Desperate For Content, MLB Decides Baseball Fans Want SIXTY FOUR STRAIGHT HOURS Of Derek Jeter Games

It’s been a tough week for MLB with players incredibly unhappy with the pay cuts in the owners’ proposal and a perception that a season may not happen this year. So what could stir up the passion of baseball fans who may start to move on from the sport more and more each day?

Over TWO AND A HALF DAYS of Derek Jeter, arguably baseball’s most famous player but certainly one of its most divisive.

I grew up in the Bronx as a Yankees fan who saw the Yankees win their first World Series in a while thanks to Jeter and their core four. But, in a sport so dominated by numbers that prove a player’s worth, it’s pretty clear that Jeter was overrated. He won championships. He was a playboy even by the historical standards of the Yankees with his infamous postcoital gift baskets. He had some truly iconic plays:

But there’s a popular sentiment about how Jeter likely wasn’t even the best shortstop from his class with guys like A-Rod, Nomar Garciaparra and even Edgar Renteria. You can see it many of the Twitter reactions:

But hey, there aren’t many baseball players who’d stir up that much of a reaction, good or bad. It’s hard to argue that Jeter has a key place in baseball lore but one that’s exceedingly overstated to casual fans and Yankees fans while mostly working the opposite way on a big portion of the diehards out there. You have to assume MLB sees all the love towards all-sport greats like Michael Jordan and Tom Brady during quarantine wants some of that shine for themselves in these lean baseball times. But an inescapable vortex of Derek Jeter probably ain’t it.

And even if people don’t watch, at least this one guy will be tuning in with a complete and utter lack of awareness as to how the concepts of “underrated” and “overrated” work: