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Archive for the ‘Derek Jeter’ Category
The Getting Blanked Podcast #68: Mates of Hate
Posted by Drew Fairservice under Derek Jeter, Podcast on Sep 07, 2012
Fogging the Measure: Success is Not Enough for the Yankees
Posted by Matt Klaassen under Derek Jeter, Fogging The Measure, New York Yankees on Sep 07, 2012
The Yankees are in trouble. Sort of. Back on August 1, they were 6.5 games ahead of both Tampa Bay and Baltimore, and seemingly cruising to another American League East title. Things have not gone well with respect to the standings for the Yankees — while they played just over .500 ball in August, both the Orioles and Rays got very hot. After last night’s loss at Camden Yards, New York is tied with Baltimore for first and only two games up on Tampa Bay. Fans and Yankees-aligned bloggers understandably are getting antsy.
According to Cool Standings, things aren’t that much different today than they were at the beginning of August. On August 1, Cool Standings gave the Yankees about a 92 percent chance of making the playoffs. Today, Cool Standings puts the Yankees chances of making the playoffs at “only” 79 percent. This is not to dismiss the incentive to win the division rather than get stuck in the new one-game wild card playoff – it’s to point out that the Yankees are quite unlikely to miss the playoffs.
This has not dissuaded some from taking the Yankees’ faltering hold on the division as an opportunity to severely criticize the teams’ moves of recent years, and see this as the bill coming due for expensive contracts for aging players. However, how much criticism is warranted of a team that is simply paying for services rendered?
The Getting Blanked GIFs of the Week
Posted by Scott Lewis under Derek Jeter, Prince Fielder, Riffin' And GIFfin', Yadier Molina on Aug 31, 2012
It’$ been a GIF-heavy week here at Getting Blanked, but that’$ not going to $top u$ from running our weekly recap. Plea$e be $ure to take the jump for more pageview$ GIFfy goodne$$.
We lead this instalment with an image of Houston Astros catcher Jason Castro and Fernando Abad colliding in what is probably just the third most defining play of the Astros’ season.
Fogging the Measure: Derek Jeter’s Immaturity
Posted by Matt Klaassen under Derek Jeter, Fogging The Measure, New York Yankees on Aug 24, 2012
Is it weird that Derek Jeter is so polarizing? Probably not. I mean, he is the most recognizable face on possibly the most loved/hated/loved-to-hated sports franchises in the world (no one loves to hate the Red Sox, right? They have their fans, and everyone else despises them. Despises Red Sox fans, I mean.), so I guess it isn’t surprising. (No, I’m not talking about that “other stuff” that recently came up. Dustin covered that other stuff earlier, which is great, because that means I do not have to mention it.).
Still, while everyone agrees that overall he’s been a great player, we can’t seem to figure out how great. On one hand, there is the issue of fielding. It took a long, long time, but pretty much everyone now agrees that Jeter has generally been, at best, a below-average fielder. Exactly just how far below average depends on whom you ask and which fielding metric you prefer. That generates a lot of the debate: is he one of the best shortstops of all time with a bat that made up for a subpar glove, or has his fielding been so bad that despite his bat he’s a borderline Hall of Famer who gets a boost from all the postseason memories?
Why Bayless Accusations Are Maddening
Posted by Dustin Parkes under Derek Jeter, Getting Serious, New York Yankees on Aug 23, 2012
Earlier today, I posted a video of Skip Bayless explaining why he was justified in wondering if Derek Jeter’s very successful 2012 season was the product of performance enhancing substances. At the time, I promised to present his opinion with minimal comment, believing that the idiocy of his clown show with Stephen A. Smith on ESPN spoke for itself.
At some point, between then and now, I began mentally listing the ways in which this almost-accusation was reprehensible, and I think it might be important to actually go through these. I don’t believe that I’m convincing anyone of anything here. At least, I hope not. But perhaps in the conglomeration of refutations to Bayless’ dangerous speculation, we might collect something for future use to argue against something that is not unique to the incendiary devices on sports television networks.
