21 Dec '10 03:26>
Originally posted by scacchipazzoWake up!! You surely cannot mean that?
Once MLB teams and other sports decide to treat the business as a business they will no longer be held hostage by players way past their prime. Precedence among other teams should not dictate Yankee policy. Look at how an idiot like Haynesworth at Redskins is treating his team(although admittedly Shanhan is partially to blame).
Who said Jeter wsa a p ...[text shortened]... longer producing is not allowed near the OR. Why should ball players be treated differently?
My statement about Jeter did not pitch was a subtle rebuff to your statement that he cost the Yankees in the playoffs. Factually, the pitchers did not hold the opposition in check.
Haynesworth was a dirtbag BEFORE the Redskins signed him. They went into it with open eyes and got screwed. Tell me how that has anything to do with Jeter who has never held a gun to the head of the Yankees. He simply asked to be treated fairly. The reason they paid him?....because they deemed he was worth it. Don't you know Boston would have been camped on Jeter's doorstep to sign him, if Cashman hadn't come to his senses? Hell yes they would have. Remember the curse of the Bambino??? The Red Sox would love to avenge that debacle.
Of course Bagwell and Biggio were great in their day. BUT, they got paid handsomely while their skills were declining. Why? Not for the numbers the could produce, but for the presence they had with the club and in the clubhouse.
Tell me where that is any different with Jeter. It is the same thing.
If you have a hard on for Jeter, just say you don't like the guy. But don't sit there and blast the guy's entire history based upon your ill-conceived notion that he is a washed up has been. That is beneath you.