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Derek: AJ. How are you?

AJ: Make sure you get my good side (giggles).

Derek: What’s your good side?

Your front or back?

AJ: Uhm... front.

AJ: When did you first know you Dewere famous?

Derek: Today.

Derek: Today. AJ: Today?

Derek: Being interview by : Today?

sick of having your picture : (laughs) Dtaking?

Derek: Sometimes when you are in a bad mood.

Derek: You don’t want to take a picture...

ke whoff by the other team?

Derek: Very true. Yeah.

AJ: What’s the weirdest thing a fan has done?

Derek: Anytime your followed.

AJ: Yocouple of times.

It’s a weird encounter with a fan.

AJ: I think we nailed that?

AJ: I think we nailed that? Derek: I agree.

Derek: I agree.

Narrator: "The Captain" is presented by Capital One.

[ Crowd cheering ]

Jeter: For all of us up here,

it’s a huge honor to put his uniform on

every day and come out here and play.

[ Crowd cheering ]

And every member of this organization,

past and present,

Has been calling this place home for 85 years.

[ Crowd cheering ]

There’s a lot of tradition,

a lot of history, and a lot of memories.

Del Orbe: I met my husband there.

I named one of the tables at my wedding "Yankee Stadium."

Jadakiss: Walking through that long tunnel,

that bridgeway they had,

is just something that you can’t experience

watching it on TV.

Rendino: We walk to the stadium.

You see this big concrete building

in the middle of the South Bronx.

And then as you walk through the tunnel,

you see the lights, the grass,

and you hear the roar of the crowd,

and the hair on the back of your neck stands up.

Jeter: Now, the great thing about memories is you’re able

to pass it along from generation to generation.

[ Crowd cheering ]

Felt like the people were right on top of you.

It’s as loud as any stadium that I’ve ever played in.

For some teams, it was intimidating.

And you had a lot of players

that did not want to come to old Yankee Stadium

because the fans made you uncomfortable.

Pettitte: Just the grit and the grime of it, the smell of it.

There was a different feel about the old stadium.

It was awesome.

Kay: It’s not, like, in some suburb off a highway.

It’s smack dab in the middle of the neighborhood

on 161st and River.

The people of the neighborhood

where Yankee Stadium is actually located,

they take great civic pride in the fact that it’s there.

I knew there was a game every night

when the sky would light up,

and we wouldn’t miss a Bat Day for nothing

when they give you a free bet.

Truth be told, you know the thugs was waiting around

to rob you for your bat.

So it was like a mission to get back home

with that brand-new bat.

And although things are going to change next year,

we’re gonna move across the street,

there are a few things with the New York Yankees

that never change.

That’s pride. It’s tradition.

I grew up within walking distance of Yankee Stadium

in a five-story walkup building.

In each apartment, there was somebody

from a different ethnic group that was living there.

We celebrated each other’s holidays.

We exchanged each other’s foods.

The thing about the Bronx, it’s a very specific borough.

You can move to Brooklyn from anywhere,

and you can eventually become a Brooklyn person.

You can’t just move to the Bronx and one day say,

"I’m from the Bronx." "Yo, I’m from the Bronx."

Nah. No, people in the Bronx are gonna be like,

"No, you are not!" "No, you’re not!"

Kay: People in the Bronx are tough people.

They take the slings and arrows

of what life is gonna throw at them,

and they make it work, they make it happen.

And I’m proud to be from the Bronx.

And we are -- We’re relying on you

to take the memories from this stadium,

add them to the new memories that are coming

to new Yankee Stadium

and continue to pass them on from generation to generation.

[ Crowd cheering ]

So on behalf of the entire organization,

we just want to take this moment to salute you,

the greatest fans in the world.

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Crowd: Der-ek Jet-er!

[ Crowd cheering ]

Jeter: The last year of old Yankee Stadium,

We all wanted to go out with a bang,

but it didn’t happen.

It was an odd feeling not going to the postseason.

Going into the next season,

you wanted to prove that it was a fluke.

And hopefully this year it can end up

a little bit different than it did the last year.

-It’s been a while. -Yeah. Thanks for reminding me.

I think everybody knows it’s been a while.

It seemed like forever

since we were in the World Series.

We were in the World Series in 2003.

I understand. Six years.

But when you have the standard of its championship or failure,

which is the standard I had, it seemed like forever.

Announcer: Diving stop! Erstad. Underhand to Frankie.

They got him! The series is over!

Cashman: From that period of ’05, ’06, ’07,

chemistry wasn’t meshing.

For whatever reason, there was a lot of talent,

but it was almost like the new players coming in

that hadn’t been part of the championships,

they were separated from the old players

that were part of the championships.

Announcer: Tigers have eliminated the Yankees!

Girardi: The older guys who were there,

they were used to winning World Series.

And when you have a guy like Derek Jeter on your team,

unless you win the World Series, he is not going to be happy.

I think people felt that expectation

when they came in the clubhouse,

and maybe that rubbed some people the wrong way.

Olney: I spoke with players on the Yankees,

and they did feel like that there was a breach.

They felt that regardless of whether it was verbalized

or whether it was implied that they could never live up

to the standards of the dynasty team and the dynasty players.

Oh, it’s real. You know you’re an outsider.

Well, at least I could say for me.

I just felt that way the whole time I was there.

Let’s face it. With Derek as the captain of the team,

that’s directly an indictment of him.

Sometimes you lose because there are better teams,

and it’s not necessarily something to do with leadership.

