By: blackheld

blackheld — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:10:58 +0000

I’m a Tigers’ fan. Have been since I was old enough to understand the word ‘baseball’. That said, there are…and have been…a few players over the years who have transcended normal fan favoritism, and become the property of baseball, itself, belonging to all fans everywhere, without regard for the single team they actually played for..

Players like Willie Mays. Like Ernie Banks. Players who never ascribed to the theory that anything was more important than The Game.

Players, perhaps, like Derek Jeter.

I’ll miss Jeter, when he retires. I’ll miss the things he did so easily, that others couldn’t do at all. I’ll miss the feeling that as long as Jeter was there, like Mays and Banks and perhaps a half dozen others before him, that baseball was going to be okay.

I’ll miss that as much as anything, I think. But maybe not this year.

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:34:44 +0000

the odds of him picking up right where he left off defensively as a 39-year-old shortstop coming back from a broken ankle seem pretty long.

This is a joke right? If he walked back out there the next day with the broken ankle he’d have picked it up defensively, right where he left off…

Comments on: Joe Girardi says Derek Jeter’s status for Opening Day “is a little bit of a question”

By: blackheld

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged