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What a way to get #3000. Now he's up to 3001
 
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He's move ahead of Roberto Clemente to 27th place, 6 hits behind Al Kaline. 28 members of the 3000 club only two made it with a HR, Jeter and Boggs. Ten of the 28 have less than a .300 career BA. Jete's .312 career BA is 13th best among the 3000 hitters.
 
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Can not believe they are not showing this game nationally
 
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Wish the game would of been nationally televised! O well itll be all over sportscenter for the next week now...what a stud
 
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I hate the Yankee$ with the intense, white-hot, fiery burning passion of 10,000 suns, but i...

wait, where was i?

oh yeah. I tip my cap to Derek Jeter. A class act and a very good player.

Other than that, though, f*** the yankees
 
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Just wanted to send my congrats to Jeter on not only getting 3000, but doing it in such a typically Jeterian way. I was driving through CT (also known as the 5th layer of hell) listening to the game on the radio. I thought that only happened in movies. Even as a Red Sox fan, you can't not respect the hell out of the guy.
 
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Jeter just drove in the go ahead run. HR, Double , 3 Singles. Boosted his average 10 points today.

I don't think anyone else got their 3000th hit on a perfect day.
 
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BGIF said:
Jeter just drove in the go ahead run. HR, Double , 3 Singles. Boosted his average 10 points today.

I don't think anyone else got their 3000th hit on a perfect day.
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what if the game keeps going and he gets a triple???

damn.
 
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Other than Robertson getting a win on a blown save, it was a good day at the ball park.

Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, and how many other great hitters and the Yankees finally get a 3,000 hit man of their own.
 
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I'm as die hard a red sox fan as there is and i could try all day to find something bad to say about jeter, but the truth is he's everything that is right with major league baseball. i hate em, but respect and he's probably the best player of my generation.
 
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rtrn2glory said:
I'm as die hard a red sox fan as there is and i could try all day to find something bad to say about jeter, but the truth is he's everything that is right with major league baseball. i hate em, but respect and he's probably the best player of my generation.
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He is a prima donna.

Everything that is right with MLB? He won a gold glove in 2010; not because he fielded great.. not even because he had great offensive numbers which sometimes helps (sadly) but because he has won it in the past and he is a familiar vote.

He isn't even the best player on his team.

..but congrats on 3k--not an easy feat.
 
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He is a prima donna.

Everything that is right with MLB? He won a gold glove in 2010; not because he fielded great.. not even because he had great offensive numbers which sometimes helps (sadly) but because he has won it in the past and he is a familiar vote.

He isn't even the best player on his team.

..but congrats on 3k--not an easy feat.
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Totally agree. If he played his career in Kansas City he would be the fifth story on Sportcenter. Jim Thome is 5 homeruns away from 600 and espn hasn't said a word. Ridiculous. I'm at least glad Jeter got with 3000th hit so that they will stop mentioning him every 5 seconds.
 
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AdmiralBackhand said:
He is a prima donna.

Everything that is right with MLB? He won a gold glove in 2010; not because he fielded great.. not even because he had great offensive numbers which sometimes helps (sadly) but because he has won it in the past and he is a familiar vote.

He isn't even the best player on his team.

..but congrats on 3k--not an easy feat.
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You talking as if he forced them to vote for him. And in the same sentence you note there is a flaw in voting so yeah kinda contradicting yourself there.

And i don't see what the being the best player on the Yankees has to do with getting 3,000 hits, but ok.
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Totally agree. If he played his career in Kansas City he would be the fifth story on Sportcenter. Jim Thome is 5 homeruns away from 600 and espn hasn't said a word. Ridiculous. I'm at least glad Jeter got with 3000th hit so that they will stop mentioning him every 5 seconds.
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Ok your point? Players on popular teams get a bigger spotlight. No different then ND football buddy, a team your cheer for.

And 5 homeruns for a guy that's hitting .226 with 6 homeruns on the year is a lot farther from his milestone then a guy that's less then 10 hits away from 3,000
 
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He just got his 3,000th hit and somehow he wouldn't be anything if he wasn't in pinstripes... a team that has never had a member of that club until today...

he's total class and a HOFer...

Thome also, but seriously, would you rather hear about the stupid lockouts is two VASTLY overcovered leagues again, and again and again... or talk a little good ole American Past time... I'll take the second option in a big way...

and yeah, now that he did it hopefully they will hype Jim... he deserves it too(and it was never Jeter's fault they didn't to begin with)
 
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ACamp1900 said:
He just got his 3,000th hit and somehow he wouldn't be anything if he wasn't in pinstripes... a team that has never had a member of that club until today...

he's total class and a HOFer...

Thome also, but seriously, would you rather hear about the stupid lockouts is two VASTLY overcovered leagues or talk a little good ole American Past time... I'll take the second option in a big way...

and yeah, now that he did it hopefully they will hype Jim... he deserves it (and it was never Jeter's fault they didn't to begin with)
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This also
 
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The Yankees (and this Derek Jeter saga) represent everything that is wrong with baseball today. APac is right. If he weren't on the Yankees he wouldn't be getting half the attention he's getting now. He shouldn't be an all-star this season by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, he's been one of the worst short stops in the AL this season and if he hadn't pulled out of the ASG b/c of injury he would've been starting. (The ASG voting system is flawed but that's a whole other argument). The point is, ESPN and MLB push so hard to get ratings that it's hard for casual fans to see any other teams than the Yankees, BoSox, Phils, etc. It's no wonder half the country is made up of freaking Yankee fans if they play on half the nat'l TV games every year. If you're a casual fan sitting at home just watching whatever ESPN throws at you, you're bound to become at least a slight Yankees fan b/c THAT'S ALL YOU SEE. You'll rarely see someone born in North Dakota nowhere near a professional team become a fan of, for example, the Kansas City Royals, who are on nat'l TV maybe once a year.

I know it's driven by ratings etc. etc. and this is a business etc. etc. but one of the reasons baseball is losing fans to football is the extreme lack of parity between the teams. In the NFL, every team has an equal chance to succeed because every team has a salary cap. In MLB, the league basically says by not having a salary cap "we'll give you the World Series if you have a high payroll." It's not so much a competition between organizations as it is a competition between owners' wallets, and very few teams are fortunate enough to be able to stick with the big boys for that reason. It's impossible for small market teams to attract big time free agents because of the lack of spending money, and it's extremely difficult for them to keep their own homegrown talent for the same reason. Small market teams might as well become farm teams for the big market teams because that's really all they are, in effect. Take the Twins for example. They have had a few years of successful baseball, and now have some money to spend. So they spend it on the homegrown superstar, and it looks like a good deal for them. But so far, it hasn't worked out. And if it doesn't, that one contract will absolutely CRIPPLE them for its duration. Teams like the Yankees, with deeper pockets, have twice the room for error because they can just spend even more money. Carl Pavano deal doesn't pan out? That's ok, we'll just go buy CC Sabathia. No worries. Small market teams with less money to work with have razor thin margins for error, and thus will not be competitive NEARLY as often as big market teams. MLB will point to a team like the Rays and say "see? there's parity!" but there is absolutely no denying that the Yankees, BoSox, Phils, etc. will win more WS championships than the other teams because they can outspend them.

And THAT'S just the beginning of the problem.

Phew. Felt good to get that off my chest.

Also, roll Tribe.
 
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