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Old 10-05-2006, 06:44 PM
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Default Jeter and Today's baseball

Posted By: Chris Counts

If you check out just about any modern major league baseball team forum (or football, basketball, etc ...), they all routinely devolve into mudslinging matches. It's amazing how much more personally people take a debate when the honor of their favorite team or player is at stake. Could anybody imagine a debate over t206 backs ever getting this ugly? Or somebody calling a collector a "fag" for prefering a Sweet Caporal to a Polar Bear? Actually, I can't imagine calling anybody a "fag" for any reason, but apparently some people in this world have run out of more intelligent words to use in their vocabularies. By the way, I hate the Yankees more than any team in sports history, but if I was putting together a team, he'd be my first pick. Stats tell only part of the story. Jeter is a stone cold winner. He'll have a plaque on the wall at Yankee Stadium one day, right next to the Babe ...

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