Derek Jeter

Yogi Berra Likes Eduardo Nunez; The Yankees Should Listen to Yogi Berra

As Yogi Berra's biographer, I can tell you three things about Mr. Berra: 1. He doesn't talk much, and when he does, contrary to public perception and AFLAC commercials, when he does say something it usually makes sense. 2. Yogi doesn't give advice, he tells you what he would do in a particular ... More >>

Derek Jeter Is a Kind, Generous Man

​Upset that your last one-night stand gave you absolutely nothing, except a dash of insecurity, a sprig of morning awkwardness, and fortunately unmerited concerns over a possible STD (safe sex, people!)? Set your sights on Derek Jeter, who not only is ever so athletic and handsome, but also, s ... More >>

Mathieu Palombino, David Malbequi Step In at Prima; Robert Berry Takes Over at Monument Lane

​Mathieu Palombino, of Motorino and the forthcoming Bowery Diner, and David Malbequi, of BLT, have lent their talents to Prima Strada, which lost its chefs shortly before opening yesterday. [Eater] Monkey Bar debuted Damon Wise's new lunch menu, featuring dishes like smoked fettuccine with un ... More >>

Yankee Post-Mortem, Part 2: Too-Much-Moneyball and the Crapshoot Factor

If you're sick of Moneyball clichés, try the cure: Too Much Moneyball, a video from Jest.com that's making the rounds. Our favorite scene is when the actor playing the Brad Pitt role — or, rather, in this scenario the Brian Cashman role — is thinking of new ways to spend money: "Ove ... More >>

Joe Girardi Must Have Done Something Right

GirardiI'll be honest: I didn't think the Yankees would win the AL East, right up to the day they won it. Yet they did it, and in fact by a wide margin. Before we even consider the problems of the playoffs, we should acknowledge the gutsy job turned in by everyone, particularly manager Joe Girardi, ... More >>

Miller High Life Will Save Yankee Fan From the Vicious Clutches of the IRS

​America is great, indeed! Remember how terrible we all felt when Christian Lopez, the lucky guy who caught the ball knocked out of the park in Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit, was maybe going to have to pay a bunch of money -- $5,000 to $14,000 -- to the IRS, just because he was coordinated enough ... More >>

Derek Jeter: What Are the Yankees Going to Do With Him?

​Derek Jeter is my favorite player -- that is, my family's favorite player. I have played the 3,000th-hit homer over and over. It is my favorite baseball moment of the new century, with the possible exception of Johnny Damon's race to third base in the World Series against the Phillies. Now, ... More >>

Derek Jeter Hitting 3,000: the Scene from Yankee Stadium (VIDEO)

Steven ThrasherDerek Jeter just before hitting his 3,000th career hit​We don't go to Yankee Stadium very often, but when we do, we happen to take in really amazing games completely by accident. (Case in point: the first of the four Yankee games we've seen in person in the past decade was Game ... More >>

Derek Jeter is Better than Ramiro Peña -- Who Isn't?

​Have things gotten so bad for Derek Jeter that we're now measuring his value by how much he's not Ramiro Peña? "On the eve of Derek Jeter's return to pursue DJ3K," writes Andy Marchand on ESPN.com, "Ramiro Peña offered a little dose of what the New York Yankees don't have when No. 2 is no ... More >>

Brian Cashman: Out-Of-Touch Dork? Oh, Yes.

Cashman​Is Brian Cashman truly the out-of-touch dork that his critics believe him to be? Or is the headline on the back page of today's Daily News ("Short Story - Cashman Says Sorry Jose, Jeter's Our Man and We're Set For The Future") some sort of shrewd Yankee bargaining ploy to get Jose Reye ... More >>

Alex Rodriguez, Joba Chamberlain, Derek Jeter 'Most Overrated' in Baseball? Please.

Joba to pollster: Rate THIS!It isn't often that the Daily News gets something like this right, but the cover story "Bronx Jeers! Jealous Nit-Wits Rip Yankees Stars in Player Poll" has it down. In the current issue of Sports Illustrated, three Yankees are the answer to the question "Who is the most ... More >>

Derek Jeter Book Shouldn't Be Such a Big Deal

​I've been trying to avoid this ever since I got a review copy in the mail of The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter by ESPNNewYork.com's Ian O'Connor. (I hate just about any book about an athlete with "journey' or "quest" or "trials" in the title.) I read or skimmed about half the book and ... More >>

Where Have All the Yankees Fans Gone?

photo by Neil deMause​Following last night's ten-inning loss to the Twins, the Yankees' record stands at 3-2 (good!) and the team trails Buck Showalter's undefeated Orioles by a game and a half in the AL East (bad!). But since everybody knows that early April stats don't matter (remember how t ... More >>

Jose Reyes To the Yankees? Sad to Say, It Might Happen

​Every Mets fan knows the answer to this trivia question: Who has played the most continuous games in a Mets uniform? Ed Kranepool, of course, with 1,853 games. But do you know who number two and three are? David Wright (1,006) and Jose Reyes (926). Those of us who have enjoyed watching ... More >>

Buck Showalter Ticked Off By Derek Jeter? He Shoulda Kept Quiet About It

​Let's deal with this now so we don't have to deal with it before the April issue of Men's Journal hits the stands. According to the Sporting News, Orioles manager Buck Showalter -- who for some reason Men's Journal thinks is a hot subject for a profile -- has taken pot shots at Boston's g ... More >>

Derek Jeter The Best NY Athlete of All Time? Really?

