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Jeter wins Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year
*Photo Courtesy of SI*
Derek Jeter was named the SI Sportsman of the Year today. Jeter is the first Yankee in the awards 56 years to win.
Derek batted was third in the AL with a .334 avg, second with 212 hits, and led the league with reaching base 289 times. He also won his 4th Gold Golve, Silver Slugger, Hank Aaron Award, Roberto Clemente Award, and of course passed Lou Gehrig as the Yankees all-time hits leader. Congratulations Derek!
Ross Ohlendorf: Yankee, Pirate, and…Government Intern?
Photo by AP/J. Scott Applewhite
Better Player of the Decade for the Yankees: #4 Hideki Matsui or #5 Miguel Cairo?
Paul O’Neill defeated Gary Sheffield 9-2 in the last matchup.
No song of the day, sorry! YouTube is malfunctioning so there will be no song of the day. If interested in finding it yourself, today’s would have been Sweet Child O’ Mine by the Guns N’ Roses
Better Player of the Decade for the Yankees: #2 Paul O’Neill or #7 Gary Sheffield?
Jorge Posada defeated Shane Spencer 9-1 in the last poll!
Song of the Day: Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N’ Roses
Better Player of the Decade for the Yankees: #1 Jorge Posada or #8 Shane Spencer
Last matchup Andy Pettitte beat Luis Sojo 15-0.
Song of the Day: Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who (my favorite song of all-time)
Price for Doc Halladay Remains Too High
The Yankees would have to part with quite a bit if, as Peter Gammons reports (MLB Trade Rumors), the Red Sox would have to part with both Casey Kelley and Clay Buchholz. I can only imagine that the Yankees would have to give up Austin Jackson, Ian Kennedy, and maybe one other prospect to get Doc and then an additional $20 million a year to keep him. That is a really hefty price to pay and while I do love the idea of having Doc in our rotation losing three top prospects is not easy to stomach. Add onto that the fact that the Yankees made three blockbuster deals last year and it seems a little unreasonable that they would need to sign Doc. The rotation is far from set but resigning Pettitte while tinkering with Hughes and Chamberlain as well as with a healthier Chien-Ming Wang sounds like a perfectly reasonable option. After all, the Yankees won the world series doing just that.
Would I love to have Doc? Absolutely. But is he worth giving up three top prospects and 20 million a year? If that is the case, Doc might not be the Yankees huckleberry, even if he wants to be.
Talk About Something All Yankee Fans Appreciate…
PHOTO BY JACOBSON/NEWS
Sources are saying that the Yankees longtime PA announcer Bob Sheppard has officially called it quits and is retiring. Sheppard took the helm as Yankees PA guy in 1951, and is known as “The Voice of God” amoung the Yankee Universe. Yankee stadium hasn’t been the same without him in the recent seasons, and it would’ve been nice to have heard him at the new Yankee Stadium. Mr. Sheppard is one of the greatest Yankees who ever lived and even at 99 years young we wish him another long 100 years. We have held at hope he’d come back but now reality has set in and a new era will have to begin.
What do you Appreciate?
As I thought of what to do for the blogs first real ThanksGiving…I realized: I shouldn’t do anything!
This blog is for the readers and only the readers (and the occassional forum for me to vent my baseball opinions)
So heres what I want you, the readers, to do:
Tomorrow there will be NO POSTING here at The Pinstriper.
INSTEAD this will be an open forum for you to comment anything that you appreciate in life.
I will be checking in every hour to see the comments and reply and I will also post my own things that I appreciate.
PLEASE COMMENT ANYTHING THAT YOU APPRECIATE…anything…can be your family, your sports team, ANYTHING!
Thank you so much and one thing I definitely appreciate are you, the readers!
Better Player of the Decade for the Yankees: #1 Andy Pettite or #8 Luis Sojo
Roger Clemens defeated Jason Giambi 11-2 in the last matchup.
Song of the Day: Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother
**Since there will be no posting tomorrow, please excuse the 2 days of voting for this better Yankee of the Decade post.**
The Pinstriper 
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