Good Evening, Captain: The 2014 New York Yankees

or, Captain America: Winter Soldier -- The 2014 New York Yankees

(i just spent like half an hour trying to make a jeter-as-roy-batty pic, but my photoshop skills can't do it justice.)

for the first time since 1998, the yankees are *not* the most expensive team in baseball. they are, however, the oldest, even minus a-rod.

how much slower will cc's fastball be this year? which of the players will break down first? does it even matter how the team does? what will be the best and worst gifts on jeter's farewell tour? what will john sterling's home run calls be for ellsbury/beltran/mccann?

http://i.imgur.com/74umd67.jpg

tomorrow: yanks to play second game of jeter's last season

today's date is april 1st, jeter's last season

what other selling point do they have? This team COULD lose 90 games.

http://cdn.bloguin.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2014/04/jeetindex-300x246.jpg

YEAH JEETS

Ben Lindbergh will be ranking Jeets' retirement gifts all year vs Mo's and Chipper's. First, Houston:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=23211

this season is going to be breathtaking. between the NYY NYJ & NYR idk which NY team is LEAST charismatic

Yangervis Solarte??

tanaka allows a homer to his first big league hitter: melky cabrera

Here's John Sterling singing Yangervis Solarte's name to 'That's Amore.'

i'm not sure who u think will click on that

me

Yanks beat O's in Jeter's final home opener

jeter trotted for a line drive that hit off the wall in left, very nearly got thrown out at second

this is what happens when we make puig a role model

https://vine.co/v/M5bXd5JquPe

:)

Robertson to DL

nice work today, Ivan Nova and Vidal Nuno

starting at first base -- having never played there in 529 professional games -- and batting seventh for the yankees today was

#29

francisco cervelli

#29

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk9GNWeCEAA08Kb.jpg:large

source?

the new yorker w/ accompanying cartoon

YANKEES PITCHER CESAR CABRAL WAS EJECTED IN THE BOTTOM OF THE EIGHTH INNING BY HOME PLATE UMPIRE JOE WEST FOR HITTING THREE BATTERS.

ivan nova's mri has confirmed original diagnosis of partial tear in right ucl; surgery has been recommended

glad i resisted picking him for HACKING MASS

@JackCurryYES
Farrell asks Umpires to check Pineda. Gerry Davis rubs Pineda's neck, looks at fingers and ejects Pineda from the game.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bl8cmrBIcAAOUiM.jpg

!

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bl8d-cNCYAEaD7n.png:large

hard to believe that capt jeter permitted such shenanigans on his watch

Girardi says Pineda used "poor judgment" with pine tar and "feels bad that he let his teammates down."

It's nights like this when I wish Field Marshal Steinbush was alive to comment

nbd -- like andy pettitte, he was just trying to help the team

Use yr fuckin hat bro

jeter is shocked, shocked i say

https://s2.yimg.com/nn/fp/rsz/042414/images/smush/cheat_635x250_1398301606.jpg

or asleep

really can't believe this guy thought he was gonna hide pine tar on his face, maybe the dumbest sports moment of the year

10-game suspension

Especially dumb considering they caught him on video last time with the stuff all over his hands.

get away with it once you think you're immortal makes perfect sense shame shame

Tommy John for Ivan Nova

hmm, seems like a fair trade

lol

who tf is john ryan murphy

guy is having a day

Matthew Kory:
"Robinson Cano returned to New York and fans chanted 'Sellout' at him which is weird because only 37,484* people were there."

*way less, hedge funders don't like rain

JOIN YANKEES BROADCASTER JOHN STERLING IN THE EDWARD JONES CHATTING CAGE . . . NOW:

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/33026172/v31501469/watch-join-chat/?partnerId=as_mlb_20140501_22847644

Monument Park officially a joke

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/5/8/5696224/tino-martinez-yankees-monument-park

That came out of nowhere.

