Captain Consistent
Posted by: Sam Borden - Posted in Misc on Oct 07, 2009 
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In some ways, it seemed fitting that the first playoff hit by a Yankee – and the first home run – at the new Stadium would come from Derek Jeter. The Yankees captain added to his reputation as an October performer by reaching base all four times up tonight as the Yanks took a 1-0 series lead.
“That’s Derek Jeter this time of year,” Joe Girardi said.
It is. Jeter has hit safely in 38 of his last 46 postseason games, including 16 multi-hit games. His homer was his 18th in the playoffs, tying him for third on the all-time list with Mickey Mantle and Reggie Jackson. Decent company, no?
“I think this is the fun time of year,” Jeter said. “It’s not taking anything away from the regular season, but this this is when you like to play as a player.”
There’s no denying that Alex Rodriguez and CC Sabathia had important games tonight, both of them improving on poor playoff track records. But none of it would have mattered much if not for Jeter – the guy who always seems to be there in the games that matter most.
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That’s it for me tonight. Chad will have a wrap-up post but let me just say this: over 2,000 comments and well over 100,000 page views on the blog tonight shows just how committed you all are to this team and it’s pretty incredible. Thanks for watching along with us.
Via Mark Feinsand:
Update, 9:01: A little perspective on Jeter tying Reggie and Mantle with his 18th postseason homer: Jeter reached that mark in his 497th career postseason at-bat, while Reggie had 281 and Mantle had 230.
Great coverage tonight guys. I enjoyed it. Go get some rest.
Great W for the Yanks. Let’s make it a clean sweep. On the way to 27!!
I am pretty sure Darling can give Madden a run for his money on “who can say the dumbest things”
Sam, thanks for your hard work……and thanks to Chad as well.
Jeter is remarkable……………he’s just a born baseball player. I couldn’t be any prouder of him.
Great win. Thanks for the great coverage
Thanks for the awesome coverage tonight guys!
Was that “Crazy Train” there were just playing at Dodger Stadium as Jeff Weaver warmed up or am I confused?
MLB guys loving on Phil right now……..they love his aggressiveness and confidence (here’s my best, try and hit it)
m
We need to find you a gloat smiley to save time. Do you prefer
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just got back from the game in bleacher creature country…what a fun time.
anyways, i am SO happy this blog finally has guys running it w/o the sarcastic anti-yankee quips. reading a blog run by a redsox fan was very difficult. now, the blog is cooking and i’m glad sam + chad are running things now…
Torre brings his buddy Weaver into the game. I am sure he is happy they were reunited. If the Dodgers traded for Pavano then he would of really came full circle.
Sam, we died and went to heaven when we got you guys! Thank YOU!!!
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“earlier in this dodger broadcast, they were talking about Yadier’s defense and what not. so i was thinking to myself if benjie & jose used to say, “It’s always, ‘Yadi, Yadi, Yadi’” ”
mel, on the YES postgame they did a preview of the pitcher for Friday’s game. I have to tell you that Singleton, Cone, (and I believe Flats was there) referred to Aj having better numbers with Molina and then they showed a cut of AJ pitching, and the beginning of the cut had balls going all over the place and the end of the cuts had him throwing gas and striking out batters. I thought to myself that all the Ks were to Molina, and Singleton verified it when he said at the end that all of the balls not being caught were “not caught” by Posada.
I find it interesting that they continue to mention “the numbers” while some of the extremely emphatic posters here continue to say numbers are meaningless!
Anyway, you know that I will always defer to the Yankee org. experts over the lohud experts.
I also love seeing that Andy and AJ seem to have really paired off as buddies this season.
Great coverage!! Gameday and all of you — a great way to follow the game from work…
anyways, i am SO happy this blog finally has guys running it w/o the sarcastic anti-yankee quips. reading a blog run by a redsox fan was very difficult. now, the blog is cooking and i’m glad sam + chad are running things now
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Pete’s A-Rod digs were a lot more amusing than conspiracy theorists claiming he’s a biased Red Sox fan.
“…some of the extremely emphatic posters here continue to say numbers are meaningless!”
Link?
“I also love seeing that Andy and AJ seem to have really paired off as buddies this season.”
Trisha, did you see the postgame AJ/Andy interview after they clinched? It was the most bromantic thing ever. For serious. Good stuff.
Anyway, FANTASTIC WIN TONIGHT. 1 DOWN, 10 TO GO. =D
Darling’s a simpleton, but waaaayy better than the mccarvers and joe bucks of the world. And Ecks? Ugh, sit down, 70′s porn star. And buck martinez? could you lower the decibals a bit? Oh, and joe morgan? gack!
pat,
I think it’s the green emoticon, but that’s an ugly one.
The TBS announcing seemed like they were just repeating things said on nESPeeN rather than doing their own banter. After a little while I just turned off the sound.
I’ve been at a couple of games at the stadium and it seemed pretty loud. Yet it seems the press and some others (Cone and Kay today) say it was subdued. Could the location affect how the sound travels there that much? CC and Joba seemed to think it was electric there.
Ding Ding Ding…
Let’s get reaaaaady to ruuuuumble.
pete got 1 comment on his post over at boston.com. why would he leave this. must be more pay?
