I can. You throw a terrible meatball pitch to a below average baseball player and he's still going to hit it.
Jeter has been clutch in the past. This wasn't it. This was ESPN/Disney magic movie finish nonsense.
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I can. You throw a terrible meatball pitch to a below average baseball player and he's still going to hit it.
Jeter has been clutch in the past. This wasn't it. This was ESPN/Disney magic movie finish nonsense.
LOL Do you really believe that?
I wonder why these guys don't hit home runs on every pitch in the home run derby?
Derek Jeter could have gotten a meatball and hit a line drive right to the shortstop. Or the third baseman. You still have to hit it where they aint...
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Your first mistake is paying attention to ESPN....
Chipper Jones (and Cal Ripken before him) got quite a lot of national media love. Nowhere near the hype and undivided attention that Jeter received this season, though.
One could make a very strong case that Jeter was the best player on those classic Yankees teams. Either him or Bernie Williams IMO, but I'd give the edge to Jeter.
I would have to agree that Chipper was a better overplayed than Jeter. Much better hitter. He only won one ring, but it's a team game, after all.
One could make a very strong case that Jeter was the best player on those classic Yankees teams. Either him or Bernie Williams IMO, but I'd give the edge to Jeter.
I would have to agree that Chipper was a better overplayed than Jeter. Much better hitter. He only won one ring, but it's a team game, after all.
And I'm sure Meek intended to get the game winning run on base and DRob intended to blow the save just to give Jeter "his moment".
Lol
Although I understand intimately the season-long heiny-smooching is annoying to almost all non-NYY fans, at this point it's over. I feel like it doesn't hurt anyone to just let the NYY fans have their goodbye.
Regardless of where you think his skill level places him among the all-time greats, the fact remains that Jeter was one of the good ones, played the game right, and respected the fans. Last night was pretty cool for them and for baseball, even if you're a baseball cynic.
And his last season ending with the Yankees missing the playoffs is something all the rest of us can enjoy.
Regardless of where you think his skill level places him among the all-time greats, the fact remains that Jeter was one of the good ones, played the game right, and respected the fans. Last night was pretty cool for them and for baseball, even if you're a baseball cynic.
And his last season ending with the Yankees missing the playoffs is something all the rest of us can enjoy.
Tomorrow is going to be insane.
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/96499...ue-and-national-league-central-division-races
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/96499...ue-and-national-league-central-division-races
Giants have to face Volquez and that guy's movement on the ball is amazing. Though not a youngster, he's at his best in his career and our Madbum has to pitch the best game of his career and our hitters somehow have to produce which hasn't been their forte of late. Wild card is over there.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Giants-will-travel-to-Pittsburgh-for-5786690.php
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Giants-will-travel-to-Pittsburgh-for-5786690.php
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Yep. I have zero expectations for this game. I actually want the Pirates to go deep into the postseason if they beat us. MadBum can do the job, I just don't know that our hitters can solve Volquez.
If the Giants were to win their third title in 5 years, this would be by far their most improbable run. All the injuries and inconsistency since May turned to June.
He's one of those guys who have that unfortunate wind up that looks exactly the same and what may look like a super fastball like he's famous for could be a wicked curve or amazing changeup.
I can see how he confuses batters and not since the As/Giants Barry Zito have I see batters so far off the mark of a pitch. It almost looks like Volquez has a magic magnet on the ball as you see people swinging at balls that are extremely wide. He's at his career best 3.04 ERA at age 31 and he's just one who took a little longer to bloom. Actually before he got hurt, Tanaka or the NYY had batters swinging in the wind unable to read his pitches.
Due to some the Giants and their major hitting slumps several times this year, Volquez is the worst type of pitcher they could face.
I want to see Billy Beane sweat. Seems like the Red Sox might have ended up on the better side of the Lester trade.
Giants are my NL team and A's are my AL go to but now that you disposed of Oakland, I wish you the best. This has been a long time for you guys and this year could be the one. We went for many years without when the Giants won in 2010 and many years without even a single WS championship when the Angels won back in 2002. LA is always a threat and for the NL side this year, it's theirs to lose imho.
Heck might as well through Angels and Dodgers in that mix.... Blasphemy to say the least!
I guess some see it that way but around here it's no biggie and most A's fans I know like Giants and vice versa. What we don't like as Giants fans is the LA Dodgers. But I don't hate them though like some Giants fans.
I guess in NYC you have your one team and given their history I totally understand. When it comes to the Yankees, I have met so many root for the other team in a way it was like NYY versus everybody else and that has its own history.
Being that you guys have more rings than all our teams combined (ie- Giants plus A's plus Angels plus Dodgers and then some) it's the rest of the USA against NYY.
Anyway, here's a bay area baseball fan:
http://www.49ers.com/news/blog/arti...-Simpson/2bf2a444-5e26-4d88-bdc4-d9f6d8cab81f
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I don't so much mind the Angels even though we lost to them, but there's a real long term rivalry on both coasts with the Dodgers. In my lifetime I have usually seen the Dodgers as the better team but of late we have to two recent championships and LA only has the distant past.
I certainly didn't like our Brian Wilson (closer) going to the Dodgers. That being said they are a really dangerous team and are probably up there with Washington as the ones to be to win it all. But we got Dodgers legend Dusty Baker to rebuild Giants into a long term national league contender and it gave pride back to the team in a way that wasn't there since Willie Mays.
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You and me both! Would love to see the Pirates go all the way on the NL side and as long as it is not the Angels on the AL side, I don't care who makes it.