​In 1975, a survey representing America's biggest rock and roll stations asked several thousand listeners to name the greatest rock and roll record of all time. The Beatles, you might guess? Stones? Beach Boys? Stevie Wonder? Maybe Elvis? Or The Supremes? None of the above. According to those ... More >>

Teqa to Come in March, with a Ton of Tequila in Tow

teqanyc.comTeqa to come.​Last October, we first noticed the sign for Teqa, a new taqueria/tequileria in Murray Hill. Now, it looks like the place is gearing up for a March opening, with a Top Chef alum at the helm and 120 tequilas and mezcals in stock.

Derek Jeter Re-Signing With Yankees, Duh

​After a bluff from both sides, with New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman telling aging shortstop Derek Jeter to "test the market," number 2 and the Evil Empire are said to be coming together on a three-year contract worth between $45-51 million, with "a complicated fourth-year vesting option, th ... More >>

Derek Jeter: Greedy, Unreasonable, Unrealistic

​"This is the way the Yankees want the conversation about Derek Jeter to go," writes Mike Lupica in today's Daily News. "They have arrived at what they think is a fair contract for Jeter and if he doesn't accept it, he's being greedy and unreasonable and unrealistic, and should go test the mar ... More >>

Derek Jeter's Future: Here's An Idea Out of Left Field

​Yankees announcer Michael Kay, speaking on ESPN 1050 yesterday, said what is on every New York baseball fan's mind. Not "Will the Yankees win the pennant?" -- with a favorable schedule and the return of Alex Rodriguez and Andy Pettitte imminent, the odds are in their favor. Not "Will C.C. ... More >>

What Are New York's "Boyfriend Politicians" Doing to Single Women in the City?

Casual Bloomberg and his lady love​You date and/or live long enough in New York City, and sooner or later you run into the complaint, usually expressed after numerous beverages, that there are "no good men in the city" -- you know, they're all taken, or married to their careers, or taken and m ... More >>

Jim Joyce, Perfect Games, TV Replay, and Other Poorly Understood Subjects

A worse call than this week's.​Let us be thankful we are living in, as the Chinese say, uninteresting times. Only when there's relative calm in the Middle East and things are going smoothly with the environment can such an incident as a blown call in a baseball game make the front page of the ... More >>

Derek Jeter Best Shortstop, but Where's at Least a Mention of Jose Reyes?

​Like the Huffington Post on steroids, MSG's weekly show The Lineup continues to tell us what we already know. In the first four episodes we were told that the best catcher in New York baseball history was Yogi Berra, the best first baseman Lou Gehrig, the best second baseman Jackie Robinson ... More >>

Yankees Prospects Look Grim -- Star Pollster Nate Silver

​If Nate Silver is correct, both the Democratic Party and the New York Yankees might be headed for tough times this fall. The ace political pollster/baseball analyst projects the numbers for 1,600 major league ballplayers in the current Baseball Prospectus 2010, and things don't look good for ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: No Sympathy For the Angels in Yanks' 4-1 win

​After all that ado, not a lick of rain. Just goes to show you. God's a Yankee fan, and even though they're "angels," it's bro's before halos. Four wins down. Seven to go. Man, it's cold out. When I started this whole watching-the-Yankees-bat-from-outside ritual, it was a 65 degree situat ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: ONE DOWN...Yankees' quest for 27 begins with 2-7 win

​So about 5 hours ago, I lamented that my hands have been shaking all day. And they still are. But for different reasons now. The Yanks are down 2-0 in the bottom of the 3rd, and that was around the time my manic desperation started to manifest itself full throttle. It's a crazy frenzy that ... More >>

Jockbeat: Yankees' MVP? Allen Barra Ranks Jeter Fifth

With all the talk of Derek Jeter as the possible MVP winner for 2009, an important question has been overlooked: who is the Yankees MVP? Bill Madden inadvertently weighed in on the issue last Sunday with a piece headlined "Ring In The Old -- Yanks rediscover formula for success: more Jeter, less A ... More >>

Interview: MSNBC's Willie Geist on New York Baseball, His Jeter Love, His Desire to Drill Pedroia, and More

​ We're pleased to see that our Morning Joe favorite Willie Geist has finally been given his own TV show. Way Too Early With Willie Geist now leads off MSNBC's morning schedule, airing (if one "airs" on cable) at 5:30 a.m. (That's 2:30 a.m. Pacific time, where the show is no doubt known as Wa ... More >>

Yankees Sweep Mets

God damn it. The Metropolitan reports Yankees fans outnumbered Mets fans at Citi Field; we are overrun. Mariano Rivera got his 500th save and batted in a run, and Derek Jeter felt comfy enough to talk smack about Shea. Okay, let's start thinking about prospects for 2010. Maybe if this recession ho ... More >>

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Letters

Stealing Mickey's Mantle

José Reyes could be the greatest—if he doesn't figure out just how much Mets fans want from him

Feel Like Derek Jeter This Spring!

They're Still Your Idols

Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

Sports

Yanks Don't Quite Add Up

Subtraction and Division Problems

The Yanks Wait Till the Midnight Hour

Jeter's Tour de Force Fielding

Where Have You Gone, Derek Jeter?

Before We Enshrine the Local Hero, Let’s Take a Look at Some Cold Facts

Sports

Meet the Yets

The Best of New York Baseball

Back on Track?

Yanks: Wait Till Next Year

Sports

The Scene at Shea

Spike and Reggie and Keith, Oh My

Patience Is a Virtue

How to Succeed in Postseason Baseball

Yanks: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Sweeping Questions

The Yanks Are Champs Again. So What?

Open Season

Luck Be a Yankee Tonight