All good things must come to an end, and that includes Derek Jeter and his Hall of Fame career.
Even in the many, many years that the New York Yankees didn’t win the World Series under his watch, Derek Jeter’s retirement didn’t seem real. He defied age for so long that fans just kind of assumed he would play well into his forties. Even in 2012, his age-38 season, Jeter hit .316 and led the majors in hits while also finishing seventh in MVP voting.
That all came crashing down in Game 1 of the ALCS against the Detroit Tigers. After battling back to force extra innings and now trailing in the 12th inning, Jeter went to field Jhonny Peralta’s groundball, but fell down in agony. He was helped off the field and later diagnosed with a broken ankle. The Yankees lost the game and the series.
Setback after setback meant Derek Jeter played just 17 games in 2013. Without their captain, the Yankees missed the playoffs for the first time since 1993. Legends Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte retired at the end of the year. The Jeter Dynasty and everyone who helped build it were now in the rearview mirror.
It became fully official in February. Following the 2014 season, Derek Jeter would retire from baseball. Approaching age 40, it was time to walk away.
But not without an epic curtain call.
The Derek Jeter Farewell Tour
No New York Yankees fan fondly remembers the 2014 season. It wasn’t just because Derek Jeter was retiring at the end.
Homegrown favorite Robinson Cano demanded a 10-year deal in free agency and got his wish…from the Seattle Mariners. In response, New York overspent on guys like Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann, and Carlos Beltran.
Instead of getting the Yankees back to the playoffs, it was more of the same. Underachieving. Underperforming. Disappointment.
In the middle of it all, whenever New York was on the road, Jeter would get his own little send-off for his final trip to this particular city. The gestures were nice, albeit semi-infuriating.
Think about it. “Hey, Derek, we know you’re retiring after this year and your team is underperforming and in danger of missing the playoffs two years in a row. Here’s some custom commemorative art to go with a donation to your charity!”
Things didn’t improve. The Yankees played .500 ball for most of the year and managed to stay in the race before being formally eliminated in September.
September 25, 2014. It was finally time and the fans had their tissues ready.
Facing the Baltimore Orioles, Derek Jeter would play his final game in Yankee Stadium.
An instant classic
Baltimore already had the AL East clinched, but still played hard. Just ask starter Hiroki Kuroda, who gave up back-to-back home runs to Nick Markakis and Alejandro De Aza to start the game.
But as the Orioles played well, so did the Yankees. New York got both runs back in the bottom of the first. Almost fittingly, Derek Jeter got it started when his double scored Brett Gardner. Jeter would later score when McCann reached on an error.
Later, the team would small-ball its way to a 5-2 lead in the seventh inning. It was looking like Derek Jeter would soon say goodbye to a sold out crowd in the Bronx, albeit in an anticlimactic manner.
Lucky for everyone involved, David Robertson blew the save in the ninth. Going into the bottom half, we were tied 5-5. Jeter was due up second.
An emotional goodbye
Because ticket prices were through the roof, I sadly couldn’t witness the Yankee captain saying goodbye in person. I thus figured I’d watch his last game the same way I did Rivera’s, on my couch and sobbing into a large pepperoni from Ray’s Pizza.
Things changed when my parents invited my then-fianceé (now wife) and I over for dinner. Not one to turn down free food, we graciously accepted while establishing the game would be on.
And it was a really bittersweet moment too. Besides Derek Jeter, which New York Yankees shortstops had I known? Tony Fernandez, the switch-hitting journeyman who was his immediate predecessor.
Diminutive and light-hitting Mike Gallego, who never stayed consistent enough to be a regular starter. Randy Velarde, the original super-utilityman who preceded Ben Zobrist by almost 20 years.
This wasn’t just the end of Derek Jeter the player, but practically mine and a bunch of other young fans’ childhoods. Our cool big brother/uncle was finally hanging them up to do something we’d never witnessed: live their life and not be a professional baseball player.
