All living Red Sox captains were there, as were Bobby Orr, Paul Pierce and Troy Brown. The highlight was Pete Frates, who inspired the whole ALS ice bucket challenge. Whole Sox team came out to shake his hand. Nothing exciting in terms of gifts, but the whole scene was great.
I've been a fan since 1972 and his phenomenal 1978 was the only one I could think of. That makes it even MORE impressive.
And thank you, Derek Jeter, for making us appreciate how great sports can be when you are humble, unselfish and put the team before yourself. You will be sorely missed......
Meh, Jeter could feign humility and that was good enough. Whether he was sincere or not, he said pretty much all the right things for two decades. People can bitch about his response to A-Rod, and for his not asking to be dropped in the lineup, but he has been in the spotlight since Donnie retired and has managed to not embarrass the team. In NYC that is a feat virtually unequalled.
surrounded by HOFers. in SP, on the staff, in the instructional leagues. He was surrounded by winners, he had as perfect a HC as one could have asked for in Torre and that iteration of the Yankees operated as smooth as I ever recall a Yankees team in my life.
He was a once in a lifetime player and given the new structure of the league's finances, I'm not sure we will ever see a guy of his and Mariano's caliber play for one team as long as they did again.
though Hanley's effort will always be a question (and at this point his defense isn't much of an improvement over Jeter) and pitching isn't really our problem if our rotation is reasonably healthy. But JJ Hardy sure as hell isn't, Lester has none attached and Shields is too old.
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the retirement tour was a thing. Funny how I hit the Jeter gap like that. Here's my tidbits from the game.
* FIVE backup catchers in the combined starting lineups. That has to be some sort of record.
* De-Rek Je-Ter chants sprung up every inning. They'd put him on the tv. Eventually, folks got restless and started to boo Yankees coming to bat that weren't Jeter.
* Rusney Castillo looked pretty good, which was annoying.
* Eury Perez had a nice game. Nice diving catch. Single, SB and reached on a dropped third strike. Looked pretty good. Looked like a pretty credible 4th OFer at a minimum.
* Yankee dugout was giving Cervelli a ton of crap when he couldn't catch any foul popups, which was fun.
* Got to meet Luis Tiant, who was chilling on Yawkey way signing crap.
* Quietest Yankees-Red Sox game I've every been to. No excitement in the stands.
* They played "New York, New York" on the organ after the Yanks won.
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the retirement tour was a thing. Funny how I hit the Jeter gap like that. Here's my tidbits from the game.
* FIVE backup catchers in the combined starting lineups. That has to be some sort of record.
* De-Rek Je-Ter chants sprung up every inning. They'd put him on the tv. Eventually, folks got restless and started to boo Yankees coming to bat that weren't Jeter.
* Rusney Castillo looked pretty good, which was annoying.
* Eury Perez had a nice game. Nice diving catch. Single, SB and reached on a dropped third strike. Looked pretty good. Looked like a pretty credible 4th OFer at a minimum.
* Yankee dugout was giving Cervelli a ton of crap when he couldn't catch any foul popups, which was fun.
* Got to meet Luis Tiant, who was chilling on Yawkey way signing crap.
* Quietest Yankees-Red Sox game I've every been to. No excitement in the stands.
* They played "New York, New York" on the organ after the Yanks won.
It's almost sad, I feel like I see Luis Tiant every time I'm there. I don't know if he is in some official capacity with the Red Sox or just doesn't have anything else to do on game days. The first couple times was cool, because I recognized him, the last couple were like "oh crap, here comes Tiant, lets go that way". and in all likelihood he would have walked right by us and not remembered us, but no one wants to run the risk of getting caught in that conversation about the 80's again.
I've seen Bill Lee a bunch of times too - mostly at the bar at the RF roof deck, which is a great way to view the game, but he wasn't viewing anything, just boozing it up, and no one was anywhere near him.
but I heard it was extremely well done. I'm gonna miss Jeter, best Yankee I've ever seen and one of my favorite athletes ever.
This team is in a bad place right now. Hopefully their old guys play better next year, but that isn't usually the case with old guys. The pitching should keep us relatively competitive if they can stay healthy but our hitting is such a mess.
Bye Jeter. =(
Why bring Philly into this?
In place of greatest humiliation (Fenway/pinetar), Pineda: 6.1IP/1 R/0 BBs/10K Finished 1.89 ERA, 8th best #Yankees history at least 13 GS
He came out in the third after hitting an rbi single.
The only modern era one is and Guidry in 78.
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And thank you, Derek Jeter, for making us appreciate how great sports can be when you are humble, unselfish and put the team before yourself. You will be sorely missed......
Make him the captain, move him to short.
Meh, Jeter could feign humility and that was good enough. Whether he was sincere or not, he said pretty much all the right things for two decades. People can bitch about his response to A-Rod, and for his not asking to be dropped in the lineup, but he has been in the spotlight since Donnie retired and has managed to not embarrass the team. In NYC that is a feat virtually unequalled.
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He was a once in a lifetime player and given the new structure of the league's finances, I'm not sure we will ever see a guy of his and Mariano's caliber play for one team as long as they did again.
* FIVE backup catchers in the combined starting lineups. That has to be some sort of record.
* De-Rek Je-Ter chants sprung up every inning. They'd put him on the tv. Eventually, folks got restless and started to boo Yankees coming to bat that weren't Jeter.
* Rusney Castillo looked pretty good, which was annoying.
* Eury Perez had a nice game. Nice diving catch. Single, SB and reached on a dropped third strike. Looked pretty good. Looked like a pretty credible 4th OFer at a minimum.
* Yankee dugout was giving Cervelli a ton of crap when he couldn't catch any foul popups, which was fun.
* Got to meet Luis Tiant, who was chilling on Yawkey way signing crap.
* Quietest Yankees-Red Sox game I've every been to. No excitement in the stands.
* They played "New York, New York" on the organ after the Yanks won.
* FIVE backup catchers in the combined starting lineups. That has to be some sort of record.
* De-Rek Je-Ter chants sprung up every inning. They'd put him on the tv. Eventually, folks got restless and started to boo Yankees coming to bat that weren't Jeter.
* Rusney Castillo looked pretty good, which was annoying.
* Eury Perez had a nice game. Nice diving catch. Single, SB and reached on a dropped third strike. Looked pretty good. Looked like a pretty credible 4th OFer at a minimum.
* Yankee dugout was giving Cervelli a ton of crap when he couldn't catch any foul popups, which was fun.
* Got to meet Luis Tiant, who was chilling on Yawkey way signing crap.
* Quietest Yankees-Red Sox game I've every been to. No excitement in the stands.
* They played "New York, New York" on the organ after the Yanks won.
It's almost sad, I feel like I see Luis Tiant every time I'm there. I don't know if he is in some official capacity with the Red Sox or just doesn't have anything else to do on game days. The first couple times was cool, because I recognized him, the last couple were like "oh crap, here comes Tiant, lets go that way". and in all likelihood he would have walked right by us and not remembered us, but no one wants to run the risk of getting caught in that conversation about the 80's again.
I've seen Bill Lee a bunch of times too - mostly at the bar at the RF roof deck, which is a great way to view the game, but he wasn't viewing anything, just boozing it up, and no one was anywhere near him.
This team is in a bad place right now. Hopefully their old guys play better next year, but that isn't usually the case with old guys. The pitching should keep us relatively competitive if they can stay healthy but our hitting is such a mess.
Jeter is one of the greatest ambassadors of professional sports. Especially in a era where drugs and thugs are so common.