You might have tuned into NBC Sports last night and thought, “Damn, this is a long Derek Jeter commercial.”
And you wouldn’t have been entirely wrong. Reality twisted into fiction at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night, with real life taking on the facile shimmer of an advertising fairy tale.
Viewers watched as Derek Jeter—the Captain—saved the day with a walk-off single in his last plate appearance in the Bronx. Fans cried, his nephew tipped a “RE2PECT” cap, and somewhere, a Nike exec shed a single tear into a wheelbarrow of $100 bills.
The ...
Ah, yes. The old switcheroo.
The bait-and-switch is a mainstay of old ballpark cons, but one young ball boy wet his feet in the art at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night.
The incident occurred in the bottom of the fifth when Derek Jeter, playing in the final home game of his career, pulled a foul ball down the left field line. Acting quickly, the ball boy scooped up the ricocheting article and turned to face a wall of frantic humanity.
Hundreds of people in his immediate vicinity cried for a souvenir, and he gave ...
Missing the playoffs for the second straight year after not doing so in just over 20 years can often lead to some major consequences.
Hopefully, the New York Yankees realize it's time to shake it up a bit.
Now is the perfect time to look to the future. Derek Jeter has but a weekend of baseball left. Arguably the biggest icon left in baseball, Jeter won't be back in 2015. The Yankees will no longer have a face of the franchise.
Just look around the field. Brian McCann may turn into the team's ...
The 2014 season has been a year of highs and lows for the New York Yankees, and despite losing several arms to injuries, the pitching staff has broken the previous franchise record of 1,318 strikeouts, according to a tweet from MLB Stat of the Day.
Though he missed more than two months of action because of a partially torn UCL in his right elbow, Masahiro Tanaka has been the main producer of strikeouts, leading the team with 139 entering Thursday's game against the Baltimore Orioles. Hiroki Kuroda, who is scheduled to pitch ...
Wednesday's 9-5 loss to the AL East champion Baltimore Orioles eliminated the New York Yankees from the postseason, bringing an end to any chance that Derek Jeter's Hall of Fame career would be extended into October. Thursday's 6-5 win—and dramatic walk-off single from the man himself—brought yet another inevitability: the final home game at Yankee Stadium for Jeter.And so the shortstop's final year has turned into the final months, the final weeks and now the final days, even hours. But before The Captain says goodbye to his playing days for ...
After a rather mediocre season, the New York Yankees are sure to have a few prized free agents on their shopping list this winter. There is no doubt that Jon Lester is one of those guys.
A former Red Sox, Lester could be the latest player to break the hearts of Boston fans should he bolt for The Evil Empire. Of course, Lester is currently a member of the playoff-bound Oakland Athletics, so he still has some baseball left to play in 2014. Oakland acquired him and Jonny Gomes at the ...
NEW YORK — They arrive on foot, passing the sidewalk hot dog carts, the delis and the souvenir shops, crossing underneath the train tracks, finally covering the last yards of this, their most holy of pilgrimages.
They arrive via planes, autos, limos and yes, especially, trains, the 4 train, the D train, scores of them clad in their navy caps and navy jackets with the international, interlocking "NY" logo originally designed by Tiffany & Co. in the late 1800s as part of a Medal of Valor for a fallen New York City ...
After 20 years in the league, Derek Jeter appears to be loosening up.
The New York Yankees captain is walking among the people, visiting bars he didn’t know existed and, in some cases, setting the record straight on items he previously ignored.
Jeter’s latest candid moment came during an interview with New York magazine. Spotted by Larry Brown Sports’ Steve DelVecchio, Jeter discussed the lingering rumor regarding his alleged penchant for giving female companions gift baskets upon the completion of a one-night stand.
The 2011 rumor claimed that any female lucky enough to ...
Working off the assumption that Sunday was an accurate indicator, Masahiro Tanaka is fine, and so is his future with the New York Yankees.
Nearly two-and-a-half-months since he last took the ball in a major league game, the right-hander displayed virtually all the bells and whistles he brought from Japan and let loose in his first 18 starts as a Yankee. The live fastball, the disappearing slider, and most important, his signature bottomless splitter were all there as Tanaka easily handled the Toronto Blue Jays for 5.1 innings in a New York ...
A fresh bunch of faces should help the New York Yankees get back to their winning ways.
The debacle otherwise known as 2014 is almost over. Sure, a season over .500 would be solid for most teams, but not the Yankees. Injuries have decimated both the lineup and the starting rotation. Carlos Beltran, Brian McCann and others have underachieved. Derek Jeter has crawled into the final stretch of his last season in the bigs.
The negatives have been glaring, but overlooked has been the bullpen's dominance and Joe Girardi's ability to manage ...