The Captain gets hit 3000
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But that was cool. I would muuuuuuch rather have caught that ball than Barry Bonds' roided up 756th.
I've always liked Derek Jeter, so I'm happy for him.
The guy that caught it should give it back to Jeter. If I were the guy that caught it, I would try to trade the ball for something like a bat, a jersey, and/or a signed baseball. I think Jeter would happily oblige.
I would also make sure that someone toook a picture of me with the ball as well before I started to bargain.
The guy that caught it should give it back to Jeter. If I were the guy that caught it, I would try to trade the ball for something like a bat, a jersey, and/or a signed baseball. I think Jeter would happily oblige.
I would also make sure that someone toook a picture of me with the ball as well before I started to bargain.
to reach the milestone. First Yankee ever. Only Jeter & Wade Boggs hit a bomb for 3000. Yankee Stadium erupted nothing like it. Damon and the Rays are a class organization, too.
I heard somewhere that before today they were guessing 300,000 grand for Jeter's 3000th if it was a home run.
No one is saying he is a top X player of all time. The guy just did something only 27 others have done.
said he wasn't a good player, just the eastern media hype jocks like Jeter, but you have 7500 posts so that makes you the expert. That seems to be the criteria on message boards, the more you post the more of an expert you are. So I'm sorry for upsetting you.
Yankees gave him a bunch of stuff including 4 champion suite tickets for the rest of the season/post season. He also gets to meet Jeter after the game to get more stuff I would imagine
He said he really didn't want anything for it
He said he really didn't want anything for it
Wow - you really are a sensitive little girl aren't you?
My point is that getting 3000 hits is not an accomplishment that gets one rated or hyped by the media. The media didn't get 3000 hits for him. They might have helped him be looked at a little more favorably over the course of his career than some of the non-New Yorker players. That I agree with and it's been going on for decades. I do think that Jeter has put himself in the conversation of the all time great shortstops but of course none will ever surpass Mr. Cub himself, Ernie Banks. The interesting thing about Jeter is he went through a large part of his prime where he wasn't the best SS in the AL, with Nomar, A-Rod and Tejada vying for that honor. But when it's all said and done A-Rod will be remembered as a third baseman and Jeter will have better numbers than Nomar and Tejada.
Now get busy posting so your opinion will one day matter.
My point is that getting 3000 hits is not an accomplishment that gets one rated or hyped by the media. The media didn't get 3000 hits for him. They might have helped him be looked at a little more favorably over the course of his career than some of the non-New Yorker players. That I agree with and it's been going on for decades. I do think that Jeter has put himself in the conversation of the all time great shortstops but of course none will ever surpass Mr. Cub himself, Ernie Banks. The interesting thing about Jeter is he went through a large part of his prime where he wasn't the best SS in the AL, with Nomar, A-Rod and Tejada vying for that honor. But when it's all said and done A-Rod will be remembered as a third baseman and Jeter will have better numbers than Nomar and Tejada.
Now get busy posting so your opinion will one day matter.
Front row for tomorrow
Suite for the rest of the games this year
A ton of signed stuff
He asked for nothing.
Suite for the rest of the games this year
A ton of signed stuff
He asked for nothing.
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He's being given them for free. It's a gift. How do you pay taxes on something that was given to you and you didn't pay for?
If he sold his tickets on stub hub, I still don't think he would have to pay taxes on that.
If he sold his tickets on stub hub, I still don't think he would have to pay taxes on that.
he has gotten a lot of media attention. George Brett got a ton of attention when he got his in 1993 playing for Kansas City, as did Wade Boggs playing for Tampa Bay, and everyone else that has also gotten 3K hits.
It's a HOF bench mark stat- 500 home runs, 3,000 hits, 300 wins, 3,000 K's....
It's a HOF bench mark stat- 500 home runs, 3,000 hits, 300 wins, 3,000 K's....
I'm buying. No doubt he is slowing down, but I could see him having 6 season with 150 hits after this one. That would have him right at 4,000.
He would be 42 or 43 by that time I think. He seems to be declining, and I'm not sure that he can make it much past 40. I know that there has been talk of moving him to another position that didn't really seem to be just Cashman kind of thinking out loud more than anything. Maybe if he was willing to DH he could have an outside shot at it, but I still think that's pretty slim.
Overrated? This guy is one of the all time great shortstops. He has been as consistent as any player in the game and apparently never juiced. He's never been anything but a class act, and never brought any bad publicity to the Yankees or himself. Just because he hasn't hit 500 HR's doesn't mean he isn't an all time great. Look at the past Yankees who've never reached 3000 hits and look at every other player and history who never reached 3000.
I despise the Yankees and the way they attempt to buy a World Series Championship every year, but Derek Jeter is the epitome of what a baseball player should be. Classy and ethical.
I despise the Yankees and the way they attempt to buy a World Series Championship every year, but Derek Jeter is the epitome of what a baseball player should be. Classy and ethical.
he's over-rated. He's done something no other Yankee has ever done. We are talking about the greatest MLB franchise ever, by a long shot, and filled with HOF players. Not to mention that only 27 other people have ever done it in the history of MLB, too. I guess you're definition of over-rated and the rest of the baseball world is different.
Paul Molitor on Jeter: “To have the most hits for the most prestigious franchise in all of sports is pretty special. If Derek stays healthy, he has a good chance to rack up a lot more hits.”
Robin Yount on Jeter: “I love what I see of Derek Jeter. He is the complete package: a leader, clutch player, and lots of success on baseball’s biggest stage, New York. Being the complete package is something every player dreams of.”
Yeah he's over-rated. Get serious. I guess he's no Scutaro.
Paul Molitor on Jeter: “To have the most hits for the most prestigious franchise in all of sports is pretty special. If Derek stays healthy, he has a good chance to rack up a lot more hits.”
Robin Yount on Jeter: “I love what I see of Derek Jeter. He is the complete package: a leader, clutch player, and lots of success on baseball’s biggest stage, New York. Being the complete package is something every player dreams of.”
Yeah he's over-rated. Get serious. I guess he's no Scutaro.
he's not overrated at, it's pullin leg. minka kelly, jessica beil, jessica alba, jordana brewster, and the goddess adriana lima. dudes got more tail than a giraffe
Getting the tickets he got for the the rest of the season, plus God knows what else from the Yankees/Jeter would have been more than enough for me
He has to be one of, if not the most clutch player I have ever seen. That's something that overall stats may not truly capture.
For example, "Mr. November", and then when he threw Giambi out at the plate on one of the most spectacular plays I have ever seen in my life in the playoffs where it was a ball that was thrown up the line in foul territory on the first base side, and he comes out of nowhere to redirect it to Posada to get the out. I guess I have to give him credit for the ball that Jeffrey Mair caught in 1996 that really should have been a ground rule double as well.
The fact is, he's won five World Championships, and the only other common denominators are Mariano Rivera, who is the greatest closer of all time, and Posada, a very solid MLB catcher in his prime.
Also, the Yankees haven't had very many captains. I think the guys that have been captains are people like Lou Gehrig, Thurman Munson, and I think Babe Ruth was for a short time, but he got into a fistfight with someone in the stands and lost his title. But that says a lot about his leadership abilities, which is something that a lot of baseball people overlook sometimes because it's not one of the five tools.
For example, "Mr. November", and then when he threw Giambi out at the plate on one of the most spectacular plays I have ever seen in my life in the playoffs where it was a ball that was thrown up the line in foul territory on the first base side, and he comes out of nowhere to redirect it to Posada to get the out. I guess I have to give him credit for the ball that Jeffrey Mair caught in 1996 that really should have been a ground rule double as well.
The fact is, he's won five World Championships, and the only other common denominators are Mariano Rivera, who is the greatest closer of all time, and Posada, a very solid MLB catcher in his prime.
Also, the Yankees haven't had very many captains. I think the guys that have been captains are people like Lou Gehrig, Thurman Munson, and I think Babe Ruth was for a short time, but he got into a fistfight with someone in the stands and lost his title. But that says a lot about his leadership abilities, which is something that a lot of baseball people overlook sometimes because it's not one of the five tools.
I haven't watched a complete MLB game since the strike, but I don't think Jeter is overrated. He has been about the only thing in baseball worth following. He is consistent and has shown longevity. He has never been involved in any scandals. He plays in the largest market in the world, and dates beautiful women. The NYC press would eat him alive if he had any missteps. He also handled the A-Rod to the Yankees situation as a true professional. I never really thought about the Captain thing much, was Thurman really the last one?
Jeter. Also, Ron Guidry, Graig Nettles, and Willie Randolph were captains after Thurmun Munson.
I looked it up, so if I said that he was the first one since Munson, I was wrong. (Ronny- archive this so when some moron claims that "You can't admit when I'm wrong" I have some evidence.)
Here's the list of Yankee captains:
Clark Griffith- 1903-1905
Kid Elberfield- 1906-1909
Hal Chase- 1910-1912
Frank Chance- 1913
Roger Peckinpaugh- 1914-1921
Babe Ruth- 1922- stripped after the incident I talked about.
Everett Scott- 1922-1925
Lou Gehrig- 1935-1939
Thurman Munson- 1976-1979
Graig Nettles- 1982-1984
Willie Randolph- 1986-1988
Ron Guidry- 1986-1988
Don Mattingly- 1991-1995
Derek Jeter- 2003- present
I looked it up, so if I said that he was the first one since Munson, I was wrong. (Ronny- archive this so when some moron claims that "You can't admit when I'm wrong" I have some evidence.)
Here's the list of Yankee captains:
Clark Griffith- 1903-1905
Kid Elberfield- 1906-1909
Hal Chase- 1910-1912
Frank Chance- 1913
Roger Peckinpaugh- 1914-1921
Babe Ruth- 1922- stripped after the incident I talked about.
Everett Scott- 1922-1925
Lou Gehrig- 1935-1939
Thurman Munson- 1976-1979
Graig Nettles- 1982-1984
Willie Randolph- 1986-1988
Ron Guidry- 1986-1988
Don Mattingly- 1991-1995
Derek Jeter- 2003- present
Looks like I was right....if you say it was valued at 50K he could be on the hook for 14K in taxes...OUCH
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/12/irs-could-foul-up-yankee-fans-good-deed/
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/12/irs-could-foul-up-yankee-fans-good-deed/