Hmmm … I changed the wording, and updated the post. From my vantagepoint, it now reads …

How confident are you that Jeter will remain a Yankee for his entire playing career?

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That reads much more clearly that I originally had it.

I agree it’s totally a non-story, and I’m surprised Kepner included his silly quote in his non-story… but that doesn’t mean we have to ignore what Granderson says.

Damon? we’ve always known he’s an idiot.

As for Griffey, he may have always wanted to play for his hometown team, but as fate would have it he played his prime years for the Seattle Mariners. That could have happened to Jeter easily, but it didn’t. Now that he’s put in his years here and has become a legend in the process, we have to remember he’s not the only one in the equation about whether he comes back or not. For all the credit we give Cashman and the Steinbrenner Bros. for not being stupid, I still remember how they treated Bernie in the end, and I’m not entirely confident that there won’t be any issues when the time comes. as counter-intuitive as that would seem. Are they gonna be so gracious if he gets injured? I dunno, but I won’t get excited until I “see the check”.

Go here and enjoy writing your own inane spring training story, Mad Libs style.

If worrying over an off-the-cuff remark by Curtis Granderson about Derek Jeter’s contract – something Granderson has no control over and almost certainly has no insight into – is the most important thing we have to be concerned with, this should be a relaxing spring indeed.

Nothing to see here, move along.

(FWIW, I think Jon got it right in [11], as did william in [6] and [9].)

[10] Instead of getting on Granderson, people should be criticizing the lazy journalism that has a reporter ask a player what he thinks about another player leaving. It’s beyond inane. It’s not like Granderson called a press conference to discuss his position on Jeter possibly leaving. An intrepid reporter asked him a question and he gave an answer that I think is relevant in the context of how dull the issue really is.

FYI, I reworked the poll question to be a bit more clear.

would be hard to imagine Jeter playing on another team, but other big stars have done it, so youneverknow.

It’s not extremely well thought out on his part, but not exactly the straw that stirs the drink either.

[5] cut him slack. what does that mean? ignore him?

Jeter meanwhile would be leaving a championship-caliber team after his age 36 season to play out the last few years of his career, where exactly?

Other than the “wow it sure would be weird” factor, its pretty flawed.

As for not taking players seriously, as off base as they can be, I’d rather listen to them than a vast majority of the pundits out there.