Paul O'Neill getting a plaque is almost as dumb.

neither is getting his number retired, so it's not that big a deal. paul o'neill was a pretty good player tho

"Derek Jeter was given a surfboard by the Angels, but this wasn’t a going-away present so much as a way to help Jeter move to his left." - Matthew Kory

I'm kind of surprised more clubs don't build a team hall of fame. The Reds have had one forever and they built it into the new ball park as part of the gift shop for the stadium which has a banquet hall etc. that they use and have functions year around.

tbf the wilpons tried to build one to the brooklyn dodgers at citifield

The Mets do have one, so do the Royals, the A's too right?

CC disabled, Alfredo Aceves to start Thurs vs Mets.

• a kind of prince in baseball cleats
• George Clooney in pinstripes
• the guy every woman wanted to bring home to mom, and very few did
• humble
• handsome
• hard to hate
• the best player in baseball for a good 10 years straight
• like a good magician
• the guy with the $15 million Trump Tower penthouse
• the dude dating Miss Universe
• the man with all of the talent and none of the jerk
• everything women wanted, too
• the elegant athlete who loved books, paid for everything, and had a limo waiting for them when it was time to go
• like a rooster's crow
• hilarious
• like an eagle deciding to take the bus
• gentleman
• charmer
• 1,000-point star
• a bit of a germ freak

http://joeposnanski.com/joeblogs/greatest-thing-ever/

Wow, just wow.

that is hilarious

When people deride this kind of hagiography--and it should be derided--I'm never sure if it's aimed wholly at the people who write it, or at Jeter too. I mean, he doesn't write this stuff.

i like how "serial womanizer" never fits into the hagiography

riiight

what's the evidence jeter is a womanizer again? or does bedding a lot of chicks make one a womanizer?

Seager became the first major leaguer to hit two triples and at least one homer and one double since Hal Breeden for Montreal in 1973, STATS said. The last AL player to do it was Hoot Evers for Detroit in 1950.

"That's definitely a special one," Seager said. "That's definitely one I'll remember, for sure."

His second triple was aided by a rare mental mistake by Jeter.

Seager hit a blooper down the line that bounced off the glove of sliding left fielder Brett Gardner. Jeter was also giving chase and had a chance to make the catch off the deflection, but couldn't come up with it.

With his back to third base umpire Brian Gorman, Jeter did not see the fair signal. When he corralled the ball in foul ground, he continued to jog several steps toward the corner. He looked surprised when he turned, and his throw to third was too late.

Phelps hollered "throw the ball!" as Seager headed to third. After the play was over, Jeter could be seen on television saying "I thought it was foul" as he walked back to the infield.

"I'm in for the bunt and went back on the popup. It never crossed my mind that it was fair. I almost gave it to a fan," Jeter said. "I thought for sure the ball was foul because I was in foul territory."

what's the evidence jeter is a womanizer again?

lol mass-produced morning-after gift baskets at the ready

I don't judge him for it (much), just seems the elephant in the room considering his Public Profile otherwise reads like Boys Life copy from 1973.

"Derek Jeter is ranked 12 out of 13 in OPS among AL shortstops. He is ranked 81 out of 85 qualifying AL baseball players in OPS. He is ranked 154 out of 168 qualifying baseball players in OPS. He will start the All-Star game. Must be the defense."

- M Kory

wau beltran

What do the Yankees really have to trade going into the bartering season? You got to think they need a player if they really want to compete.

jack shit, basically

awesome defensive evening by the Captain last night

NL WS homefield could be in the bag come July 15

@bruce_arthur 8m
Yankees-Jays shortstop update, first inning: Derek Jeter has laid down a sacrifice bunt with no outs, and Jose Reyes has homered to right.

happy 40th, jetes

*short porch*

lol napoli yelling to his teammates what an idiot re: tanaka

Matthew Kory:

MLB's headline was "Price proves too much for Yanks" which was the first time in human history those words were written in that order.

rip yangervis

alfredo aceves, 50 games for 'drug of abuse'

zelous replacing yangervis, def a name upgrade

cc apparently out for season now

Brian Roberts is the first Yankees player with four extra-base hits in a game since Alex Rodriguez on April 18, 2005.