But I’m fine with criticism.

And, yeah, I’m pretty sure

there’s things throughout my career,

looking back, maybe I would have handled differently.

I probably could have spent

more time with teammates away from the field,

but I didn’t because I hung out with people

who I was comfortable with.

I hung out with people I knew I could trust.

And I probably should have been more trusting

to some of my teammates.

Yankees finally pulled a big catch out of the oven.

Yeah. $161 million.

That’s what the Yankees will be paying CC Sabathia.

Announcer: He got him. What a pitch.

Cashman: He was this tremendously talented player,

but he’s supposed to be an amazing person at the same time.

He was known for bonding with his teammates,

so he kind of represented

everything we probably needed at that moment.

For me, I was thinking, "There ain’t no way

I’m signing with New York, so don’t even worry about it."

Like, how am I gonna change your culture?

You know what I’m saying? But Cashman was like,

"I’ve watched what you’ve done with your teammates

and, you know, going out to eat and doing these different things

and organizing all this different stuff.

I feel like that can work for us."

And it just kind of made sense. It all kind of fell into place.

Kay: Are you the nicest guy in the world?

[ Laughs ] I don’t think I’m the nicest guy in the world.

But, you know, I mean, I feel like I’m a pretty good guy.

[ Laughter ]

And the best thing that happened, too,

was Derek called me and was like, "Just be yourself."

And that conversation, you know, for me, it was like,

"Alright. You know, here I am."

I’m as excited about this season as any season I’ve been in

because we’ve made a lot of great additions.

The Yankees do what they usually do.

They plug their holes with money.

So they decide to spend

about a half a billion dollars on players.

They brought in Nick Swisher,

a guy who marches to his own drum.

A. J. Burnett showed to be a crazy guy

during his Yankee tenure.

Mark Teixeira is the guy most likely to have

a butler in his house.

Alright? [ Laughs ] He’s a really straitlaced dude.

Hoch: And you could just tell there was urgency there.

The Yankees were opening this new building.

They wanted a team that could win.

The vibe heading into that 2009 season was

"the Yankees are back."

I was young. I was stupid. I was naive.

[ "SportsCenter" theme plays ]

Welcome to "SportsCenter."

Alongside Brian Kenny, I’m Jay Harris.

A whirlwind 48 hours in the life of Alex Rodriguez,

culminating today in the startling admission

the best player in baseball

did use performance-enhancing drugs.

My reaction was, "Another distraction."

Like, "Fuck. We gotta deal with this now."

That was my reaction.

Like everyone else, I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life.

Let me start by thanking the Yankees, my teammates.

The fact that you’re sitting here with me today

means the world to me.

I didn’t want to be there.

I don’t think anyone wanted to be here.

I’m sure he didn’t want to be there. You know what I mean?

We got to answer questions about it, man.

And I did not like to answer questions

that didn’t have to do with what was going on on the field.

Man: What were you thinking at that time when...?

I was listening. I really wasn’t --

See, my job isn’t to overanalyze like yours.

I was like, "I don’t want to talk about this shit anymore."

But it wasn’t something that you could just end like that.

Everybody wasn’t doing it.

You know, that’s the thing I think is most irritating.

It’s frustrating when you listen to people say,

"It was the steroid era. Everybody was doing it."

That’s not true.

I work my ass off, and there’s a lot of people that have.

I wanted to be clear and make sure people knew --

in my own way.

I mean, you don’t have to grandstand.

"Hey, guys, I didn’t do it."

Carig: Crazy expectations, new players.

And A-Rod was like, you know --

seemed to, like, suck all the oxygen

out of it by just being A-Rod.

I remember like, "Damn. Is this --

Like, my seven years, we’re gonna be doing this shit?"

I’m like, "This is the first week!"

Jeter: It dragged on for a while,

but my mind goes, "We got to deal with it and let’s move on."

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Announcer: That one’s hit deep to right field.

Going back, Kapler. Looking up.

See ya!

A walk-off home run for Nick Swisher!

Jeter: 2009, you have all type of leaders on the team.

It’s a winning approach that brings the chemistry.

Let’s go, let’s go!

Announcer: There it goes! Gone!

♪ Today’s a new day ♪

♪ I’m the best, I told y’all before I showed y’all before ♪

♪ Hey ♪

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Sabathia: I remember just feeling like,

"Fuck. We gonna win the World Series.

Like, this --- It’s over."

♪ Yeah, so, okay, okay, okay ♪

♪ Y’all kiddin’ with me, no way ♪

Carig: I think Derek had one of his best seasons.

I mean, he was just good the whole year, start to finish.

The balls he got to, he never made errors, it felt like.

I remember thinking. "Wait. I thought he sucked there."

I can say without question

that the ’09 season was the happiest I saw Derek.

Announcer: There it is.

For 72 years, Lou Gehrig has been

the Yankees’ all-time hits leader.

Now it’s Derek Jeter.

[ Crowd cheering ]

Feinsand: With CC, A. J., and Swish,

those three guys injected some serious personality

into that team, and you saw them slapping each other

in the face with pies after walk-off wins.

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Announcer: And there’s a pie,

as Hideki Matsui gets smushed.

Feinsand: I give Derek some credit.

He let them be themselves.

Ohh!

Girardi: And I think that’s what makes a clubhouse work.

And Derek’s leadership on how to play the game

and the way to prepare, the other guys fed off of that.

We were on the exact same page when it came to winning.

Announcer: Certainly the New York Yankees are playing

with an awful lot of expectations.

