The Goat Pen

No. The wild card is a joke to keeps paying fans coming through the gates. Unless the wild card is 2 out of 3 it's a stupid as hedges posts these last few months. 1 game is a joke.

"If you lose the wildcard, do you REALLY make the playoffs?"

Ask Mike Price...

Jeter's first at bat in his last game in Yankee Stadium he hits the fence for a double.

That's why I like baseball. Seems like the legends never let you down

annnnnd Jeter hits the game winning run to close out his career in Yankee stadium

storybook ending

With the NFL season already in ruins, thank god for Jeter who will save us all.

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I'm not even a huge fan of baseball or Jeter for that matter,

but c'mon- this is Mickey Mantle level shit here going on. I'm glad I was able to see it live.

Yeah, Jeter wore me down. I was not a fan when I first moved to NY. His approach...and everyone else's fuckery...converted me as a lifelong fan. Glad to see the end played out the way it did. Those people who paid $10K to sit near the dugout didn't waste their cash.

Fuck Jeter

Fuck IB's mom. Oh wait, you already did that...

Jeter's a good guy and he always played hard and smart but as the NYY announcer said, "He's the greatest player I've ever seen who didn't do great things."

Mantle would have hit it 500 feet to win the game, not poke a single to RF. And then all these people going on about how clutch Jeter is but that was just his 7th walk off RBI hit last night. I imagine that in 20 years he's had more than, a conservative estimate, 70 at-bats in which had a chance to deliver a walk-off win with a hit. That's not a great avg. for a "clutch hitter," which as aTm will tell you, doesn't exist anyway.

aTm did some clutch hitting on IB's mom's bunghole...

He's the greatest player who didn't necessarily do great things because baseball is running out of heros from the 90s. It's just kinda Jeter and Griffey.

Jeter had 150 game winning RBIs. Still think he's overrated just because he is a Yankee. If he was a Rockie for 20 years people would just be ho hum.

Any player who has crucially played in as many World Series over a 20 year career, with as many All Star appearances, will get the type of send off Jeter did. If I think of Kareem, Gretzky, Montana or Ray Bourke, they all deserved the accolades and they didn't all play for "Yankee" types of teams.

jeter has a flair for the dramatic

plus no one has had more hits since rose retired

#5 alltime in hits

some of the most dramatic homeruns ever

and some of the best defensive baseball plays we will probably never see the likes of again--2 in particular

first thing I though watching last night was rigged too

but you dont rig giving up three runs in the top of the 9th just so you could bring up jeter in the bottom to get the walkoff--the plan was to pull jeter once they got two out on the orioles in the top of the 9th

Stat compiler

you're 10% right

Girardi even said there was no plan to pull him. Once the game was over they were going to have him walk around the field waving while former teammates stood at home plate waving him home. The were waiting in the tunnel when the Meatball pitch was thrown.