New York Giants QB Eli Manning announced his retirement on Friday, but not without questioning reporters on who didn’t vote for Derek Jeter.
It’s been a big sports week for the city of New York. First, New York Yankee great Derek Jeter was voted into the Hall of Fame. The next day, the world found out that Eli Manning would be calling it a career.
Manning held his retirement press conference in front of family, friends, former teammates and coaches Friday morning. And as part of a round of questioning, Manning was asked about Jeter and what he learned from the Yankees captain.
Manning responded in traditional Eli fashion.
“Well, I’m just trying to figure out which one of y’all didn’t vote for him. There’s only one of ya, so I know you’re probably in here,” Manning cracked.
Jeter got 99.7 % of the possible votes to get him into the Hall of Fame. The baseball world has been wondering who it was that didn’t vote him in on their ballot. Apparently, Eli is wondering the same.
Manning also talked about the call he got from Jeter during his rookie year and how he watched Jeter closely after that. Manning admitted to taking a lot of notes about how Jeter handled New York.
The two combined to bring multiple championships to New York and if you are a Yankees and a Giants fan, it’s likely both Manning and Jeter are guys who are near to your heart as a sports fan.
John Mara has already come out and said that the Giants will indeed put Manning in the Ring of Honor, where he belongs. His number will be retired, just like Jeter’s number was at the conclusion of his great career.
New York Giants legend Michael Strahan had a message for Derek Jeter after the Yankees legend was voted into the Hall of Fame.
New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday, a forgone conclusion to many but still exciting to see for New York baseball fans.
One fan is a Hall of Famer himself, former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, who starred for and captained the Giants in many of the years Jeter was doing the same for the Yankees.
Congratulations DJ! You are a Hall of Famer on and off the field. I think I can speak for everyone in the country, besides one person. You are a unanimous choice for the Hall of Fame. #NewYorkLegend#Respect#DerekJeter 2️⃣ pic.twitter.com/v6S2VBkogQ
Of the 397 ballots cast by select 10-year members of the BBWAA, Jeter was named on 396 (99.7 percent), second only to former New York Yankees teammate Mariano Rivera’s 100 percent in 2019, and ahead of third-place Ken Griffey Jr., who received 99.3 percent of the vote in 2016.
Whereas Jeter was elected in his first year of eligibility, Larry Walker made the grade in his 10th-and-final year on the BBWAA ballot. They will be honored as part of the Hall’s Induction Weekend July 24-27 in Cooperstown, N.Y., along with catcher Ted Simmons and the late Major League Players Association executive director Marvin Miller, who were elected in December by the Modern Baseball Era Committee.
Expect to see more legendary New York athletes send their respects to Jeter in the coming days.
Derek Jeter, to the surprise of no one, was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday.
There was one somewhat surprising thing about the announcement however – he wasn’t a unanimous selection as Jeter got 396 of the 397 votes.
He will be joined by Larry Walker, who was inducted in to the HOF in the final of year that he will be on the ballot, which is cool.
The fact that guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens still aren’t in the HOF, however, makes this whole thing feel a really silly. But hey, two new former stars will be enshrined in Cooperstown on July 26.
MLB fans – including Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes – really want to find out who the one person was who didn’t vote for Jeter:
It’s insane to me that every single person voted “yes” for Derek Jeter to be in the Hall of Fame except for ONE PERSON.
Their vote shouldn’t count and they should be ashamed of themselves. How do you vote that DEREK JETER shouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame?Deserved to be unanimous
If Jeter had been unanimous they would have lasered his face onto the surface of the moon in his honor, but he wasn’t, so now every baseball writer has to tweet that it’s no big deal he was a vote short.
The Staten Island Yankees are the Class A (short season) affiliates of the New York Yankees, but even the lower-level club is getting in on mocking the Astros cheating scandal.
As part of a promotion for Staten Island’s game against the Houston-affiliate Tri-City ValleyCats, the Yankees are planning to give away mini trash cans to the first 500 fans in attendance. The big-league Astros, of course, used a trashcan to relay off-speed pitches to the batter as part of their cheating scheme.