They spent a ton of money this offseason.

And CC Sabathia, tonight’s Yankees starter,

knows the burden of those Yankee expectations.

Sabathia: I come into the postseason of ’09.

I’m like, "I got to go out. I got to throw the shutout.

Got to do whatever." And I give up those two runs.

Announcer: And that one gets away from Posada.

And Mauer, in between, hesitates,

now comes home and slides in under the tag.

I come back and sit on the bench.

And I’m sitting next to Jeter. He was like, "You alright?"

I must have looked weird because I must have not been alright

for the room to ask me if I was alright.

And I was like, "Yeah, I’m fine, I’m fine. I’ll get into the game."

He was like, "No, I got you."

Announcer: And a high fly ball

belted down the left-field line!

It is...gone!

A long home run deep into the New York night

for Derek Jeter.

And it ties the game in the third.

Sabathia: When he hit that home run,

like, a knot in my stomach just released.

And I was like, "These guys have been there before.

Jete’s got four rings already." You know what I’m saying?

Like, "They’re gonna lead you there."

Rodriguez: Mariano had four championships,

and Derek and Pettitte and Posada.

It definitely drove me and inspired me.

Obviously, I wanted a championship very bad,

Announcer: An unbelievably dramatic 2-run home run.

Sabathia: I think we were all wanting

that last one for the core four,

but wanting that, first of all, for us.

Announcer: The Yankees are moving on

to the American League Championship Series

for the first time since 2004.

Hoch: There were a lot of whispers

that Derek and the core four

were getting a little too long in the tooth

and they can’t really do it

and they’re not the same team as the dynasty years.

And they went out to prove

they still had the ability to be on top.

Announcer: Back off the pitcher. Pettitte knocks it down.

And throws him out.

And here’s the payoff.

Ballgame over!

American League Championship Series over.

Yankees win.

Th-e-e-e-e Yankees win!

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Buck: Yankees will be aiming

for their 27th world championship,

but they take on a terrific Philadelphia club,

the reigning world champs.

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Jeter: Phillies were on a good run, man.

They just won the World Series.

And no one repeated since we did.

♪ Here I come, here I come, here I come ♪

Rollins: We never felt our job was finished.

One championship was great.

But I wanted to play the Yankees.

I wanted to beat the Yankees.

I wanted to beat Derek Jeter’s Yankees.

♪ Here I come, here I come, here I come ♪

♪ Get ready ’cause here I come, here I come, here I come ♪

It’s good to know that we were in their heads

even when they were having success.

What is your prediction for the series?

How many games will it take to beat the Yankees?

Oh, man.

Um, well, of course we’re gonna win.

Yeah.

If we’re nice, we’ll let it go six,

but I’m thinking five and close out at home.

Five and close it out at home. Well, good luck to you, Jimmy.

Sabathia: We were watching,

and I remember Derek saying, "Stay humble, Jimmy."

Like -- Like, "Just stay humble."

However it was received in that clubhouse?

Don’t know. Didn’t really care.

They just won the World Series. You got to be confident.

You know, I don’t know if I would have said it, but...

But he said it.

Didn’t give a fuck. I really didn’t.

♪

Announcer: Sabathia, the 0-2 pitch.

Swung on, hit in the air deep to right field.

That one is gone!

Deep into the bleachers in right field!

It’s the second home run of the night for Chase Utley,

and the Phillies lead it, 2-0.

Rollins: So our job -- to win a championship

back-to-back, consecutive years.

Now we’re starting our run like they started their run.

Buck: Little pop-up.

Made that look easy.

[ Laughter ]

Announcer: Ho-hum.

It had been nine years since we had won,

and so we knew there was a lot of people

saying, "They’re not gonna pull it off."

♪ Long live the World Trade, Long live the king, yo ♪

♪ I’m from the Empire State, that’s ♪

♪ New York ♪

♪ Ay ♪

♪ Concrete jungle where dreams are made of ♪

♪ Yes ♪ ♪ There’s nothing you can’t do ♪

♪ Yes ♪

Rollins: Love Jay, love Alicia.

But after that World Series, I hated the song.

Hear that from -- ♪ Dun-dun ♪ Nope. Next.

Buck: On 3-2.

And struck him out. Two away.

Announcer: It’s a 1-1 game here in the bottom of the sixth.

Hit in the air to deep right.

It is high. It is far.

It is gone!

A thrilla by Godzilla!

We might be older, but our heart wasn’t old.

Our heart was young and pushing us to win.

Buck: Game over. Series tied at a game apiece.

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we’re in the fifth inning now. 3-2, Philadelphia.

Andy Pettitte coming up.

Announcer: Pettitte’s no doubt up there to sacrifice.

Oh, no, he’s not. He’s gonna swing away.

And he loops one toward left center field.

It’s gonna drop in for a base hit.

Buck: And Andy Pettitte had just delivered a hit...

to tie it.

[ Players cheering ]

Buck: Two out in the inning. Now a broken-bat pop-up.

And the Yankees win game 3.

One on, two out. 4-4 game in the ninth.

Announcer: Lidge deals. Damon goes.

Pitch taken. The throw to second is way late.

And Damon now runs toward third,

and there’s no one there because of the over-shift.

What a brilliant play by Damon.

Buck: The 0-1.

Ripped into left field.

Alex Rodriguez has delivered for New York.

Into score is Damon. Into second is Rodriguez.

And the Yankees lead in the ninth.

Alex was a force that postseason.

