December 21, 2023 • 23 mins
The Big Show is here with a BIG guest: 5-time World Series champion Derek Jeter! They talk about the challenges and joys of parenting and Jeter admitting he could not have done it during his playing career. Erin and Charissa ask about his transition into TV since joining the Fox Sports team and the benefits of playing in New York before the rise of social media.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I can say it now. It's not plan. But we
go out in New York on Friday or Saturday night
till two three o'clock in the morning. You'd leave and
there's a line to get in. But you never had
to worry about someone taking a picture unless you have
one of those real cameras, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Ladies and Gentlemen Get Excited. The Captain Derek Jeter is
on the Calm Down podcast. Hold on, you got to
see it like this, Derek Gita and he's our teammate.
(00:36):
He's on the podcast. Very true, very true. We're going
to talk parenting. This is Aaron and Derek Sporte.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Also we're going to talk starting out in TV since
he's a member of our Fox family and we love
that so much, and being a superstar before the social
media era so interesting. You forget that there was a
time without camera phones, which good for lucky. We were
so lucky to get him. We were so lucky and excited.
(01:04):
We've been sitting on this one for a while, So
here you go. Oh and Derek, by the way, I
know that you know us well enough to know that
this is not a formal presentation. Welcome everybody to the
Calm Down Podcast. There are very bayears, that's my intro.
There are very few people that both women and men
get really excited about. But our next guest is loved
(01:28):
by everyone, ladies and gentlemen. In my best Pat McAfee clap,
Welcome Derek Cheeter.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hi. First of all, how long have you guys been
doing this?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Three we started COVID right, yeah, for almost three hours.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Three years. Three years for me to get an invite,
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh plea, I couldn't even get an interview when you played,
I mean not get off.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It took you to be my teammate.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's not exactly true.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I know you're always really good. I was thinking, Chris,
so with your introduction. I've never heard one bad thing
about Derek Jeter. There's just not many athletes you can
say that about. There's not I haven't.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You haven't been listening.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh stop it, it's true, but it's so true.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You are loved by everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Does that a lot of pressure to be one of
the most likable individuals and most beloved athletes? Do you
like feel some pressure that comes with.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That, I have five people in this house. It will
tell you something different.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So I was actually gonna say that to you. I
just got home from Buffalo. Flights canceled in the second
quarter of the game. We're all scrambling to figure it out, delayed,
freaking out. I'm like, it's the one time we get
Derek Jeter and I'm gonna miss it. And I just
got no offense to my husband and my son. But
I was like, I got to get home for this.
But as it get home, you know, you have a
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quick hour before you have to go to your next thing,
and you want to squeeze in enough time with a
kid you have four? Are you blown away about how
fast the day goes when you look up back at
the last hour. I cleaned his puke, I cleaned a diaper.
I tried to get him down. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Just your husband or your son.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You've met my husband, Yeah, so good. But are you
just like think about our days back in the I mean, yes,
we love having kids, we love being married, but my god,
I'm never going to have that life again.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, you know, I'll be I'll be honest with you.
There's no way I could have had kids during my career.
I just I couldn't have done it. I was way, way,
way to selfish. It was all about my career. And
you know one thing, great thing I said. I'm a
little biased. I think I have the greatest parents in
the world. But the one thing I can say about
my parents is they were always present. And it's it's
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so hard when you have kids. I don't care if
it's one kid. I have four kids. You want to
be there and then when you miss a day or two,
you come back and it's like they completely change. So
I have man, we have four kids. Our oldest sticks,
our youngest is seven months. And talk about how time lies.
I mean, I just went to get my oldest girl's
(04:09):
ears pierced, and I've been fighting the long time. I
told her when she was eighteen years old, and I
was almost in tears because you can't she's no longer
a baby, you know what I mean. I waited till six,
so it's time does definitely fly, But I tell you
it's the greatest experience.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Can we ask how it went with the ears? I mean,
you've gone through injuries in life, but were you just
feeling it all over when the needle went through, tell us.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, yeah, I mean, well, first of all, let me
preface this what it's not my fault.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So she sits down in the chair and she was
freaking out. She doesn't like needles, she doesn't like getting shot,
so she's freaking out. And the two people that were
doing it because they do it both ears, but they're
gonna have two people that are gonna do it both
at once. So they say that they're just measuring. So
I tell her, I, look, they're just measuring. I promise
you could never eyes to you, have ever lied to you.
(05:01):
And she's like, no, they're not going to do it.