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/7/7/5878121/sleeping-yankees-fan-sues-espn-10-million

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2122907-derek-jeter-sets-up-easy-double-by-faking-out-jason-kipnis-at-second-base?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=programming-national%3Fis_shared%3Dtrue?is_shared=true

@castrovince
Ozzie Guillen on Jeter: "Good looking man, got a lot of nice girlfriends, never got in trouble. That’s the real Mr. Perfect in the game."

brett gardener now outslugging teixeira

poor man's francisco cervelli

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/11288723/derek-jeter-gets-visit-former-president-george-w-bush-finale-arlington

@BenLindbergh
Before Stephen Drew's debut at 2B, let's pause to appreciate Derek Jeter's 20-season streak of posting negative FRAAs

Brandon McCarthy has been dealing lately

feel like jeter's being treated like a pitcher in the NL, every time he gets an important hit the news articles treat it like an amazing once-a-season event

two hours, seven minutes for brandon mccarthy to blank astros

fastest yankee game of the season by 29 minutes!

let's be grateful for that 3% chance at the postseason (maybe up to 5% now)

yankees catcher francisco cervelli does not wear a cup

http://instagram.com/p/sOSDtbNcl1

I mentioned on another thread that I started watching a DVD of Fidrych's Monday night start against the Yankees in 1976. Before the game, all the Yankees introduce themselves (probably still new then). Billy Martin goes last: "Billy Martin, manager, born in Berkeley, California, died in New York City." And that was in '76, before the real fun started.

here ya go, jeetz

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/9/2/6097443/derek-jeter-batting-order-team-player-joe-girardi-lou-gehrig

I'm down for hating on Jeter as much as anyone - but how much of that can be blamed on Jeter? Ultimately it's Girardi's decision - and I wouldn't be surprised if the front office pressured him to make sure Jeter was front and centre as often as possible.

it's not the same situation, but Mantle retired in spring training of '68.

'69 rather

supposedly sterling's call tonight was

"headley is deadly . . . you can bank on chase!"

our new ageless monarch of comedy

If the Yankees want to tank their playoff chances so that Jeter can be front and centre, it's fine with me.

Lots of HOF-level players batted lower in the lineup, shifted to an easier defensive position, or accepted less than full time roles late in their careers. I think it's generally agreed that Jeter has refused to do at least two of the three. If he was really the selfless team leader who would do anything to win (according to his reputation) then he wouldn't be hitting second every day.

I remember Mays playing first for the Mets

(and how painful it was to watch him play CF with no legs left)

remember when torre batted a-rod eighth in the playoffs?

cannot embarrass The Fistpump that way

yeah Mays batted first in the 1973 World Series, I think he did rather well?

remember when torre batted a-rod eighth in the playoffs?

2006 ALDS New York Yankees vs. Detroit Tigers

at the risk of simmonsing, those were actually good times

http://www.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1930201!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_235_300/image.jpg

poor carlos

i hope tomorrow's 48-page jeter insert makes him feel better

(xpost) At least in the first game, the Mets had Mays hitting third. Nice ovation: they sometimes had farewell tours then, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh_ze-RvinU

(Stick around for the anthem!)

May hit .211 with 6 HR in the '73 regular season. Hitting him third is a testament to Yogi's managerial eccentricity and the Mets' woeful offense that year.

Mays hit leadoff in '72 for the Mets fairly often, he managed a .402 OBP at age 41. Fell off considerably the next year.

Lots of prime empty seats on Jeter Day.

also if the yankees are eliminated it'll be the first year since the strike (and the year before) that neither they nor the red sox qualify for the postseason.

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, September 7, 2014 8:55 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^Heaven

need Cards & Giants to collapse for a quadrifecta

atlanta for good measure

11 Sports GIFs That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity

http://web.yesnetwork.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=36121569

Chris Young ON FIRE

on his ibanez shit

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/5942144129333781106

is this supposed to be derek

http://mlb.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pMLB2-18499065dt.jpg

New York Yankees Derek Jeter Retirement 10 inch Plush Doll
http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=35072856&cp=1984691.1984702

after a year of retirement, sure

from BP podcast FB wall:

Jeter is on the brink of doing it! His SLG is now just .001 higher than his OBP (.304 and .303). With a few more bad games, he can finish with a sub .250 BA. sub .600 OPS, and a OBP higher than his SLG. You can do it, Derek.