He’s a big reason we won.

We needed each other for him to win five

and for me to win one.

Announcer: And the Yankees are one win away

from a World Series championship.

♪

High, deep drive. Very deep.

And this ball is gone!

And Matsui has his third home run

in only 10 at bats in this World Series.

♪

Two down in the ninth inning.

Buck: To the second baseman, Cano.

The Yankees are back on top!

World champions for the 27th time.

♪

Jeter: I would say 2009

was more of a relief because it had been --

I sound funny saying it -- so long.

Right? But, you know.

It’s been too long, hasn’t it?

It feels good to be back. Thank you.

It felt really, really good.

But we won five championships.

But I think about the years we should have won.

I still think about those years we should have won.

Arizona, we should have won. The Marlins, we should have won.

And Boston, we should have won.

I felt -- See, but then I sound like a loser, you know?

I wish I didn’t think that way. Like, really, I wish I didn’t.

I wish I would have had a better appreciation

for things that happened in my career

and moments in my career while I was going through it.

But it was, "What’s next?"

♪

honor

this sport’s brightest stars, baseball lost a true legend.

George Steinbrenner passed away earlier today at the age of 80.

Jeter: The Boss was outspoken. He was front and center.

He was noisy. In a good way, you know?

He kept you on your toes. He would challenge you.

He would call you out. He would embarrass you.

And if you backed down from him,

I don’t think he would respect you.

He’s the reason why I was able

to play 20 years for the Yankees.

He was definitely tough. Expectations were high.

But in the end, I think it made me a better person.

Jeter: You couldn’t think of a better person to take over

after the Boss than Hal.

Hal’s a little bit more reserved.

But they have the same mentality.

You know, Hal’s expectation levels are the same.

But at the time, we didn’t know how things were going to change,

because early on in my career,

we knew who was calling all the shots.

Cashman: George Steinbrenner was like a second father to me.

I was nobody, and if I’m somebody today,

it’s because he, for whatever reason --

he handpicked me, gave me an opportunity, moved me along.

And for that, I’ll always be grateful.

Brian Cashman is the one constant

who’s still with the Yankees since 1998.

Announcer: Swing and a miss. He got him on a breaking ball.

Jeter down on strikes.

2010. Had a bad year.

Think I hit about .270.

Everybody knew that his contract was up,

and he’s now 36.

Announcer: The Texas Rangers are American League champions!

Derek has been and will be

an important part of this organization,

so how it gets defined in this new negotiation

is yet to be determined.

When you’re dealing with money and perceived worth,

it’s never an easy dance.

He’s one of the all-time great players,

but you’re still having to put a number on somebody

based on their more recent performance.

Close: Derek is so much more to the New York Yankees

than just exactly what he did in that moment, in that season.

Their look at what that value was

and our understanding were just two different things.

Steinbrenner: I absolutely try to keep any emotions,

any subjectivity out of those type of things,

because that can affect your decision-making.

Me and my agent, Casey,

went to Hal Steinbrenner’s house,

and it was Hal and Cashman and Randy Levine.

And I said, "Look, Hal, I want to tell you,

you know, this is where I want to be.

I don’t want to go anywhere.

I’ve told Casey, ’If any other team calls,

tell them I’m not interested,’

because this is where I want to be."

And I said, "The only thing that I ask is that it stays private."

Reporter: The Yankees are entrenched in their reported

three-year, $45-million offer to Derek Jeter.

Reporter #2: The negotiations with the Yankees

are playing out quite publicly.

It’s kind of an odd thing to witness.

What initially upset me

had nothing to do with what contract

they thought I was worth.

It was the fact that I said I want to keep it private,

and a couple of days later, it became public.

Steinbrenner: I felt the same way he did.

These are behind-closed-door things

that shouldn’t have got to the place it got, no doubt.

Cashman: How are we now in a public arena on this?

And so, like anything else,

you try to navigate things the best way possible.

And I wish we didn’t have to deal with that stuff,

but it comes with the -- with the program sometimes.

It’s certainly not something

that the New York Yankees wanted, not something I wanted.

Matthews: Cashman said if Derek wants

to be paid as a great Yankee, he should go test the market.

"Go see if anybody else will give you that and then come back to me."

I was already pissed off at the fact

that this had become public.

Now Cash is challenging me to find another offer.

Cashman: The offer we conveyed was something that we felt

was above and beyond

to try to check all the boxes of respect.

And so my response was,

"If you think you can beat it, you should shop it."

Whether there was going to be a better offer out there

or not, you know, we would find out.

That’s the art of the negotiation, right?

Brian Cashman says, "Well, he should drink the reality potion,"

which, you know, was just an amazing quote.

And I know for a fact

that it stung Derek a little bit.

Murti: This was supposed to be the easiest negotiation ever,

but somehow you’ve gotten past Thanksgiving

and Derek Jeter’s still not a Yankee.

Seemed a little unbelievable.

Cashman: We have a powwow in Tampa.

You know, there’s now blood on both sides bleeding out.

Jeter: The second meeting that I had,

Cash is going back and forth about,

I don’t deserve this or I don’t deserve that.

And I said to him, I said,

"Well, tell me who you’d rather have."

I had no interest

in having the conversation that he asked to have,

so I usually answer the question,

"Do you really want me to answer that?"

But he asked the question, and I, you know --

I was charged with answering it because he wanted an answer,

and so I did.

I rattled off Troy Tulowitzki and Hanley Ramirez,

the top two best shortstops in baseball at the time,

because at this stage, Derek wasn’t

in the top echelon of shortstops in the game anymore.