They're just going to measure. And then they bam. They
pierced them both at the same time. And I had
no idea and she looked at me like I just
crushed her whole world. So I'm still working on getting
over that and give my credibility back.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Then, Oh, no, trust issues at six.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
This is a problem here, Yes, there's a problem.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
As someone who has those at forty one, it's going
to be a long life. I can't believe that you
have four under six. So give me your typical day
in the Jeter household.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, well, one, I don't sleep anymore. When I played,
I slept a lot. I don't sleep. I hear everything,
even when there's nothing to hear. I think I hear
babies crying and screaming. Yeah, so I get up early,
you know, I go to sleep early. You know, our
kids are pretty good. There's seven h seven, so when
they get up there, when they go down at seven o'clock,
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I'm in bed by eight thirty. And as soon as
I lay down, I'm gone. I'm fall asleep. But then
I'm up at twelve, and I'm up at two, and
I'm up at four, and then I'm really up by
like five five thirty. But we get the big girls
up and they get breakfast, and we get drop them off.
We leave here at seven thirty to drop them off
at school. And then our third just turned two, so
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she hasn't started school. She'll start in August. So then
it's back with her and my son, who's still napping
a little bit. You know, he's a couple of naps
a day. But it's there's something always going on. It's
all over the place. I don't know who's who for crying.
I used to be able to identify the person from crying. Now,
I have no idea, and I'd say the craziest thing
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for me is I have a younger sister, five years
younger than me, and having three girls. The strangest thing
is seeing a boy now grow with brothers. It's just very,
very god I think I'm pretty good with girls. So
I'm struggling in this department right now.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay, hardest part with a boy because I have one too.
I didn't grow up with boys either. I just cover them.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
She says, boys, not men.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
No you somewhere, but I let it go.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I was waiting for it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I let it go. The hardest thing, it's still tough
to tell because we're still figuring out his personality. He's
very sweet, boy, smiling. He doesn't really cry much. But
I said that about the other three and now all
they do is scream and cry, and they're very emotional.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh yes, that's what welcome to being. Yeah, you got
you right here. I was going to say, can you
decipher a disseminate what Hannah's cry?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is she in the corner crying all it?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know, I'm going to give you some advice. I'm
gonna give you some advice, Okay, to my wife when
when she's out of town and I have the kids,
I never call her. My kids could be in the hospital.
I'm not gonna call. I got it. I'm going to
handle it. Love, We'll bother you. When I leave town,
I get a phone call every thirty minutes, forty five minutes.
(08:13):
This one's not listening. Now was not listening. I can't
do it anymore. That's you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, Hannah's a FaceTime because mine's a FaceTime and so
he's like, what yes, And so I want to know
his face when I'm saying this, like I'm a failure.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Why is your face like that? Jared? Why is your
face like that? Derek?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah? I know. So I never call when I have
a kids. I got it, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay. Best part about being a dad is fill in
the blank.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Seeing them grow and watching them learn. You know that
that is the thing, because you know, just for me
when when Mike, I say daughters because my son is
too young now, but even my two year old, when
they say please and thank you and they're polite and
having manners, it makes me feel really proud, you know.
So I love coming home and them. Learning new things,
(09:05):
new words and vocabulary is better and they like to learn.
So that's the best part.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So sweet. I love that. I think I told you
that with Greg Olson. I'm around his kids quite a bit,
and they are so they walk in, they shake your hand,
they say who they are, Nice to meet you. And
I've I've heard through the grape vine at Fox your
kids are lovely. Give me more advice. How do you
get your kids to be lovely?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh? Man, I don't look. I'm not patting myself in
the back yet. We go just they're very young.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I heard they're very well behaved.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well, we we try. I mean, I wouldn't say, you know,
all I can do is learn from what my parents
taught me. I wouldn't say my parents were overly strict,
but they were big on being respectful of people. And
I think you know, when your parents, everyone wants to
sit out and say, oh, my kids going to go
to Harvard, my kids gonna go to You know, I
don't care where my kids go to school. I want
(10:00):
to raise good people. I think that's much more important
than if whether or not I probably kick myself for
staying this, whether they get all a's in school, right,
you want them to get all a's, but I'd much
rather than be good people. So that's our focus of it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, Derek, you are now one of our teammates at Fox,
and we feel so lucky to have you on our team.
