This exercise in attaching rhinestones, purchased in Costco, to the sparkling Tiffany legacy Jeter continues constructing was inevitable. With the final countdown moving from the road to Yankee Stadium, the sap was going to flow.
Michael Kay was in rare form - gushing. His introduction to the Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network’s telecast was the kind of melodramatic ooze he usually reserves for Opening Day. Kay, going Facenda on us, spoke of a guy who went from a “fresh-face teenager” to “Yankee greatness.”
Kay: “The pages of the calendar have turned and have been punctuated by a steady torrent of hits. With the consistency of a metronome, Jeter had made sure the hits just keep on coming. ... One by one, hit by hit, the greats have fallen as he moves up the ladder, putting the games deities in his rear-view mirror. ... Four more hits to stand atop the Yankees’ Mt. Olympus.”
Why stop there? Halfway through his Ode to Derek, Kay should have said: “I can think of younger days when living for my life was everything a man could want to do.” ... Okay, so none of this was really surprising. Until Jeter moves past Gehrig (please, hurry) it’s all-schmaltz-all-the-time.
...There is another side to all this - a commercial side. If one wants to “really” take a stroll down Memory Lane, they best be prepared to pay a toll. That’s the only conclusion drawn from the number of spots Sterling read for a company selling Jeter memorabilia.
“Imagine when Jeter goes to the Hall of Fame what those items will be worth,” Sterling ad-libbed after reading one of the commercials. Nothing like cheapening what will be a wonderful moment, right?
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1. TVerik Posted: September 08, 2009 at 12:01 PM (#3316534)Were people less hyperbolic when talking about LeBron James during last year's NBA playoffs?
They are going overboard with this Jeter/Gehrig stuff. Yeah, it's the most hits for the most storied franchise. But c'mon, Gehrig is 53rd all-time in career hits.
Maybe I think that because Raissman is such an annoyance.
He's high on the list, but not that high. Off the top of my head, guys who have had more hits with a single franchise would include Aaron , Rose, Cobb, Kaline, Gwynn, Ripken, Musial, Yaz, Mays, Brett, Wagner, Yount, Biggio, Clemente, Brock, and probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting. Guys who hit well enough to last for that long tend to not move around all that much - especially in the pre-free agency era.
Also Anson, Waner, Sam Rice, Zach Wheat, Ott, Brooks, Gehringer, and Appling. So, Lou is 24th.
Just at the bottom of that top 10, but he would be top 10.
Rose
Gwynn
Ripken
Brett
Yount
Biggio
Also Anson, Waner, Sam Rice, Zach Wheat, Ott, Brooks, Gehringer, and Appling. So, Lou is 24th.
And Jeter is likely to pass most of those guys, which makes this a bigger story than if someone was breaking the record in the last year of a long career.
You forgot Yaz and Brock, depending on how much of the FA era they had to play in to count.
Yes, but he hasn't done it yet. He's 25th on the list of most hits with one team, but he could still get hit by a bus tomorrow. At one point Griffey seemed like a lock for 700+ HR. ARod looked like a lock to push Wagner for all time greatest SS. McGwire was a lock for first ballot HOF. Things happen.
Enjoy the fact that Jeter is going strong at 35 and looks like hge has a lot left in the tank. But the possiility of an accomplishment is not the same thing as the actual thing.
Yankeesfanlen, you got it backwards.
There are many things I forget, but one number I remember is Musial's 3630 base hits.
linking this one again(also on another thread) this is from DG's 10@10 blog post, and it's not actually accurate(in that his list of active leaders is only players currently on the team) but it's still a good list to start.
only did teams that were established prior to 1903 I believe.
Grady Sizemore definitely has enough time left, but it's questionable whether he'll be with the franchise long enough.
Do you mean someone who is the career hits leader for a team but who has more hits for another team? There is no such player.
Or is it a seasonal question?
Someone who got a lot of hits for two teams. For the purposes of this question, I'm looking for a ranking based on what he did for his second-place team, not his first.
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