NO BLOODY SOCK FOR JETER, JUST HEART

No gimmicks, no public spectacle, just pure guts.  That's the Yankee way. Jeter and the Yankees aren't an infomercial  for playing through pain.  For Derek Jeter, it's his job to play every game and try to win and if he doesn't do it, he's failed the club, he's failed the fans and he knows that. So, he'll play through pain, that bone bruise in his ankle, and he just won't talk about it.  Why? Because if he does, it takes away from the team. So he says it simply, and I'm paraphrasing, "I don't talk about injuries, you either play or you don't play, we have games to win."  What an attitude! Here's alittle more info on his bone bruise, read HERE.

I often think back to Curt Schilling during times like this. I never really believed that bloody sock thing. I felt like it was a gimmick, a sympathy vote that probably wasn't even necessary. We all knew just how talented Schilling and the Red Sox were in 2004 and all that crap about a bloody sock didn't and shouldn't have played into it, but the media bought in. What a story, "He's hurt and bloody and he's a baseball hero." Bottom line, we knew Schilling was good, we should have left it at that.

I have a question... When it was revealed by Gary Thorne, an announcer that the whole bloody sock thing was a hoax saying "Doug Mirabelli (a backup catcher for the Red Sox) confessed up to it after. It was all for PR.", read HERE, and Curt Schilling then angrily came out saying "I'll wager one million dollars to the charity of anyone's choice, versus the same amount to ALS. If the blood on the sock is fake, I'll donate a million dollars to that person's charity; if not, they donate that amount to ALS. Any takers?" (HERE), isn't that enough that the Hall of Fame  maybe just do a simple DNA test on the sock? I mean, sure, it's not the Hall of Fame's duty to do that, after all, the story wasn't just the sock and I guess years later, it really doesn't matter what's on it, but it all goes back to presentation...it was the dog and pony show, was it all necessary?  That's my take anyway.

But back to Jeet. Derek Jeter is different. Jeter doesn't need the press. Jeter just needs the rings, a team award, and you have to admire that. So as we battle through the next 17 games, just realize just how lucky you are to have a guy like Jeter on your favorite team that isn't all about himself, but instead about the team and the goal...to win it all, no matter what, for the greatest fans in the world...us.

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