Jeter: That’s not the name I heard.

But he said Hanley Ramirez.

I didn’t think Cash would answer the question,

but he answered the question.

And when you have someone that’s your boss

tell you that they’d rather have somebody,

you never forget the name that comes out of their mouth.

And I said, "I’m not gonna sit here and listen to this shit."

Close: After that meeting, we walked away saying,

"I don’t know where this goes."

There was that moment in time

if cooler heads don’t prevail, he might be gone.

Steinbrenner: That was a concern.

Obviously, in his case, he’s beloved,

and our fans expected us to get a deal done.

I think we allowed a little time to go off from there.

We kind of got back on track with the negotiation.

You just kind of sometimes have to take the air out of the room

and not have it be so contentious.

There seemed to be no other genuine option for either side.

Derek Jeter and the Yankees needed each other.

And now sources say they’ve agreed on a new contract.

Jeter reportedly gets three years, $51 million.

Murti: The numbers were reasonable for a player

who you weren’t sure was going to be the same player

by the time you got to the end of those three years.

Yeah, I never wanted to be a free agent.

You know, it’s the situation that I was in.

And -- But, yeah, I’d be lying to you

if I said I wasn’t angry at how some of this went.

Close: I was happy that he expressed his feelings.

I think he had compartmentalized

a lot of those feelings through the years

because he felt like that wasn’t the right thing to do

as the captain of the Yankees.

It was not an enjoyable experience

because I’ve -- I’ve -- You know, throughout the years,

I’ve prided myself on keeping things

out of the papers and out of the media.

And this turned into a big public thing, so that was...

It changed my feelings on the front office.

I knew now you’re able to just throw me out, right?

You’re able to not treat me with the respect

that I’ve shown you throughout my entire career.

It’s not a two-way street.

It was a reminder that it’s a business.

Now, I didn’t want to have many conversations with Cash.

I didn’t.

Didn’t really want to speak to him

because I had lost that trust.

Never said anything bad about him,

but I didn’t want to see him.

And my whole mind-set from that point forward,

it goes back to, "I’m gonna prove you wrong."

♪

Derek is trying to become the 28th man in baseball history

to get 3,000.

Everything in the whole baseball universe

was focused on Derek Jeter getting 3,000 hits.

I’m basically the story.

That always made me uncomfortable.

You just want it to be over with.

Announcer: There’s one.

He lines that one into left center field.

It’s a base hit.

Two away from 3,000.

Jeter: I put so much pressure on myself to do it at home.

’cause I wanted to share the moment

with the fans at Yankee Stadium,

which was added pressure on top of what I was trying to do.

I had really never seen Derek struggle, ever.

And it was the one time I felt he was pressing.

Announcer: Grounded softly to third.

Sean Rodriguez across the diamond, and that will do it.

Reporter: Jeter’s pursuit will have to wait at least one more day.

Kay: I was a little nervous

because after the Yankees’ homestand,

there was a road trip coming up.

I said, "Man, he better get this 3,000th hit."

Announcer: Is it 3K today?

He’s two away,

and Derek will come to the plate.

I really felt if I didn’t get it on that particular day,

I just was not gonna get it at home.

Announcer: And the 3-2.

Grounded through for a base hit.

He’s one away.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Announcer: Now batting for the Yankees,

number 2, Derek Jeter.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Number 2.

Announcer: Derek got his first hit

on May 30th of 1995.

17 years later, we stand on the precipice of history.

♪

Pitch is low. 1-0.

His family, friends all holding their breath.

Jalen had his christening that morning

and I was at the baby shower

and we had the TV on the big screen.

You know, Derek is Jalen’s godfather.

We were all waiting for that 3,000th hit.

♪

Announcer: Out of Kalamazoo Central High School.

Dreamed about being a Yankee shortstop.

Dreams come true.

[ Crowd chanting "Derek Jeter" ]

[ Rhythmic clapping ]

♪

Announcer: That’s drilled deep to left field,

going back, Joyce, looking up.

See ya!

3,000!

History with an exclamation point!

Derek Jeter has done it in grand style!

♪

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪

The 3,000th hit -- is it a bloop single?

Is it a little blooper in the gap? Nope. Is it a double?

No! It’s a home run! Is it a triple? It’s a home run, baby!

♪

Jeter: I didn’t know I was gonna hit a home run.

I wish I could sit here and say,

"Yeah, you know, I said I was gonna hit a home run,

tried to hit one."

But it was a storybook script.

Verducci: This is kind of what Derek Jeter does.

Just the planets aligned for this guy, and he comes through.

Desus: It was one of those things where you’re just like,

"Yeah, yeah, I’m gonna talk about this the rest of my life."

Announcer: Congratulations, Derek.

Congratulations to the Jeter family.

I mean, I just can’t describe it.

You know, very emotional for me and very happy for him.

It’s indescribable, really.

We need a victory, you know, first of all.

Announcer: The go-ahead run is in there.

We’re in the bottom of the eighth.

It’s a 4-4 game.

♪

And the 1-2.

Grounded up the middle

and through for a base hit!

Jeter’s 5 for 5!

Oh, and the Yankees lead 5-4.

♪

Jeter: If someone said, "Go over 3,000 hits,

"you’re gonna get five hits,

5 for 5, your game-winning RBI,"

I wouldn’t believe that. "Man, just stop.

You know, seriously, let’s tone it down just a little bit."

