Derek Jeter says goodbye to New York Yankee Fans

[mikeyank]

As Derek Jeter is now in the home stretch of his illustrious major league career, with ten games remaining on the schedule, Gatorade debuted this moving commercial with Derek getting out of his limo on his way to Yankee Stadium to walk the final blocks and to meet and greet his fans. Derek is and always has been a total class act!!!

 

[peterh6308]

Damn I kind of teared up there!! What a class act Derek is....

 

[mikeyank]

Damn I kind of teared up there!! What a class act Derek is....

Wow. That is so nice of you to say Peter. Usually when you respond to one of my posts, I am waiting for the "zinger", but I'm glad you can appreciate the end of an era of a great athlete and an even better man.

 

[louis33705]

I saw the video on the Today Show this morning. Very emotional. Regis could never stop talking about him. He definitely was loved by many. I wonder if he will keep his house in Tampa.

 

[mikeyank]

I saw the video on the Today Show this morning. Very emotional. Regis could never stop talking about him. He definitely was loved by many. I wonder if he will keep his house in Tampa.

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I've heard of his home facetiously called "Saint Jetersburg".

 

[louis33705]

Speaking of the Yankees, did I ever mention I grew up with Lou Piniella? He graduated three years before me from the same high school I attended. His dad worked with my uncle and the four of us worked together during the summers. There is a little baseball field across from his dad's house which his dad had built for him when he was a boy. That field is still there. It is on Habana just north of Columbus Dr. I passed it a couple of weeks ago when I went to pick up my friend from the hospital.

Thought I would share a little trivia with you.

 

[mikeyank]

Tonight was Derek Jeter's final home game in Yankee Stadium, the final time for him to don the Yankee pinstripes which he has worn for the last twenty years, before a sold out Yankee Stadium with 46,000 fans chanting his name the entire night, and what does Derek do? He lines a single to right in the bottom of the ninth inning to win his final game in New York City. It was an emotional night for Derek and for the fans.

 

[peterh6308]

Tonight was Derek Jeter's final home game in Yankee Stadium, the final time for him to don the Yankee pinstripes which he has worn for the last twenty years, before a sold out Yankee Stadium with 46,000 fans chanting his name the entire night, and what does Derek do? He lines a single to right in the bottom of the ninth inning to win his final game in New York City. It was an emotional night for Derek and for the fans.

Thats pretty cool!!

 

[mikeyank]

Final on field goodbye to the captain

After his dramatic walk off hit at Yankee Stadium last Thursday, Derek did agree to give the fans in Boston some at bats as the designated hitter yesterday and today in the final series of the year, and fittingly in his final at bat of his major league career he got an RBI single, (although it was an infield hit) and left the field for the last time to a rousing ovation by the fans in Boston.

Thanks Derek for the last twenty years. You were one of the best who ever played the game, and you always did it with class.

 

[stowe1]

After his dramatic walk off hit at Yankee Stadium last Thursday, Derek did agree to give the fans in Boston some at bats as the designated hitter yesterday and today in the final series of the year, and fittingly in his final at bat of his major league career he got an RBI single, (although it was an infield hit) and left the field for the last time to a rousing ovation by the fans in Boston.

Thanks Derek for the last twenty years. You were one of the best who ever played the game, and you always did it with class.

Amen to that, mikey. He is a professional athlete whom all others should emulate.

 

[Ambivalent]

Hey, Mike -

I want to thank you a lot for this whole thread! I'm not a sports-fan at all. What's more, both my Mom and my Dad detest the NY Yankees. (My Dad loves the Blue Jays.)

However, I do have a very close friend who is a famous and wonderful music professor, who adores Derek Jeter more than anyone on earth. She is just coming out of a huge struggle with breast-cancer, which nearly claimed her, but she is OK, now.

I have been copying and sending her all the fantastic Jeter-links you have posted on here, and it has made her SO, SO, HAPPY. So, thank you, Mike. You're a mensch.

Love,
"A" XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

 

[mikeyank]

Amen to that, mikey. He is a professional athlete whom all others should emulate.

Hey, Mike -

I want to thank you a lot for this whole thread! I'm not a sports-fan at all. What's more, both my Mom and my Dad detest the NY Yankees. (My Dad loves the Blue Jays.)

However, I do have a very close friend who is a famous and wonderful music professor, who adores Derek Jeter more than anyone on earth. She is just coming out of a huge struggle with breast-cancer, which nearly claimed her, but she is OK, now.

I have been copying and sending her all the fantastic Jeter-links you have posted on here, and it has made her SO, SO, HAPPY. So, thank you, Mike. You're a mensch.

Love,
"A" XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Thank you both Stowe and Ambi, as two non Yankee fans who can appreciate the class act that Derek was. And it has been a pleasure to follow his career on a daily basis for the last twenty years. Thanks guys for recognizing someone who is important to me, not a world leader or a world health leader or a philanthropist but a decent man who has brought many smiles to my face and enlisted excitement in me watching his performances for the past two decades.

 

[stowe1]

Thank you both Stowe and Ambi, as two non Yankee fans who can appreciate the class act that Derek was. And it has been a pleasure to follow his career on a daily basis for the last twenty years. Thanks guys for recognizing someone who is important to me, not a world leader or a world health leader or a philanthropist but a decent man who has brought many smiles to my face and enlisted excitement in me watching his performances for the past two decades.

Now, mikey, you are being forgetful. I have told you that in the days of my youth when the Orioles were in the International League I was always a Yankees fan. And still am. As a native Baltimorean, I root for the Orioles and the Yankees. And when the Yanks and O's play, I root for my hometown team. After all, The Babe was a Baltimorean. As for the National League, I root for the Pirates, my adopted hometown's team.