Derek Jeter

I’m not the biggest Derek Jeter fan, I’ll be honest. I think his pride hurts him at times — perhaps he tries too hard to fit into the “Yankee mold,” so to speak. He’s certainly not a power hitter, and he’s certainly not the best defensively. But put that aside, and how can you not be impressed by the guy? Sure, many view him as being overrated, but anyone making that type of money is going to be deemed overrated.

Derek is on the threshold of reaching a rather significant milestone — 2,500 hits. He had 3 hits last night against Toronto, which put him at 2,498 hits. Derek needs 2 hits to reach 2,500. If he doesn’t do it tonight, then perhaps tomorrow (Friday) night in Baltimore.

Take a look at the all-time hit list below, and look how many at-bats, and seasons, it took for the players around him to accomplish that level.

All Time Career Hits Leaders

Derek Jeter even has the capability to crack into the top 5, too. He averages just over 200 hits per season. Lets just say Jeter, who is 34 years old, can, and wants to, play for another ten years. Lets also say he can continue putting up similar hit numbers. That’s an additional 2000 hits — putting him at 4,498. 4,498 is about 200 more hits than the current leader, Pete Rose.

Now, of course, Derek is getting older. I’m sure his numbers are going to dip, but even so, he has the potential to definitely make his way into the top 5 of all time. How incredible is that? Imagine if he stays healthy and his age doesn’t decrease his numbers dramatically? We’re witnessing incredible history here.

And without going into too much about Alex Rodriguez, he’s going to be in the running to pass Barry Bonds in the all time career home run total, too. How amazing is it going to be for us fans to witness possibly two great records be broken by two players on possibly the same team?

Update: Derek Jeter is now at 2,499 career hits.

I’ll keep this short and sweet.

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I’ve spent the last few nights working on :gasp: SongMeanings.  It’s been feeling really good to do so, too.  These days, it’s hard for me to get into a coding rhythm.  With everything going on, my attention span, for coding, has been all of five minutes.  But for some reason during the other night, something just clicked, and I ran with it.

And now, reflecting back on the hours spent, it felt really good.  I miss it.  I’d still wouldn’t say it’s something I’d want to be doing full-time, but it’s something I could do, if need be.  These last few days and nights, though, I’ve been working code in my head and anticipating what I’d actually put on the screen.  This is a feeling and action that I haven’t had in months, even perhaps years.

My only concern now is falling out of that rhythm.  The interest is there, but the time is always an issue.  If there were just more hours in the day to accomplish things.  I’m going to try and push through it this week, though, and continue to bang out the issues and features that are needed.  I’ll sure be looking forward to a nice night out at the Melting Pot (love that place) next Saturday with Rebecca — she deserves it more than I do after putting up with my antics while I’m coding away (or when I talk more on the phone with Brian than I do with her).

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Life certainly is funny. It took me about fifteen minutes to write that first sentence, I swear, but it sums everything up beautifully. And then I spent the next twenty minutes typing out and explaining why life is so funny. I’ve since erased it, but can sum it up with one sentence below.

Life is one huge episode of Everybody Loves Raymond.

I know we can all get caught up with petty, well, bullshit from time to time, and when we do, just take a step back and look at the situation — find the humor in it and things will make sense. And ultimately, laugh at yourself. Because if you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?