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Derek Jeter admitted that there isn’t any unhealthy blood between him and his former teammate Alex Rodriguez in a brand new interview with Good Day New York, on Thursday, July 28. The previous New York Yankees shortstop revealed that he’s been in contact with the once-third baseman, after a scene in his documentary The Captain, the place he stated that A-Rod wasn’t a “true buddy.”
Given Derek’s feedback within the documentary, the interviewer requested the previous ballplayer the place he and his once-teammate stand, and he stated that they’re okay. “We’ve spoken. There isn’t a wedge. All the things’s good,” he defined. “There are not any points between Alex and I, in any respect.”
Within the new documentary from ESPN, Derek opened up about being “bothered” by an interview that Alex gave to Esquire. “As a buddy, I’m loyal. I simply checked out it as, ‘I wouldn’t have achieved it.’ After which it was the media. The fixed hammer to the nail. They simply stored hammering it in. It simply grew to become noise, which annoyed me,” he stated within the doc, per The New York Post. “It goes again to the belief, the loyalty. That is how the man feels. He’s not a real buddy, is how I felt. As a result of I wouldn’t do it to a buddy.”
General, the Corridor-of-Famer stated that he felt like his teammate had “diminished” his skill. Through the Esquire interview, A-Rod had spoken about Derek hitting second within the Yankees batting lineup. ” You by no means say, ‘Don’t let Derek beat you.’ That’s by no means your concern,” he stated at one level. In an analogous interview, Alex had stated, “There’s not one factor he does higher than me.”
After A-Rod clearly struck a nerve with the baseball legend, Alex did admit to feeling responsible about what he stated and the way in which it was portrayed after the story was printed. “When that got here out, I felt actually unhealthy about it,” he stated within the documentary.