All-Star break with "The Captain"

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Bill generally isn't very funny (even in person, I've heard), but I think he's joking.

I can be funny when funny is called for. I'm just providing my opinion here. If you don't agree with me, that's ok.

Jeter hasn't been on his game this year. I'm not taking a personal swipe at Jeter. What I am saying, however, is that voting him to start the All Star Game is indefensible. I apologize if he's your favorite player or something, but in 2014 he is simply not an All Star. He's ranked 12th in WAR for all American League shortstops. If he decided to hang it up two years ago when he was really playing well, I'd have voted for him myself. But this year, Jeter has played in 83 games, and has 371 plate appearances, and his WAR is 0.5. Basically you could pull any shortstop from AAA, hand him a glove and a bat, and they'd perform as well as Jeter has this year. I understand that doesn't take Jeter's intangibles into consideration, but he's just slowing down. It happens to all the great ones eventually.

The All Star game is supposed to recognize excellence, is it not? People are already paying tribute to him each time he visits a city for the last time, did we really have to turn the All Star Game into one more Jeter love fest, too?