God knows I don’t need another reason to hate the Yankees… but this is ridiculous. Derek Jeter won the Gold Glove award this week and the Earth is just a little more tilted on it’s axis as a result. It must be, because only a planetary misalignment could cause the HIGHLY overrated Jeter to get fielding’s top honor. A shift towards the abyss of space MUST have clouded the minds of the managers and coaches (can’t even blame the stupid media) who vote on this award. Either that or it’s even more arbitrary than I figured.
Derek Jeter? This must be a sick joke. If you JUST watched highlight reels then you might have a case… but if you watch one… ONLY ONE Yankee game then you would see all the easy plays he is misaligned for and all the simple put-outs he makes tough because of his low range.
HOW THE HELL DID HE WIN THIS THING???
In the AL, Jeter was 5th in range factor, 4th in fielding percentage, and had more than DOUBLE the errors of a NAMELESS starting short-stop that happened to play for the Boston Red Sox (hint: Lex-aye Onzalez-gay).
If stats and figures and well…. FACTS won’t dissuade the voters from picking the only name that they recognize (Uribe? Gonzolez? Young? Peralta?) then I don’t even know why they give that hunk of gilt metal away.
This was the best fielding Sox team of my life… not one Gold Glove. Makes no sense. The MLB should stick to labor disputes and steroid testing, the aren’t too good at this award thing.
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