YANKEE 4-EVA!!!11!!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 11:42 am by SJK
From Kevin Kernan of the NY Post:
The Yankees need to find a way to make Derek Jeter a Yankee for Life. There's really only one way. At some point the Steinbrenner family would have to take him into the ownership group.
Jeter, of course, is in the final year of his 10-year, $189 million contract. The Yankees and Jeter will come together on a new deal at some point, but Jeter needs to be a Yankee for Life and there is a way to make him one. The Yankees need to work out a deal with Jeter where they allow him to become part of Yankees ownership after his playing days are complete. Players cannot be part of ownership, so this would have to be a separate deal.
There never will be another George Steinbrenner, but imagine the buzz of having Jeter as part of the ownership group. He could be Boss II. What better owner could the Yankees have than Jeter?
...Jeter needs to be a Yankee for Life
We'd like to think we speak for many when we say this...
Calm down, dude.
Give him another 10 year deal first.
Because we want the jocks running the team. Right.
It’s worked out so well for the Bobcats!
That said, I could see bringing him on as a small minority owner, the way Jerry Buss did with Magic Johnson. It would be cool if they did that, but there’s no karmic need to.
this is like ben kabak’s post on RAB, except for the fact that kabak didn’t even realize that jeter’s next contract can’t even include ownership rights. talk about not doing your hw.
I think Mo and Jeter should be given contracts similar to what Wakefield had with Boston. Not in terms of dollars, but in terms of some sort of revolving renewal. Just a thought.
Jeter and Mo will both get one year too many for a few million more than they’d ge ton the open market. Everyone will be happy, for a while at least.
The ownership thing is silly, of course. I want Jeter to finish his career as a Yankee, but once he’s done playing, why would I possibly care if he is part of the organization or not?
frank,
Way to not read the whole post
Yeah, Frank…… Ben definitely mentioned that in the post.
lol Frank. Work on your reading.
Maybe frank read it right after Kabak posted it. He responded to a commenter by saying he forgot about that and was updating the piece.
Sign him to a 4-5-6 year deal…whatever…but part ownership? Why? What would the team even gain by that? If a player plays his entire career with one team isn’t it safe to say he’s a “yankee”….do we need to start cutting side deals with guys to confirm their yankee status?
I can’t even take writing like this seriously.
Hey jackasses! Read the comments to the post. Kabak forgot. He was then reminded by the comments that you can’t put that in a contract. Fucking idiots.
Keep Hating on Jeter douches
I am surprised people are still making the exclamation point/”oops I didn’t hold down shift and put some 1′s in there” joke.
Also, where is the analysis? as in quick analytical blurb.
Maybe you should reclassify this is “look what I read”
Great idea. When Carson left NBC, remember how they gave him part of the network? And all those movie stars in the old days, they owned the studios, right? And Mauer is going to “own” the Twins, like Gwynn owns the Padres now. Oh, no, that’s right, it’s the other way around.
The point this guy’s trying to make is so absurd there is no analysis needed…”hey lets just give the guy part of the team…”
That won’t set a bad precedent or anything…..nah….
Keep Hating on Jeter douches
point to a single post in the thread that qualifies for this.
I notice there’s no post yet about how OBP Jesus got a head start toward his resort home on the DL.
I notice there’s no post yet about how OBP Jesus got a head start toward his resort home on the DL.
That’s b/c it’s March 5th and it’s nothing serious.
Good try though.
Kevin Kernan looks like Dr Marvin Monroe from the first season (or two) of The Simpsons.
But Nick Swisher likes KRS-One warranted a post, right?
Two predictions: 1) OBP Jesus won’t make it into half the games the Yankees play this year, and 2) We’ll never read a mea culpa regarding NoMaas’ (and others, but especially NoMaas, the Yankee Pravda) agitation for this stupid, stupid move.
The only upside is maybe we get to see Montero end up in a C/DH platoon with Posada mid-season after Nick the Stick falls down a well in the middle of the desert or whatever disaster surely awaits him.
There’s a lot of angry folks round here…
you have to wonder why someone would write something like that… the season hasn’t started and interesting things to write about during spring training are few and far between this season, so what’s a sports writer to do? make shiz up. thats how writers roll. their are a zillion blogs, sports networks and papers covering the yankees, “and we can’t all write the same thing!”
hence, when there is no angle, you create one: make Jeter part owner. brilliant. on the one hand, i applaud companies that make labor part of the ownership family, but when you pay labor the way MLB players get paid (league minimum is over 100K, right), i dont think its necessary. they have enough incentive. They can go from rich to super rich to generational rich (hand money down to kids – kids – kids)
Re: “Two predictions: 1) OBP Jesus won’t make it into half the games the Yankees play this year, and 2) We’ll never read a mea culpa regarding NoMaas’ (and others, but especially NoMaas, the Yankee Pravda) agitation for this stupid, stupid move.”
Prediction: We’ll never see a mea culpa from you after Nicky J. posts a .420 OBP and .880 OPS in 480 ABs.
I should be a Yankee for life.