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NOT A SINGLE YANKEE PLAYER..NOT ONE..COULD TAKE THE TIME TO ATTEND THE MAN'S FUNERAL AFTER 50 PLUS YEARS OF SERVICE..HE HARDLY EVER MISSED A GAME IN 50 PLUS YEARS..AND THEY COULDNT TAKE A FEW HOURS TO ATTEND HIS FUNERAL.

AND YOU DONT THINK THATS SMALL?

WOW.

Derek Jeter(the captain) admitted he didnt even know when the funeral was...incredible."You dont have to attend funerals to honor people"he said.

Really?

Then why even bother HAVING funerals or memorial services.

Its selfish is what it is. And highly disrespectful. BY ALL OF THEM.

BTW; just so you know, I think ANY player who couldve been at Elrod's funeral and didnt for any reason short of personal emergency should also be ashamed of themselves.So I rip the Oriole players too! And always have!

Thanks for saying this. It needed to be said.

Sometimes the moniker "spoiled Primadonas" actually does fit.

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Maybe there is a lesson here. Instead of this being an Oriole problem and we hate on all those guys that did not show up at Elrod's funeral. It is today athlete even todays society that says I have more important things to do.

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Relationship or not, Bob Sheppard was a legend at Yankee Stadium and not ONE player could take the time to pay their last respects at his funeral? It's low and the players are deserving of the criticism. Jeter's comment about not attending funerals is just run of the mill cockiness that the Yankee players are exude once they put on those pinstripes. You heard he died, right? I would think the next step would be to find out when the funeral is and then attend it. It's not that difficult. "I didn't know it was yesterday." That is the lamest excuse I ever heard and Jeter should know better.

He also notoriously left the PA Booth as fast as he possibly could at the end of games to beat the crowds. He was an institution, but I'm not quite as outraged as some.

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I'll reiterate that there's really no excuse for no one going to the guy's funeral or for Jeter not "knowing when it was". That's kind of like saying, "Oh I'm sorry officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that", when he pulls you over for speeding.

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I agree with you Roy. There are many people who have visited funeral parlors who didn't feel like going or who almost didn't go but managed to find the time. I know I have many times and afterwards I felt better because I know the family was glad I took the time to visit with them. When I first heard about this I thought maybe I didn't understand or maybe I didn't hear this story correctly. For no Yankees to attend his funeral is really sad and embarassing to the Yankee organization who should have rented a bus and taken as many players as possible.

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I think ANY player who couldve been at Elrod's funeral and didnt for any reason short of personal emergency should also be ashamed of themselves.So I rip the Oriole players too! And always have!

No offense Roy but Elrod was a bullpen coach. It is likely due to his age that he did not have any players that were close to him with the current team. Especially with the high turnover of the Orioles players.

So if the players had a strickly business relationship with Elrod there is no reason why they should have to attend. Someone from the organization should have been there but to say the players should have attended is little over the top.

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No offense Roy but Elrod was a bullpen coach. It is likely due to his age that he did not have any players that were close to him with the current team. Especially with the high turnover of the Orioles players.

So if the players had a strickly business relationship with Elrod there is no reason why they should have to attend. Someone from the organization should have been there but to say the players should have attended is little over the top.

Elrod was more than a bullpen coach, though.

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