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12/04: Jeter on A-Rod "Situation"

Posted by: Patrick

"From Day 1, I've said time and time again, 'Alex is going to be fine.' When he was going through it, I said, 'He's going through a slump every player goes through, I don't care how good you are.' I said, 'He's a big part of the team.' I said, 'It's one of those things, and at the end of the year he's going to be exactly where he is all the time.'

"That's exactly what I said," Jeter calmly explained. "I said the only thing I wasn't going to do was tell the fans who they should boo and who they shouldn't boo." ...

"I got booed, Mo got booed, Tino got booed the first half of the season. Jason got booed," Jeter said. "Everyone got booed, but it's not your job to say, 'Hey, everybody should stop booing.'

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Jason wrote:

Jeter: "Everything is good."

Goodwill in the clubhouse: A great gift for Yankees fans this Xmas season.

12/04 11:00:54

Chris wrote:

Nothing major but Sturtze signed with the Braves
link to foxsports article
http://msn.foxsports.com/ml...

12/04 11:05:03

James wrote:

Thanks Chris and Thank you Santa Claus! Now, let me be the first to say that I do wish Sturtze well in his personal life- however, I am ecstatic that he's out of pinstripes and now Torre can't somehow find a way to add him back to the bullpen.

12/04 13:18:41

Seamus wrote:

Jeter's right. It's good to stick up for your teammates but in the end the only person that can get A-Rod out of a slump is A-Rod. Like Derek said, "Alex is going to be fine."

12/04 18:41:06

Richard A. Holland wrote:

Sorry, but I somewhat disagree with Seamus. Only in that I'm not saying it was Jeter's resposibility to tell people not to boo A-Rod, it's just that I feel he could have said some things more often that favored a slump-ridden Yankee.

For instance, "People can boo whom they wish, but booing any player, including A-Rod while they're in a slump, cannot be most productive for the Yankees as a team."

Also, by saying something encouraging like this, it would have reduced the distance in their relationship and Jeter's supposedly 'hurt feelings' from the news article A-rod was supposed to have had input about being a better shortstop than Jeter.

Again, NOT Jeter's job, but it certainly would not have hurt anyone either.

12/07 16:54:45

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