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Originally Posted by Franklin's Bee
Lol^ sucks for Jeter, only Yankees player I like....and I'm a Red Sox fan 
Yes I know we suck lol |
I read a story on this incident and thought i post this part.
Aging is as much an inevitability in sports as it is in life, and while age alone did not break Derek Jeter's ankle, it did made him more susceptible, more fragile. It is a testament to the greatness of Jeter, of Rivera, of Pettitte that their ages did not demand a recalibration of expectations. They had defied it this many years. What was another season?
Part of it was necessity, of course. The Yankees spit at age. Five players on their playoff roster were among the game's 30 oldest this season, and all played in Game 1. So spoiled were the Yankees by players doing uncommon things at retirement age, they simply came to expect it. Jeter bought into the idea of his own invincibility. Even with a broken ankle, he uttered these words to his manager and old teammate, Joe Girardi.
"Do not carry me."