Good Evening, Captain: The 2014 New York Yankees

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still not in the league top ten in Outs Made

(he is the active career leader, obviously)

right now Jeter is having the 19th-worst WAR season of all time

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=24657

He's only at -0.2 bWAR, although I have trouble believing that number. According to BR's league page, Yankees shortstops are by far the worst in the league.

actually, that 19th-worst season is in warp

ok, i couldn't define either

i was going to say earlier a lot of good/great players have shitty final seasons... but ya – he's doing pretty bad. you look at his monthly splits, and you can see him age as the seasons progresses!

this is my favorite recent example of attempted deification

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/mccarron-derek-jeter-yankees-faith-article-1.1937305

next year's t shirt

http://store.baldvinny.com/product/forg1v3

Girardi freaks out and gets ejected because the almighty Jeets got hit by a pitch? Is Jeter's skin more frail and delicate than that of the average major leaguer? How dare you Tampa Bay! Was there another unwritten rule in play here?

grab some bench

http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/White-Sox-Derek-Jeter-bench.jpg

i saw the rays gave him a kayak

that is hideous

xpost

"thanks for everything jeets, here is something for your baseball-themed sex dungeon"

the beatification continues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfgS1lvqX8I

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfgS1lvqX8I

*sobs*

first HR at home all year for the Captain.

overlaying the gatorade logo on jeter's 2, classy move

Joe Girardi can say he wasn't hired to put on a farewell tour all he wants. He was, and he betrayed both himself and the fans by doing so.

Even though you have said, "I wasn't hired to put on a farewell tour," why have your actions been consistent with a manager putting on a farewell tour?

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/9/19/6444411/derek-jeter-farewell-tour-joe-girardi-selling-out-hard

wonder if the sox'll lob him a meatball his last AB

they should plunk him on the wrist to reignite that rivalry, shit's getting stale over there.

this paean to journalism is a little rich coming from a site that 30 minutes later posted 'Derek Jeter Ass-Eating Gossip We Really Want To Be True' but it's not really wrong

http://deadspin.com/that-derek-jeter-ad-will-make-you-cry-for-america-1636810518/all

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'personality'

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"package"

"Grinder"

'funny'

i count at least 4 "clutch"s

a little rich coming from a site that 30 minutes later posted 'Derek Jeter Ass-Eating Gossip We Really Want To Be True'

were the ass-eating rumors sponsored or something?

http://deadspin.com/derek-jeter-ass-eating-gossip-we-really-want-to-be-true-1636889346

A better Deadspin post would be an analysis of what's in the gift basket. Has this not been done by an enterprising blogger? The sports memorabilia collector in me would consider a Jeter reacharound if it netted me one (near mint condition please). How has a Jesus toast style eBay basket not happened? Certainly one is needed for inclusion at his forthcoming Cooperstown wing.

I may have told this story on ILB before, in fact I'm pretty certain I have. There was a period '97-'02 where everyone in NYC had a Jeter story apocryphal or not from a friend of a friend. My favorite was from a friend in Michigan, Jeter was back in Ann Arbor at a restaurant around '05 and sidled up to two students at the bar. There was was some awkward flirting and the two of them didn't want to compete for him but he deaded that by cornily asking both of them to check out the roof bar views at his hotel (some crappy Marriott). They end up having a menage a trois in his room and leave around 4am. Jeter may be a nice guy but he certainly doesn't want dead co-eds scandalizing his reputation, he insists they take a car service and gives them money even if the U of M campus is essentially across the street. After their $5 cab ride back they have $60 in cash left from him, at that point they ask themselves, "Did we just get paid as sex workers?".

is nuthin sacred to u ppl

One of the takeaways in this NY Mag drooler is an alleged denial of The Gift Baskets, but if you read it carefully, it's a non-denial denial.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/derek-jeter-private-photos.html

He learned that often the best way to deflate a story is to ignore it. The Post once claimed that after sleeping with women, Jeter would leave a gift basket of signed memorabilia in the car taking the “conquest” home. He’s avoided commenting on the item for three years. But he’s still annoyed. “Like I’m giving them signed baseballs and pictures of myself on the way out! Who comes up with a story like that?” He laughs, incredulous. “It said the reason people found out was because I gave the same girl the same basket and I had forgotten I’d given her one—like there are so many people coming through I forgot!” Even if Jeter were cheesy enough to have handed out souvenirs, he’s far too careful to have made that kind of mistake.

nothing cheesy about jeter

the one thing i've always admired about jeter is he's so careful he's never once given two baskets to the same fuck

cept that one time

btw storms possible for nyc on thurs

The weather forecast for New York City on Thursday calls for thunderstorms. Is it possible even God is trying to delay the inevitable?

"Oh, I don't know about that," laughed Yankees manager Joe Girardi. "If he really wanted to intervene maybe he'd take away a few wins from the Royals."

Kidding aside, it seems as if nature herself may step in this week to allow Jeter's successful final season to continue on for another 24 or even 48 hours.

"I'm kind of hoping that happens," admitted first baseman Mark Teixeira. "It gives DJ a little more time for a curtain call, and as long as we're still in it any extra rest we can get now is a bonus."

That's right. The Yankees still have a shot at this. The Yankees are the Yankees, and while they're far back of several other teams, those teams don't have the same end-of-season experience as this squad.

"This is a team that never quits," outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury stated, a player who left a sinking ship of quitters just in time to board a vessel destined for a playoff push. "We're just following his example."

The "his" is Derek Jeter. The example is second-to-none.

Jeter quite naturally downplays his own role in the Yankees' unexpectedly overachieving season.

"I've had some good hits land this season, but it's really the other guys who have picked us up on the occasions I've scuffled this year. Tex, Ichiro, CC, all of them."

Time for some rain to give us more time with the fearless leader. And hey, maybe Mr. November will shine in October once more. Don't doubt him for a second.

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Still in it.

@jay_jaffe
i got goosebumps from witnessing this RT @BryanHoch: Eury Perez becomes the franchise-record 58th Yankee to appear in a game this season.

Jeetz DHing in what could be his last home game (monsoon due tomorrow)

@TylerKepner
So the last game Jeter ever plays in New York, tomorrow night, will be the only one in his career in which the Yankees were eliminated.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xafiSZO_r2g

BRINGS THE PAIN, damn.

weatherman was a bit of a drama queen; shitty out, but not enough for the Stanks to lose this gate.

https://twitter.com/Charmin/status/515261979938652163

michael kay: 'mickey mantle's last game at yankee stadium came on september 25th . . . and tonight is september 25th'

what a crazy coincidence!