Derek Jeter Gets His Groove Back

Don’t look now but Derek Jeter has found his swing again. Early in the season “The Captain” was struggling with his stroke. The past few games, Jeter has opened up his mind and just let it flow. It appears that he finally stopped listening to all of the critics who were saying that “he’s too old, he’s lost a step, he doesn’t have power anymore, and his bat is too slow.”

Jeter quit thinking about it and just started trying to hit the ball again. That philosophy is starting to pay off for the New York Yankees and their much-scrutinized leadoff hitter.

Jeter homered twice after going 62 games without a long ball and finished with four hits to raise his batting average 20 points as the Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 12-5 on Sunday, winning two of three in their only regular-season series in the Lone Star State this season.

Of course, the questions never stop. Now the self-loathing Yankees fans will demand Jeter avoid the weak groundouts and lazy fly balls that filled April. Funny thing is, if he were putting up these same numbers and he wasn’t Derek Jeter, there would be no questions. His numbers are adequate for his position. He just set the bar very high. Therefore he is a victim of his own success.

Jeter is currently sitting at 2960 hits (40 shy of 3000). Chances are he will get there pretty quickly, possibly by mid July. Jeter couldn’t have heated up at a better time as the Yankees have dropped four out of their last six games. Maybe some of Jeter’s fortune will rub off on Jorge Posada as he is officially struggling as the Yankees Designated Hitter. Jorge is batting a mere .149 and declining fast. He began the season hitting home runs every 4 to 5 at bats but now he is in a tremendous rut. Posada who is 39 no longer has catching duties and his replacements have been more than adequate offensively and defensively as thy Yankees have improved at the position.

I suspect the Yankees will give the wily veteran a chance to get it together, but as the All Star Break approaches it’s going to be harder to keep him in the lineup if he doesn’t improve.

Stay Breezy ~ I’m Out!

Comments

[wildcard]

OOHHHHHHH wait a sec..........what happened to dat last post ?..OOHHH the cia fbi ohh my.......cant
really say much bout jeter and the yankees....me root 4 da red sox so you all will know my thinking of
them.......but out of respect new york just got good players.........i just hope red sox can make a late run
to sneek in az a wildcard team...HAHAHAHA did i just say wildcard ? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
my brain spazzn again. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
its been a lil while for my poems....here we go........................
YANKEE DOODLE

yankee yankee
pulling my chain
the doodle poodle
all in my brain

licky sticky
nasty jeter
how do u make
dat salty peter

swinging and swanging
gang banging your bat
flipn and flapn
like a doodlen rat

pin stripes of crap
oh slapn dat chest
still milkn your mom
right from her breast

york and a pork
singing im a dork
eatn your soup
with a plastic fork

wish we could see
the red sox reign
so the world all over
would not be insane

but here we see
the nasty lil jeter
doing to his girl
on the cheatn ole meter

could it be tiger blood
or the ole charlie sheen
it dosent really matter
cause he hits real mean

but the truth really iz
on this day of joy
he really likes to play
with a lil ole boy
............................................................HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ( GO RED SOX ).............................................
..................HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
spazzn spazzn ole my flapn yazz....got to go smoke dat wonderful jazz............................................................
...................DA JAMACIAN JAZZ......HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IIIIIIIII LLLLOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEE
THEEEEEEEEE USA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....... ( signal gone to smoke )

[Yankee911]

Glad to see Jeter got his groove back.