Announcer: And the Yankees winning it.

Derek Jeter’s day is complete.

[ Cheers and applause ]

It was relief.

You know, it was relief.

You know, coming in, I’ve been lying to you guys

for a long time, saying I wasn’t nervous

and there was no pressure.

I felt a lot of pressure to do it here while we’re at home.

And so I have been lying to you for quite some time.

[ Chuckles ]

I did think that the relief from him was palpable

when it was over.

He had done it. He could exhale a little bit.

I had a lot going on.

And then...

Hannah: I grew up in the Virgin Islands.

You know, it was just a very, like, intimate upbringing

with your friends really being your family.

I started modeling when I was 14.

My parents really supported my dream.

The night we met, I was actually with my mom.

I decided to take her out to dinner

with one of my best friends, Maxwell.

There was an event at the restaurant,

and I just so happened to be sitting next to her mom.

So, I met her mom first.

There was a connection from the very beginning,

even though he was mostly talking to my mom.

But there was that connection,

and I felt like,

"He’s so mysterious, I want to know more."

I thought she was with someone at the time.

I remember going to the bathroom with my mom

and telling her, like

[whispering] "I need to make sure he knows

I’m not with my friend."

You know what I mean? Because I’m single.

Like, I am single.

She’d mention stuff like, "Oh, you know, Hannah,

how difficult is it being single

in New York?" and all this other stuff.

I just remember feeling like I was dying inside.

"Like, I hope he didn’t just hear that

because I don’t want to sound desperate, but --"

[ Laughs ]

I had touched base with a friend of mine that knew her,

and we ended up meeting up a few days later.

I spent a lot of time getting to know her,

spent a lot of time with family and friends.

It doesn’t take long to know how special she is.

She would do anything for anyone at any time.

But if you know anything about Derek,

that’s the mirror image.

She reminded me a lot of Derek,

like, didn’t want the attention,

didn’t want the --

like, was fine being behind the, you know, scenes.

And she had a successful career in her own right.

She didn’t even know what he did at the time.

She -- She had no clue.

I was in a totally different business.

I recognized him,

but I didn’t know his name.

When he stepped away, one of my friends told me,

and I was like, "I lived in New York in 2009.

"How the hell did I not see

"the float and the whole parade going on?

"Like, where was I liv--

Like, how do I not remember this?"

Hannah doesn’t like watching the highlights of my career.

Did she share that with you guys, too?

We were, like, on the DL as long as possible.

I always tried to protect our relationship, you know?

So I always tried to keep it out of spotlight.

I always tried to keep it out of the papers.

’Cause how the hell do you get to know each other

when you’re out and about

and getting your picture taken and all that crap?

You know, it’s just -- You can’t do it.

But I think it has to be the right time in your life,

not just for me, but for her as well.

And, you know, I had to get through my career

because, you know, I was very selfish

when it came to me and my career.

That was number one.

That’s not always fair

to your significant other.

The hardest time in our relationship

was when he played for the Yankees.

He was so hyper-focused on baseball,

and so he wasn’t really emotionally available to anyone.

It’s like, it doesn’t matter if you’ve got a new girlfriend.

[ Laughs ]

♪

Announcer: The pitch is swung on

and hit on the air to deep right.

That ball is high, it is far,

and is gone!

Announcer #2: It was right around this time last year

that everybody was talking about

how he was gonna have to change his swing,

now he’s gonna have to make some adjustments because of age.

♪ And I been hustlin’ all day ♪

2012, he led Major League Baseball in hits.

Announcer: Jeter has now reached base

in 34 straight games.

Announcer: See ya!

A home run for the Captain!

Announcer: Derek Jeter is 4 for 4.

Jeter: I had a great year in 2012.

I always felt like you figure it out.

because I’ve done it before.

I’ve done it throughout my entire career.

♪ Just the same ♪

Announcer: This could be two.

There’s one.

They double up Jeter, and he comes up limping.

He hit the bag in a weird way,

and he is limping.

Girardi: You don’t ever get the truth out of Derek

when it comes to playing time.

Other things, yes, he’s very truthful.

But he always told you he was fine.

♪ That’s just how I feel ♪

"Jete, how you doing?" "Fine."

No explanations.

Announcer: Joe Girardi and Steve Donahue

make him come out of the game.

Talking to Derek about any kind of a physical injury

is like trying to get state secrets from a CIA agent.

Ain’t happening.

♪

Reporter: Is it medical or...

I don’t know what you want to call it.

It’s not a big deal, though.

Derek Jeter is the toughest player,

you know, I’ve ever seen.

He played through anything.

I mean, I wanted to stay in the game.

He thought I should put ice on it

and come back and play tomorrow.

Reporter #2: Definitely no doubt in your mind

you’ll be back tomorrow? Yep.

♪

Announcer: And the payoff pitch home is chopped back to the mound.

Well, Jeter not getting down the line

perhaps as nimbly as he may have

as a result of yesterday’s game.

Announcer #2: Derek, as he says --

if he’s in the lineup, there is no injury,

and that’s the way he’s always been.

You hear all the time some athletes say,

"Oh, I’m 80%."

What the fuck is 80%?

You know, you play or you don’t play.

I go back to the 2001 World Series,

and when Mariano Rivera fielded a bunt

and he threw it away at second base,

Jeter was covering the bag.

He wasn’t right.

Jeter: Game 4, I actually jumped up

and hit home plate and screwed up my heel.

