Jeter The Giant

So, the Giants lost Juan Uribe to the loathed Dodgers - I am not sure if the rumors are true that the offers were the same and he chose L.A. (because, that doesn't really make any sense), but either way, glad he got paid and glad the Giants didn't pay him $22,000,000, though I will miss Jazz Hands.

In his place, the Giants signed a one-year deal with Miguel Tejada, who seems to be a solid one year replacement while the team finds out whether Brandon Crawford or Emmanuel Burris are major league shortstops. I'm fine with this, especially all the reports that say that Tejada is a great clubhouse presence (something I actually would not have guessed). Chemistry is something I find overrated, but it's hard to deny its import on this championship Giants season.

All of this makes the following purely for fun, as it always would have been - no way the Giants match the Yankees offer to Derek Jeter, who seems to not have a great sense of his actual market value. But thanks to the beckett blog, we can all now envision what it might have looked like had Jeter joined the orange and black.

 You can actually do this for all 29 teams - that is, all but the Yankees - as the rest of the country has fun at Derek's expense. Hey, he's already gotten paid a lot, and, well, he's getting married to Minka Kelly. It's time he took a few slings and arrows, right?

Right.