I sense.. rest.. rest is what I sense.
Posted on 09/29/2014 10:15:39 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
For most of the last twenty years the rest of the Baseball world watched Derek Jeter and his team play in October. Yes time and the odds finally caught to the Yankees over the past few seasons and on a few occasions the tables have turned, but that was inevitable.
Now Jeter is stepping away from baseball as one of the all-time greats of the game. He doesn’t sit on a tiny plateau at the top of baseball lore by default for being around a long time and being one of those who have besmirched and embarrassed baseball. He’s at the top because he earned it. His steadfast high character has served as a counter balance to those who have cheated and blackened the sport’s reputation. He wasn’t quite Babe Ruth saving baseball after the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal; but Jeter was one of the most consistent “good guys” for Major League Baseball (MLB) to point to in the wake of the recent “juicing scandal.”
MLB owes Jeter a deep debt of gratitude. Along with his team, he made going to the ballpark to see your team play the Yankees – even when you knew they would lose – worth spending your hard earned money. All over MLB’s map fans and owners love to see the Yankees come to town; and there is strong evidence that inter-league play was designed to spread the Yankees and Jeter around.
By all outward indications, Derek Jeter is an intelligent man who could have succeeded in most any career he decided to enter. Nevertheless, he has spent the last two decades selling his baseball skills to a grateful Yankee organization. Now that phase of his life is...
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I sense.. rest.. rest is what I sense.
The man could play baseball and carried himself with dignity and composure on the field.
Girardi was pimpin’ A-Roid on MLBN this afternoon. Already the “rehabilitation” begins. Next year is going to be fun.
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