The Choice and Opinion

Derek Jeter the Person We Hate to Love

                Every child has a very important decision to make, a decision so colossal in size that it will impact his life from birth to death. This decision can tear families apart, destroy friendships and ultimately control your feelings at certain parts of the year. A child must choose which baseball team he will support. Growing up in Las Vegas which has no Major League team, I didn’t have a default on this decision; I decided to go with the Boston Red Sox the team always out to make a statement rather than my Dad’s team the St. Louis Cardinals. I became a diehard Sox fan and with that comes the undeniable hatred for the New York Yankees, I even hate writing their name. It’s always a yelling match when two rival fans meet up, we can’t stand even the thought of the Yankees. Who has headed the rag clan of bums all these years, Derek Jeter the face of pure evil and the man who can’t do wrong. Yankees always hide behind their pennant wins their idol Derek Jeter and they had a point their team was force to be reckoned with and had plenty of wins, but they all were still good for nothing bums. Over the years their team has declined and Jeter was reaching the end of his career. When we announced his retirement season I really gave thought about what I really thought about Derek Jeter this so called villain. I realized that Derek Jeter was a class act, a player who made the game better and just realized that I've never experienced a season without him because I was born 1993 and his rookie season was 1995. I threw away my hatred for Derek and I truly respect how motivational of player he was, how he changed the game and how he was an overall standup guy through the years but he will always be a Yankee and therefore a bum.