I’m a huge Yankee fan - have been all my life. One of the highlights of my life was a private tour of Yankee Stadium in 2005 - it was a surprise retirement gift from my organization. I had tears flowing the entire time....have pix of me in the bullpen, the Yankee dugout, Yankee locker room....oh my, what a day! And Jeter is one class act!
“I had tears flowing the entire time....have pix of me in the bullpen, the Yankee dugout, Yankee locker room....oh my, what a day!”
I’m not trying to pick on you, but I have never, ever, understood that sort of adulation of a sports franchise/team by adults. I just don’t get it.
In spite of my comments elsewhere in this thread about the liberal Derek Jeter, I understand and appreciate what you've posted. Yankee Stadium ("The House that Ruth Built") is a very special venue. I'm one of the minority thinking the new park does justice to the original. From my college days, I have a number of friends from Alabama. Since like me, they're all old guys, predating the Braves moving to Atlanta, they're still Yankee fans in spite of being in the Heart of Dixie. :)
Awesome when a dream comes true...congrats !
I am a Met fan - I am true to the Orange and Blue. Maybe there has been a classier player in NYC sports, than Jeter, but I sure can’t recall him.
As a life long Dodger fan (my mother was born in Brooklyn and there was not an option in our family on who to root for), I admire Mr. Jeter. I think the recent tributes have been appropriate and I say “well done”.
I believe I lived through the best Yankee years and that was the 77 and 78 season. I was a teen. We would buy bleacher seats and end up sitting behind the dugout every weekend. The days when you could walk all over the stadium and call for Reggie Jackson and he would come walking over with the rest of them. Nothing compares to players back in that time and to me that was the greatest team in my lifetime.