Craig, Craig, Craig…really, you should know better.  For shame.  This is, what, the second time in a week that you dared say something…um…shall we say, less than reverential about a Yankee, and you’re wondering why the vehement response?

Actually, sometimes I wonder if you don’t actually enjoy starting some kind of baseball version of Let’s You and Him Fight.  (I know, Eric Berne classified that as a “sexual” game, but I always thought that it applied to many other situations in life.)

Oh, and about your Jeter entry?  May I take this opportunity to say thank you for stating exactly what I have been thinking myself.

Yeah, the overhyping of this record has been atrocious.  That said, you know I was damn pissed when he dropped the oh-fer with me in the bleachers Tuesday night.  Though getting to see two incredibly rare feats, Nick Swisher hitting home runs at Yankee Stadium and Phil Hughes giving up a home run, period, kind of made up for it.f

And then there’s this:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/090909&sportCat=mlb

ECP - I’m pretty sure the Caple piece was tongue in cheek. Caple was, after all, the author of the Devil Wears Pinstripes.

MJ - Another good question - Does Jeter even know that he the “Greatest MLB plahyer in Modern Era”? It brings up two questions 1) Whats “Modern Era and 2) Doesn’t Pujols have something to say about this?

Thanks for echoing the opinion that starting Dice-K in a playoff game is a farce. Your first NBC commenter lamely (a redundancy, I know) tries to argue that there’s a thrill in facing a major-leaguer for the Winston-Salem Dash (nee Warthogs), but I’m with you: These kids battled for 140 games and to essentially have a best-of-five turn into a we’ve got to win three of four now. Never mind that Salem is in the playoffs with a losing overall record in the first place and a .500 record for the 2nd half.

This is New York, baby, and nothing can happen without the event be overblown and made to seem like the parting of the Red Sea.
To bring everyone up to dat:
The Yankees are now THE GREATEST TEAM IN THE ANNALS OF SPORT!
The Mets are all things unmentionable.
Ah, the ebb and flow.  Even the Old Gray Lady gets involved to a certain but more intelligent degree.
And then we come to a certain group who overlap the demographic: New York Post readers who make comments on CTB.
Oh, the Humanity, and all the people.
A belated thanks to Shysterball readers who heeded my plea to leave ARod alone! And the big bouncer checking for the riff-raff that doesn’t know the secret handshake seems to be working.

Well, you might not have received proper credit for being firstest w/mostest in calling Whicker’s
Jaycee piece the worst sports column ever written, but at least you weren’t falsely accused of describing it as “eye-searingly, soul-hurtingly awful.”

Unless of course (and who can say for certain, it being an uncertain world) you are now using “Jason Linkins” as a nom de plume.

Mark Grace had a lot of bits so that surely makes him one of the three best Cubs ever, right?

That Yankee thread over there confuses me.  Are you an idiot blogger or a “media” nazi? 

They can’t make up the mind if you are the antiestablishment or the establishment.

AND THEY LOVE THEIR CAPS LOCK

Wanna have real fun, Craig?  Just insinuate that Lord George is operating at, um, less than full intellectual capacity these days.  Note that this only becomes cause for discussion because of NY press stories that boast about His Lordship spending a half-day at the office in Tampa.

An honest approach would be to acknowledge reality and let the guy close things out in private, instead of pretending otherwise.  It worked for Gehrig.