USA! USA! USA!
wtf is going on in this thread, fucking soccer and golf?
Yea, i was six when he retired.eznark said:
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NFL 2014 Week 4 |OT| Hell is Empty and All The Devils Are Here
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wtf is going on in this thread, fucking soccer and golf?
Ninja Scooter
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Is "starter quality" a nice way of saying replacement level? Cause that's a far cry from "great". Fact is Jeter was always horribly overrated. He was never in his life one of the 5 or 10 best players in the game, probably not even close, yet he is being treated like the second coming of Michael Jordan or Joe DiMaggio is retiring or something. It's all a little much. Chipper Jones was a better player and retired with much less fanfare a year ago. A lot of that might have been his own choice, yet isn't that what people blow Jeter about? About how humble and low key he is? Nothing about this entire retirement charade has been humble or low key, and if you think Jeter wasn't signing off on it every step of the way along with nike and Gatorade you are naive as hell.
Dutch Gronk
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USA! USA! USA!
Heck yeah, hoping for some crazy matches tomorrow. Of course I'll be routing for the Euros
So is it darts? It'd be cool if they played Dota to determine the winner of tie games!
Tactical "injury" to avoid Flynn.
If we were playing Strat-O-Matic I'd agree but we are talking about his performance as in comparison to the games he was in and in my opinion he had a great year.
Will we talk about that year in the same context as Trout's rookie year, Miggy's triple crown in the future? No but that shouldn't diminish how Jeter was able to come back and provide a solid role for the Yankees.
Zvonimir Boban
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I would like to dedicate the goals I scored on online clubs last night to my NFL-GAF FIFA bros Dutch, bread, ez and gata.
http://www.xboxclips.com/video.php?...ease&vid=5d935cfd-fd52-4ead-a853-26f503dc37d5
Speaking of Flynn. Matt Damon should play him in the inevitable Flynn biopic movie. They look uncannily similar.
Now sounds like a great chance to post something about hurling in the NFL OT.
Ninja Scooter
Member
You can't write the narrative and come to a conclusion first, and then look at the facts, because then you start to twist them to fit. You've already in your head decided that Jetet was great, despite all the evidence pointing out that he was decidedly average.
yankeehater
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If you havent heard it yet Kieth Olberman had a fantastic deconstruction of the myth of Jeter a few days ago. I highly recommend it.
RellyRell28
Banned
*Sigh*. Directv is fine but Directstartv is getting on my last nerves. I did the refer a friend through them cause they give you and the friend i'm referring a $100 visa gift card. Except we did it back in May and should of had it already. Since mid August I've been calling finding out what's the problem. First they said wait till Sept. 5th it didn't come, then they said wait a week still didn't come. I called again they said they are investigating why. Now I'm calling again cause my friend and I still don't have our cards and I've been on hold for almost 50 minutes.
They give you a $100 gift card now? Damn when I was doing it they just gave you $10 off your bill every month for 10 months.
I'm watching the Replay tomorrow.
RellyRell28
Banned
They give you a $100 gift card now? Damn when I was doing it they just gave you $10 off your bill every month for 10 months.
Directv does that. Directstartv does the gift card.
He's salty. Best Yankee ever. Better at short stop than Rivera at closer.
Grover Cleveland
Member
They combined football (soccer) and baseball?
Someone hide the Mad Dog from jak or he's going to fucking lose it
The Artful Dodger
Member
Best Yankee retirements were Mo and Paul O'Neil but the way that game ended last night was just magical and that's part of what baseball is all about. It's an odd mixture of emotion and calculation that is unmatched in other sports.
Was the marketing shameful during this tour absofuckinglutly for the people in the tri-state area who grew up watching this dude you understand what he meant to baseball in the area and to the Yankees. Every single ball player and kid in this area wanted to be Jeter and it wasn't because of sponsorships or even wealth. It was because of his on the field success particularly in the post season.
I saw a sports store have a shit ton of these in prep for the last month.
Don't worry ez they have something for you.
The Artful Dodger
Member
I knew a guy who sold his ticket to the Jeter game for 700 bucks. I shook his hand when he told me that.
Grover Cleveland
Member
If your top 4 Yankees aren't some order of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle, I'm not even fucking talking to you.
Jeter is at best in the next tier with the Riveras, Fords, and Berras of the world.
Jeter is at best in the next tier with the Riveras, Fords, and Berras of the world.
I still haven't found a way to lose that fucking garlic smell off my fingers, so I'm trying to limit exposure.
But maybe you have a trick for that!
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Fuck baseball
DeaconKnowledge
Member
I wanted to be Jeter because his pimp game is unmatched. Never got tied down to one woman, spent his playing days smashing 10s, settles down when he's washed up. He should be in the hall of fame for that alone.
RellyRell28
Banned
Future PhaZe
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if we're in a position to draft Winston
the media will tear this town apart
the media will tear this town apart
Grover Cleveland
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The Artful Dodger
Member
Hahha, Jeter is a Hall-Of-Famer Pimp for sure. I read an article that said he gives away autographed shit to the ladies he bangs.
Look at that home plate collision.
Ahh the good old days before Buster Posey got paid.
No soap and water at your place?
I fuckin hate using a garlic press, cleaning that shit is like Gata nipping at your ankles, annoying as fuck.
I just smash the shit outta the garlic with my knife then give it a rough chop or two, comes out just fine by me.
Grover Cleveland
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Fun fact (as we segue back into regularly scheduled NFL talk), Bo and Deion combined for 4 round trips and 9 RBIs in that game.
That dive could also have been the beginning of the end for Bo's hip
The need to deconstruct the Jeter myth is for idiots and idiots alone. No one but the unintelligent, illiterate and hysterically narcissistic media personalities/stupid fucking monkeys should give a shit or pay attention to this modern day obsession of extremism and attempt to describe players as only either GOATs or overrated shits.
Whether you hate the Yankees or not, any media personality who spends any of their time talking about Jeter in any other sense other than he's a great player that, above all, always played with class (sports could use this reminder right now you fools) not only has no business being a sports media personality, but is also a moron that cares more about being a contrarian and daydream wanking to others' disagreeing with their self-ascribed 'superior/enlightened' opinion and thus isn't worthy of the digital bytes that house their bullshit ruminations about being retarded.
Fuck you Olberman.
Whether you hate the Yankees or not, any media personality who spends any of their time talking about Jeter in any other sense other than he's a great player that, above all, always played with class (sports could use this reminder right now you fools) not only has no business being a sports media personality, but is also a moron that cares more about being a contrarian and daydream wanking to others' disagreeing with their self-ascribed 'superior/enlightened' opinion and thus isn't worthy of the digital bytes that house their bullshit ruminations about being retarded.
Fuck you Olberman.
No Homer Bush? I can't even fucking talk to you.
Ripping the obsession with polarization by going the "if you don't agree with me you are obviously a fucking idiot" route is super meta, bro.
Jeter was a great player. He wasn't Ted Williams or Hank Aaron.