Zach, there will be no rumble here tonight, but I missed hundreds, probably thousands of comments today, so I would like to see the one(s) where people said numbers don’t matter so I can chastise them. It’s all about the numbers. Except for the part about the intangibles.
I missed Andy and AJ tonight…..darn. However, their interview after the clinching was soooo sweet. AJ latched onto Andy from the first moment of ST – he leaned on him as a mentor. Actually, he bugged Andy as to when he was going to re-sign (during the off-season. Andy joked about it because he didn’t even know AJ)
Abdababdaserser
October 7th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
The TBS announcing seemed like they were just repeating things said on nESPeeN rather than doing their own banter. After a little while I just turned off the sound.
I’ve been at a couple of games at the stadium and it seemed pretty loud. Yet it seems the press and some others (Cone and Kay today) say it was subdued. Could the location affect how the sound travels there that much? CC and Joba seemed to think it was electric there.
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Bald Vinny the bleacher creature guy said on his twitter that the Jeter homerun was loudest the stadium has been.
It did get kind of quiet after the yanks broke the game open. Did get loud though when Joba came in.
Thanks for all your posts today Sam! Much appreciated.
…but I just threw some popcorn in the microwave!
lol, yankee2005.
Bigger paper, higher profile, near his family. I don’t think his life ambition was to have the greatest sports blog in the world. Otherwise he wouldn’t have left.
The blog is in its infancy, so it can’t be judged yet. But the format is not very friendly. Having his own forum might help, too. If the Sox do well, I suppose it’ll pick up. If they don’t, they’ll probably move on to Patriots (yay!) and Celtics.
We’re just crazy Yankee fans who have been waiting a loooong time for postseason magic to happen again, so we pay attention to every detail, which LoHud has provided to us in spades.
“numbers are meaningless!”
I agree…the game coverage has been much better with Sam and CHad and the others helping out. More updates and better info!
Numbers are meaningless…when they don’t substantiate the point you are trying to make.
What is the address to abe’s blog over at boston.com? I can’t find that ish. Thanks in advance….
See guys the 100,000 page views are what advertisers are looking for.VOLUME.
I can’t throw enough praise on the Captain.He got the offense going,they just followed his lead.
I concur–Excellent coverage today Sam and Chad. Thanks!
reading the Twitter updates on the right side – look who is starting game 3 for the Twinkies!
Since you asked so nicely
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....tra_bases/
They had a Yankees/Twins thread, with good updates.
“Hey, I don’t blame them. I’d boo me too after the four years I spent here.” — Pavano 21 mins ago
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Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I hope they eventually give Pete his own space over there.
My grandmother’s blog has a better layout than what they currently have.
Thank you m. Much appreciated, that place is like a ghost town.
Zach, if you already have the popcorn made, this might be a good time to catch up on Lost.
““Hey, I don’t blame them. I’d boo me too after the four years I spent here.” — Pavano 21 mins ago”
can you get hurt booing yourself? –
Carl Pavano goes on the DL for the 9th time in his illustrious Yankee career with a pulled vocal cord.
Casanova,
NP. It was jumping on Pete’s first day. But a lot of it was good wishes from LoHudders.
“Zach in Port Jeff
October 7th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
I hope they eventually give Pete his own space over there.
My grandmother’s blog has a better layout than what they currently have.”
wow. and I thought Zach was joking.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/.....0681906847
“pete got 1 comment on his post over at boston.com. why would he leave this. must be more pay?”
I thought you were kidding about the one comment until I went over there and checked. Is that THE blog that Pete is doing? Is it completely new? If that’s all the comments they’re getting, the traffic must be pretty low.
Nick, I watched the first season of Lost when it first aired, but was never able to make the full commitment. I’m waiting until every episode is released on DVD, before I lock myself in the house for 1 week.
I guarantee by the 3rd season that I’ll have morphed into a cross between Locke and Sawyer.
I’m planning similar marathon-watching-events with True Blood…and oddly enough…Prison Break??? Dont ask.
Is the thread Yankees-Twins at boston.com really posted by Pete?
Carpenter has issued his 4th walk,wow.Their Pen is average.
JC,
No. Nick Cafardo is in NY to cover the series.
2000+ comments sure beats the maximum 10 comments on the Globe blog!!!!!!
Did you know that boston.com ran a game thread on the Yankees-Twins game?
There’s one comment hoping the Socks aren’t hamburger in LA,and if they meet the Yankees aren’t stewed!
5-2 Dodgers,Torre was ready for La RUSSA!
The first comment in this section is the most important (from Mark Feinsand). Can we finally STOP lumping post-season home runs together? It is misleading, and disrespects guys like Mickey Mantle.
One can only imagine how many “post-season” home runs The Mick would have had if there had been two additional playoff rounds before the World Series in Mantle’s day.
Feinsand is right. Mantle’s 230 at-bats all came in the World Series, and he hit 18 WORLD SERIES home runs. That is the record. That remains the record. Let’s stop putting all post-season home runs together and break them down into playoff home runs vs. World Series home runs, and let Mantle’s greatness speak for itself once again.