THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19. 2012
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"It was weird the first time around, wearing a different uniform. I hadn't worn another uniform that represented anything other than the Yankees since high school. Even in the minor leagues, the different teams still represented the Yankees."
— Derek Jeter on wearing the United States team uniform
Only 62 players in MLB history with at least 15 years in the Major Leagues played their entire career with one team.
MLB.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Which active player has been with their team the longest?
A: Chipper Jones. Drafted in 1990 out of high school, he enters his 22nd season with the Atlanta Braves organization.
MLB.com
THE MORNING BREW One-team athletes a dying trend in MLB
What do baseball icons George Brett, Roberto Clemente, Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, and Stan Musial all have in common? They are part of the select few in baseball who played their entire career with one organization.
When Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit soared over the left field wall last season, not only did he become the 28th player in baseball history to achieve this milestone, not only was he the first to do it in pinstripes, not only did he achieve it while only playing shortstop, but what's most remarkable, and often overlooked, is that he got every one of those hits while playing for one organization, the New York Yankees. For a player to be as successful as he has been, with the stress and pressure that comes with playing in the
spotlight of New York is not something many could do.
In today's game, the idea of a player remaining with a single organization his whole career is something most baseball fans would laugh about. However, if you look at some of the greatest to have played the game, you'll find that many of them were able to do it with one team. In recent years, though, we rarely come across a player who ends their career where it started. According to MLB.com, since 2000, only Cal Ripken Jr., Edgar
Martinez, Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell, Bernie Williams, and newly elected hall of famer, Barry Larkin have done it.
Why?
The culture of the game has changed, starting with the agents. Baseball is full of greedy agents, like Scott Boras, who will do just about anything to ensure that their client goes to the team that's best for them, which is often the highest bidder. Flashback a few years and you'll find that players were being traded with less frequency because there wasn't the same financial emphasis on contracts because players weren't being paid much anyway. Take a guy like Babe Ruth, for example — arguably the best player to step foot on a diamond. The highest he was ever paid was $80,000 by the Yankees. Now guys like Alex Rodriguez are getting paid $32
million for one season. Add in free agency and general managers whose phones are ringing left and right, and the result is players that are always on the move. A player's age also factors into
whether or not they stay put, as general managers are looking to move older players in exchange for younger prospects.
There's something special about a player who is able to play under one organization. For the player it means the organization thinks very highly of them, so much so that they are willing to invest to keep them on their roster. For the organization it means that they have a player who not only likes where he is playing, but serves as a role model for the city and the younger players in the clubhouse — that's something
that you can't put a price tag on.
The decline of players like these is something that I feel is unfortunate, but it's just a reflection on how the game has changed. There's only a handful of active players right now that I can see retiring as one-team athletes: Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, Chipper Jones, and Todd Helton.
— Edited by Jeff Karr
This week in athletics
Thursday
Friday
There are no athletic events today.
Saturday
There are no athletic events today.
Women's swimming
vs. Arkansas
9 a.m.
Fayetteville, Ark.
Sunday
There are no athletic events today.
Men's basketball
vs. Texas
3 p.m.
Austin, Texas
Monday
Tuesday
Women's basketball
vs. Texas A&M
7 p.m.
Lawrence
There are no athletic events today.
Wednesday
Women's basketball
vs. Texas Tech
7 p.m.
Lawrence
WINTER SPORTS
Paralyzed man reaches South Pole in new way
RENO. Nev. — A Nevada man paralyzed in a 2010 snowmobiling accident has reached the South Pole, traveling about 75 miles in sub-zero temperatures over two weeks to complete the trip on the 100th anniversary of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott's trek there with the Terra Nova Expedition.
Grant Korgan, who is paralyzed from the waist down, used a device called a sit-ski to reach the pole 100 years to the
day after the British explorer completed the journey on Jan. 17, 1912.
"Although my body has been broken, my spirit never will be. I am unbreakable!" Korgan, 33, of Incline Village, said in a statement posted on the crew's Web site.
Korgan's expedition party included paralympian John Davis, two guides and cinematographers who are shooting for a documentary called "The Push: A South Pole Adventure." The film is expected to be released later this year.
The team trained for a year with various missions in Alaska, Norway, Lake Tahoe and South America. Korgan estimated he'd have to push the sit-ski approximately 250,000 times over the course of the trip.
"Grant just pulled off one of the most amazing athletic achievements in modern history and a first for adaptive athletes," said Steven Siig, director of the documentary film.
"This is a historic day in the name of recovery, technology, adventure and the
human potential," he said.
The challenge was intended to help raise money for the California-based nonprofit High Fives Foundation, which helps injured winter athletes recover and get back to their sport. It also supports the Reeve Irvine Research Center, a science research facility at University of California, Irvine devoted to the study of repair, regeneration and recovery of function after spinal cord injury.
Associated Press
FOOTBALL
Sports Illustrated writer grades Weis hire an 'F'
With all coaching changes that have reverberated throughout college football the last few months, Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated looked at each hire and graded each school's decision. For instance, he gave Washington State's hire of the former Kansas possibility Mike Leach an A+.
When he came to Charlie Weis, he had a different opinion. Mandel gave Athletic Director Sheen Zenger an F. He highlighted Weis' poor record at Notre Dame in 2007 (3-9) and said Weis hasn't been
able to consistently develop young players at the college level. If Weis did succeed, Mandel argued, he would apparently bolt to the NFL shortly
Weis
thereafter. He said any success would be "a miracle" however.
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