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Originally posted by efin98
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Aw, it's nice to know you cared :o
I'm proud of it, the guy reminds me of John Arbuckle, owner of Garfield
I'm proud of it, the guy reminds me of John Arbuckle, owner of Garfield
Wow, someone from the New York area making sense...who are you and what have you done with Mattingley! 
Ignoring that he's been dropping in stats the last two years and on the back side of his career(HOF in either 2018/2019/2020). He's on the decline, but from some decent hights a steady decline doesn't look all that bad but it's decline.
And I have never found him to be as good as he is made out to be even before the rivalry exploded in 1999, I had a dislike for him dating back to 1997 and 1998 when it was him, Nomar, and A-Rod as the big three in the AL for shortstops. I just don't get the love affair with him.
And I have never found him to be as good as he is made out to be even before the rivalry exploded in 1999, I had a dislike for him dating back to 1997 and 1998 when it was him, Nomar, and A-Rod as the big three in the AL for shortstops. I just don't get the love affair with him.
He's still a good hitter. I don't know if he'd be a star hitter, but he's gotten key singles and doubles many times. I know that having great stats mean you create those runs, but if your team is losing, you want timely hitting, not just when your team is up by a wide margin.
1999 was his best year. Some said that the 10-year deal got to him, and he didn't seem as hungry. He hit like nobody's business, and like some other players, didn't seem to play as hard. He still busts it out of the box, and your own Mike Lowell said he'd never had a bad thing to say about him. Jeter still plays a good fundamental ballgame. I just wish he'd ground out and GIDP a few times less often.
I have no idea what the Yanks will do with him after 2010 when he's a free agent. Kind of like a situation where you don't know what to do with someone if they're not producing. You can't fire him, you can't just ask him to go away. A PR nightmare, like when my namesake retired, and when the Yanks offered a Minor League contract to Bernie. Some people are just so closely linked with the Yanks, you have to keep them within the organization, even if not as a player. I think that he'll do fine later on.
As far as the love affair, it's not that he's such a great player. He's just played a sound ballgame, and he doesn't get picked off, he hustles out of the box, he hits to RF at Yankee Stadium, despite being a righty, he's had his share of highlight reels. Perhaps not the best defensively, but he makes the most of what he has. Then there's his easy smile.
He's never had any paternity cases against him, no ugly celebrity breakups, no woman has ever accused him of beating her up, no DWI or narcotics arrests, no weapons charges, he hasn't assaulted anyone in a bar, he hasn't been known to travel with a large set of friends who make their presence conspicuously known, he hasn't had his four bodyguards beat up any photographers for daring to take his picture (or even leaning on his very fancy SUV). Not that he has such large groups of friends or vehicles, but he hasn't been the typical "nouveau celebrity" who seem to want to attract more attention than anything else by badgering those who'd dare to seek their attention (or heaven forbid, an autograph).
He's far from perfect, but considering how many other star athletes have gotten themselves in major trouble, you'd have wondered how they even became celebrities in the first place. Jeter handles himself quite well, which is a breath of fresh air, considering how unsafe a gamble that some athletes are for marketers, with their penchant for getting into trouble with the law.
At least it wasn't at home, you guys have had enough bashing about that place as is!
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