Good Evening, Captain: The 2014 New York Yankees

or, Captain America: Winter Soldier -- The 2014 New York Yankees

(i just spent like half an hour trying to make a jeter-as-roy-batty pic, but my photoshop skills can't do it justice.)

for the first time since 1998, the yankees are *not* the most expensive team in baseball. they are, however, the oldest, even minus a-rod.

how much slower will cc's fastball be this year? which of the players will break down first? does it even matter how the team does? what will be the best and worst gifts on jeter's farewell tour? what will john sterling's home run calls be for ellsbury/beltran/mccann?

http://i.imgur.com/74umd67.jpg

tomorrow: yanks to play second game of jeter's last season

today's date is april 1st, jeter's last season

what other selling point do they have? This team COULD lose 90 games.

http://cdn.bloguin.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2014/04/jeetindex-300x246.jpg

YEAH JEETS

Ben Lindbergh will be ranking Jeets' retirement gifts all year vs Mo's and Chipper's. First, Houston:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=23211

this season is going to be breathtaking. between the NYY NYJ & NYR idk which NY team is LEAST charismatic

Yangervis Solarte??

tanaka allows a homer to his first big league hitter: melky cabrera

Here's John Sterling singing Yangervis Solarte's name to 'That's Amore.'

i'm not sure who u think will click on that

me

Yanks beat O's in Jeter's final home opener

jeter trotted for a line drive that hit off the wall in left, very nearly got thrown out at second

this is what happens when we make puig a role model

https://vine.co/v/M5bXd5JquPe

:)

Robertson to DL

nice work today, Ivan Nova and Vidal Nuno

starting at first base -- having never played there in 529 professional games -- and batting seventh for the yankees today was

#29

francisco cervelli

#29

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk9GNWeCEAA08Kb.jpg:large

source?

the new yorker w/ accompanying cartoon

YANKEES PITCHER CESAR CABRAL WAS EJECTED IN THE BOTTOM OF THE EIGHTH INNING BY HOME PLATE UMPIRE JOE WEST FOR HITTING THREE BATTERS.

ivan nova's mri has confirmed original diagnosis of partial tear in right ucl; surgery has been recommended

glad i resisted picking him for HACKING MASS

@JackCurryYES
Farrell asks Umpires to check Pineda. Gerry Davis rubs Pineda's neck, looks at fingers and ejects Pineda from the game.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bl8cmrBIcAAOUiM.jpg

!

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bl8d-cNCYAEaD7n.png:large

hard to believe that capt jeter permitted such shenanigans on his watch

Girardi says Pineda used "poor judgment" with pine tar and "feels bad that he let his teammates down."

It's nights like this when I wish Field Marshal Steinbush was alive to comment

nbd -- like andy pettitte, he was just trying to help the team

Use yr fuckin hat bro

jeter is shocked, shocked i say

https://s2.yimg.com/nn/fp/rsz/042414/images/smush/cheat_635x250_1398301606.jpg

or asleep

really can't believe this guy thought he was gonna hide pine tar on his face, maybe the dumbest sports moment of the year

10-game suspension

Especially dumb considering they caught him on video last time with the stuff all over his hands.

get away with it once you think you're immortal makes perfect sense shame shame

Tommy John for Ivan Nova

hmm, seems like a fair trade

lol

who tf is john ryan murphy

guy is having a day

Matthew Kory:
"Robinson Cano returned to New York and fans chanted 'Sellout' at him which is weird because only 37,484* people were there."

*way less, hedge funders don't like rain

JOIN YANKEES BROADCASTER JOHN STERLING IN THE EDWARD JONES CHATTING CAGE . . . NOW:

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/33026172/v31501469/watch-join-chat/?partnerId=as_mlb_20140501_22847644

Monument Park officially a joke

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/5/8/5696224/tino-martinez-yankees-monument-park

That came out of nowhere.

Paul O'Neill getting a plaque is almost as dumb.

neither is getting his number retired, so it's not that big a deal. paul o'neill was a pretty good player tho

"Derek Jeter was given a surfboard by the Angels, but this wasn’t a going-away present so much as a way to help Jeter move to his left." - Matthew Kory

I'm kind of surprised more clubs don't build a team hall of fame. The Reds have had one forever and they built it into the new ball park as part of the gift shop for the stadium which has a banquet hall etc. that they use and have functions year around.