So, if you go to the games later on,

I’m limping the whole rest of the World Series

’cause I screwed my heel up.

Verducci: I remember asking him years later, like,

"Were you really hurt, you know, couldn’t get to that ball?"

He said, "I was alright."

And that was the way Derek played.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Announcer: Jammed him.

Little dunker out to shallow center

that falls in for a base hit.

♪

Jeter: Maybe it would have been better if I took two or three days off,

but I’m not trying to take days off

when we’re in the middle of a race.

Announcer: And the Yankees are American League East champions,

one step in the four they’ll need to rule the world.

We thought we had a team that was capable of winning.

Here we are in the ALCS,

and we have as good a chance as anyone.

Announcer: Top of the 12th inning,

game one of the American League Championship Series.

2-2. A swing and a ground ball to short.

Jeter to his left,

stumbles, and he’ll make no play.

Derek Jeter fielded it to his left, and now he’s down.

Announcer #2: Uh-oh.

Announcer: This place is silent.

The quietness was so loud, if that makes sense.

Like, it was -- it was -- it was so -- it was so quiet, man.

Our fan base has never really seen me down like that before.

This was Derek Jeter. Derek Jeter doesn’t get hurt.

Announcer: Derek Jeter is lying on the dirt with his left foot,

his left leg extended, and is unable to get up right now.

Took a couple steps, and my ankle broke.

♪

All I kept thinking about was, "I got to get off the field."

♪

Announcer: Now Jeter’s up,

but he’s being helped off the field

without any weights on the left foot.

He would have got up and played even if his leg was hanging off,

but he knew there was something wrong.

Waldman: I went downstairs ’cause I was getting information

and I was ready to go on, like, post-game.

And I had known Dorothy Jeter.

You know, we weren’t friends, but I always liked her.

And I had tears coming down my face.

And I said, "Oh, I’m so sorry.

This is awful." And she said, "Stop it.

Stop it right now."

And I said, "Yeah?"

She said, "He’s gonna be fine. This is okay.

"Now, I want you to go back on that radio

and I want to hear that smile in your voice."

And I went, "Okay."

That’s that family.

I was at the game,

and I had to go down

and see him and be with him

just to let him know I cared about him.

You know, we didn’t talk about whether it was the end,

but we did talk about the future.

And their worst fears were confirmed.

He has a fractured left ankle,

and he is out for the rest of the postseason.

Sabathia: It’s a rap now, like, because,

you know, if he can’t go, it’s over.

Announcer: Here is the 1-2.

Hit on the ground to second.

Infante throws to first in time.

Ballgame over. Tigers win.

That was as much air

that I’ve ever felt let out of a clubhouse

in all the years that I’ve been in a clubhouse.

And it was just like someone

had put thousands of pounds on our shoulders

because we knew what he meant.

When you take away the heart of any kind of being,

it’s gonna end up dying.

And they weren’t gonna win any playoff series without him.

Announcer: This is gonna do it.

Prince Fielder wants it.

The Tigers are going to the World Series.

♪

Yeah, that felt like the end of something.

Kay: Derek, When you’re being taken off the field

in that playoff game and you know the season is over

and you know how long you’ve played in this game,

do you allow yourself to think about life after baseball?

Did that creep in at all?

Jeter: No, no, not at all.

And we still got a long ways to go before the season starts,

but I’ll be ready.

When he broke his ankle, it was an absolute --

excuse my language -- fucking disaster.

He had that mentality of, like,

"I’m just gonna rehab it. I’m gonna be back."

Tough-guy mentality, you know, in front of his coaches,

teammates, you know, because that was his plan.

But at home, man, he was miserable.

I was miserable.

And, um...

♪

I mean, there’s only so many years you have in your career,

and you run out of time.

And I was 38 at the time.

Yeah. So, it was a dark time.

So, I remember them giving him a scooter.

He hated the scooter.

He was -- He actually fell off the scooter one time.

He tripped on a rug in our house.

Yeah, she’s sharing a little too much, man.

How the -- Yeah.

Sorry. I tried to erase that from my memory.

[ Laughs ]

That off-season was the worst.

Jeter: We’re at a hotel in Miami,

and I remember being at a restaurant, eating breakfast.

And then someone showed me the article --

"Derek Eater."

They made my shirt bigger and my shorts bigger

and made me look like I was, like, 300 pounds.

Man, I had pancakes. I had everything. Bacon.

I’m ready. I got eggs. I’m good.

And then I see this story.

The first thing I do is push it aside.

I’m like, "Damn, people think I’m huge now."

I mean, this is just...

I need him to be healthy

because he is not a guy that likes to be down and out, man.

So, sort of like, do whatever you can.

Put a Band-Aid on it, and let’s go.

[ Laughs ]

--

I think it was a little bit of a mind fuck.

Like, he knew, like, "Things aren’t working the same.

And I’m trying to finish up this career."

I pushed myself, pushed myself.

I wasn’t healthy.

Broke it again,

kept pushing myself,

and had a bunch of leg problems in 2013.

I got shut down for the rest of the year,

And I said, "You know, my career could be over."

Olney: Babe Ruth finishes his career with the Boston Braves.

Joe DiMaggio is basically shoved out

by the emergence of Mickey Mantle.

Mickey Mantle’s career ends in spring training.

If you look at the history of the Yankees,

it’s absolutely cold-blooded

when it comes to handling aging stars.

For me, in 2011, they didn’t want me around.

There was no 2012 for me.

You know, I felt like I was pushed out.

