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Originally Posted by rician blast
My thoughts:
(1) I never thought any less of Jeter for not offering to make the move to a new position...in fact I think he did the right thing. It's his position, they want him to move, they should move him, but he had no responsibility to offer up such a position change.
(2) As for ARod's supposedly commendable actions I viewed his decision to move to third as pathetic and desperate.
When we were all growing up and playing ball what was the most prestigious position on the field when we weren't pitching? Shortstop. Hands down.
So if you are supposedly one of the top SS in the game why would you ever agree to play 3B unless you were desperate to get out of a situation and were handicapped by your excessive contract?
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You're absolutely right. I made the point about A-Rod commendable to help in my Jeter arguement
..but yeah after the Boston deal fell through it was simply desperation for A-Rod.
Also with Jeter, we really can't call him selfish until it's revealed that he was asked to move fofr A-Rod and declined. Nobody mentioned anything to Jeter about it. It was Alex who wanted out of Texas and it was Alex who moved. Cash, Torre, nobody (I guess really just Cash, the whole trade went down so quickly...) even considered asking Jeter to move. If the Yankees were in pursuit of A-Rod and the only way he could be had is if he were to play shortstop, and Jeter was approached with it who knows what he would have done. I'm sure either way he wouldn't have wanted to move but nobody can say for sure whether or not he would have declined. And honestly, if it were that serious he really wouldn't have had an option. Nowhere in contracts does it guarantee a player a certain amount of playing time at a particular position. But it's just unfair to call Jeter selfish for not moving when he was probably never even approached and asked to move.
And I know it must seem terribly that I'm a Yankee fan-boy on Jeter's dick, and I know that's how a lot of you see it...but c'mon..you guys are Sox fans ripping on Jeter, I have a right, almost a responsibility to to argue in his defense.