Tampa Bay/NY Jeter HBP?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by rbmartin

This is kinda like a defensive player in basketball "flopping". It's part of the game but it decreases my respect for the "actor".

Disagree. "Faking being fouled" is a technical foul in basketball; it's rarely called because very few players actually flop without any contact. Typically, they exaggerate the contact by falling backwards; but there's contact.
Jeter's move is the equivalent of falling (along with the gutteral scream) without any contact at all.