Knowledgable answers only!!!!
2006-12-04 23:15:18 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
1. He's a Yankee
2. He's Rich
3. He's Good Looking
4. He has 4 World Series rings
5. Jealousy makes people crazy with hating on someone
2006-12-05 03:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Because he plays for the Yankee$ and he plays in New York, center of the known universe. I think the only guys that scare me more with a bat in their hand are Puljos and Vlad. Other guys are dangerous hitters, but Jeter has a knack for getting the timely hit or being in the right place at just the right time. That play he made in the ALCS against Oakland was sick. There's no way 99% of the major league shortstops even think of backing up that play, and yet there he was saving the day for the Evil Empire once again. On a day-to-day basis, Jeter can be very ordinary. I still think the best shortstop on the Yankee$ is playing 3rd base. But if it comes down to having the winning run on 2nd, I'd rather have Jeter six days a week and twice on Sunday.
I put Jeter in my "Larry Bird" category. I hate them with a white hot passion, but I can still respect their athletic ability. As for why other people hate him so much, maybe they bought his cologne and they hate smelling like #2.
2006-12-05 01:47:25 · answer #2 · answered by Sharky 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because of media overkill. Watch Fox broadcast any Yankee game. You'll see about 350 shots of Jeter. Jeter scuffing at the ground, Jeter blowing a bubble, Jeter looking off into the crowd, Jeter going through his godawful fidgety routine before stepping into the batter's box. As mentioned, the media and MLB promote Jeter like some kind of movie star. Jeter is a good ballplayer. Apparently women like his looks. He plays for the most popular team. However, Jeter is not Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle, no matter how hard the media tries to make him out to be. Knowledgable fans laugh when comments such as "Jeter is a very good defensive shortstop" are made. Ask a follower of sabermetrics how Jeter's defense rates!
2006-12-05 01:19:09 · answer #3 · answered by whitedog65 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
He's a good player, yes. No one has ever said that he isn't. But, there are a lot of good players in MLB, so Jeter is overrated just because he's a Yankee, and has always been a Yank from day one. He attracts loads of media attention, just for routine plays and because of whoever he's dating or what magazine cover he's posing for and so on. But take him out of the Yanks, and they would still be the same team with or without him, because the Yanks have so many great players, that Jeter doensn't alter much. There's just too much hype surrounding him. If he belonged to another team from day one, he would never have gotten so much attention, he would have been unoticeable. But because he's a Yankee, the media makes him more like Brad Pitt than a baseball player. Whatever sport it may be, there are always a few media darlings like Jeter in it, and many people hate that for obvious reasons: When the media hypes a player as much as Jeter is hyped, it's annoying.
I expected to be rated down by a bunch of Yankees' fans saying everyone who hates Jeter and Yanks is just jealous...dream on. Quit flattering yourselves. No one is jealous, we have no reason to be. It's the truth: Jeter is overrated. Period.
2006-12-05 00:50:51 · answer #4 · answered by GERMANY EURO CHAMPS 3 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I'm not a Yankee fan at all. I think Jeter is a great asset to the game - he plays hard, plays well and represents baseball with class and style. We need more guys like him in the Bigs.
2006-12-04 23:22:29 · answer #5 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
cause he's a politician more than a baseball player. he's not a leadoff hitter, hes not a cleanup hitter, what is he? he's snug in the middle, protected.
he spends more time kissing the presses a$$ that nobody knows who the man is because they won't write any stories about him that are bad.
he gets credit for world series win when all he did was ride the wave to success. as soon as the paul o'neil's retired and the other guys got a little older, what did he do for the team, nothing! why? because he's no leader. he cares more about his image than leading the team. so nobody blames him for when the yankees lose. no homers, no rbis, nothing. the yankees lose and they blame everyone else.
defense? please... you tell me who the top 5 defensive shortstops are and you won't see jeter on the list.
so we have a guy who can't lead, is protected in the lineup, takes credit for the what the old guys did when he came in as a rookie, gets put on a pedestal by the media - and what do you have? over-rated.
put this guy in the middle of america with a weak lineup, nobody knows his name.
ps: added this new: the only time jeter got into trouble was when there was this stink about him staying up all night and not helping the team. what did he get? a commercial w\streinbrener and was named team captain. now that's blessed.
2006-12-05 03:12:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
I`m not a Yankee fan but i like Jeter, Bernie, Posada and Mariano because the were raised as Yankees not coming over to the dark side because they were offered huge amounts of money.
Why people hate him? number 1 reason, he is a Yankee and people love to hate them, if he played on a team like Tampa Bay all the haters would say this guy has got a lot of talent and is stuck on a no where team. Love to hate them!!!
2006-12-05 00:54:15 · answer #7 · answered by Richard Serenity 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
One word- Jealousy. Honestly, he is a great player and you never hear of any controversy surrounding him. He is classy off the field. I have met him several times.
The first time was 2 years ago in Baltimore (we go to Baltimore to see the Yankees play every year- cheaper than NY and closer to Tennessee) right after a piece on 60 minutes ran about death threats he was getting for dating white women. I wanted a picture and autograph but his body guards told us no and pushed up away. He stopped them and told them we were ok and took pictures & signed autographs. He even stood and talked to my hubby about the Yankees for at least 20 minutes. How many other players would even take the time to do that?
Interesting too was last year we went back to Balitmore. He remembered my husband. Of course, not many people have portraits on their arms and back of Yankee greats. He stopped my hubby and looked at the new portrait he had just had put on of Yogi.
Others are jealous that he is a good guy...plain and simple. He is the face of the Yankees and they hate that.
2006-12-05 05:59:47 · answer #8 · answered by krchamp 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
i dont hate him, that boy is special. i was there for game 4 of the 2001 world series. tino had just tied the game with a 2 run home run in the bottom of the 9th. in the world series. on halloween. just before midnight. a little while and one inning later, jeter came up. the time had just passed midnight taking him, the yankees, their fans and baseball into a new frontier. the scoreboard flashed, "ATTENTION FANS, WELCOME TO NOVEMBER BASEBALL" and then, the boy that was given the number 2 for a reason, stroked the ball over the right field fence, like ruth and dimaggio and gehrig and mantle did before him-forever earning him the name - mr november.
your question shouldnt be, why are there so many, it should be how is there even one?
2006-12-05 04:00:12 · answer #9 · answered by Tina H 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
It is because he is a Yankee...no other reason.
A-Rod was by no means universally liked, but he was never, ever hated the way he's been hated since he went to New York.
If Jeter played anywhere else, all you would hear about from fans is how UNDERrated he is. But many fans who really don't know the game insist that he's overrated...in fact, he's one of the great postseason performers of the last 40 years...
2006-12-05 03:52:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