Feinsand: Bernie Williams was the cleanup hitter

for the Yankees dynasty team,

but by the 2005 season,

it was very clear Bernie was being phased out.

And after Bernie’s final year,

Bernie wanted to come back again.

And the Yankees said no.

There’s no such thing as loyalty

and trying to do the right thing for a player that is aging.

You are gonna be in the game as long as you produce.

But the first thing that comes to mind is that everything bad

that happens to the player, as far as their production,

it’s not that they’re making mistakes because they’re human.

They’re making mistakes because they’re old.

Jeter: Back then, I thought that as players

they didn’t appreciate what we’ve done for the organization.

A lot of us were somewhat forced out.

That’s how we felt as players back then.

♪

Cashman: There is a separation between church and state.

And that doesn’t mean you can’t have good relationships,

doesn’t mean you can’t care for them and their families.

But at the same time,

there’s gonna be some conflicts that occur,

and you can’t have that emotional arena

blurred because of it.

2013 is a wash.

I mean, I played for two weeks.

So you can’t even count 2013,

In my mind, it’s 2012 to now it’s going to 2014.

So, in my mind, I’m getting back to where I was in 2012,

you know, 200-some hits.

I’m ready to go. Um...

And then it just took so much energy in rehab

that it started to feel like --

for the first time, it felt like a job, you know?

It really felt like a job.

And I always said if it felt like a job,

it’d be time for me to hang them up.

We had a real conversation

about what life was gonna look like after his career.

And he talked to me about,

"I’m ready to get off this crazy schedule

and timeline and things."

So I think he was ready.

Jeter: I told Suzyn Waldman --

I think it was maybe when Bernie retired.

I said, "Suzyn, I’ll tell you first.

When I’m gonna retire, you’ll be the first one I let know."

So I called her, left her a message.

She didn’t pick up.

I was out with the dogs.

I was just outside playing with my German Shepherds.

"Suzyn, it’s Derek Jeter.

I told you that I’d tell you first when I’m retiring.

Well, it’s happening. I didn’t tell Hal yet."

He called me, but -- but, you know,

back in -- back in those days,

there was a lot of, you know, numbers I didn’t recognize.

So I didn’t recognize the number.

And then I got -- I got caught up in something

and completely forgot to check the voicemail.

Didn’t get back to him till the next day.

Why didn’t I save that message? How dumb am I?

He’s under "Jeter" now on my phone.

There’s -- There’s --

There’ll be no more -- no more of that.

Man: Derek Jeter announcing on his Facebook page

that 2014 will be his final season in baseball.

I thought that was the most efficient way to do it,

you know, and I could do it in my own words.

Case study in how to do it right.

He saw that probably they were gonna try to treat him

probably the same way that they treated me.

Derek sort of foresaw that, and he said,

"I’m gonna have the last laugh

and get to go out on my own terms."

Man: You’re not an emotional person, at least not outwardly.

Do you feel more emotional than a normal day?

Because you’re not really showing that, if you are.

You trying to get me to cry, John? [ Chuckles ]

Woman: The captain is leading his team out into the field

of the very last Opening Day.

He’s the first one out there.

Jeter: Yeah, it was uncomfortable. It was.

It was a difficult year to play. It was.

I didn’t realize how difficult it was going to be.

Announcer: Jeter bobbles and falls down.

Olney: We got some insight

into how the Yankees were beginning to view Derek

more as a product than as a player.

You know, in the past, you may have seen the Yankees say,

"You know what? We’re gonna talk about second base.

We’re gonna talk about, you know, a lesser role."

Derek was treated differently.

They needed Derek on the field

so they could put people in the stands and make money.

"You know, we’re gonna look the other way

in terms of how that player’s performing.

We’re gonna keep running him out there

because the fans love him."

And that’s something that had not really happened

in the Yankees’ history.

Sherman: I think everybody involved with the Yankees

was always concerned about, like, offending Jeter.

And I’m like -- Jeter’s history is built on the perception

that he always wants to do what’s right for the team

and right for winning.

And I’m not sure that hitting Derek Jeter number one or two

is helping the Yankees win.

I talked to him about moving down in the lineup.

You know, he was like,

"Give me two weeks. Give me two weeks.

And I’ll show you that you shouldn’t move me down."

And knowing Derek, the person that always tried

to defy Father Time and always tried to prove you wrong,

you know, I’m gonna give him a chance.

He had some good months. He had some rough months.

But it was that belief in himself that made him great.

And I thought that he had earned that right.

Olney: When you have a star as big as Derek was,

a lot of times organizations will wait for that player

to say, "Hey, maybe now it’s time."

At some point, Derek, as the captain --

I thought he would go in to Joe’s office and say,

"Look, if you need to drop me down the lineup,

I’m all for that."

And as far as I know, that never happened.

I think that’s something he should have done.

What kind of shit is that? That’s what I would say.

You think I’m not a team player?

So leaving an asinine comment like that makes no sense.

As a competitor, you go out there like you got to prove

to everyone else and yourself that you can turn shit around.

That’s what you do, you know?

I haven’t given up a day in my life,

and I’m not gonna give up a day in my life.

Now, if they felt as though they wanted to sit me down more,

they wanted to move me down --

And if they do it, then, hey, being a team player,

I’m not gonna complain.

I’m gonna do it.

But you don’t go volunteer, saying --

Man, that’s just the wrong mind-set.

You know, champions don’t have that kind of mind-set.

When shit gets hard, that’s when you --

that’s when you try to prove people wrong.

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