We've you know, I was thinking about it yesterday when
I was in studio. I have been there in that
studio since two thousand and six, and it's been I've
grown up in that place, and it has helped shape
me and make me who I am. And you know,
all these different paths that we take along the way,
(10:34):
we end up, you know, back in a place that's home,
and our teammates there, you know, Aaron's my best friend,
like they become family. So for you in your short
tenure at Fox, I know that you have such a
great group that you work with. What have you learned
about your new team at Fox?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I would say, you know, people told me I remember
talking to you guys before I actually even started, and
everyone's saying how great they treat you a box and
it's really truly like a family. I mean, it sort
of sounds like a cliche, we're all families, we're on
the same team, but literally I was I was, I
don't say shot. I was pleasantly surprised at how well
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everyone gets along, how well they treat you, how well
they support you, how well they want you to do,
because you know, they view it as the better you are,
the better we are as a team. And and you know,
being an athlete, you know, my entire life, I enjoyed
being a part of teams, you know, And that's how
I truly feel at Fox and you guys are right.
(11:38):
You said that from day one, and it's been a
great experience for me. It's really been.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We're dysfunctional, but that's part of being a family too.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I was going to let you.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Well, after our first event we did with you, we
were all doing a tequila shot. So I mean that's
where it was like welcome and.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Really take.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Up No, I just we were blown away. So I
have to tell you a story. We haven't told you
this yet. At Super Bowl last year in Arizona, there
were rumblings and I kind of felt like one of
my bosses wasn't being honest with me. When I you
would come and you made an appearance, and I said
he should work with us, Like why wouldn't he do this?
But I was like, I get it. He may not
(12:21):
want to be in front of the camera, but he
was amazing. And then at Super Bowl, one of our
bosses had said at a dinner at a function, we
were all having a very good time, really close to
landing Derek, and we were like, shut up, this is amazing.
So then the next night we go to dinner. It's
my husband, Chris's boyfriend, my husband's friend. We're all sitting
(12:42):
there in my back was I guess towards the entrance
and you walked out, and my husband's best friend said,
I think Derek Jeter just.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Walked out, and I said, shut up, he is coming.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So I texted my boss, who was trying to keep
it quiet, and I said, hey, I just saw the
captain and he confirmed he's coming.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So excited and he's like, damn it, why did he
in the surprise? I'm calling his agent.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I was like, gosh, yeah, it was awesome, but I
say that right. Eventually recently, yeah, yeah, obviously when your
doc was coming out, you had made an appearance on Instagram.
(13:27):
I still remember your daughter is in the backseat. I
could hear Hannah laughing saying, Dad, I want to go
see also I want to go, and you're like, all right,
we're going. We're trying to get to school. And I
just kept saying to my husband, this is incredible because
you don't see this part of him, you don't see
this side of him. And then the doc comes out.
I was gushing on this about it, and then you
come to us and it's like, this is but I
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am so glad you made this move. I think we've
discussed it with Kevin. We've discussed on this. Even if
you're not a fan of baseball, to sit back and
watch you guys on the set, it reminds me a
lot of the TNT show. I haven't watched NBA, I
haven't watched baseball year, but I want to hear what
you have to say. Do you I mean, are you
glad you did it? Well, you have to say you're
glad because you're under contract.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
That question.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Actually I wish I never agreed. No, I tell you,
when I was first approached, I said absolutely not, absolutely not,
because it just I never thought I never crossed my
mind to do TV and cover sports and be an analyst.
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And then I had a chance. I went to the
World Series. Not this most recent the year before because
I was doing a small segment with Capital One at
the desk and I saw how much fun they were having.
I got a chance to go to the production meeting
prior to and then they asked me, I would I
like to do it? And I said, you know, as
long as it can just be me. I mean everyone
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always says, oh, we're seeing the side of you that
no one saw before, and A well, that's by design.
Like my job and Aaron you know it, especially, my
job was to limit distractions. My job was to be vanilla.
My job was to limit headlines because that's what helped
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us form on the field. So it wasn't like I
was trying to be someone else. I just wasn't trying
to be a headline. And it doesn't mean you don't
have opinions. It doesn't mean you don't have a perspective.