Jose Pirela singled to left off of Evan Meek to start the bottom of the ninth. Speedster Antoan Richardson pinch-ran and moved to second on Brett Gardner’s sacrifice bunt. Jeter’s 20-year career was about to come to a head, and we all began to get misty-eyed.
“Now batting for the Yankees, number 2, Derek Jeter,” boomed the voice of the late, great Bob Sheppard over Yankee Stadium’s PA system.
“Number 2.”
The chants of “DE-REK JE-TER” and the ensuing claps had been deafening all night. Just a couple of innings ago, with Jeter in the field, even the usually stoic captain appeared to hold back tears. He stepped into the batter’s box, Meek entered his windup, the game on the line.
86 miles per hour up in the zone, perfect for Jeter’s signature inside-out swing. He laced the ball through the hole on the right side as the crowd officially exploded.
“Base hit to right field!” shouted Michael Kay on the YES broadcast. “Here comes Richardson. Here’s the throw from Markakis. Richardson is safe! Derek Jeter ends his final game with a walk-off single! Derek Jeter, where fantasy becomes reality! Did you have any doubt?”
His teammates mobbed him at second base. I fell off my parents’ living room couch, sobbing in a crumpled heap while shouting, “He did it!” over and over again.
New York celebrates
The celebrations continued. Waiting at home plate were some key people from Derek Jeter’s past.
Joe Torre, the Hall of Fame manager who guided Jeter through his early years and to four World Series rings. Pettitte and Rivera were joined by Tino Martinez, Jorge Posada, and Bernie Williams, proving the Core Four was really the Core Five or Six all along.
Even Gerald Williams was there, having stayed great friends with Jeter despite being traded midway through the 1996 season.
“You guys dressed up, huh?” Jeter joked, hugging the latter Williams. It was the last thing to do before doing what no one wanted: Derek Jeter saying goodbye. He took his lap around the field, tipping his cap and saluting the crowd as Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” blasted.
A .310 lifetime batting average. 3,465 career hits, sixth all-time in MLB history. Five World Series rings. 14 All-Star selections. Even as he did his on-field interview after making his rounds, Jeter stayed humble, insisting he was only doing a job. He even congratulated Baltimore for making the playoffs before ending on a perfect note.
“What are you going to miss most about this uniform and this place?” asked YES correspondent Meredith Marakovits.
“Everything,” said Jeter. “But most of all, I’m going to miss the fans. They’re what made this special.”
A perfect finish to, in the opinions of some, a perfect career.
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Derek Jeter, in full Derek Sanderson Jeter, (born June 26, 1974, Pequannock, New Jersey, U.S.), American professional baseball player who, as a shortstop for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB), was selected to multiple American League (AL) All-Star teams and was one of the most popular players of his time.
Jeter grew up in Michigan and started playing Little League baseball when he was about five years old. After an impressive high school baseball record, including a .557 batting average in his junior year, he was drafted as a first-round pick in 1992 by the Yankees. He started at the minor league Class A Tampa Yankees and did poorly, with 21 errors in 58 games. Over the next few years, Jeter improved and was named Most Outstanding Major League Prospect by the South Atlantic League in 1993 and Minor League Player of the Year by Baseball America in 1994.
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In 1996 Jeter became the starting shortstop for the Yankees. In his first season he carried a batting average of .314 and had 78 runs batted in (RBIs). He was named AL Rookie of the Year, and the Yankees won the World Series against the Atlanta Braves. In 1998 the Yankees had another World Series victory, this time against the San Diego Padres. The Yankees again beat the Braves in the World Series in 1999, and Jeter acquired a reputation as one of the premier postseason hitters in baseball after posting a combined batting average of .375 in the Yankees’ three play-off series. In 2000 Jeter was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the All-Star Game and the World Series, as the Yankees defeated the New York Mets to become the first team to win three consecutive World Series since 1974.
From 2004 to 2006 Jeter won three consecutive AL Gold Glove awards as the best-fielding shortstop in the league.
