Leave It To Derek Jeter To Embrace The "Mr.November" Nickname He Got In The World Series That The Yankees Lost After He Hit A Lowly .148
This clip makes it way around the interwebs, the tweeter, and social media platforms this time every year and I never can get it. I never really understand why such a great moment is told without the full story.
Let me elaborate .
AndScape- It was Halloween night when New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter stepped into the batter’s box in the 10th inning of Game 4 of the 2001 World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
That World Series game at Yankee Stadium was, for New Yorkers, therapeutic: The Yankees’ fourth straight appearance in the Fall Classic was a welcome distraction from the terrorist attacks just six weeks before in which two planes slammed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, leaving more than 2,500 people dead in lower Manhattan. The tragic events of Sept. 11 led to a brief postponement of the regular season, pushing the entire schedule back a week.
But there was no recent World Series success to rely on for Jeter when he batted in the bottom of the 10th of that Game 4. Jeter had just one hit in 15 at-bats (.067) when he stepped to the plate against Arizona reliever Byung-Hyun Kim with the bases empty and two outs in a 3-3 game.
After fouling off the first pitch, Jeter swung and missed at the second, and it appeared that his struggles at the plate would continue against the sidearm-pitching Kim. After looking at a pitch that was low and outside, Jeter fouled off two more in what was building as a lengthy at-bat.
Jeter’s contact on Kim’s ninth pitch was good — not great. But his opposite-field drive traveled down the line of a stadium with one of the shortest right-field porches (314 feet to the corner) in baseball.
Jeter was rounding first base as his shot barely cleared the wall, leading him to slow to a home run trot as he pumped his right wrist in the air. His teammates had already surrounded home plate as he rounded third base, and as Jeter made his final hop into a mass of humanity to end the game, a fan held up a sign that would make its way to the back pages of the New York tabloids later that day:
“Mr. November.”
New York Daily News Archive. Getty Images.
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Terrific story right ? Face of the franchise hits a MONSTER home run (that likely carried out because it was a windy night and right field is one of the shortest porches in the entire league) and gives his team a win in the World Series? What a story!
That's what Yankee sycophants and losers with the name on the back of the jersey would want you to believe. Derek Jeter …Mr.November! The Savior. After he hit that home run he walked on water, cured the blind, healed the sick, and clothed the naked. Derek Jeter, born without original sin. Derek Jeter, his shit don't stink. Derek Jeter, more God than Man.
Frankly it's disgusting, and it's erroneous, and it's not true.
The 2001 World Series was Derek Jeter's WORST statistical World Series ever. The man (yes man not God despite what Vinny from and Sal from The Bronx pray to every night) hit .148 in those 7 games! .148! I've seen higher Batting Averages from washed up Bald men with an agenda in Sunday softball in Figawi after they spent all night pretending the table service they got was via their achievements and not their bosses.
He had more strikeouts (6) than he did hits. He didn't walk once. His lone RBI was that home run.
Yet this home run is what he gets a nickname for?
"Hey remember that time I hit a huge home run but the rest of the series I was totally useless?"
What a joke. Only Jeter, a selfish jerk, could embrace that nickname when it really was the only thing he did for 7 games.
The other absolute joke of this whole thing is these moronic Yankee fans who actually revere this moment in Jeter's career. Just look at the closing lines in that article .
Compared with Mr. October, Reggie Jackson, Jeter’s postseason career might fall short. But Yankees fans will never forget Jeter’s 2001 heroics that briefly earned him the “Mr. November” title.
What are we talking about here?
NEWSFLASH: YOU LOST THE SERIES! SO WHAT IF HE HIT A HOMERUN IN GAME 4 YOU LOST IN 7 AND HE PLAYED LIKE SHIT! WHAT ARE YOU CELEBRATING? THAT YOU DIDN'T LOSE EARLIER BECAUSE OF THAT HOME RUN? LOSER ATTITUDE. DEFEATIST CRAP.
Until Derek Jeter and Yankee fans denounces this nickname I can't take them seriously.
Absolute joke of a nickname, franchise, player and "moment". Yankee fans should be ashamed of themselves but then again these morons shell out $150 for jerseys with the name on the back and root for a team with a two time convicted felon owner so nothing surprises me.
Want more truth on what kind of selfish asshole Jeter was ? Read here and here.