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Originally Posted by the 'stache
I like Jeter. Think he played the game the right way. But the love fest that the modern fan has with the guy makes me scratch my head. And $100,000 for a non autographed rookie is the height of insanity. I don't care what the grade is.
He got 3,000 hits, so he should be in the Hall. But outside of hitting for average (.310 is good, I will give him that), tell me what Derek Jeter did that was exceptional?
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He did the image thing exceptionally well, particularly in contrast to his teammate ARod who was far and away the better baseball player.
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