He also won the AL Hank Aaron Award (for best overall hitter) and the AL Silver Slugger Award (for best offense at a position) in 2006, a season in which he finished second in the balloting for AL MVP. In 2009 Jeter recorded his 2,674th career hit, breaking the record for the most hits by a shortstop in major league history. The Yankees ended the 2009 season with a victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series. On July 9, 2011, Jeter registered his 3,000th career hit, becoming just the 28th player to reach that mark.
His play had fallen off in the 2010 and 2011 seasons, but he rebounded to bat .316 and tally a league-leading 216 hits in 2012. However, his season came to a premature end when he fractured his ankle in game one of the AL Championship Series (ALCS) and missed the remainder of the Yankees’ postseason (which ended with a loss in the ALCS) as well as all but 17 games of the 2013 season. Jeter announced before the 2014 season that it would be his last, and he retired in September of that year with the sixth highest hit total (3,464) in major league history.
Jeter was part of an ownership group that purchased the Miami Marlins in 2017, and he became the franchise’s CEO. Over the next four seasons, the Marlins posted losing records, except in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. That year Miami advanced to the division series, where it was swept in three games. In 2022 Jeter stepped down as CEO, and he also severed financial ties with the team.
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In 2020 Jeter was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, coming just one vote shy of unanimous induction.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.
The calm one accepts that he cannot do something and gives up.
The finisher realizes that he cannot do something, but continues to work on it.
The cleaner knows what he can do and does it until he decides to switch to something else.
The day the Chicago Bulls were eliminated from the NBA playoffs in 1995 by the Orlando Magic, I sat with Michael in the dark United Center until three in the morning. He returned to basketball only two months ago after his first departure to play baseball for a short time. A lot has changed over the past year.
Putting on his suit and tie, he looked around at the new stadium that had replaced the legendary Chicago Stadium at the start of the season and said, "I hate this hole."
"You built that hole," I replied.
During this series, some Orlando players said that he was no longer the No. 23. It was true, he was now No. 45, he was not ready, and he knew it better than anyone. His stamina, his throw... We simply didn't have enough time to bring him back to the level of superiority that everyone was used to.
As you might guess, there was a lot of talk about how his baseball career didn't work out, his basketball comeback didn't work out, and he's a total failure.
Michael Jordan was finished, they said.
And, as always, they were wrong. The cleaner finishes when he says he finishes, not when you say it.
Actually, when you say it, it usually means the opposite.
At the end of the game, he signaled to the Magic players as they shook hands and left the court: enjoy the victory, because you will not see another.
He then changed his number back to No. 23 and led the Bulls to an NBA record of 72 wins the following season, earning the first of three championship rings to add to the three he'd already won before he "crashed" ".
Collapse? How bad can it be if your worst day is more successful than most people's best day?
I don't understand the concept of collapse.
If you don't succeed in everything you do the first time, does that mean you "fail"? Isn't it good that you keep working until you succeed? How can this be a disaster?
What many see as failure, the Cleaner sees it quite differently.
For him, this is an opportunity to manage and control the situation, deploy it in his favor, doing what others consider impossible. If there's a 2% chance something will work and a 98% chance it won't, he'll just take that 98% chance to show that he accepted the challenge and did what everyone else said was impossible. . It may take years, it will take a lot of work that no one will notice, but in the end the Cleaner will take control of the situation and make it work for him. He must - he can't do it any other way. How many ways can you prepare? How many different options do you need to create in order not to end up in a puddle? And even if you sit down, how many opportunities will you have to get out of it?
Michael's criticism as general manager of the Charlotte Bobcats amazes me. After spending several years there as part owner, Michael took over in 2010 and became the first former player. The main owner of the NBA team. Law of the Purifier: If your name is on the door, you must control what happens behind it.
Immediately, critics began to condemn the team for poor play, wondering if the collapse of the Bobcats would lead to the destruction of Michael's Legacy , comparing him to other players who have become managers. "Larry Bird! Joe Dumars! Jerry West! Great admins who did great things for the teams they worked with. But there is a difference: they all worked for someone else. Michael worked for himself. It's his money, his name on the door. There's a big difference between a position you leave sooner or later (whether you want to or not) and owning a business, which is something a retired player never did in the NBA. How can you fail at something that no one has ever done if there is no measure of success yet?
After a terrible 2011/12 season, he didn't blame anyone. He took full responsibility for the situation in the team and said that he would figure everything out. And, probably, the fact that the best player on the team was also its owner did not make it easier.
But... "I don't want to be remembered as a failed man," Michael told reporters after the season, and he should have been believed.
To put it simply: failure happens when you decide that you have failed. Until that moment, you are still looking for ways to achieve what you need.
Here's how Derek Jeter[6] told a reporter if the New York Yankees are panicking about the sharp drop near the end of the season and how Jeter deals with it: "I'm not panicking, so I don't have to deal with it ". The Ultimate Cleaner. Or Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten, who offered to sign a voluntary release from the hospital to return to the field with a ruptured spleen, against the doctor's orders. So is Dwayne, who refused to miss playoff games due to a knee injury, or like Kobe, who did not want to sit out with numerous injuries, including a concussion, that would have incapacitated anyone else. This is how you decide not to fail. You move and move and always look for the unexpected opportunity that allows you to keep the situation under control.
Success and failure are 100 percent products of the mind. One person's idea of success can seem like a complete failure to another. You have to come up with your own vision of how to be unstoppable, you can't let someone else decide that for you. What is your inner voice telling you? What do your instincts know about what you should do, how you should succeed, and what exactly you should excel at? How can someone else tell you how it should be?
When someone else says you've failed, what they really mean is, "If it were me, I would feel like I've failed." This person is not you, and it is obvious that he is not a Purifier, because the Purifiers do not recognize failure.
I understand how difficult it is to fight against all odds when others want you to fail. When I built Attack Athletics in Chicago in 2007, I had been in business for almost twenty years. I have worked with the best athletes in the world, traveled to places and seen things that others can only dream of.
And I wanted to take Attack Athletics to the next level. Everyone said that this was my last step in developing as a coach. But for me it was just the beginning. I have created a work of art in the world of gyms where people from all over the world come, a place that no personal trainer could dream of building and owning.
I had certain expectations and plans, and they all came true. This risk met all my expectations. But like any business, unexpected situations force you to make adjustments. And I faced difficult decisions that changed the operation of the complex. The players who faced the NBA lockout didn't want to invest in their training without the assurance that the season would go ahead. My main clients are Kobe, Dwayne and many others who, understandably, wanted me to go wherever they were. And I traveled all over the world with them while my building was in Chicago. It's hard to do business this way. So a little time later, rumors about the "collapse" of Attack Athletics went.
Actually, what happened to the building was just a delay, an obstacle. But by overcoming obstacles, you achieve success. You learn, you adapt. When everyone else is talking about how you "failed," you act like a pro, change course, and get back to work. This is progress: good - great - unstoppable. Nobody starts unstoppable. You are wrong, you understand everything, you trust yourself.
Let me say this: Attack Athletics is who I am and what I do, not a building. The building was needed for equipment, working environment and a revolutionary concept. Attack Athletics is me and my training philosophy and it is always where I am. Attack Athletics is a job that I do all over the world. And I work hard to make sure my clients and I don't fail at what we do. We always find a way to make things work.
But when you're the best at something, you carry a big target on your back. When your colleagues, friends and enemies start talking and being smart behind your back, you know that you are doing everything right if you and your business are so important to them.
If they are discussing whether you will suffer "losses". Losses? What I will lose, you never had.
The Cleaner never sees failure because nothing is ever over for him. If something does not go according to plan, he instinctively looks for options that will make everything work out. Does not feel shame and humiliation. He doesn't blame anyone else and doesn't care what others have to say about his situation. Nothing ever ends, nothing is ever over.
And he knows beyond a doubt that no matter what happens, he will find a way to emerge victorious. If you ever see me fighting a bear in the woods, help the bear.
