Yankee hater or not.....face of the franchise, the guy shows up everyday to play for the past 15+ years...hustles on every play...won championships, Captains the most hated team in sports, lead the team through the Clemens/Pettite/A-Rod scandal, lead the team to play at Virginia Tech after the mass killings for support, played in all the World Baseball Classics (when others wouldn't), lead the Yankees during the deaths of Cory Lydle and George Steinbrenner in public ceremony's, has stayed loyal to the team through all manager firings and free agent hirings, has never been involved in any off field incidents, is a pillar of the community with class and dignity, and heads the Derek Jeter Turn 2 Foundation
http://derekjeter.mlb.com/players/jeter_derek/index.jsp
If you can't respect and clap for someone who is now arguably the greatest Yankee of all time...then you're messed up because players like this are few and far between