It’s unlikely that the New York Yankees were tuned in to this promotion as even the Yankees were fined in 2017 for using the replay room to decode the sign sequences of opposing teams. In a league where cheating and sign-stealing are realistically running rampant, this is the kind of promotion that could backfire.
But on the other hand, I appreciate the creativity and response time that went into trolling the Astros here. We’ll have to see if the giveaway actually happens on Sept. 3.
Coaching or managing around the New York Metropolitan are has not lent itself to long runs.
Agents repping coaches in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan Area might offer their clients some sage advice: Rent, don’t buy. A look at how short the shelf life has been for head coaches in and around the Big Apple.
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Big Blue dipped into the assistant coach pool and hired Joe Judge as its head coach for 2020. Prior to this surprise move, Pat Shurmur lasted two seasons going 9-23. Before that, it was Ben McAdoo, who went 2-10 in 2017 and was canned despite going 11-5 in his first season.
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Gerrit Cole is a grown adult. He is going to get paid $324 million bucks over the next nears years while playing the beautiful game of baseball. And he could be the key to bringing home multiple World Series titles during his stay in the Bronx.
But during that time he will not be allowed to grow a beard. Or grow his hair too long.
For real.
Cole was officially introduced as a Yankee on Wednesday and he looked very different, as his beard was gone and his bushy hair was trimmed a bit. That, of course, was because of the Yankees’ archaic rules that don’t allow beards or hair that goes over the collar.
Seriously, they still have these rules in 2019, which is absurd and should be forgotten about once and for all.
This whole thing started way back in 1973(!) when the late George Steinbrenner made the rules after watching a bunch of hairy players wear the pinstripes on Opening Day. Mustaches are OK, long hair and beards are a no go!
“All players, coaches and male executives are forbidden to display any facial hair other than mustaches (except for religious reasons), and scalp hair may not be grown below the collar. Long sideburns and ‘mutton chops’ are not specifically banned.”
I mean, who even says ‘mutton chops’ these days? Well, besides hipsters in Brooklyn.
Don Mattingly and Lou Pinella challenged these rules during their time with the team but nobody lately has raised a stink over it. I guess it’s hard to speak up when you’re cashing monster checks every two weeks, but still.
Cole, who grew up a Yankees fan, had a chance on Wednesday to take a stand for all the players on the team who are dying to rock a beard during the season. Imagine if he showed up looking like he did last season with the Astros and was like “This is my team now. Beards for everyone.” What would the Yankees do to their $324 million dollar man?
Nothing.
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Beards, if you’ve ever walked down any street on planet Earth, are very popular these days. They are also a lot different than those worn in the early 1970s. Now most beards are trimmed nicely and put together with a sharp attention to the small details. Even the ones that aren’t trimmed short still look fine and add some character to those who let it grow.
It’s also silly that baseball players can’t have beards considering how they spend most of their time – in glorified sweatsuits (with belts) while either chewing tobacco, spitting seeds, or chomping on some Double Bubble bubble gum.
But no beards?
Come on!
A team full of grown adults playing for one of the most prestigious franchises in all of sports shouldn’t have to follow these rules made from such a different time. There weren’t even HD televisions back then. That’s a long time ago!.
But here we are.
Cole had his chance to be a hero.
Instead, he shaved his face.
Which is so lame.
Wednesday’s biggest winners: Emmitt and E.J. Smith.
E.J. Smith is a very good running back, too, and on Wednesday he picked Stanford over Florida, where his dad once starred. Was Emmitt bummed out about that? Nope, not all. Instead, he was a proud dad who had the best reaction to his son’s decision to forge his own path. His message about his son was too good. You should watch it.
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I don’t mean to burst anyone’s bubble here, but I’m not the only one curious about something that happened during Gerrit Cole’s introductory press conference with the New York Yankees.
Let’s go back to 2001 for a second: Cole was 11 years old, and despite growing up in California, he was a Yankees fan. While attending the World Series in Phoenix, he brought a sign that read, “Yankee fan today tomorrow forever” and was snapped by Newark Star-Ledger photographer William Perlman holding it up before Game 6.
I'm not going to definitively claim the validity of Cole's sign, but black ink oxidizes and fades to a yellow over time. 18 years is quite a long time.