CHRIS YOUNG

lololol

RIP Stanks

is alex rodriguez going to play for these guys next year?

hahahahha

jeter ops: .600

https://i.imgur.com/ygDnBkR.jpg

RE600CT

jeter's 0 for his last 24. getting sad

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxldJ9rIAAAp3QO.png

still not in the league top ten in Outs Made

(he is the active career leader, obviously)

right now Jeter is having the 19th-worst WAR season of all time

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=24657

He's only at -0.2 bWAR, although I have trouble believing that number. According to BR's league page, Yankees shortstops are by far the worst in the league.

actually, that 19th-worst season is in warp

ok, i couldn't define either

i was going to say earlier a lot of good/great players have shitty final seasons... but ya – he's doing pretty bad. you look at his monthly splits, and you can see him age as the seasons progresses!

this is my favorite recent example of attempted deification

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/mccarron-derek-jeter-yankees-faith-article-1.1937305

next year's t shirt

http://store.baldvinny.com/product/forg1v3

Girardi freaks out and gets ejected because the almighty Jeets got hit by a pitch? Is Jeter's skin more frail and delicate than that of the average major leaguer? How dare you Tampa Bay! Was there another unwritten rule in play here?

grab some bench

http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/White-Sox-Derek-Jeter-bench.jpg

i saw the rays gave him a kayak

that is hideous

xpost

"thanks for everything jeets, here is something for your baseball-themed sex dungeon"

the beatification continues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfgS1lvqX8I

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx1Yb7rIYAA4gkq.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfgS1lvqX8I

*sobs*

first HR at home all year for the Captain.

overlaying the gatorade logo on jeter's 2, classy move

Joe Girardi can say he wasn't hired to put on a farewell tour all he wants. He was, and he betrayed both himself and the fans by doing so.

Even though you have said, "I wasn't hired to put on a farewell tour," why have your actions been consistent with a manager putting on a farewell tour?

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/9/19/6444411/derek-jeter-farewell-tour-joe-girardi-selling-out-hard

wonder if the sox'll lob him a meatball his last AB

they should plunk him on the wrist to reignite that rivalry, shit's getting stale over there.

this paean to journalism is a little rich coming from a site that 30 minutes later posted 'Derek Jeter Ass-Eating Gossip We Really Want To Be True' but it's not really wrong

http://deadspin.com/that-derek-jeter-ad-will-make-you-cry-for-america-1636810518/all

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByKgav-CEAESmE5.jpg

'personality'

http://wac.9ebf.edgecastcdn.net/809EBF/ec-origin.nyc.barstoolsports.com/files/2011/12/Derek_Jeter-480x360.jpg

"package"

"Grinder"

'funny'

i count at least 4 "clutch"s

a little rich coming from a site that 30 minutes later posted 'Derek Jeter Ass-Eating Gossip We Really Want To Be True'

were the ass-eating rumors sponsored or something?

http://deadspin.com/derek-jeter-ass-eating-gossip-we-really-want-to-be-true-1636889346

A better Deadspin post would be an analysis of what's in the gift basket. Has this not been done by an enterprising blogger? The sports memorabilia collector in me would consider a Jeter reacharound if it netted me one (near mint condition please). How has a Jesus toast style eBay basket not happened? Certainly one is needed for inclusion at his forthcoming Cooperstown wing.

I may have told this story on ILB before, in fact I'm pretty certain I have. There was a period '97-'02 where everyone in NYC had a Jeter story apocryphal or not from a friend of a friend. My favorite was from a friend in Michigan, Jeter was back in Ann Arbor at a restaurant around '05 and sidled up to two students at the bar. There was was some awkward flirting and the two of them didn't want to compete for him but he deaded that by cornily asking both of them to check out the roof bar views at his hotel (some crappy Marriott). They end up having a menage a trois in his room and leave around 4am. Jeter may be a nice guy but he certainly doesn't want dead co-eds scandalizing his reputation, he insists they take a car service and gives them money even if the U of M campus is essentially across the street. After their $5 cab ride back they have $60 in cash left from him, at that point they ask themselves, "Did we just get paid as sex workers?".

