Derek Jeter

[PhillyGirl]

I am a big baseball fan, and I am definitely not a Yankees fan, but it's hard not to be a Jeter fan.

Tonight is his final home game at Yankee Stadium.

I get goose bumps just thinking about it. It's probably gonna be one of those special moments in baseball you will never forget, I imagine, like when I watched Cal Ripken reach 2,131 consecutive games (I was 5 years old and I remember it clear as day).

Jeter isn't breaking an "unbreakable" record, but he was a class act, he played the game right, he won several rings, he's one of the all-time great Yankees, and nobody represented the face of the Yankees more these last decades than him.

So, kudos, Jeter. I will never forgive you for 2009, but kudos all the same!

 

[Bamabww]

The Yankees and Bama have so much in common. They both have more championships than anyone else and they are both hated by everyone else, just to name a couple.

But I digress, and agree 100% with your remarks about Jeter. Well except the 2009 one!

 

[alabama mike]

Meter is a fine baseball player who has played with class his entire career. A person does not have to like a particular team, in this case the Yankees, but we can all respect Jeter as a player.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Literally the perfect ending to his career at Yankee Stadium. That was like a freakin movie. WOW.

Tears.

 

[Bamabww]

Yeah, @PhillyGirl just a perfect way to end his career in Yankee Stadium. He's one of the good guys.

 

[planomateo]

They might have made the playoffs this year had Jeter not played. There have been other players who've done as much if not more for their teams that didn't get the same treatment.

I'm not a fan of the Yankees.

 

[ElephantStomp]

I HATE the Yankees (being a HUGE Red Sox fan), but I've always liked Jeter. He's always played with class and in a day and age of PEDs his name never came close to being involved.