Derek Jeter honors Muhammad Ali for living the life he never would

[tremonthustler1]

Out for him? Out for Jeter?
He's the most protected athlete probably going back 50 years.

I don't know about all that. Writers are a little more critical of Jeter than you think. If you're a shytty quote, writers tend to scoff when it comes to having to deal with you. Now with the Players' Tribune, that's a lot of exclusives writers aren't getting anymore, so they feel phased out by him.

 

[Remote]

im not really sure where this broke off breh

i mean is what you're saying that every athlete has an obligation to speak out, like this article is saying? i dont feel that way, because theyre just athletes that was my only point

Does every one have an obligation? No.
But the point of the article, which...disappointingly I seem to keep having to emphasis is (no disrespect to you personally)....there could not be a more polar opposite athlete to Muhammad Ali than Derek Jeter.
So for Jeter to write what he did was empty and lame.

And the columnist was right to point it out.

But because the guy didn't address EVERY ATHLETE ON EARTH...there's all this....

 

[the cac mamba]

Does every one have an obligation? No.
But the point of the article, which...disappointingly I seem to keep having to emphasis is (no disrespect to you personally)....there could not be a more polar opposite athlete to Muhammad Ali than Derek Jeter.
So for Jeter to write what he did was empty and lame.

And the columnist was right to point it out.

But because the guy didn't address EVERY ATHLETE ON EARTH...there's all this....

nah i hear that

 

[T.he I.nformant]

If anything Jordan should be the one to be criticized

Why jeter? Did he fuk your girl and leave her with a basket of autographed balls?

Compare what Jordan said about Ali to what Jeter said and get back to me

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Out for him? Out for Jeter?
He's the most protected athlete probably going back 50 years.

And the people who did the protecting, the NY writers, felt personally offended that the first thing he did after retirement was create a platform that froze them out. Seriously, the week he announced the Player's Tribune there was basically a giant fukk Jeter piece in the Daily News, and the sentiment has been like that ever since.

There's a reason why these writers never went at him before, but do so now. Do you think if Jeter's piece about Ali was instead given to a Daily Post writer instead of onto his own website which goal is the elimination of sportswriters, this article would still be written and published?

Use your brain.

These writers are mad they treated Jeter with white privilege his whole career and he threw them in the bushes as soon as he was done.

 

[Adebisi_Said]

 

[Millan]

and apparently game 4 2001 alds vs Oakland doesn't count either.

Yankee fans and their short attention span.

 

[Millan]

not to mention that he had a 14 game World Series hitting streak from Game 2 1996 to Game 1 2001..and ranks 1st all time in HRs in the World Series.

 

[Taadow]

Which frankly....is okay to a degree. Many of us wish people would speak up.

HOWEVER....
If you don't speak up, you get to sit back and credit and praise Ali for supposedly paving a road that YOU chose to never even stand on, let alone walk.

Sure you can...

if somebody paved a road and you saw what happened when they walked it...
...and you saw you didn't want to walk that road because of what they had to deal with, then you can
credit them and praise them for that.

It's the "Hov Did That" Postulate.

 

[Millan]

Bernie Williams, Paul Oneill and Tino Martinez were the three-headed monsters of the Yankee offense in the late 90s. Jeter only came into his own and defined the yankee offense in the early-mid 2000s. (jeters prime 2000-2010) jeter was still a young man learning the ropes in the late 90s, no way he was the central piece of these yankee teams 1995-1999. Wily veterans with poise and winning experience like Bernie Williams, Martinez, Oneill (1990 WS ring with reds) actually teached Jeets, Mariano, Posada and Pettitte(the core 4 ) how to act, play and conduct as professionals.They were their teachers.

Even Scott Brosius had more clutch hits than Jeter in the late 1990s. Remember, he was the 1998 World series MVP against the Padres.

uh, I seem to remember Jeter winning the Subway Series MVP in 2000...or am I just BSing ?

 

[Roaden Polynice]

Exactly.

It's angers people that I can be a Yankees fan but still not buy into this holier-than-thou propped up fraud of a hero that was Derek Jeter.

You ain't a real Yankees fan then

Sorry to break it to you wodie

You and that bitter ass columnist can kick rocks

 

[Dushane Hill]

Aint this nikka give half of Hollywood Herpes??

 

[Grifter]

 

[jadillac]

damn I didnt think anybody hated Jeter.

What did he do, or not do? Dude has never played up his black side, nor his white side. He was just Jeter.

Was he ever really in a position to discuss social issues?

 

[FaTaL]

Aint this nikka give half of Hollywood Herpes??

they all have herpes