Derek not saying if he’d kneel
said. “This is what I dreamed about as a kid. We won. We’re moving on. So I’m pretty excited about that. This feels amazing, but it’s just the beginning for this team.”
The Yankees will be facing Dallas Keuchel in Game 1, but it’s unknown who Joe Girardi will counter with.
Sonny Gray, who struggled in Game 1 of the ALDS and did not pitch again in the series, could be a candidate.
The Bombers could also go with Masahiro Tanaka, who has struck out 22 combined in his last two starts, though both of those came at home, where the righty has better splits.
So it’s possible the Yankees could go with Tanaka in Game 3, with Luis Severino, fresh off his fantastic Game 4, starting Game 2.
The Yankees are kicking the Indians while they’re down.
After coming back from an 0-2 hole and winning Game 5 of the ALDS to end Cleveland’s season, the Bombers took to social media to make the Indians’ three straight losses hurt even more.
“Final: Yankees 5, The Team That Blew A 2-0 Series Lead 2,” the Yankees’ Instagram account posted after the win along with a photo of CC Sabathia smiling.
They then took to Twitter to drag the Indians, in particular Jose Ramirez, even more.
“We like cupcakes. And champagne,” they wrote, quote tweeting a Jose Ramirez post from earlier in TODAY the week about the Indians being 3-0 at Yankee Stadium this season.
“We’re 3-0 at Yankee Stadium this year cupcake,” was what Ramirez wrote.
Hal Steinbrenner told reporters after the W: “Very happy, very excited. What a great team.”
The Yankees did not get a hit out of their DH spot the entire ALDS. … They advanced to the ALCS for the first time since 2012. THE NEW Marlins Boss — and retired Yankee captain — does not appear to have any issues with athletes kneeling during the national anthem, although Derek Jeter didn’t indicate whether or not he would take a knee now that he’s part of a baseball team front office.
“Would I? I’m not playing,” said Jeter Wednesday night at Cipriani Wall Street, where his Turn 2 Foundation celebrated its 21st anniversary dinner.
“The thing that I think is frustrating, this whole rhetoric that is going back and forth. People lose sight of the fact of why someone was kneeling,” said Jeter. “They’re focused so much on the fact that they are kneeling as opposed to what they’re kneeling for. Peaceful protests are fine. You have your right to voice your opinion. As long as it’s a peaceful protest, everyone should be fine with that.”
Of course, one of Jeter’s other business ventures is the Players’ Tribune, his website that allows former and current athletes to voice their unfiltered views. Many of The Players’ Tribune contributors have written about social issues, so it would have been unusual for Jeter to say he is opposed to athletes taking a knee during the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
Jeter, 43, did not divulge much about his new job, other than to say, “I’ve got to spend a lot of time on” his Marlins ownership responsibilities. A recent tweet by the Marlins showed a photo of Jeter behind a desk with two iPads open and a hand sanitizer stationed behind him, with the caption, “A new era begins.”
Jeter is also a new dad — he and his wife Hannah celebrated the birth of daughter Bella in August — but he added that he would still be “active” with Turn 2, which creates programs and promotes healthy lifestyles for kids.
“Community is important. We’ll continue to do this. It’s part of our family’s legacy. It’s important for us to continue to give back,” said Jeter.
Jeter said that after he retired from playing following the 2014 season, he “needed some time away from the game.”
“It’s what I’ve done my entire life. But I’m happy to be back in it. I’ve been pretty vocal throughout my career that when I was done I wanted to be part of an ownership group,” said Jeter. “That was the second dream, so now I’m getting an opportunity to do that.”