It's Derek Jeter Day in America. So where are his teammates?

Today, America's scattered population of card-carrying Gammonites - (aka: old, white, self-righteous farts) - will elect Derek Jeter to thel Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Hooray.

The only question is whether Jeter will be elected unanimously, or if some hurtful, cantankerous asshole from East Boston or West Shmunck will purposely deny him the honor of a 100 percent vote.

With Mariano Rivera, Jeter anchored baseball's last great dynasty: the Yankees of the nineties. In recent days, some writers have labeled the cheating Astros as a "dynasty." They won one championship. One. Joe Torre's Yankees won four in five years. That, my friends, is a fukkin' dynasty. And in our lifetimes, we'll probably never its like again. 

So, how did they win four out of five? Did Jeet and Mariano simply carry everybody? Visit Cooperstown, and that's what you might think. Three others from that great run - Wade Boggs, Tim Raines and Mike Mussina - have made the Hall. Each played a season or two with the Yankees. None was a linchpin to the full dynasty. (Of course, Torre is in the Hall, as a manager.)

So, WTF? Were the Yankees a two-man operation? Apparently, America's scattered population of card-carrying Gammonites believes so. Of course, being old, white, self-righteous farts, they have their personal standards. (Also known as "grudges."

Bernie Williams? Too much guitar. Roger Clemens? Failed the purity test. Paul O'Neill? Broke too many water coolers. Jorge Posada? Soaked his hands in pee.  Coney? Andy? Tino? Nope. Chuck Knoblach? How about Orlando Hernandez - el Duque - who opened ties to Cuba? Chili Davis? Even - gulp - Jose Canseco, in his cameo role. (All I remember: Jose, taking three ridiculously perfect strikes, right down the middle, in the World Series.) Four out of five world championships! Did they just happen?

The greatest dynasty in the last 30 years - no, the LONE dynasty in the last 30 - with only two mainstays in Cooperstown? WTF?

Hmm. You'd almost think there is a small market bias against the Yankees. 

What's that you say? We should wonder why Roger Maris and Thurman Munson aren't in the Hall?   

I'm temped to question some players who have made the cut. That would be crappy. Everyone has their vision of greatness. I say, Bravo to all who have been inducted. And - yeah - Yankees do receive more attention than comparable stars in smaller markets or on last-place teams. But that's why it's the Hall of FAME - folks, it's FAME. And when the judging eyes of the entire world are upon you, it's not easier to win; it's harder. And they won four out of five.

Considering their refusal to acknowledge the other Yankees who comprised baseball's last great team, America's scattered population of card-carrying Gammonites - (aka: old, white, self-righteous farts) - better damn well make it unanimous, today. One hundred percent. 

Anything less, we riot.