Autograph has also teamed up with Lionsgate to develop NFTs with their most successful films, continuing their push to develop a marketplace of purely entertainment-based NFTs. A source at DraftKings was able to confirm that more athletes are going to be releasing NFTs on the platform within the next couple of weeks. Category : cryptocurrency. The first thought among Yankee fans is to bat Nick Swisher second behind Gardner. Well, what is Swisher doing this season? He's only batting. Like Gardner, his OBP.
For his career, Swisher has been predominately a fly ball hitter career 0. Having Mark Teixeira behind him in the lineup might help his numbers, but having Posada batting behind him now isn't a weakness either. Teixeira does lead the team with four home runs and 10 RBI, but he's only batting. Moving Gardner and Swisher into the first two spots in the lineup and dropping Jeter down isn't going to make any difference right now. The numbers just don't support the move.
If Jeter continues to struggle and hit the ball on the ground, while Gardner and Swisher begin to pick it up, Girardi can make the move more easily because he has actual reason. But right now, Girardi isn't getting enough production to justify the move. Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox!
Your sports. Join Newsletter. And the fact that Jeter did it without even hinting at taking more of a pay cut to help the Yanks get some financial flexibility to sign other players was a complete joke. Although he's currently starting at second base for the Yankees, Stephen Drew is technically listed as the backup to Derek Jeter on the depth chart—which, if you're Drew, has to be the last position he wants to be in.
Sure, the possibility of being tabbed as a starting shortstop for a major league team has to be a great feeling, but not when the guy who played there before you happened to do so for 20 straight seasons and is admired as arguably the greatest Yankees player ever. As other athletes have found out, replacing a legend isn't easy, so whether it's Drew or someone else, Jeter made it next to impossible for that guy to have an easy transition.
Could he have helped by allowing Drew to get situated at short a few games? Or he could have backed his teammate a little bit more by declaring to the press that Drew is more than capable of holding his own at the position as a former hot prospect who has enjoyed solid seasons in the past.
That may still happen, but as of right now, Jeter is making it next to impossible for Drew or someone else to replace him next season and beyond. I totally understand why so many people thought that the backhanded flip that Jeter pulled off against the Oakland Athletics in was so extraordinary. What I don't understand, though, is why people are still treating it as if it was one of the best plays in postseason history, some 13 years later.
Sure, Jeter's instincts to be at that exact position to field an errant throw by Yanks right fielder Shane Spencer were spot on, but this came during Game 3 of the divisional series, not Game 7 of the World Series!
In fact, the biggest play of that entire postseason— Luis Gonzalez's walk-off single against the Yankees and Mariano Rivera—probably doesn't even get as much pub as Jeter's flip.
It's absolutely no secret that Derek Jeter is arguably the biggest ladies man in sports right now. Some of his past girlfriends include Mariah Carey, Jessica Alba and, my personal favorite, Minka Kelly—who is still in my top-five rotating celeb girls at this moment.
Some may be jealous of all of the fanfare The Captain gets and his five World Series rings, but the real reason everyone should still dislike Jeter? The fact that he was able to score all of these sexy ladies. Do I hate Jeter for his past girlfriends, the money he has earned in recent years or the general adoration that he gets—even if he's a bit overrated? Not necessarily. But when looking at the facts, maybe I—along with other fans—should think about it more.
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