The Yankees will probably be commemorating the 2000 World Sequence workforce at Outdated-Timers’ Day in August, however a fairly essential member of that workforce received’t be in attendance.
Derek Jeter isn’t exhibiting up, which has gotten WFAN hosts Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti a bit riled up.
“It’s a little bit insulting … I think he should be there, he should be a part of it,” Esiason mentioned on “Boomer and Gio” on Tuesday. “It seems elitist to me.”
There are greater than 30 former Yankees collaborating, however “The Captain” isn’t one in all them.
“Derek Jeter mentioned that he doesn’t need the followers to see him hit once more at this age,“ Esiason’s co-host Giannotti mentioned of Jeter’s reasoning.
However all the gamers within the sport have gotten older since retiring, and the sport has been being performed for practically 80 years in some kind.
“Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio played in an Old-Timers’ game together,” Esiason mentioned. “If those guys put a uniform back on then [Jeter] certainly can.”
Jeter, 51, final performed in 2014.
The Corridor of Famer was a 14-time All-Star, five-time World Sequence champ, five-time Silver Slugger and five-time Gold Glove winner.
In fact, he’s not in the identical situation as he was throughout his enjoying profession, however Giannotti thinks that different gamers have to fret about that greater than Jeter does.
“Derek Jeter’s not gonna embarrass himself. I think he would put the uniform back on and look just like Derek Jeter when we last saw him,” Giannotti mentioned, difficult Jeter’s attainable reasoning for not enjoying. “He’s in great shape, some of these other guys showing up are not — he is.”
And it’s not solely that Jeter isn’t enjoying within the sport, it’s the truth that he’s not attending in anyway.
“Just show up, you don’t have to put the uniform on if you don’t want to,” Giannotti continued.
Whereas Giannotti tried to motive with Jeter’s needs, Esiason had one theme that saved returning to his thoughts with Jeter’s angle for the sport.
“I just think, to me, he’s the captain, he was the guy that was embraced by the fans and loved by the fans and still is to this very day,” he mentioned. “It just feels a little bit elitist, that’s all.”
The WFAN hosts did observe that if Jeter has one thing occurring in his life that makes him unable to attend, that, after all, is sensible — however Esiason particularly shouldn’t be shopping for the remainder of the act.