And as long as they said to me, look be yourself,
give you a perspective. And the way I look at
it is I'm just giving an opinion. You may not
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agree with it, but it's not necessarily wrong. I can
just tell you what my mindset was when I played,
so in that sense, and then they said have fun
and then I'm sitting next to David, so you don't
have much fun anyway. So I'm happy. I had a
great time doing it. I'm looking forward to this upcoming
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season as one.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Okay, god you're coming back.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank God. Because so you were at Remember Hannah Storm
had asked you when you were doing your documentary, why now, like,
why did you want to sit down and now tell
your story? So why now did you decide to make
that move into media? Was it because the Fox? I mean,
we can say this, Aaron and I can say this
because we've worked almost everywhere else that it is very
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unique that you can be yourself and they encourage that
in all the things that you just mentioned. But why
now was it the time for you to go and
make that move?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Well? I think, look, I when I first retired, I
started a company called The Players, So it's not really
the first time that I was in the so called
media world. And I got destroyed when I started that people,
Oh you didn't say anything, Now you're going to start
a media platform, blah blah blah. I looked at it and ask,
and I truly do believe The Tribune was a little
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bit and I say this homely but I think it
was a little bit before its time, because it was
really the first to do it. Where I understand that
speaking with athletes, not only in baseball but other sports,
as you guys do, that we're not two dimensionally. There's
other interests, there's other beliefs, we have opinion, but if
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you don't necessarily trust the person that you're speaking with,
you're just not going to share those things. So I
wanted to get athletes a platform where they could talk
about things that are important to them. I looked at
it and as a compliment to mainstream media, because if
someone speaking on something they believe in or they're excited about,
it gives you a chance to have follow up questions,
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you know. So I thought it was a compliment to
mainstream media, and so sort of have dabbled in the
Players of You, which is still up and running and
as strong as effort to this day. And then when
I was in Miami with the team, I had my
head down for five years every single day, so didn't
really have a chance to do anything else other than that.
(18:01):
And then when that ended, then I got a chance
to People asked me to do some other things. In
the documentary, I did because first of all, I didn't
want to do it. To ask me a couple of times,
I'm not doing it document it's so good, I'm not
to do it. But then I said, well, I wanted
to film the potential hopeful Hall of Fame call because
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my kids never saw me play. I'd want to share
it with them. Then it turned into well, let me
do the induction ceremony, and then COVID hit and then
it was why don't we do a bigger story about
your career? And they got me with it. If you
don't do it, someone else is going to do it.
And I was like, oh, but I said, if I
did it, if there's any individual during my career that
(18:44):
I had any so called friction with, give them an
opportunity to tell their side. I don't want to be
a puff piece, you know what I mean. So we
let people say what they wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Derek, was it hard when you played in I think
just knowing you now and I mean I had a
chance to know you a little bit behind the scenes.
But this has been an amazing experience with Fox At
My husband and Greg Olsen. After we had that big
dinner with you, sat there and after you left, talked
about you the whole time. They just said, he's just
a normal guy, and I was like, yeah, and so
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much fun and so funny. Was it hard to be
so guarded in New York? I know that's the way
you felt like you had to be and wanted to be.
But you're hilarious and you have so much personality. Was
it hard to be that way?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I don't think no, because I think look, I grew
up in New York. I was in New York when
I was twenty years old, so I was parts of
twenty seasons in New York, and I just wanted to
draw the line with professional and personal. I didn't want
to cross the line because you guys maybe heard me
say it. Once the toothpastes out of the tube, you
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can't put it back in. I think once you share
things certain things, people come to expect it, and I
understand that, but I just didn't want to do it
during my career because I felt as though it would
be a distraction. So it really wasn't. We You know,
we our old teams used to get this this label
as we're so corporate and professional, we don't have fun.
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We go through the motion but when the media was
not in there, we had a great time. And that's
nothing against the media, we just wanted to limit those distractions.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, this team of hiding hiding go into the clubhouse,
nobody's around. Why do I have to go into this clubhouse?
Nobody's here, The Yankees aren't. And then you can't even
go on the grass and talk to these guys in
batting practice unless you're called over.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It was tough.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well yeah, and you think about it now, think about
your I mean, the social media world and everything has
changed the landscape of privacy. Even if you want to
be you know, teflon and you have a barricade around
your house, they will find a way somehow. You know,
I don't need to explain that to you. But when
you think about for you, when you showed up in
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New York, your first you went a World Series four
out of the first five years that you are in
New York, that's insane and that spot and that pressure
and thinking about the twenty years of being in New
York and now being outside of it, do you even
look back and think like, how did I navigate that?
Or how was I able to navigate that? Because trying
to do that in this day and age seem nearly
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impossible to live the life that you were able to
live with as much anonymity as you could.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You can. This changed everything. Yeah, there's everything, absolutely everything.
