oh cap'n my cap'n
7.24.2004
"Never have those old 'No-mah's bet-tuh' chants seemed more ridiculous, more preposterous, more utterly, embarrassingly idiotic than about an hour and 15 minutes before last night's first pitch at Fenway Park.
That's when Derek Jeter argued his way into Joe Torre's lineup with a broken hand!
That's when Jeter finished drilling about 17 straight balls over the Green Monster with a broken hand!
That's when Jeter, who had made long practice throws from deep in the shortstop hole with a broken hand, satisfied his manager that he could tolerate the pain in his broken hand enough to play a game that couldn't mean much less to the Yankees in the standings but couldn't mean more in the cosmic sense to the Red Sox, and one of their players in particular.
Jeter couldn't have figuratively slapped Nomar Garciaparra, and the entirety of Red Sox Nation, across the face any harder at that precise moment if he actually did so with enough force to break his other hand.
...When Jeter's Hall of Fame plaque is engraved, the first line should read, 'Played in more World Series than he could count on his broken hand!'"
- newark star ledger
that kieth foulke pitch jeets crushed barely foul landed on the moon, just now.
of course, not getting a home run there, that was just my old stripper friends mystique and aura's sage crafty way of setting up a-rod's Yankee Moment. my girls go on the road, too:
"Around the Yankees clubhouse, the moment was duly noted. Nobody ever questioned Rodriguez' numbers which, despite a .278 batting average, were right up where they were expected to be. He'd already hit 24 home runs, already driven in 61 runs, already turned himself into one of the best defensive third basemen in all of baseball.
He just hadn't had his Moment yet. He hadn't dived into the stands the way Derek Jeter had earlier this month. He hadn't hit the ball into the upper deck off Pedro Martinez, as Posada had done, or won a 10-pitch war with Mike Timlin to hit a game-winning double, the way Gary Sheffield had. Hell, even John Flaherty, who plays once a week, had beaten Boston with a game-winning ground-rule double. Those were Moments sure to be etched forever in the Yankees' spiritual scrapbooks, because they'd helped win games, and they'd come against the Red Sox."
- ny post
of course.
