Good Evening, Captain: The 2014 New York Yankees

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

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/a1d3lndDKKHt4YdlvK2WCQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/sports/2015-03-20/27ae3ca0-cf24-11e4-8c4c-0977d6395f2e_Screen-Shot-2015-03-20-at-10-09-58-AM.png

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.