You have to like used to tell young players when
they came to New York, you have to assume that
everything you do is public knowledge. You just have to
make that assumption, which which in some set look, I'm
not complaining.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
No, no, no, I'm asking the question no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You have to make that assumption. In some sense, it's
not completely fair because you know, I don't know everything
about you. I'm not talking about you too, but I
don't know everything about you. So therefore you shouldn't have
that sense where you feel you have the right to
know everything about me. Right. So I survived, I think
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in my career, especially the early years of my career,
because there were no camera phones. I mean, we would
go out in New York. I can say it now.
It's not plan, but we go out in New York
on Friday or Saturday night till two three o'clock in
the morning. You'd lean and there's a line to get in.
But you never had to worry about someone taking a
picture unless you have one of those real cameras, you
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know what I mean. So, yeah, it's just a different time.
I feel somewhat, I don't know if it sounds right,
somewhat sorry for some of the younger players that are
coming up now because this is but that's all they know.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
It's so true. All right. Hope you guys enjoyed Part
one with Derek Jeter. What a gem And there's more
where that came from. Next up, we will talk about
These are just some of the things. We'll talk about.
What his relationship is like with say It Aaron, Big Poppy.
There he goes, she does it better than I do.
So we'll talk about that, which is very interesting and
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reflecting on his final game at Yankee Stadium. I'm also
going to say this. It's not in our bullet points,
but I'll say it. He said, why did it take
so long for him to be a guest on the podcast?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
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Speaker 2 (23:09):
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I can say it now. It's not plan. But we
go out in New York on Friday or Saturday night
till two three o'clock in the morning. You'd leave and
there's a line to get in. But you never had
to worry about someone taking a picture unless you have
one of those real cameras, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Calm Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Ladies and Gentlemen Get Excited. The Captain Derek Jeter is
on the Calm Down podcast. Hold on, you got to
see it like this, Derek Gita and he's our teammate.
(00:36):
He's on the podcast. Very true, very true. We're going
to talk parenting. This is Aaron and Derek Sporte.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Also we're going to talk starting out in TV since
he's a member of our Fox family and we love
that so much, and being a superstar before the social
media era so interesting. You forget that there was a
time without camera phones, which good for lucky. We were
so lucky to get him. We were so lucky and excited.
(01:04):
We've been sitting on this one for a while, So
here you go. Oh and Derek, by the way, I
know that you know us well enough to know that
this is not a formal presentation. Welcome everybody to the
Calm Down Podcast. There are very bayears, that's my intro.
There are very few people that both women and men
get really excited about. But our next guest is loved
(01:28):
by everyone, ladies and gentlemen. In my best Pat McAfee clap,
Welcome Derek Cheeter.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hi. First of all, how long have you guys been
doing this?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Three we started COVID right, yeah, for almost three hours.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Three years. Three years for me to get an invite,
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh plea, I couldn't even get an interview when you played,
I mean not get off.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It took you to be my teammate.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's not exactly true.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I know you're always really good. I was thinking, Chris,
so with your introduction. I've never heard one bad thing
about Derek Jeter. There's just not many athletes you can
say that about. There's not I haven't.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You haven't been listening.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh stop it, it's true, but it's so true.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You are loved by everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Does that a lot of pressure to be one of
the most likable individuals and most beloved athletes? Do you
like feel some pressure that comes with.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That, I have five people in this house. It will
tell you something different.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So I was actually gonna say that to you. I
just got home from Buffalo. Flights canceled in the second
quarter of the game. We're all scrambling to figure it out, delayed,
freaking out. I'm like, it's the one time we get
Derek Jeter and I'm gonna miss it. And I just
got no offense to my husband and my son. But
I was like, I got to get home for this.
But as it get home, you know, you have a
(02:50):
quick hour before you have to go to your next thing,
and you want to squeeze in enough time with a
kid you have four? Are you blown away about how
fast the day goes when you look up back at
the last hour. I cleaned his puke, I cleaned a diaper.
I tried to get him down. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Just your husband or your son.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You've met my husband, Yeah, so good. But are you
just like think about our days back in the I mean, yes,
we love having kids, we love being married, but my god,
I'm never going to have that life again.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, you know, I'll be I'll be honest with you.
There's no way I could have had kids during my career.
I just I couldn't have done it. I was way, way,
way to selfish. It was all about my career. And
you know one thing, great thing I said. I'm a
little biased. I think I have the greatest parents in
the world. But the one thing I can say about
my parents is they were always present. And it's it's
(03:47):
so hard when you have kids. I don't care if
it's one kid. I have four kids. You want to
be there and then when you miss a day or two,
you come back and it's like they completely change. So
I have man, we have four kids. Our oldest sticks,
our youngest is seven months. And talk about how time lies.
