Please sign Mr Jeter - NY Times article about collecting Jeter in Fla

[RichardSimon]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/sp...t_th_20130208&

[mschwade]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/sp...t_th_20130208&

I've bought a Robinson Cano signed bat from one of the guys they quoted in the article before. Small world.

[jimjim]

Nice article. Not sure I would wait almost 8 plus hours for a Jeter graph that looks like slop, but that is just me. To each their own.

[travrosty]

This is unbelievable, why would you want an autograph from someone like that? Mr. too cool for school.

he doesnt care about you, so dont ask him about his day. he can go jump in the lake as far as i am concerned. babe ruth was more popular than anyone, and i dont think babe treated people like that. who does he think he is? derek jeter? so what.

turns my stomach that people sign up for that abuse.

[chaddurbin]

Originally Posted by travrosty

This is unbelievable, why would you want an autograph from someone like that.

so they can turn around and resell that sig. you have whole forums dedicated to stuff like this. i don't blame the superstars for being indignant about it.

[HRBAKER]

The man's been hounded by these guys for nearly twenty years, I wouldn't give them the time of day.

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by travrosty

This is unbelievable, why would you want an autograph from someone like that? Mr. too cool for school.

he doesnt care about you, so dont ask him about his day. he can go jump in the lake as far as i am concerned. babe ruth was more popular than anyone, and i dont think babe treated people like that. who does he think he is? derek jeter? so what.

turns my stomach that people sign up for that abuse.

agree whole heartily. The guy is an idiot and I wouldn't care to own A THING WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH ON IT. The Jeter ball was the first thing I sold when I started to downsize and I couldn't be happier to rid my collection of that baboon ass.

[EvilKing00]

Funny thing, because im a met fan, sometimes yankee fans say i just dislike jeter cause im a met fan. Let me tell you...Chipper Jones was my all time enemy, as he crushed my team for many years, so much so he named hes kid Shea, ugh.

BUT, not only do i respect him as a 1st ballot HOF, and have many of his rookie cards, but I made sure I was at his last game at shea, to give him a standing ovation.

there are very good players and then there are the elite.

[Mr. Zipper]

Never heard a bad word about Mariano Rivera signing. He signs in crowds, occasionally TTM, and does public signings with relatively sane prices.

And he's a way better pitcher than Jeter is a shortstop.

[esd10]

i meet jeter in the mid 90's when he was playing for the columbus clippers and it was at a big bear grocery store of all places and got his auto but didnt really know who he was until later. he was very nice to everyone who he signed autos for and man has his fame gone to his head and what a a#$hole now.

[cubsfan-budman]

I try to be pretty pragmatic about these things (imho), but I think more than many players out there, Jeter owes his livelihood to his fans. He's a first-ballot HOFer, far more for his fame than for his stats.

I honestly don't expect any athlete to spend the time that guys like Bobby Doerr must spend signing each day...but I do think that if he took a long, hard look at his station in life, he would realize that signing an auto for each of the people that got up at 3am just to interact with him for 10 seconds was a very small price.