Please sign Mr Jeter - NY Times article about collecting Jeter in Fla

[mschwade]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/sp...t_th_20130208&

I've bought a Robinson Cano signed bat from one of the guys they quoted in the article before. Small world.

[jimjim]

Nice article. Not sure I would wait almost 8 plus hours for a Jeter graph that looks like slop, but that is just me. To each their own.

[travrosty]

This is unbelievable, why would you want an autograph from someone like that? Mr. too cool for school.

he doesnt care about you, so dont ask him about his day. he can go jump in the lake as far as i am concerned. babe ruth was more popular than anyone, and i dont think babe treated people like that. who does he think he is? derek jeter? so what.

turns my stomach that people sign up for that abuse.

[chaddurbin]

Originally Posted by travrosty

This is unbelievable, why would you want an autograph from someone like that.

so they can turn around and resell that sig. you have whole forums dedicated to stuff like this. i don't blame the superstars for being indignant about it.

[HRBAKER]

The man's been hounded by these guys for nearly twenty years, I wouldn't give them the time of day.

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

The man's been hounded by these guys for nearly twenty years, I wouldn't give them the time of day.

Babe Ruth was hounded for more than twenty-five years, and always managed to treat his fans well.
It doesn't take much.

[HRBAKER]

Well he's obviously no Babe Ruth. Everyone's different.
It's a personal decision, it's has to get old.

Different game today, same faces day after day. Same hounds, runners, resellers.
No way to discern a "first time fan" from the rest.
Default position, ignore them all.

[travrosty]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

Babe Ruth was hounded for more than twenty-five years, and always managed to treat his fans well.
It doesn't take much.

exactly,

if jeter didnt feel like signing that day, so be it, but to tell people that should avert their eyes and not talk to him, that's ridiculous.

i am from the land of kirby puckett, and he would never treat the fans that way. I miss that guy.

no one was mobbed more than muhammad ali, and he signed for 40 years without treating people like this, he signed and signed and talked to people, he didnt act like this, that's for sure. how can Ali do it, and this guy can't act like a human being?

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by travrosty

This is unbelievable, why would you want an autograph from someone like that? Mr. too cool for school.

he doesnt care about you, so dont ask him about his day. he can go jump in the lake as far as i am concerned. babe ruth was more popular than anyone, and i dont think babe treated people like that. who does he think he is? derek jeter? so what.

turns my stomach that people sign up for that abuse.

agree whole heartily. The guy is an idiot and I wouldn't care to own A THING WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH ON IT. The Jeter ball was the first thing I sold when I started to downsize and I couldn't be happier to rid my collection of that baboon ass.

[EvilKing00]

Funny thing, because im a met fan, sometimes yankee fans say i just dislike jeter cause im a met fan. Let me tell you...Chipper Jones was my all time enemy, as he crushed my team for many years, so much so he named hes kid Shea, ugh.

BUT, not only do i respect him as a 1st ballot HOF, and have many of his rookie cards, but I made sure I was at his last game at shea, to give him a standing ovation.

there are very good players and then there are the elite.