Ten years ago, Derek Jeter was on top of the world — fresh off his fourth World Series title (and perhaps his best season), Jeter had just inked a ten year, $189.1M contract. Feeling flush, he purchased a fully-functional babe lair in the Trump World Tower for $12.6M.  The shortstop had it all: he was the King of New York with four rings, tens of millions of dollars, and the city wrapped around his finger.

And the rout was on. Read the rest of this entry

There were two major events this week that really kind of threw me for a loop.  One was covered quite extensively and the other got barely a mention.  They are completely unrelated, but thought provoking nonetheless.  Neither of them had anything to do with Derek Jeter (but we’ll get to him in a second). Read the rest of this entry