Make a choice to turn "failure" into success. If your team didn't win the championship, if your business is falling apart, if you didn't get what you fought for, move on to the next step in your development. Remember who you are and how you got this far. Listen to your inner voice. What does he say to you?
Nothing is ever over. You have options:
Calm admits defeat.
Finisher works harder.
The cleaner is strategizing to get a different result.
Admission of defeat has no place in this conversation, as in this entire book, because the words surrender and inflexibility do not fit together in any productive way. People who admit defeat and say they had no choice are simply not serious about success, excellence, and themselves. They say they'll "try" and then give up when they fail.
To hell with "trying". Trying is a direct path to failure. It's just another way of saying, "If I fail, it's not my fault, I tried."
Did you try to do your best ? Or did you do as best as possible? A big difference. "Well, I tried." Okay, now tell me what you did .
Do or don't do.
Do it, and if it doesn't work, do it again.
Have you tried doing this? And so? Have you tried every idea you had? Can you do something else that could turn everything to your advantage?
If you aim for superiority, you must be prepared to make sacrifices.
Such is the price of success. You never know how much you want something until you first taste the bitter taste of defeat. But when you feel it, you will fight like a lion to get rid of this bitterness. Perhaps you were sent to the bench, or you lost a lot of money, or someone got the promotion you dreamed of. Others might give up, and they'll be the first to say that you should give up too. But did you finish because you wanted to, or because you were told to finish? Can anything else be done? Do you still feel the anger inside you that tells you to act and change everything? The finisher will keep going until he is forced to stop, remember, he is called the finisher because he gets to the end. But as soon as the end comes, he knows it, he feels it. Everything is over.
The Cleaner can never accept that it's over. But he knows when it's time to change direction.
It is very difficult to change course when you have already set your goals. You made a choice, you worked for it, you deserve a reward, but.
.. Whatever the reason, things won't go the way you planned.
To understand that it is time to change direction is not weakness.
Weakness - Refusing to consider other options and failing at everything because you couldn't adapt to anything.
It's happened to us all: you just know something's wrong. You may not be progressing as fast as you planned. Or you don't earn the money you expected. Or maybe you just don't like what you do or who you do it with. Or something you can't control has affected your situation.
In doing so, instinct becomes the most valuable tool you can have, because only you can decide whether to listen to what your inner voice tells you.
In professional sports, a decision to retire or play another season. For a young athlete, this is a decision to sit on the bench or switch to another sport. In business, this can be a choice: change career or job, start or sell a business. Either way, it takes courage and self-confidence to know it's time to make a change.
Only a special person can say that enough is enough when it's time to start changing the direction of your efforts to something that can be successful. Perhaps your dream will not come true in the way that you originally intended. But with a little creative thinking and vision, you can redirect your goals in a direction that ties in with what you've always wanted.
I can tell you without hesitation that I am the best in my business. I deserve it. But to become the best, I had to learn more than one lesson about always being ready to change direction and not listening to other people's opinions about what it means to succeed or fail.
I first learned this lesson when I was a basketball player at the University of Illinois at Chicago with big dreams and a torn ACL. Unsuccessful treatment led to problems with the hip, leg and new problems with the knee. I have more orthopedic problems than you can imagine. I had no idea then that my greatest weakness would become my greatest strength.
I never thought that, having endured so many injuries and operations, I would be able to help others cope with the same at the highest level.
I was a pretty good player, but not of NBA caliber. I just wasn't ready to admit it. When I got my first injury, I only wanted to play basketball. I'm not a very religious person, but for me, a cruciate ligament tear was a message from above that said: “Look, you spend too much time working on this game, nothing will work. So let's just break your knee so you can focus on what you have to do in life and get you on the right track faster."
But I wasn't ready to see the other end of my dream. He continued to play with a large brace on his broken knee, trying to overcome the effects of injury and nightmarish treatment.
And one day there was a twist: I was playing in a tournament, and a guy I didn't even know came up to me and said, "I remember how good you were before."
Oh…
Got it.
It was a wake-up call, a message that I had to realize that I was stuck in a cause where I had no chance of success.