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!

i'm glad I missed most of his career.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByazWMICYAAPbmY.jpg

^ beat that, Mantle!

up with the bases loaded in possibly his last AB in yankee stadium

mantle ruth and dimaggio are all gonna come out prob

zzz h8rs

gonna be sad if he GIDPs tho

we'll take it!

will the Core Four escort Kuroda out of the building w/ video montage?

that was the worst possible outcome

how many times are talking heads gonna say "that's. what jeter. DOES." tonight

http://analytics.stats.com/derek-jeter-a-hall-of-fame-career-capped-by-a-disastrous-season

Disastrous? Not seeing Clutch Over Replacement in their calculations. Sounds like these egghead schlubs can't even get a job at NASA firing rockets at North Korea, as weak as their math is. #FarewellCaptain

jeter drama

lol

SUCK IT

Why are Jeter's parents hanging out with Pedro's midget?

RE2PECT, JJ Hardy

this was all scripted btw i've read it they're all about to jizz on his face

kaat: "there is not one fan who left this game tonight" looooool have u ever been to a yankee game

omg that was rbi 666 i knew it

wait nvm i have no idea what that stat was

raised his WAR from -0.2 to -0.1 I HATE JETER CAN YOU TELL I DO NOT WANT ANY OF YOU TO EVER BE HAPPY

jeter was my childhood hero. not just my favorite athlete, but literally my hero: i owned several of his jerseys, read all his biographies, watched the yankees religiously, went to games as often as possible, etc. my computer passwords are still jeter-related.

life has gotten in the way of baseball fandom over the past several years, but a couple of months ago i told my mom i wanted to go to tonight's yankee game. after checking schedules with the rest of my family, she gets tickets for a DIFFERENT game. no big deal, i'm sure the mlb.com stream was just as great as being there in person

(Of course that was incredible but) How many times will we see that replayed during the playoffs? 100?

lol k3v k

baseball is designed to break your heart

btw the NPR hourly news segment on this concluded "Jeter could play in the Bronx again if the team makes the playoffs." Your donations, well spent on research.

@BenLindbergh
Torre, Bernie, Rivera, Posada, Pettitte looking on and smiling like Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Yoda at the end of Return of the Jedi.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EbPQ_vw2Cps/hqdefault.jpg

ok i just read the game story and wtf man, seriously?

it is so perfectly horrible, it is derek jeter

"Broken bat, I got a run in, you know what I mean?" Jeter said. "But I've done that time and time again."

otoh, the Yankee fans can home and put their Giants shit on now

If the Orioles win the WS it will be because Jeter blessed them as a postseason proxy for Yankees fans to root for.

@darrenrovell
Derek Jeter wore two uniforms last night. One Jeter will keep. The other will presumably be sold.

W***e of the Yankees

nice to jeter to find a good groove at the right moment

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/11598946/joe-girardi-criticized-new-york-yankees-pregame-tirade-derek-jeter-yankee-stadium-finale

BOSTON -- It was supposed to be a festive occasion, in which Derek Jeter's New York Yankees teammates were to present their captain with gifts to express their respect and gratitude just moments before he would take the field for his final game at Yankee Stadium.

But before the gifts could be bestowed, manager Joe Girardi had a message he wished to deliver to his players.

It was not a fond farewell to Jeter, but a scathing critique of the Yankees' 2014 season, in which he expressed his disappointment with their failure to reach the playoffs for a second straight year, the first time that has happened in more than two decades.

According to clubhouse sources who were present for the critique, and backed up by interviews with more than a half-dozen players, most of whom spoke to ESPNNewYork.com off the record for fear of angering their manager, Girardi chided some players for being overweight and others for not being "hungry" enough.

mixed messages, joe

haha

@ToddRadom
The Yankees were born 112 yrs ago today—the media was bitching about their payroll four months later:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B66jS_hIIAAth0s.jpg

well thank God this wasn't over anything stupid

Yankees prospect right-hander Ty Hensley was brutally attacked over the holidays and suffered “multiple facial fractures, including to his jaw, as well as multiple other head injuries.” Charges have been filed against 24-year-old Anthony Morales, who played football at Weber State and tried out for the Carolina Panthers last year....

Witnesses told police they heard Hensley and Morales arguing about the amount of money athletes receive for signing with professional teams, the court papers said.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/08/yankees-prospect-ty-hensley-was-allegedly-attacked-following-an-argument-over-signing-bonuses/

Yankees will retire the uniform numbers of Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, and Andy Pettitte.

A regular player will be wearing an aleph on his back sometime in the next five years.

there is not a 2015 yankees thread yet and I really can't bring myself to make one

in any case, a pitching machine struck out chris young today http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/03/02/new-york-yankees-chris-young-strikeout-pitching-machine

one of you bastards better use this to make the '15 NYY thread title

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/12428167/derek-jeter-last-new-york-yankees-captain-brian-cashman-says

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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/derek-jeter-attends-sumo-match--does-not-get-recognized-164743658.html

Derek Jeter world tour is now underway.