CAPTAIN'S LOG
Derek Jeter's Diary: The Diary Returns!
By Mark Lisanti at
The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain's private journal.
The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain's private journal.
The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain's private journal.
Whew. We avoided a sweep. No one likes to get swept. It's the baseball equivalent of that thing barbarians do when they raid a town and impregnate all the women before burning the place down. You definitely want to be the ones doing the impregnating, not the ones who have to lug around bastard barbarians your whole life. So it felt really important for us to take this one and avoid that kind of unpleasant pregnancy scenario. You definitely want to have kids on your own terms, when you're ready, after retirement. I really need to stop talking about this. We won. That's what matters. The invasion thing doesn't really hold up when the home team wins anyway.
The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain's private journal.
Girardi gave me the night off. This is how that conversation always goes when I see I'm not on the lineup card:
DJ2: Hey, Skip, I think you forgot to pencil me in for tonight.
Joe: Let's give you the night off, Captain. Rest those knees.
DJ2: I've got a pencil right here, I can just erase this Jayson Nix name and put mine on there. Is there even a Jayson Nix on the team? There's definitely a Derek Jeter on the team.
Joe: Take a breather. We'll get you out there tomorrow. We're playing 16 in a row, gotta keep you fresh, Jetes.
DJ2: I think The Binder says I should be playing. Take another look.
Joe: [Opens The Binder and finds $50,000 inside. Hands me back the money and just walks away.]
The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain's private journal.
I don't want to talk about the game. Suffice it to say, it didn't go our way. Robertson loaded the bases in the ninth with nobody out, gave up four runs, and blew his first save as our new closer. Yeah, we can all talk about how much we're going to miss Mo, but D-Rob hadn't given up a run since last September. (I know this because every reporter at my locker mentioned it. Guess that was a "thing" in the press box tonight.) Is pitching the ninth really that much harder than the eighth? I'm not a reliever, I actually play baseball for a living full time, so maybe I'm not the best person to speak to that difference in the alleged "closer mentality." Anyway, Davey Robby be fine. He's the guy. Or maybe Sori. Let's not get too wedded to one "the guy." We're deep in the pen, it's more about finishing games we're winning than labels.
The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain's private journal.
Here's the thing about Phil Hughes.
