HAPPY 46TH BIRTHDAY

To the Captain. I've blathered about Jeter for a million posts, see them all HERE. But this is one of my favorites:

One surprising thing about Derek Jeter is that while he didn't say too much, he was actually pretty funny sometimes. Like when they dedicated Steinbrenner's monument:

Derek Jeter’s take on Steinbrenner’s monument:

“It was big,” Jeter said. “The biggest one out there.” 

Would Steinbrenner have liked that idea?

“It probably was his idea.”

Some nice words from the King of Baseball himself, Tim Kurkjian:

Jeter was all about winning. In his 20 years with the Yankees, they were 515 games over .500 in games that he played: Lou Gehrig (501) is the only other position player 500 games over .500. In Jeter's 20 years, there were only five games that he played in which the Yankees were mathematically out of postseason contention when the game started. Four of those were in 2014, his final season. In the final home game, Jeter won it with a walk-off single.

And of course the greatest walk-off of all time.