If you’ve ever spent any time on the internet (a bad place, don’t recommend it), you’ve likely run into haters and fans of lowlier franchises wasting their time debating and minimizing Derek Jeter’s merits. “What if Derek Jeter played for the Brewers? Huh? You ever think about that? I do constantly,” writes a random A’s fan, or an Orioles fan, or a Rangers fan. Or, as I like to call ’em, The Vanquished.
Because, you see, Derek Jeter didn’t play for the Brewers, the Reds, or any of the other teams in MLB. He was a New York Yankee, leading his team to the biggest stage annually, and delivering with frightening regularity, flicking the rest of the AL’s very cute playoff teams aside.