It wasn't the guy's remark, he only said what I already knew. I just haven't accepted it yet. I played one more game and that was it.
It was time to find a new end to this dream.
Learn. Adjust. I realized that if my damaged body couldn't help me play basketball, I would use what I learned and find a way to turn it into something good. And I already understood what exactly: I didn’t want to work for the team, I wanted to work for myself. Take some basketball player and make him better than he was before. So I wanted to make a mark in the NBA.
And it looks like I succeeded.
Of course, it took me a little longer to figure out exactly how this dream would take shape. I was still chasing Brad Sellers and other Chicago Bulls players, writing letters to them all, offering my services as a coach. Nobody answered. I thought Michael needed a coach even less than anyone else, especially one who had never coached a professional athlete, so I didn't try to contact him.
So I understood: don't try. Do .
Today I am teaching the best of the best to take care of my body, because when I met the first obstacles, I refused to see my situation as a failure. You take what everyone else sees from the negative side and turn it to your advantage. You don't get angry, you don't curl up and you don't die. You glare at the target and think that if it doesn't work out this way, it will definitely work out differently. And you say to anyone who doubts you: "I have everything under control."
Just don't expect everyone else to understand or agree with your new plan. Many either prefer to stick with the safe option, or are too afraid to quit the bad one and shift all their fear and doubt onto you. They are waiting for the collapse - you are waiting for the opportunity. When I decided to go into this field, everyone said: “Oh, the instructor in the gym.” No. "Personal coach?" No. I am not a personal trainer. A personal trainer works with you for an hour at the gym, helps with your workout, and sees you when you make your next appointment.
I work for my clients seven days a week, 365 days a year, all day long. You need me, I'm there. You can call me an architect or an athletic specialist. The architect builds the building, I build the body, from the inside out. How can I rebuild this shoulder? How can I design this body to be stronger, more resilient, and more powerful than ever before? I am the architect of the organism, responsible for every thread of the mind and body that you have entrusted to me.
And all because I "failed" as a basketball player.
For me, success is not about how much money I can make - that has never been the main thing. Success is doing what no one else can.
A few years ago I spent a summer working with Purdue University's Robbie Hummel, a great guy who had just torn his ACL for the second time in eight months. The first time, in 2010, he was a junior with only eight games left in the season and was already considered one of the best players in the country. Eager to return to the game, he went through surgery and recovery with high school coaches and returned to the Purdue Boilermakers for the next season in his senior year, ready to play.
At his first team practice, he again tore his cruciate ligament. Robbie is out for the entire season, maybe forever.
Reschedule two operations in eight months? Coming back from a double cruciate ligament injury? This is a lot of work with an unknown result. It was rumored that the promising career of the two-meter American striker might be over. Then his father called me. Will I be able to bring him back to the right state so that he has another chance in his senior year?
I don't know anyone else in my business who's successfully recovered from a double cruciate ligament injury, but Robbie came third for me. I knew what we needed to do for him. It would take months of hard work and serious mental effort. The choice was his.
He spent seven months recovering, five days a week, twice a day, at Attack Athletics in Chicago and at his school in Valparaiso. He drove back and forth for an hour to meet us, and I think he was a little taken aback by how fast and hard we got him to work.
“I thought that on the first day they would talk to me, measure my height and weight,” he told reporters. “But within an hour I was throwing up in a trash can.”
Our goal was for him to be fully fit by the start of the Big Ten games[8]. People said it was impossible. His surgeon let him play, but he had to pass one more test for me to give him the green light, a 120cm jump to the floor and back. The same test I had all my guys go through after knee/ankle/hip rehab. The day he finally succeeded, we said goodbye and sent him back to school. Our work was done, and he was just beginning his.
Not only did he return to the game in better condition than ever before, he was named to the Big Ten First Team for the third time, finishing in the top 10 in points, rebounds, blocks, three-pointers and free throws. And in his last game in the NCAA Tournament, he scored 26 points and hit five 3-pointers narrowly behind the Kansas Jayhawks. By that time we were no longer working, but I was happy for him when he was selected in the second round of the NBA draft, after which he went to Spain to start his professional career.
Shortly thereafter, he tore his meniscus.
Operation again, work again, perseverance again.
Many would have given up. But not him.
It's all a matter of choice. I tell my athletes everything as it is and leave the choice to them whether to continue to fight or give up. Tracey McGrady had to go through an 18 month recovery process. He had to make a difficult choice: are you willing to sacrifice two years of your career so that when you are forty or fifty, you still have a perfect knee ... Or are you willing to take the risk and cut those eighteen months in half, working to get a super-strong knee that you will last your entire career with and will deal with the rest of the problems when you finish playing? I cannot make this choice for him. But no one ever chooses a longer recovery.
In such cases, I offer options and the athletes have to decide what they want to do. You can be good if you go the safe way. But you can't be adamant if you're not willing to take risks.
Security makes you good, risk makes you great.
Gilbert Arinas is also one of those who decided to risk his body. I told him: your knee can bend about a hundred degrees. In three years it will bend ninety. In seven years, maybe seventy-five. Gil's question: how many degrees do I need it to bend in order to play? I said about forty-five. He replied, well, everything suits him. We knew we could restore Gil to 100 percent because anyone who is willing to pack up all their stuff and move to Chicago to be tortured by me for three months is already in the right frame of mind.
Big decisions like nothing else determine whether you succeed or fail. Who do they trust? Doctors should tell you medically when full recovery will come. They will treat your symptoms. I'll take care of the cause. Teams and sponsors want players to get back on the field as quickly as possible. Agents think about how to behave in this situation in such a way that it plays into the hands of the next contract.
I look at the damage, talk to everyone and offer the person the existing options. If you do this, then this is what will happen in the end; if you do this, it will come out. That's what caused the injury, that's what we'll do to make sure it doesn't happen again. It's up to you.
Confidence in these life-changing, risky decisions makes me successful. Money is certainly good, but it is better to help someone who does not have much time left to succeed in something. I adore people like Juwan Howard. He joined the league in 1994 and worked hard year-round for almost twenty years to earn the ring he finally won with the Miami Heat in 2012. Do you know how hard you have to work in your late 30s to stay in shape and continue to play in teams of this caliber simply because you refuse to leave without a major award? Here is an example of a man who refused to fail and emerged victorious.
When you work with athletes, you must understand that every day brings them closer to the end of their career, to the choice whether to leave or start working harder.
How can I extend the time they have left to become successful? My success depends on it.
They all want to play forever and see the end of their career as some kind of defeat. But this is not necessarily the case if they have put everything in its place in advance. I've said many times to guys who are nearing retirement:
“In a year nobody will need you. You will leave your legacy as a player, but what does it matter if you get up every day and have nothing to do? Think about it now before you become another ex-player trying to draw attention to yourself. Your shoe advertising contract won't last forever, and not everyone gets to be coaches or commentators. What are you going to do? How will you turn this career into something even greater so that you can continue to be unstoppable for many more years to come? Decide now, because if you delay it, the options will eventually disappear. Other people think the same way and bypass you while you cling to an old cause that doesn’t work out.
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The Cleaner knows when to leave and in what direction. He never runs away, he always walks; he ends quietly and on his own terms. He may lose the battle because he still expects to win the war. Lose the game but win the season. Lose the season but win the next three. Lose your job and start a new business. And no one has the last word on whether he has succeeded.
On July 1, the rosters for the 83rd All-Star Game, which will take place this year in Kansas City, Missouri, were announced. The number of votes cast by the fans this year broke even last year's record and amounted to 34.9 million, which is 2.5 million more than last year.
