Alex "A-Roid" Rodriguez has to be one of the dumbest athletes in modern sports. He's getting paid $33 million per year, as part of a 52-year contract, so he's set for life. Yet he resorts to using steroids. Why? He clearly has it all. He's already on pace to break Bonds' home-run "record." Besides that, he's known as the best offensive hitter in the game, when healthy. The staff and myself racked our brains over why the slugger feels he needed the extra edge. Having been stumped, we came up with 10 reasons why he doesn't need steroids, in hopes of convincing the vain ballplayer to lay off the juice.
Derek Jeter
30 April 2009
Posted by Chris Strickland | 2 comments
1 April 2009
backstop, however.
1-New York Yankees: 1B-Mark Teixeira, 2B-Robinson Cano, 3B-Alex Rodriguez, SS-Derek Jeter, and C-Jorge Posada.
Last, but certainly not least. It's tough to argue with A-Rod and Tex at the corners -- that's an intimidating tandem. Jeter remains Steady Eddy at short, and Posada is one of the greatest hitting catchers in the history of the game.
Posted by John Frascella | No comments yet
22 September 2008
I even found myself admitting that I don't hate Derek Jeter - it would be so much easier if I did - and allowing myself to agree that he's a fairly classy individual. (Don't worry, I still think he has a smug Yankee face and root against him any chance I get - I just don't think I can hate him).
Posted by Keith Testa | No comments yet
2 September 2008
've heard of (IE legit Major Leaguers) produced and not "purchased" by the Yankees - Derek Jeter, Andy Pettite (who did leave town for awhile, by the way), Robinson Cano.
Quick math: Which list is longer? Right. So which team appears to be buying all it's talent?
Posted by Keith Testa | 1 comment
11 August 2008
t now. If Nomar Garciaparra did not have so many injuries as he does, he could as well be the Derek Jeter for the Red Sox as of right now. Just imagine the salary space the Sox would have if they did not have to keep throwing money at the problem with Edgar Renteria, Orlando Cabrera (did a decent job as well) and the list goes on again. I
Posted by Andrew Moran | No comments yet
14 July 2008
atch?
The answer is that Manny Ramirez is not your father's baseball superstar. Manny isn't Derek Jeter. He isn't the responsible team captain who (thank (the) God(s)! ) leads by example or sets the tone for the entire club. It's hard to tell if he's dedicated to winning, or if he's a selfless player and a good teammate. And it's true, he isn't paying attention out there in left field, and no, he doesn't even have his glove on half the time when the pitch is delivered to home plate. He isn't Ken Griffey or Torii Hunter in the outfield, and he sure as hell isn't Ricky Henderson on the bases. Manny is moody, and until this year, was not the guy in the clubhouse who'd gladly talk to the media.
Posted by David Trageser | No comments yet
It’s the All-Star Break once again, that mythical halfway point in the season (I say “mythical” because most teams have played 95-96 games, more than the 81 that’s the true midway mark). Traditionally, it’s time for the teams to take a breath, collect themselves and iron out any kinks in their batting stroke or the pitching rotation—several starters made relief appearances or threw out of turn in the past game or two, knowing that three or four days of rest was coming for all of them.
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4 July 2008
aches and players—reportedly, manager Joe Girardi spoke, followed by Johnny Damon and captain Derek Jeter. In a postgame news conference, Girardi repeatedly (and sometimes heatedly) refused to reveal what was said in the meeting, although the gist of the discussion was obvious: the can’t-lose Yankees have been losing.
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28 May 2008
Sorry for the Blog Pause--went out of town to the wedding of a friend of mine, but now I'm back and back strong, to conclude my review of the unsung heroes of the 1961 Yankees infield. We're finishing with that all-important position of shortstop, Tony Kubek, who was an anchor for that 1961 team, both in the field and at the plate. He's also one of the great woulda-coulda-shoulda players, someone that many argue would have been one of the greatest Yankee shortstops ever, had his career not been cut short by injury.
Posted by Street Reporter | 1 comment
21 May 2008
Boggs' career, and shaped the future of a spindly shorstop who'd committed 54 errors in the minors: Derek Jeter.
So when you watch the Yankee captain pick one from deep in the hole and make a
Posted by Street Reporter | 1 comment
17 May 2008
The Yankees have had many World Series champs, and many more All-Star players and all-time lineups. The 1927 Yankees pretty much set the bar for everyone else to follow, but there were some other memorable ones, too. The '36 Yanks, the first year of Joltin' Joe, and the last great one from Lou Gehrig, along with typically solid contributions by Bill Dickey, Tony Lazzeri and the usual cast of star Yankees.
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15 April 2008
I was hoping to get this up yesterday with the Yankees-Red Sox series fresh in everyone’s mind but I didn’t have the time. After a few weeks of the baseball season and watching almost every Red Sox and Yankee game I have a few observations on these two teams so far. You may not agree with them all, this is just what I have noticed this season.
Continue reading "Early Season Observations of Yanks and Sox"
Posted by Jeff Dufour | 1 comment
17 March 2008
lian Tavares, who gets out of the first without further damage and then proceeds to 'plunk' Derek Jeter and give up a subsequent home run to Bobby Abreu in the second inning. 6-0, Yanks. Matsui drives another run in in the third and it's 7-0 before Boston responds. Chris Carter singles and then, Brandon Moss hits a long fly ball to left field. Damon's playing there and loses the ball in the sun. He's still looking for it when it drops just in front of the left field fence behind him and Moss ends up on second. Julio Lugo ground outs (nice play by Jeter), scoring Carter for the first Sox run.
Posted by Skip Maloney | No comments yet
5 February 2008
This placed him in a tie with Derek Jeter for 94th in MLB last year. Thinking of them as a single player, the Red Sox would rank 90th in MLB.
Figuring 30 teams with a 40-man roster equalling 1,200 players, being ranked 74th in batting average and 90th in RBI sounds pretty good. Easily qualifies them among the Top Ten 'players' when you look at the team as a single entity
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Posted by Skip Maloney | 1 comment
12 January 2008
I admire Derek Jeter, find Alex Rodriguez to be somewhat pathetic (trying to slap that ball out of Bronson Arroyo's hand in the 2004 playoffs told me everything I needed to know about him), and continue to believe that the one man I do not want to see at the plate at a critical juncture in any game is Jorge Posada.
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