JETERPOCALYPSE: Twitter mourns, reacts, jokes

Derek Jeter just announced he'll retire after the 2014 season on his FB page: https://t.co/lwG97dCTz4 pic.twitter.com/n6Q5oZX2l0

— SB Nation MLB (@SBNationMLB) February 12, 2014

next Bud Selig postpones his retirement to steer MLB's transition to Jeterlessness

— Sam Miller (@SamMillerBP) February 12, 2014

Derek Jeter's final regular season game will be against the #RedSox on 9/28 at Fenway Park.

— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) February 12, 2014

The way I see it, the celebration of Jeter's career was those great seasons of his career. Rather see coverage of Simmons/Bogaerts/Lindor/

— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) February 12, 2014

The Jeter retirement means all 18 Yankee-Red Sox games will be on Espn, Fox and MLB. Ugh

— Ray Guilfoyle (@faketeams) February 12, 2014

Alex Rodriguez shows up to Derek Jeter's retirement party while everyone claims they weren't the one who invited him

— Bobby Big Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) February 12, 2014

So Jeter and A-Rod will never play another game together. That whole thing didn't exactly work out as planned, did it?

— Andy Martino (@MartinoNYDN) February 12, 2014

Glad that A-Rod is going to have his farewell tour to himself in 2017. We all have only so many tears to shed.

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) February 12, 2014

Looks like 20-20 hindsight now, but Jeter agreeing to just a one-year extension for '14 now seems like a hint to what he was thinking.

— David Lennon (@DPLennon) February 12, 2014

"Derek, here is a rocking chair made of all the groundballs you tried to dive for over the last few years"

— Brian J Pickett (@BrianPickett) February 12, 2014

It'll be tough for Jeter to walk away from the game he loves, but fortunately there will be medical staff to assist him

— Matt Sussman (@suss2hyphens) February 12, 2014

Derek Jeter gets a rocking chair made of ground-ball singles to center field

— Jason Wojciechowski (@jlwoj) February 12, 2014

And so Derek Jeter, who once told me that you'd never see him using social media, announces his upcoming retirement via Facebook.

— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) February 12, 2014

Love that Jeter will completely overshadow Selig's retirement tour. He is truly a man of the people.

— Mike Axisa (@mikeaxisa) February 12, 2014

Jeter will now get full Mariano treatment all year around majors. Folks who knew him wondered if he wouldn’t announce to avoid that #Yankees

— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) February 12, 2014

The A's should give him a Jeremy Giambi jersey.

— Dave (@gggiants) February 12, 2014

Ranking SSs, I'd probably go Wagner, Ripken, A-Rod, Ozzie, Jeter, Reese, Yount, Banks, Vaughan, & I don't know who would be 10th.

— Mike Bates (@commnman) February 12, 2014

So who is gonna leave Jeter off the first ballot. #Markmedownasfirsttocomplain

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) February 12, 2014

Derek Jeter will retire with a lower WAR than Jeff Bagwell

— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) February 12, 2014

Jeter is 10th all-time in hits. Only needs a decent year to jump to 6th all-time, great year (199+ hits) pushes him to 5th all-time.

— Mike Axisa (@mikeaxisa) February 12, 2014

A Begrudging Ode To Derek Jeter By A Mets Fan http://t.co/71U1vjXgfs pic.twitter.com/pA1ymOJoGb

— BuzzFeed Sports (@BuzzFeedSports) February 12, 2014

As remarkable as anything was how he maintained a wall around himself while playing in New York and never really let his business get out.

— T.J. Quinn (@TJQuinnESPN) February 12, 2014

Jeter really is this era's DiMaggio. Now, if only the Yankees had another Mantle on the horizon to take his place.

— The Captain's Blog (@williamnyy23) February 12, 2014

I got a knife in the back for my retirement tour gift.

— Old Hoss Radbourn (@OldHossRadbourn) February 12, 2014