DEREK JETER'S HITLESS STREAK REACHES 32 ABs
For those of you who have never suffered from a slump at the plate, consider yourself lucky. Although if you ever played baseball, you have at one time or another suffered from a slump. I went through an 0-18 this year and it's amazing what it does to your pysche. The ball seems like it's coming so much faster, you walk up to the plate and look out to the field and thoughts like "there is no way I'm going to get a hit" enter your mind. No matter how confident or how great of a player you are, you will always start to suffer from self-doubt.

The thing about an 0-32 is, do you realize how difficult it is to do that? Pitchers don't go 0-32. You have to be hitting poorly AND have really bad luck. The thing about Jeter's slump is that it doesn't even seem like he's hitting the ball hard at all. From the highlights I've seen if just seems like he's missing pitches he usually handles. Since he's not hitting the ball hard he is most likely suffering from some sort of mechanical flaw right now, not just bad luck. Jeter has tied one of my all-time favorites JIMMY WYNN (aka the TOY CANNON) for the longest hitless streak under STEINBRENNER in New York.

Derek Jeter is hitting .161 right now with a .247 OBP and 0 homeruns. Thanks to the "projected" stats on ESPN.com I can now know that if Jeter keeps up this pace his season will look like this...
.161/.247/.191 with 0 HR, 39 RBI...108 hits in 671 ABs. I have a feeling he'll end up a little better than that.