Agree......dude has a great game......big hit for Yankees....too bad.......I would want the Astros to take him in a minute.....
I missed the story, but i saw a picture of a Yankee hat with bluejay droppings all over it. It amused me.
The second part of your post is so hillarious. I watch baseball, but I agree it is more of a skills exhibition than a sport, although, some of the guys are great athletes, A-Rod, Tejada, Jeter, but then you have guys like David Wells, who looks like he should be running out of a methlab on a Cops episode in a wife beater T shirt. And this guy can pitch only the 13th perfect game in major league history. Something about that just isn't right.
...................And if you havent heard by now, he (David Wells) was stone drunk when he pictched that perfect game...........damn, somebody pass the Courvoisier! I am on my way to MMP to make the 'Stros pitching rotation!!!!!!!!!!!!
After that cutoff play in Oakland and the time he went into the stands, I would say he is at least average defensively. Add to that that last years .297 average is the lowest since he was a rookie and I think the Yanks will hold on to him.
Well, he's going to be gone a while... http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/2003/0401/1532294.html MRI on Thursday will determine extent of injury TORONTO -- The New York Yankees are bracing for at least a month without shortstop Derek Jeter. Yankees manager Joe Torre said Tuesday that Jeter will go on the 15-day disabled list and be sidelined for at least the next four weeks. Jeter won't learn the extent of his injury until Thursday, when he will undergo an MRI after the team arrives in Florida for a weekend series against Tampa Bay. The Yankees hold spring training in Tampa and have extensive facilities there. Jeter was knocked out of the Yankees' season opener Monday night after a violent collision at third base with Toronto catcher Ken Huckaby in the third inning of New York's 8-4 victory Monday. He said afterward that he was hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. "It's going to be awhile," he said Monday. "This isn't getting hit by a pitch or spraining an ankle. Hopefully, there's nothing wrong. There's nothing broken." Dr. Steven Nicholas, the former New York Jets and New York Islanders orthopedic surgeon, told the New York Post on Monday that Jeter's injury likely will require months of rehabilitation. "One, you put it in a sling for a short period of time, let it heal and rehab it. That takes a couple of months," said Nicholas, the director of the Nicholas Sports Medicine division at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. "The other option is arthroscopic surgery, in which you sew the ligaments back to the shoulder. Usually you allow the athlete four months before returning to his activity." Nicholas told the Post that when a shoulder becomes dislocated, the ball is no longer on top of the socket when it slides out of the joint. "When athletes are involved in injuries you can push [the recovery time] but it's at least six to eight weeks with this," Nicholas said. Jeter was hurt after sliding headfirst into third base. He was down for more than 10 minutes, writhing in pain and surrounded by worried teammates. He was helped onto a cart by trainers Gene Monahan and Steve Donohue, strapped in place sitting upright and taken off the field -- his head bent, his face dripping with sweat. "It hurts. I can't really describe it," Jeter said. "When it happened I was scared. I didn't know what happened. The worst part is getting it back in." After the shoulder was popped back in place, Jeter was taken to a hospital for X-rays. "The good thing that happened is it was the left shoulder," Torre said. A five-time All-Star, Jeter has been the Yankees' leader during their run of four World Series titles and five AL pennants since 1996. "He's a big part of what we do, emotionally," Torre said. "The numbers he puts up are sort of icing on the cake. It's what he gives us, a presence." The Yankees will recall Erick Almonte from Triple-A Columbus on Tuesday. Torre told backup infielder Enrique Wilson that Almonte will get most of the playing time while Jeter is out. "It's going to be tough without him," said catcher Jorge Posada, Jeter's closest friend on the team. "Seeing him lay on the ground wasn't pretty. I wanted him to get up, and he wasn't getting up." Jeter was trying to advance an extra base on Jason Giambi's comebacker, an attempt to take advantage of Toronto's defense, which was shifted to the right side of the infield. Huckaby ran up the line to field first baseman Carlos Delgado's throw. Jeter dived headfirst into the bag, and Huckaby fell, his shin guard driving into Jeter's shoulder. "At the time, I was upset about it," Yankees infielder Todd Zeile said. "I thought it was a little bit overboard. It seemed like he stayed on him and drove him into the ground. After seeing it again, it looked a little bit more benign." Wilson called it a "dirty play." Huckaby called Jeter on his cell phone after the game to apologize. "I didn't mean for things to go down the way they went down," Huckaby said. "By no means was I trying to hurt anybody on that play. It was one of those freak things." Jeter immediately began writhing as Yankees' trainers, teammates and Torre gathered around. Dr. Erin Boynton and Dr. Ron Taylor of the Blue Jays also came out to help Jeter, while Huckaby watched anxiously from the dugout with a towel in his mouth. Jeter was called out on the play because he fell off the base when he was hurt. For many Yankees fans in New York it was one of the few games they could watch on TV since 2001 because of a cable dispute that was resolved just before game time. Their joy was short-lived. "I think it's probably the last thing you'd like to have happen in the first game of the year," Yankees third baseman Robin Ventura said. On Sunday, Torre talked about how much healthier Jeter looked this spring and that he seemed "free and easy" at the plate. "It's ironic. I felt really healthy coming into the season and then this happened," Jeter said. "It's disappointing." It was a difficult spring for Jeter. Owner George Steinbrenner publicly questioned his "focus" in the offseason and said he was worried that off-field activities detracted from on-field performance. Jeter, MVP of the 2000 All-Star Game and World Series, hit a career-low .297 last season with 18 homers and 75 RBI. His batting average has dropped three straight years, from .349 in 1999 to his first sub-.300 average last season. Jeter has said part of his problems could have been caused by a right shoulder injury that prevented him from doing upper-body work in 2001 and 2002. Jeter has been very durable in his career, playing through a variety of nagging ailments and has even tried to hide injuries from Torre so he could stay in the lineup. He has been on the disabled list only three times in his career, never for more than 16 days at a time.
I think you meant to say "conducive." Having the ability to conduct electricity, heat or sound doesn't seem like it would aide in accurate hammer sliding. Also, saying that you wish someone would slide into him with their cleats (as per above) makes it sound like you give a flying ****.
That guy......he's such....... a great guy......Mulder......... What a name........Its like...........the guy from the X..................Files......... Mulder........... and Skully............. I love that..........show
Yes, yes... we all know "good leaders" are automatically indespensible. Right. Bah. Give me on base percentage and actual defensive play in my SS's. That said, I'd take Jeter in a millisecond on the Astros. He's a very good SS, far better than anybody we have at the position. But he was only truly elite for one season. And since he's a Yankee, his reputation is inflated because of that one great season and all the championships. All athletes in high profile positions like Jeter are going to get overrated or underrated. Hard to see someone who gets that much attention objectively. I can scarcely imagine what we'd be saying about A-Rod if he'd went to the bronx.
DJ`s career stats .975 FPCT .389 OBP 317 BA 2000 World Series MVP A Rod`s career stats .976 FPCT 309 BA Very comparable stats......except that DJ was the MVP of the World Series in 2002
