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By: Chris NY

Chris NY — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:22:36 +0000

interesting quote from the article I think Mari is talking about – “Since Jeter and Rodriguez spoke about their relationship at Rodriguez’s news conference in New York and again here, Jeter was optimistic that he would not have to address it anymore.” 3 years later, still talking about it…………………. and people wonder why he sounded annoyed at the media.

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MY BASEBALL BIAS - AN AL EAST BIAS WEBLOG » Why Do They Play Us For Fools? — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:08:58 +0000

[...] Jeter Press Conference Audio, courtesy of Peter Abraham’s LoHud Blog. [...]

By: Summer

Summer — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:21:24 +0000

He sounds annoyed at the media, not at A-Rod.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:30:43 +0000

Mari, *gasp* are you suggesting that Jeter can actually forget things he said before? I’m pretty sure he doesn’t carry a book around in which he records each and every comment he made to the media right after he’s made it. if it’s already out there and he talked about it several years ago, why is the media asking about it again? he apparently gave an answer three years ago. if he sounds annoyed, i don’t see why there’s anything wrong with that. i would be too if i was getting asked the same questions over and over again

By: LathamJoe

LathamJoe — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:40:25 +0000

Thanks for the sound bites, Peter – even tho I could care less about whether Derek and ARod are sharing a beer together. You can tell Derek is very protective about his personal side, unlike ARod.

One thing, however, I’ve always been curious about with Jeter is that “kennel cough” he seems to have when doing interviews…Is that a nervous habit or does he have some kind of respiratory problem? He sometimes does that after running the bases, too!

By: Mari

Mari — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:38:14 +0000

Right before spring traiing in 2004 Derek gave an interview in which he said the same thing Alex just said: “We’re not as close as we were, but we’re still friends. We still get together.”

And in that 2004 interview he talked about the Esquire article, which he claimed yesterday he hadn’t talked about since it came out in 2001. He said “Sure it hurts when someone close to you says critical things.” He said he thought Alex was put in a position of having to defend his salary. (Alex also said that they were asking him if Derek could get the same kind of contract he had gotten. He said he didn’t think so – that his role with the Rangers is not the same as Derek’s with the Yankees. Derek was a #2 hitter, he had a lot of other good players around him, he wasn’t the guy you say “don’t let him beat you,” etc. That was the context of the whole thing – salary.

Derek even mentioned in the article that he had told Alex he should have told them that Derek’s salary issue is between him and the Yankees.

No he says he doesn’t want to talk about anything off the field.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:00:49 +0000

I enjoy how so many of these players or former players, whenever they have something to say that might be slightly critical of jeter, their names are never attached to their comments. I mean if you’re gonna say something, say it boldly

By: Erica Kane

Erica Kane — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:20:02 +0000

Ah … another riveting saga in the Alex and Derek saga.

In the next exciting installment of _As the YankeeWorld Turns_, stay tuned to see if:

-Derek will say hello to Alex?!
-When Derek jokes around the boys, is poor Alex left out of the fun all by himself?!
-Will Alex and Derek go out to dinner together?!
-Is there a chance that Derek will start inviting Alex over for sleepovers as they did 12-14 years ago?!
-Can Alex and Derek rekindle the flame of their past torrid friendship?

Tune in next time to discover the answers to these and other urgent questions. Same time. Same channel.

As the YankeeWorld Turns.

By: murphydog

murphydog — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:56:09 +0000

Nathan:

You’re right there are no explicit facts to back up those quotes you picked out. All that stuff is just my take on the issue. I was making some inferences from what’s out there in print (including Verducci’s ’06 Sports Illustrated piece) and what I know generally about life. Boiled down, these are my assumptions: Jeter is very responsible, very old school and has trouble putting up with A-Rod who seems very narcissistic, needy and manipulative. Giambi appears to be a classy, good, but flawed guy, liked and appreciated by his teammates. I think the A-Rod/Jeter relationship on the field and in the clubhouse greatly affects the post season (as much as the pitching), so it’s of great interest to me to figure it out. Today the whole thing made sense to me as a version of the The Prodigal Son. But hey, if I’m writing in to blogs during the day, I guess I’ve got too much time on my hands ; )