Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Jeter's Return

I've observed over the last 24 hours, the Yankee Twitterverse has been hyper critical of #2 and I am struggling to understand it. Without even touching on what he's done for the franchise throughout his career (which is A LOT), why is the guy getting criticized after one game off the DL?? My dad and I strategically purchased tickets to the Yankees last game before the All-Star break hoping to see the big DJ3K, with the assumption that it might take Jeet a couple days to get back into the swing of things, pun intended. He had only 2 rehab games after a calf injury.. not saying it wasn't enough, but I certainly wasn't expecting a 4-4 performance fresh off the DL. And I know there are solid arguments that can be made for why Jeter should be moved down in the batting order,  but honestly, do you really think it would make a huge difference one way or the other? I personally don't think so.

Maybe I'm biased because of my extreme loyalty to my hero, but I think last night's game was lost because of AJ being AJ, not Jeter leading off.