Derek Jeter finally got his 3000th hit.
ESPN will just have to come up with a new headline story every night.
(Although Alex Rodriguez’s knee tear does give them a potential “A-Rod injury update” option.)
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Jeter has been around a few years. Well, more than a few. In fact, when he made his major league debut in 1995, David Price, the Rays pitcher who gave up his 3,000th, (and made his own major league debut in 2008) was nine years old.
Jamie Moyer on the other hand , in 1995 was probably already gray.
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Many in the media are calling the guy who caught the home run ball that was Jeter’s 3000th hit an idiot for giving it back. Since he only got memorabilia and tickets in return. They say he could have made $500,000. But the tickets the Yankees gave them are in the Championship Suites section for the rest of the year. Their face value might be over $500,000.
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If Jeter got his 3000th hit on the same day of the Casey Anthony verdict, I think a lot of the East Coast media’s heads would have exploded.
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Congratulations to South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, on their Independence Day. Wonder how long it will take someone to offer them a bribe to vote on the next Olympics or FIFA World Cup?
During his U.S visit with his bride Kate/Catherine, Prince William took part in a charity polo match in Los Angeles Saturday. When asked about it, Sarah Palin remarked that it was amazing how they must have taught the horses how to swim.
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The Dodgers fired Steve Garvey, because while he was working for them he was also involved with another group trying to buy the team. Let’s see, Los Angeles was shocked by duplicity from a man who got two women pregnant in the same year he married a third woman.
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Meanwhile, Saturday the Dodgers beat the Padres 1-0 with a walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth, after Los Angeles had been no-hit through eight. Three hits in the game combined for both teams. Okay, baseball fans. Could you have imagined such a display of pitching/offensive fuility, and the SF Giants weren’t involved?
From T.C. , On 7’6″ Yao Ming’s retirement. “In Chinese, Yao Ming translates to – 1st to acknowledge rain.”
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