Thursday, September 16, 2010

Seriously?

I know things are magnified when you play for the Yankees, but after all the talk on TV and sports radio about Derek Jeter and whether he's a cheater, I just have to ask, "Are we seriously wasting time talking about this?"

For those of you who have been living under a rock, in Wednesday night's Yankees' game at Tampa Bay, Jeter was awarded first base after the umpire ruled he was hit by a pitch. Replays CLEARLY showed the ball hit off the knob of Jeter's bat, but the Yankee captain did a great acting job selling he was hit. The Yankee trainer came out to check on him as he was bent over like he was in pain.

Rays' manager Joe Maddon was ejected for arguing the call and Jeter -- after the game -- admitted the ball indeed hit his bat. Maddon, to his credit, said after the game that although the call was wrong, he didn't fault Jeter.

"If our guys had did it, I would have applauded that," Maddon was quoted by the Associated Press in Thursday's Freeman.

What Jeter did was no different than those players we see all the time claiming they got hit by an inside pitch when they didn't or the ones that act like they've hit a foul ball off their spikes when they merely just hit a weak ground ball or the outfielders that sell a catch they made when they know they clearly trapped it.

Yet, I don't recall seeing those highlights becoming the major talk of the sports airways.

Because it's Jeter and the Yankees, we feel we need to make a big deal of it.

It's funny but I hear Yankee detractors say all the time that it's unfair the Bombers are held in such high esteem. Yet, when something as completely minor as what happened last night to Jeter happens, all we hear is how this is a big deal because Jeter and the Yankees should be held to a higher standard.

It's all pretty ridiculous when you think of it.

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