Derek Jeter 3K
Maybe, someday, your favorite player on your favorite team will have a day like that and HBO will make a documentary like this about it….
Baseball
An Embarrassment of Riches
I’m a Yankee fan. I’ve been a Yankee fan my entire life. I’m used to the team being in the spotlight, for good or for bad. It’s New York. It’s The Yankees.Â
But this?
Even I think this is…
Baseball
A Partial List of People Who Decided Not to Show Up for Work Today Even as So Many Americans Wish They Had Jobs
Baseball
No All-Star Game for You, Sleepy Head
“Heroes rise to the occasion.”
— John Gruber, July 9, 2011
“… unless they are sleepy or have better things to do that day.”
— Derek Jeter, July 12, 2011
Source: Jeter criticized for skipping All-Star festivities
[Pictured: Dramatic…
Baseball
Achievement Unlocked
On January 24, 1981 I was sitting in the Nassau Coliseum - section 315 - watching history unfold. The New York Islanders were playing their 50th game of the season and right winger Mike Bossy had 48 goals coming…
Hockey
This Is What Derek Jeter Did Yesterday
This is what Derek Jeter did yesterday. He woke up with 2,998 hits, an aging superstar in decline. He started a game at Yankee Stadium on a beautiful afternoon, the stadium filled to capacity with fans expecting to see…
Baseball
The Unfair Classic
As Comrade Knauss points out, other than the U.S. Constitution there is no better American tradition than baseball on the Fourth of July. But simultaneous to that celebration of America’s summertime sport, there’s usually another tradition: people complaining about…
Baseball
‘We Think, If It Happens to Them, What the Hell Is Going to Happen to Us?’
Michael Sokolove, writing for the NYT Magazine, pretty much wrote what I wanted to write about the 37-year-old .250-hitting Derek Jeter: But the careers of elite athletes, enviable as they may be, are foreshortened versions of a human lifespan. Physical…
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