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Derek Jeter is Number One

New York Yankees icon Derek Jeter moved past Lou Gehrig on the Bombers all-time hits list on 9-11 with a single to right field in the Bronx.

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New York Yankees icon Derek Jeter moved past Lou Gehrig on the Bombers all-time hits list on 9-11 with a single to right field in the Bronx. 

“It’s still hard to believe,” said Jeter, 35, who has recorded 2,727 career hits since he made his debut with the Yankees in 1995. “Being a Yankee fan, this is something I never imagined. Your dream is always to play for the team, and once you get here, you just want to stay and be consistent. This wasn’t a part of it. This whole experience has been overwhelming.” 

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ch and in the clubhouse makes a very big difference to this ballclub.

History was made yesterday: Derek Jeter passed Luis Aparicio for most hits by a shortstop over a career. The Yankees lost and Joba just didn't have it. It's okay. Baseball is a lot like the stock market and a pullback here and there is healthy.

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A couple of hits here, a double there, cap it with a home run and you're beat. Congratulations to Derek Jeter on scoring the 1500 run of his career during the 4th inning schlacking of Texas Ran

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Like the Chicago Bulls of the 1990's they had their Jordan in Derek Jeter but the team also carried a John Paxon, a Bill Cartwright or a Luc Longley.  It wasn't an all-star lineup, but more a lineup of guys more concerned with getting the runner to third base than getting their picture on the latest XBOX 360 cover.  They won because its a team game and they never forgot that.  What will it take to get all these individual superstars to remember the one thing so many seem to have lost sight of, "If winning isn't that important, then why keep score?"

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Alex "A-Roid" Rodriguez has to be one of the dumbest athletes in modern sports. He's getting paid $33 million per year, as part of a 52-year contract, so he's set for life. Yet he resorts to using steroids. Why? He clearly has it all. He's already on pace to break Bonds' home-run "record." Besides that, he's known as the best offensive hitter in the game, when healthy. The staff and myself racked our brains over why the slugger feels he needed the extra edge. Having been stumped, we came up with 10 reasons why he doesn't need steroids, in hopes of convincing the vain ballplayer to lay off the juice.

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1-New York Yankees: 1B-Mark Teixeira, 2B-Robinson Cano, 3B-Alex Rodriguez, SS-Derek Jeter, and C-Jorge Posada.

Last, but certainly not least. It's tough to argue with A-Rod and Tex at the corners -- that's an intimidating tandem. Jeter remains Steady Eddy at short, and Posada is one of the greatest hitting catchers in the history of the game.

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Great speech by Derek Jeter at the end.  And Bernie Williams may have summed it up best when he said, "It was more the people than the stadium. You talk about magic and the aura, but what really made the stadium was the fans. Concrete doesn't talk back to you. Chairs don't talk back to you. It's the people that are there, that root for you day in and day out. Tht's what makes this place magical."

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As the Yankees rest up on one of their few off days remaining, they are in a great position to make a move this weekend and move past the Red Sox. The one thing that cannot happen is a sweep. If they are swept and return to their light hitting ways the Yankees can kiss the division good bye and possibly the Wild Card as the Rays could add some distance to their lead. The Yankees just need one game this weekend to stay in it.

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Just as the Yankees season was starting to pick up, a major wrench was thrown in its side. They have learned that not only will Hideki Matsui be out for the year but Jorge Posada will likely be joining him on the bench. This team has battled injury after injury all year and they have finally put themselves in a position to make a run at the playoffs in the seasons final two months. But this news could be the straw that breaks the camels back as this might be too much for them to overcome.

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The un-official Second Half of the Yankees Season begins tonight. Derek Jeter summed up the first 90 games by saying "The team has been good enough to be 6 games out." The only consistant part of the team has been their inconsistency. The best example of this is the final week of the first half. They win 4 straight over Boston and Tampa and then flounder away the final 4 by losing three of them to the Pirates and Jays. They could have gone into the break really hot but instead have caused Yankee fans a lot of anxiety this past week. This will tell if replacing Joe Torre with Joe Girardi was a good move. Torre never missed the playoffs now Girardi has a lot of pressure.

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Yankee Stadium.

It was also special for Yankee fans to get to show their love and admiration for Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, and a lesser extent for A-Rod. The love for A-Rod is a little different than the love for the other two, I have seen their whole careers in that Stadium and it was a great chance to say thanks. With all the chanting of

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It’s the All-Star Break once again, that mythical halfway point in the season (I say “mythical” because most teams have played 95-96 games, more than the 81 that’s the true midway mark). Traditionally, it’s time for the teams to take a breath, collect themselves and iron out any kinks in their batting stroke or the pitching rotation—several starters made relief appearances or threw out of turn in the past game or two, knowing that three or four days of rest was coming for all of them.

