11 years ago today: Derek Jeter hits a single to right that brings in the winning run, giving the Yankees a 6-5 walk-off win in his final home game.

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1. How can you not be romantic about baseball

2. 11 years ago already!!?!?!? What in the actual hell! Where did the time go? Feel like this was mayyyybe 5-6 years ago.

3. 11 years ago today, my college roommate who is an orioles fan had to explain to our third roommate who does not watch baseball that the baseball gods are an allegory for fate and not an organized religion.

   Also that same day, one of the guys on my floor who was from Uganda learned that the best team in baseball loses to the worst team around 30% of the time. He was shocked that my roommate wasn’t upset that his playoff-bound team had lost to a non-playoff team.

4. I was there. I was looking at the pictures earlier today. Core memory.

5. This is what baseball is all about. Go Brewers!

6. Pitcher understood the assignment

7. “Derek Jeter, where fantasy becomes reality…” is one of my favorite sports calls ever

8. That pitcher intentionally threw him a cookie

9. Somebody send this to Volpe

10. This moment is ruined because of Jimmy Fallon standing there

11. RE2PECT

12. I’ll never not cringe at that Kay call.

13. this led me down a rabbit hole of looking at mlb stats and today i learned there was a played named Cool Papa Bell

    [https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bellco99.shtml](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bellco99.shtml)

14. He’s been retired for 11 years!!!!
    Where the fuck did time go?!!!

15. I cried a little

    That night my childhood was over

    I had known no pro-sports without Jeter

16. The biggest meatball of all time, thank you

17. Forever my captain 🫶🏼

18. I was in the parking lot of Walmart listening to this on the radio, so much tension to get that hit and he delivered.