What does jeter have in his mouth

Imagine if someone you knew 20 years ago, someone you befriended, hit it big and moved on. No contact. No cell number. They just assume that he, Jeter's main man back then, would have his number. He wants you to think of him the way he is now. An interesting part of the interview took place when Long mentioned Jeter had a girlfriend coming into pro ball but broke up with her at Long's suggestion mainly becasuse Long and Jeter were hooking up with other girls, and Long didn't think it was fair to the girlfriend.

I asked R. This was strange, because the girlfriend's name had been mentioned more than once in The Captain. We moved on. We talked about how Jeter's parents called in and insisted he not live with Long the next year. About how Long was hoping for an invitation to Jeter's final game — an invite that never came.

Finally, we went outside. We were talking about Jeter's thin frame when he came out of high school when Long suddenly said, "It's Marissa. I think Jeter has been great for baseball. And I think that, after 20 years in New York City, as shortstop and captain of the most visible team in the world, if the worst we can say is he is thin-skinned. God bless him. Thursday night will mark Jeter's last game at Yankee Stadium. Expect fans to blow the roof off the place.

Jeter is as close to a baseball God as there is. I noticed that in the handful of e-mails I got criticiting Long for suggesting the he molded Jeter. To them, I offered the same response: We can't look at this through eyes.

We have to go back to A scared, struggling teen-age baseball player who cried himself to sleep at night. A college-educated player three years older, with a much more aggressive personality. The young kid looked up to his older friend, and followed his lead. Derek Jeter will not be happy with some of the things Long said in our story. I get that. As Jeter raced for the ball, he realized that he would have to dive for it. But the ball was coming down just in front of the stands.

There was no way that Jeter could get the ball without diving face-first into the stands. But the game was on the line, and Derek Jeter did not hesitate to make the play that, along with the Flip Play, has defined his career. Jeter fearlessly made the catch, fell into the stands, and ended up bruised and bloody. People sitting near him helped him up. Then a dazed Jeter, holding a cloth next to his mouth to stop it from bleeding, was helped off the field.

Before this falsehood becomes part of baseball history, I would like to set the record straight. Where to begin? How about The Yankees were 7. In , the Yankees were down in a best of five series, and Jeremy Giambi scoring on that play would have tied the score in the bottom of the seventh. That throw missed not one but two cutoff men—Jeter could have easily stood by and watched, expecting either of those guys to make the play—and Jeter came out of nowhere to make a throw that would have been late a milli-second later.

That single play saved the Yankees playoffs and gave us one of the most exciting World Series in history two weeks later. At this point, an incongruity emerges—either the ball was foul, in which case there was no danger of runs scoring, or it was fair, in which case diving into the stands was absurdly unnecessary. Gwynn himself thought chewing tobacco gave him the cancer that killed him at That's what he told people, and while that's an emotional tug, it's not the emotion of this kindly man's death or his belief in what caused it that makes me think he's right.

I think he's right, because I know tobacco causes cancer. We all know that. For whatever reason scientists haven't been able to make a definitive link between chewing tobacco and cancer of the mouth, but that day's coming. That's what I believe. Even so, since Gwynn died a month ago, I'd been prepared to argue today -- as the All-Star Game approaches Tuesday and the inevitable Tony Gwynn tributes stir up baseball's chewing tobacco issue -- that MLB players are adults, and chewing tobacco is legal, and adults should be able to do what's legal whether it killed Tony Gwynn or not.

And then I stumbled onto Keith Olbermann's video, and thank god for that, because what a facile argument mine would have been. Chewing's legal. Players are adults and want to chew! Let 'em. Know what else is legal? Drinking beer. The point? Well, it seems so obvious now: Baseball doesn't allow other things that are legal and yet plainly inappropriate.

Why would it allow something as definitely addictive, probably lethal and by the way visually repulsive as chewing tobacco? Because it always has? That's no argument. Though Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge now has his own chambers at Yankee Stadium, he still makes some decisions based on the mystical forces that inform superstition.

Take for instance his gum chewing practices, as detailed in a profile on ESPN. Judge pops two pieces of Dubble Bubble sugar-free bubblegum in his mouth. Until he makes an out, he'll continue to chew it. If he picks up a hit in his first at-bat, it stays in. Another hit, and he keeps chewing.