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aches and players—reportedly, manager Joe Girardi spoke, followed by Johnny Damon and captain Derek Jeter. In a postgame news conference, Girardi repeatedly (and sometimes heatedly) refused to reveal what was said in the meeting, although the gist of the discussion was obvious: the can’t-lose Yankees have been losing.

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Now, the training wheels are off for Chamberlain, no more pitch counts. Derek Jeter homered off of Doug Brocail in the 8th inning for the decisive margin.

 In the first inning, Alex Rodriguez drove in Bobby Abreu with an RBI single. That was Rodriguez' 33rd RBI of the year, and it gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  Chamberlain was cruising along until the fourth inning, where he intentionally walked Carlos Lee after Lance Berkman reached on a fielder's choice. Wigginton then singled in Berkman for the Astros only run of the game.

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After winning in dramatic fashion on Thursday afternoon on a walkoff two run homer by Jason Giambi, the Yankees hoped to take that momentum into tonight's game. Tonight wasn't the night as Royals rookie pitcher, Kyle Davies, pitched a gem, scattering only one run and seven hits over a well pitched 6 2/3 innings.  Davies earned the win as he rendered trhe Yankee bats quiet. Davies was called up from Triple A last Saturday. He proceeded to defeat the Indians' C.C Sabathia in snapping the Royals 12 game losing streak. Tonight he snapped the Royals 11 game road losing streak by mixing up his pitches, attacking the strike zone early and often and keeping the Yankees hitters off balanced and guessing.

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e, the Yankees were efficient in those situations as Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, Melky Cabrera and Derek Jeter all contributed with run scoring singles. Wilson Betemit rounded out the scoring with a homer off of Jess Litsch.

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Tonight was the well hyped debut of Joba Chamberlain as a starting pitcher in the major leagues. As is well known the process to mold Joba into a starter has begun.  They have started loosening his arm up over the course of the past couple of weeks, and tonight was the big day where he saw the mound for the first time as a starting pitcher in the majors.  His pitch count was limited to 70, but this wasn't a normal day at the Stadium by any means. More media members, a more excited crowd are the main factors that made this a game that was different than usual.

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ad a stellar month in May, but can he keep it up? Alex Rodriguez went down and bounced back nicely. Derek Jeter has been up and down all year, and Jorge Posada is still out. With the All Star g

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Sorry for the Blog Pause--went out of town to the wedding of a friend of mine, but now I'm back and back strong, to conclude my review of the unsung heroes of the 1961 Yankees infield. We're finishing with that all-important position of shortstop, Tony Kubek, who was an anchor for that 1961 team, both in the field and at the plate. He's also one of the great woulda-coulda-shoulda players, someone that many argue would have been one of the greatest Yankee shortstops ever, had his career not been cut short by injury.

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Boggs' career, and shaped the future of a spindly shorstop who'd committed 54 errors in the minors: Derek Jeter.

So when you watch the Yankee captain pick one from deep in the hole and make a

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The Yankees have had many World Series champs, and many more All-Star players and all-time lineups. The 1927 Yankees pretty much set the bar for everyone else to follow, but there were some other memorable ones, too. The '36 Yanks, the first year of Joltin' Joe, and the last great one from Lou Gehrig, along with typically solid contributions by Bill Dickey, Tony Lazzeri and the usual cast of star Yankees.

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  Though his early career trajectory in Gotham aligns with that of New York legend, Derek Jeter, Kovalev’s later years in the Big Apple are more reminiscent of Jesse Barfield.  Just as the Yankees cycled Barfield seamlessly with Mel Hall and Danny Tartabull, the Rangers rotated Kovalev in with talented, but interchangeable disappointments, Luc Robitaille and Petr Nedved.  The lasting impression of Kovalev’s two stints on Broadway is that many Blueshirts fans still know how to yell “SHOOT!” in Russian.

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I was hoping to get this up yesterday with the Yankees-Red Sox series fresh in everyone’s mind but I didn’t have the time.  After a few weeks of the baseball season and watching almost every Red Sox and Yankee game I have a few observations on these two teams so far.  You may not agree with them all, this is just what I have noticed this season.

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It's almost the start of the new season, and it's time for the Yankees to actually do something. I know some may say, Yankee fans are spoiled. But are we really? They have the highest salar

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