by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

ANAHEIM–I’m glad to be back in the wonderful World of Disney, the New York Yankees are paying a visit at Anaheim opening up Monday night. The Yankees are on tour on the west coast it’s going to be the Bronx Zoo here in Anaheim. The Yankees Derrick Jeter is going to have a tribute in every town he goes to outside of New York he’s going to get a tribute becuse this is his last season in the big leagues.

Jeter is one of the best, everytime I look at Jeter it’s hard to believe this is the one stat on Jeter, how can you figure it out but it’s true in the history of the Yankees there are so many mega stars, 27 World Series he’s the only Yankee with 3,000 hits so far thats incrdible.

Nobody but Jeter has 3,000 hits and that’s amazing he deserves the accolades so were going to dedicate the trivia at Anaheim to Jeter this week and the Yankees are right there in sunny, sunny California. You look at Jeter’s career, five World Series rings, count them five and he hit .300 in the playoffs and World Series.

He lived and worked for one team only in the biggest media market in the country and maybe in the world New York, he never was involved in any scandal, you never heard a rumor. You talk about something that’s not normal these days. You play in New York your talking about Alex Rodriguez whose in the middle of a season long suspension.

Here’s a guy who played his whole career in the media capital of the world on the number one franchise in the United States the Yankees, here’s a guy whose never had any scandal, never anything, everything is positive about this man. That by itself is a story.

Cobb County residents moving forward with petition against paying for Braves stadium: The Atlanta Braves who are planning to move out of downtown Atlanta after playing in ten year old Turner Field plan to move to suburban Cobb County they are being met with some protests from tax payers where County residents are putting a petition together not to pay the $450 million in public money for the $672 million new Braves stadium.

The Braves and county officials say it’s all but a done deal the Braves have been met with some political pressure and the reason is very clear because of the demographics it’s more of an upper middle to upper class and it’s more white and they will support baseball and spend bigger bucks at the park on the game and more than the downtown stadium.

The few times when I traveled to their old park at Fulton County and their current park Turner Field, Turner is actually a wonderful facility. The Giants just got done sweeping the Braves in a three game series over the weekend and there is nothing wrong with Turner but it’s just about the money with their planned move to Cobb County.

The Braves think they can do better in Cobb County, I really don’t know if there is enough momentum to stop them from moving because that’s a franchise decision. If Major League Baseball apporoves it it’s going to be very tough for anybody to stop it.

Turner Field was built for the 1996 Olympics and the Braves wanted some upgrades done with Turner but Fulton County didn’t provide the subsidies and so the Braves began to look elsewhere espeically after they were approached by Cobb County officials about a new site.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for Angels baseball and does News and Commentary for http://www.sportsradioservice.com