So here are the names of the 2012 Stars:
AMERICAN LEAGUE:
Starting XI:
- Catcher: Mike Napoli, Texas Rangers
- 1st base: Prince Fielder, Detroit Tigers
-2nd base: Robinson Cano, New York Yankees
-3rd base: Adrian Beltre, Texas Rangers
- Short Stop: Derek Jeter, New York Yankees
Outfield Positions:
- Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers
- Curtis Granderson, New York Yankees
- Jose Bautista, Toronto Blue Jays
- Assigned Hitter: David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox 9005
Pitchers- Ryan Cook, Oakland Athletics
- Matt Harrison, Texas Rangers
- Felix Hernandez, Seattle Mariners
- Jim Johnson (Jimols Johnson, Baltimore 9005)
- Joe Nathan, Texas Rangers
- Chris Perez, Cleveland Indians
- David Price, Tampa Bay Flight
- Fernando Rodney, Tampa Bay Flight
-CC Sabathia, New York Yankees
-Chris Sale, Chicago White Sox
-Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers
-Jered Weaver, Los Angeles Angels
- C.
J. Wilson, Los Angeles Angels
Spares:
Catchers: Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins and Matt Wieters, Baltimore Orioles
-1st base: Paul Konerko, Chicago White Sox
-2nd base: Ian Kinsler, Texas Rangers
-3rd Base: Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers
-Short Stop: Asdrubal Cabrera, Cleveland Indians and Elvis Andrus, Texas
Outfield positions:
-Adam Jones, Baltimore Orioles
-Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
-Mark Trumbo,
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-Force Hitter: Billy Butler, Kansas -City Royals and Adam Dunn, Chicago White Sox
National League:
Starting composition: 9000
: Buster Posey, San Francisco Giants
-1st base: Joey Votto, Cincinnati Reds
-2nd base: Dan Uggla, c
-3rd Base: Pablo Sandoval (Pablo Sandoval), San Francisco Jaiants
-short Stop: Rafael Furcal, St.
Louis Cardinals
Positions -Melky Cabrera, San Francisco Giants
- Carlos Beltran, St. Louis Cardinals
- Matt Kemp, Los Angeles Dodgers
Pitchers:
- Matt Cain, San Francisco Giants 9002 -Aroldis Chapman, Cincinnati Reds
-R.A. R.A. Dickey, New York Mets
- Gio Gonzalez, Washington Nationals
- Cole Hamels, Philadelphia Phillies
- Joel Hanrahan, Pittsburgh Pirates
- Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers
- Craig Kimbrel, Atlanta Braves
- Lance Lynn, St. Louis Cardinals
- Wade Miley, Arizona Diamondbex
-Jonathan Papelbon, Philodelphia Fillis
-Stephen Strasburg, Washington Neshenals
-Khaston STRET,
9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 Catchers : Yadier Molina, St. Louis Cardinals and Carlos Ruiz, Philadelphia Phillies-1st base: Bryan LaHair, Chicago Cubs
-2-902 3rd Base: Jose Altuve, Houston Astros
-3rd Base: David Wright, New York Mets
-Short Stop: Starlin Castro, Chicago The Cubs and Ian Desmond, Washington Nationals
Outfield Positions:
- Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers
-Jay Bruce, Cincinnati Reds
-Carlos Gonzalez, Colorado Rockies
-Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh Pirates
-Giancarlo Mar02 Stanton (Giancarlo9005 Stanton) Well, as usual, all baseball fans still have the opportunity to choose one, the last player for each League through the final vote, which will last until July 5th.
The following players have a chance of last resort this year:
American league:
All Pitecrs:
- Jonathan BroXton, Kansas -Siti
-Darvish (Yu Darvish), Tehasa, Tehas (Ernesto Frieri), Los Angeles Angels
-Jake Peavy, Chicago White Sox
-Jason Hammel, Baltimore Orioles
National League:
Aaron Hill, Arizona Diamondbacks-3rd base: David Freese, St. Louis Cardinals and Chipper Jones, Atlanta Braves
- Outfield Positions: Michael Bourn, Atlanta Braves and Bryce Harper, Washington Nationals
| 40-year-old Chipper Jones started his career in Atlanta in in 1993 and spent all the years on the same team |
Well, let's see who gets the lucky ticket this time.
