Mr. Yankee Calls It Quits

The  20 year baseball career of Derek Jeter is over.  If you look at his career numbers he has over 3,400 hits which should be enough by itself to make the Hall Of Fame.  His career 310 batting average  is pretty good too.

If there was ever a player who could deliver when the spotlight was on it is Derek Jeter.  He was steady but never a great defensive shortstop. He did however win five Gold Gloves.   He always seemed to do the right thing.  Remember the World Series game when Jeter flipped the ball to home to cut down a runner when he was in foul territory on the first base side ten feet from home plate.  What in the world is the short stop doing there?  He just knew where the ball was going to be on a throw from the outfield.

Despite being a Hall of Famer in waiting the Yankees will be a better team next year because they have become old.  If you look at New York City teams and I say that as the Giants, Knicks and Yankees the news media if you play for those teams make you great and those sports organization hold on to players too long because of media pressure and fans expectations from media hype.

The Dallas Cowboys need to keep Demarco Murray Healthy.  This newly discovered running game made them look like world beaters last night.  We all know the Cowboys will finish 8-8.  Isn't this the way the NFC East goes.  Every four games another team looks unbeatable and the team that was 2-6 wins the division.

In case you haven't heard the Packers and the Bears did not punt in their game yesterday.  It is only the second time in NFL history  that there were no punts in a game.  The last time that happened was 1990 when Buffalo and San Fransico met and the quarterbacks were Jim Kelly and Steve Young.  They both passed for over 400 yards   And 1100 total yards.  The score was 34-31.

Sunday the San Diego Chargers rushed for 42 yards on 20 attempts which is awful.  No problem as Philip Rivers throws for 377 yards  and three touchdowns .  His top two rushers out with injury, he was sacked twice and hit on several other attempts Rivers manages to avoid the rush and for the 24th straight game throws a touchdown pass which is a San Diego a Charger Franchise record .