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MLB 2014: I paid the $20 mil posting fee for the right to start this thread

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People are still watching baseball at this time of year? When there is a perfectly good NFL game on at the same time?
 
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I don't know if I'd call Giants-Redskins "perfectly good" this season.
 
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Hammer said:
I don't know if I'd call Giants-the Washington NFL franchise "perfectly good" this season.
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The way the Skins are playing, they'll ask for a name change.

And Hammer, Mariners fans think the Sox are as useless as Beltre was when he was at Safeco.
 
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With that walkoff homer, Adrian Beltre finally did something right for the Seattle Mariners. It took over a decade,but he did it. :D
 
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Karma will be biting the Orioles in the butt for that.
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It was their paying it forward for the Ripken all-star homerun.

After all, it is show business.

Probably happens a lot more than we think.
 
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Ted Williams hit a HR in his final at-bat. Take that Jeter!
 
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Was fortunate enough to be in Yankee Stadium for the game. Absolutely electric atmosphere, felt like a World Series game.

As soon as Baltimore tied things up in the 9th, I said to those around me that Pirela would single, Gardner would sac bunt, and Jeter would walk off. The Baseball God(s) would make it so. Nobody would have predicted that ending going into the game, though. Absolutely a storybook ending, something I hope I'll be able to tell my future children and grandchildren about.
 
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It looks like all of mlb.tv games are free to watch today (possibly all weekend).
 
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Was fortunate enough to be in Yankee Stadium for the game. Absolutely electric atmosphere, felt like a World Series game.

As soon as Baltimore tied things up in the 9th, I said to those around me that Pirela would single, Gardner would sac bunt, and Jeter would walk off. The Baseball God(s) would make it so. Nobody would have predicted that ending going into the game, though. Absolutely a storybook ending, something I hope I'll be able to tell my future children and grandchildren about.
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Did you buy a lottery ticket on the way home? :D
 
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Did you buy a lottery ticket on the way home? :D
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Nope, going to wait until I get back to Florida to do that. Something about extra taxe$$$$$$ ;)

Still shaking my head in amazement of how perfect last night was.

My buddy and I were talking on the drive back north from the Bronx: Will baseball have, or does baseball currently have, a player who could become somebody similar to what Jeter has been to the Yankees. Face of the franchise for entire career, respected by entire league for how he handled himself on and off the field, etc? Only player I could currently come up with is maybe Mike Trout, but I thought it was definitely an interesting question.
 
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Nope, going to wait until I get back to Florida to do that. Something about extra taxe$$$$$$ ;)

Still shaking my head in amazement of how perfect last night was.

My buddy and I were talking on the drive back north from the Bronx: Will baseball have, or does baseball currently have, a player who could become somebody similar to what Jeter has been to the Yankees. Face of the franchise for entire career, respected by entire league for how he handled himself on and off the field, etc? Only player I could currently come up with is maybe Mike Trout, but I thought it was definitely an interesting question.
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There are players who could be that by the end. But aren't yet.

A guy like McCutchen if he stays in Pittsburgh. Trout as you mentioned is another. Mauer if he had 5-6 healthy productive years might get close to that.

Eta: Longoria in Tampa? Wright in NY?
 
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My buddy and I were talking on the drive back north from the Bronx: Will baseball have, or does baseball currently have, a player who could become somebody similar to what Jeter has been to the Yankees. Face of the franchise for entire career, respected by entire league for how he handled himself on and off the field, etc? Only player I could currently come up with is maybe Mike Trout, but I thought it was definitely an interesting question.
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Baseball won't have another player like Jeter for any team BUT the Yankees (or possibly the Red Sox) because those are the only two teams that MLB pushes. Throughout Jeter's career there were always players better than him, as hitters and certainly as fielders, but they toiled for one of the 28 teams not playing their games in NY or Boston. Couple that that the fact the Jeter was an easy guy to root for (played the game right, great hitter, by all accounts a good guy) and there was no way anyone was going to be what Jeter was, playing in New York, especially given what he accomplished from a team standpoint in his first handful of seasons. Andrew McCutchen and Mike Trout are great players, and if they continue on the pace they've set for themselves in their first few years hall of famers as well. But no way does someone playing in Pittsburgh or Anaheim get the kind of coverage that the powers that be at Major League Baseball give to someone playing for the Yanks. Unless the Yankees or the Sox have someone in their pipeline like a Derek Jeter, no one will be what Jeter has been made out to be.
 
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WeAreNDHockey said:
Baseball won't have another player like Jeter for any team BUT the Yankees (or possibly the Red Sox) because those are the only two teams that MLB pushes. Throughout Jeter's career there were always players better than him, as hitters and certainly as fielders, but they toiled for one of the 28 teams not playing their games in NY or Boston. Couple that that the fact the Jeter was an easy guy to root for (played the game right, great hitter, by all accounts a good guy) and there was no way anyone was going to be what Jeter was, playing in New York, especially given what he accomplished from a team standpoint in his first handful of seasons. Andrew McCutchen and Mike Trout are great players, and if they continue on the pace they've set for themselves in their first few years hall of famers as well. But no way does someone playing in Pittsburgh or Anaheim get the kind of coverage that the powers that be at Major League Baseball give to someone playing for the Yanks. Unless the Yankees or the Sox have someone in their pipeline like a Derek Jeter, no one will be what Jeter has been made out to be.
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In a perfect world, ESPN and Fox would not televise the Yankees vs Red Sox for a season. The world would not come to an end.
 
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Lost all respect for Jeter after he acted like he was hit by a pitch, when it wasn't even close, and cheated his way to first base. The game would be better without players like that.
 
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