is nuthin sacred to u ppl

One of the takeaways in this NY Mag drooler is an alleged denial of The Gift Baskets, but if you read it carefully, it's a non-denial denial.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/derek-jeter-private-photos.html

He learned that often the best way to deflate a story is to ignore it. The Post once claimed that after sleeping with women, Jeter would leave a gift basket of signed memorabilia in the car taking the “conquest” home. He’s avoided commenting on the item for three years. But he’s still annoyed. “Like I’m giving them signed baseballs and pictures of myself on the way out! Who comes up with a story like that?” He laughs, incredulous. “It said the reason people found out was because I gave the same girl the same basket and I had forgotten I’d given her one—like there are so many people coming through I forgot!” Even if Jeter were cheesy enough to have handed out souvenirs, he’s far too careful to have made that kind of mistake.

nothing cheesy about jeter

the one thing i've always admired about jeter is he's so careful he's never once given two baskets to the same fuck

cept that one time

btw storms possible for nyc on thurs

The weather forecast for New York City on Thursday calls for thunderstorms. Is it possible even God is trying to delay the inevitable?

"Oh, I don't know about that," laughed Yankees manager Joe Girardi. "If he really wanted to intervene maybe he'd take away a few wins from the Royals."

Kidding aside, it seems as if nature herself may step in this week to allow Jeter's successful final season to continue on for another 24 or even 48 hours.

"I'm kind of hoping that happens," admitted first baseman Mark Teixeira. "It gives DJ a little more time for a curtain call, and as long as we're still in it any extra rest we can get now is a bonus."

That's right. The Yankees still have a shot at this. The Yankees are the Yankees, and while they're far back of several other teams, those teams don't have the same end-of-season experience as this squad.

"This is a team that never quits," outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury stated, a player who left a sinking ship of quitters just in time to board a vessel destined for a playoff push. "We're just following his example."

The "his" is Derek Jeter. The example is second-to-none.

Jeter quite naturally downplays his own role in the Yankees' unexpectedly overachieving season.

"I've had some good hits land this season, but it's really the other guys who have picked us up on the occasions I've scuffled this year. Tex, Ichiro, CC, all of them."

Time for some rain to give us more time with the fearless leader. And hey, maybe Mr. November will shine in October once more. Don't doubt him for a second.

The Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees are the Yankees

Still in it.

@jay_jaffe
i got goosebumps from witnessing this RT @BryanHoch: Eury Perez becomes the franchise-record 58th Yankee to appear in a game this season.

Jeetz DHing in what could be his last home game (monsoon due tomorrow)

@TylerKepner
So the last game Jeter ever plays in New York, tomorrow night, will be the only one in his career in which the Yankees were eliminated.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByU2HZRIgAMTauh.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xafiSZO_r2g

BRINGS THE PAIN, damn.

weatherman was a bit of a drama queen; shitty out, but not enough for the Stanks to lose this gate.

https://twitter.com/Charmin/status/515261979938652163

michael kay: 'mickey mantle's last game at yankee stadium came on september 25th . . . and tonight is september 25th'

what a crazy coincidence!

i'm glad I missed most of his career.

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

^ beat that, Mantle!

up with the bases loaded in possibly his last AB in yankee stadium

mantle ruth and dimaggio are all gonna come out prob

zzz h8rs

gonna be sad if he GIDPs tho

we'll take it!

will the Core Four escort Kuroda out of the building w/ video montage?

that was the worst possible outcome

how many times are talking heads gonna say "that's. what jeter. DOES." tonight

http://analytics.stats.com/derek-jeter-a-hall-of-fame-career-capped-by-a-disastrous-season

Disastrous? Not seeing Clutch Over Replacement in their calculations. Sounds like these egghead schlubs can't even get a job at NASA firing rockets at North Korea, as weak as their math is. #FarewellCaptain

jeter drama

lol

SUCK IT

Why are Jeter's parents hanging out with Pedro's midget?

RE2PECT, JJ Hardy

this was all scripted btw i've read it they're all about to jizz on his face

kaat: "there is not one fan who left this game tonight" looooool have u ever been to a yankee game

omg that was rbi 666 i knew it

wait nvm i have no idea what that stat was

raised his WAR from -0.2 to -0.1 I HATE JETER CAN YOU TELL I DO NOT WANT ANY OF YOU TO EVER BE HAPPY

jeter was my childhood hero. not just my favorite athlete, but literally my hero: i owned several of his jerseys, read all his biographies, watched the yankees religiously, went to games as often as possible, etc. my computer passwords are still jeter-related.

life has gotten in the way of baseball fandom over the past several years, but a couple of months ago i told my mom i wanted to go to tonight's yankee game. after checking schedules with the rest of my family, she gets tickets for a DIFFERENT game. no big deal, i'm sure the mlb.com stream was just as great as being there in person

(Of course that was incredible but) How many times will we see that replayed during the playoffs? 100?

lol k3v k

baseball is designed to break your heart

btw the NPR hourly news segment on this concluded "Jeter could play in the Bronx again if the team makes the playoffs." Your donations, well spent on research.

@BenLindbergh
Torre, Bernie, Rivera, Posada, Pettitte looking on and smiling like Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Yoda at the end of Return of the Jedi.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EbPQ_vw2Cps/hqdefault.jpg

ok i just read the game story and wtf man, seriously?

it is so perfectly horrible, it is derek jeter

"Broken bat, I got a run in, you know what I mean?" Jeter said. "But I've done that time and time again."

otoh, the Yankee fans can home and put their Giants shit on now

If the Orioles win the WS it will be because Jeter blessed them as a postseason proxy for Yankees fans to root for.

@darrenrovell
Derek Jeter wore two uniforms last night. One Jeter will keep. The other will presumably be sold.

W***e of the Yankees

nice to jeter to find a good groove at the right moment

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/11598946/joe-girardi-criticized-new-york-yankees-pregame-tirade-derek-jeter-yankee-stadium-finale

BOSTON -- It was supposed to be a festive occasion, in which Derek Jeter's New York Yankees teammates were to present their captain with gifts to express their respect and gratitude just moments before he would take the field for his final game at Yankee Stadium.

But before the gifts could be bestowed, manager Joe Girardi had a message he wished to deliver to his players.

It was not a fond farewell to Jeter, but a scathing critique of the Yankees' 2014 season, in which he expressed his disappointment with their failure to reach the playoffs for a second straight year, the first time that has happened in more than two decades.

According to clubhouse sources who were present for the critique, and backed up by interviews with more than a half-dozen players, most of whom spoke to ESPNNewYork.com off the record for fear of angering their manager, Girardi chided some players for being overweight and others for not being "hungry" enough.

mixed messages, joe

haha

@ToddRadom
The Yankees were born 112 yrs ago today—the media was bitching about their payroll four months later:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B66jS_hIIAAth0s.jpg

well thank God this wasn't over anything stupid

Yankees prospect right-hander Ty Hensley was brutally attacked over the holidays and suffered “multiple facial fractures, including to his jaw, as well as multiple other head injuries.” Charges have been filed against 24-year-old Anthony Morales, who played football at Weber State and tried out for the Carolina Panthers last year....

Witnesses told police they heard Hensley and Morales arguing about the amount of money athletes receive for signing with professional teams, the court papers said.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/08/yankees-prospect-ty-hensley-was-allegedly-attacked-following-an-argument-over-signing-bonuses/

Yankees will retire the uniform numbers of Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, and Andy Pettitte.

A regular player will be wearing an aleph on his back sometime in the next five years.

there is not a 2015 yankees thread yet and I really can't bring myself to make one

in any case, a pitching machine struck out chris young today http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/03/02/new-york-yankees-chris-young-strikeout-pitching-machine

one of you bastards better use this to make the '15 NYY thread title

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/12428167/derek-jeter-last-new-york-yankees-captain-brian-cashman-says

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/a1d3lndDKKHt4YdlvK2WCQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/sports/2015-03-20/27ae3ca0-cf24-11e4-8c4c-0977d6395f2e_Screen-Shot-2015-03-20-at-10-09-58-AM.png

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/derek-jeter-attends-sumo-match--does-not-get-recognized-164743658.html

Derek Jeter world tour is now underway.