspin.com/the-hater-s-guide-to-derek-jeter-1605937020

Wasn't Garvey treated the same way in the mid-late '70s, and then Ripken in the '90s? It doesn't seem to be exclusive to New York.

People argue about Saint Cal in the comments there. Think back to the '70s and think hard if you heard encomiums to Garvey anywhere nearly on this scale.

(In fairness, Garvey obv was a ridiculously overrated player at the time who did not play as long and will need a ticket to get inside the Hall of Fame.)

Well, that's it--Garvey obviously wasn't as great a player as Jeter (you can argue he's overrated; I don't think you can seriously argue he hasn't had a great career), so relatively speaking, yes, I remember the deification of Garvey being pretty over-the-top.

My promise to you: I thought hard.

(Should mention I was a Reds fan at the time, and therefore extra-averse to Garvey worship.)

I've never said Jeter wasn't a HOFer, just a mediocre-to-awful defensive player whose name I never need to hear again after September.

also, #3 in Magary's article.

$89.95 for all 22. Just look at him making all those spectacular plays.

http://www.homeruncards.com/derek-jeter-topps-set.shtml

classic FB post

To commemorate Derek Jeter, I will henceforth refer to going "number two" as Jetering.

A lot here:

http://www.billjamesonline.com/where_have_you_gone_derek_jeter_/

Pick your side, and defend it until the other side walks away in a huff.

I think...and this is more speculation...but I think that in a strange way, Derek Jeter has come to exemplify that conflict. Not intentionally, of course: I don’t think Jeter had any specific intention to be the baseball representative of our national mood. It just happened that way.

a few interesting thoughts, but horribly written with statements the author even admits are completely unsupported

I think his central point about Jeter as a lightning rod is very interesting, but some of the choices on his timeline of iconic players seem off to me. Garvey (unfortunately) seemed key in the '70s, Junior was quite iconic for a while, etc.

I like Fleming's writing style a lot, even though (which actually explains why I like it) he's got James's voice down cold.

i couldn't get through the first few paragraphs, fuck generalizing the "moods" of decades and shit and fuck generations and fuck paul simon, geez. this is like an article by a slightly smarter plaschke

baseball players don't reflect the national mood, derek jeter doesn't reflect anything besides the herpes epidemic

The defining characteristic of Ty Cobb, again gleaned from books and accounts, was his absolute determination. In this regard, I think that Cobb echoed the value of his time and place better than Wagner or Lajoie. Determination was the aspiration of the land: four decades removed from the Civil War, America was focused on seeing its grand experiment through.

otm

Boy, you get worked up over stuff, zachlyon.

i'll fight u

so yeah, basically paul molitor had jeter played anywhere else

i think Bill James thinking there are 'two sides' in America is the clearest indication yet that when he goes macro he's a fucking idiot

Going into tonight:

Molitor -- 1,307 RBI
Jeter -- 1,307 RBI

James did not write what's above. It's Dave Fleming you want to dismiss as a fucking idiot.

ok

We're all Derek Jeter now.
In the future, everyone will be Derek Jeter for 15 minutes.
The pernicious influence of that awful, awful Derek Jeter.

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/8879206/v36552901/a-personal-thank-you-from-paul-konerko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oZa38GVD4w

abt a ft from a homer 1st ab

too bad, someone in the orioles bullpen couldve had a 1 of a kind souvenir

YES! his roll call was fucked up because as they were chanting his name the Orioles hit a home run. Then they kept chanting his name while Markasis was trotting around the bases, and Jeter awkwardly touched his hat

i think the clip will be up on mlb.com later. wow, way to go nick markasis!

lol 'markasis'

Wait is that the same Dave Fleming who does play-by-play for the Giants?

that's what his friends call him OK?

xp to self:

David Fleming is a writer living in Wellington, New Zealand.

nick mark stasis

will not be surprised if jeter shreds his game uni from tnight and sells it in 1/4 inch fragments to maximize his yield from all this

You can't spell "Jesus Christ! Herpes!" Without "Jeter."

Career to date (may be incomplete) $307,258,845 (in 2014 dollars)

does that include Tri-State Ford ads?

I don't post here a lot but I would like to say this. I have been a base ball sport fan since I was a young boy, when my father took me to the big game at the stadium. Ever since then, I have loved everything about base ball: the bats, the gloves, the bases, all of it. But no base ball team has meant as much to me over the years as the New York Yankees, and no player of the New York Yankees has meant as much to me as Dereck Jetter. Something about the way he hit the base ball with the bat and ran around the bases fast made me excited to watch the games at the stadium, on the TV, or on my i-Pad. No one can say he was not a legend, and if they did say that, they would be wrong.

But now, with the tragic death of Jetter, those days are over. It is sad, but, there is this: I have promised myself that when I have a son, and he is old enough to watch base ball with me, I will share with him my love for Dereck Jetter. In order to do this, I will show him photos and videos of Jetter's home runs, grand slams, and base steals, all the most exciting moments of the base ball games. In this way, Jetter's memory will "live on."

Go New York Yankees!

with the tragic death of Jetter,

ok i never heard the YEAH JEETZ story til just now

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/clt/4841831890.html

Will of course be an overrated husband.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/derek-jeter-set-marry-hannah-davis-article-1.2413797?utm_content=buffer376c9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/derek-jeter-kane1.jpg

yeah jeets

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CllkL83XEAAqhPQ.jpg

yeah jeets

what will they do with the gift-basket closet?

Getting his monument in May. It will be approximately as mobile as he was at shortstop in his 30s.

will never stop hating this buttinsky

Love and good cheer all around.

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2017/05/06/228670544/vote-for-the-best-play-of-derek-jeters-career-before-derek-jeter-night

(I'd forgotten the Jeffrey Maier home run was his. And no, I didn't vote.)

it's the play at home in the 2003 ALCS and it's not remotely close

https://i.imgur.com/X5DPoos.png

I cannot help but feel some kind of sexual entendre here

no, it's a joke about being a garbage fielder

This thread should be moved to I Love Baseball...I generally think Jeter takes some underserved ridicule (although I guess the ridicule is more directed at Jeter-worship than Jeter himself), but in the annals of selective special pleading, this is at a whole other level:

https://i.postimg.cc/7L1pKK7h/jeter.jpg

How did they forget "More Gold Gloves than..." (Cal Ripken Jr., Kevin Kiermaier, Jesse Barfield, Andrelton Simmons, Matt Chapman, etc., etc.)?