I mean, I just went to get my oldest girl's
(04:09):
ears pierced, and I've been fighting the long time. I
told her when she was eighteen years old, and I
was almost in tears because you can't she's no longer
a baby, you know what I mean. I waited till six,
so it's time does definitely fly, But I tell you
it's the greatest experience.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Can we ask how it went with the ears? I mean,
you've gone through injuries in life, but were you just
feeling it all over when the needle went through, tell us.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, yeah, I mean, well, first of all, let me
preface this what it's not my fault.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So she sits down in the chair and she was
freaking out. She doesn't like needles, she doesn't like getting shot,
so she's freaking out. And the two people that were
doing it because they do it both ears, but they're
gonna have two people that are gonna do it both
at once. So they say that they're just measuring. So
I tell her, I, look, they're just measuring. I promise
you could never eyes to you, have ever lied to you.
(05:01):
And she's like, no, they're not going to do it.
They're just going to measure. And then they bam. They
pierced them both at the same time. And I had
no idea and she looked at me like I just
crushed her whole world. So I'm still working on getting
over that and give my credibility back.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Then, Oh, no, trust issues at six.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
This is a problem here, Yes, there's a problem.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
As someone who has those at forty one, it's going
to be a long life. I can't believe that you
have four under six. So give me your typical day
in the Jeter household.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, well, one, I don't sleep anymore. When I played,
I slept a lot. I don't sleep. I hear everything,
even when there's nothing to hear. I think I hear
babies crying and screaming. Yeah, so I get up early,
you know, I go to sleep early. You know, our
kids are pretty good. There's seven h seven, so when
they get up there, when they go down at seven o'clock,
(06:07):
I'm in bed by eight thirty. And as soon as
I lay down, I'm gone. I'm fall asleep. But then
I'm up at twelve, and I'm up at two, and
I'm up at four, and then I'm really up by
like five five thirty. But we get the big girls
up and they get breakfast, and we get drop them off.
We leave here at seven thirty to drop them off
at school. And then our third just turned two, so
(06:29):
she hasn't started school. She'll start in August. So then
it's back with her and my son, who's still napping
a little bit. You know, he's a couple of naps
a day. But it's there's something always going on. It's
all over the place. I don't know who's who for crying.
I used to be able to identify the person from crying. Now,
I have no idea, and I'd say the craziest thing
(06:51):
for me is I have a younger sister, five years
younger than me, and having three girls. The strangest thing
is seeing a boy now grow with brothers. It's just very,
very god I think I'm pretty good with girls. So
I'm struggling in this department right now.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay, hardest part with a boy because I have one too.
I didn't grow up with boys either. I just cover them.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
She says, boys, not men.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
No you somewhere, but I let it go.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I was waiting for it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I let it go. The hardest thing, it's still tough
to tell because we're still figuring out his personality. He's
very sweet, boy, smiling. He doesn't really cry much. But
I said that about the other three and now all
they do is scream and cry, and they're very emotional.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh yes, that's what welcome to being. Yeah, you got
you right here. I was going to say, can you
decipher a disseminate what Hannah's cry?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is she in the corner crying all it?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know, I'm going to give you some advice. I'm
gonna give you some advice, Okay, to my wife when
when she's out of town and I have the kids,
I never call her. My kids could be in the hospital.
I'm not gonna call. I got it. I'm going to
handle it. Love, We'll bother you. When I leave town,
I get a phone call every thirty minutes, forty five minutes.
(08:13):
This one's not listening. Now was not listening. I can't
do it anymore. That's you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, Hannah's a FaceTime because mine's a FaceTime and so
he's like, what yes, And so I want to know
his face when I'm saying this, like I'm a failure.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Why is your face like that? Jared? Why is your
face like that? Derek?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah? I know. So I never call when I have
a kids. I got it, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay. Best part about being a dad is fill in
the blank.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Seeing them grow and watching them learn. You know that
that is the thing, because you know, just for me
when when Mike, I say daughters because my son is
too young now, but even my two year old, when
they say please and thank you and they're polite and
having manners, it makes me feel really proud, you know.
So I love coming home and them. Learning new things,
(09:05):
new words and vocabulary is better and they like to learn.
So that's the best part.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So sweet. I love that. I think I told you
that with Greg Olson. I'm around his kids quite a bit,
and they are so they walk in, they shake your hand,
they say who they are, Nice to meet you. And
I've I've heard through the grape vine at Fox your
kids are lovely. Give me more advice. How do you
get your kids to be lovely?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh? Man, I don't look. I'm not patting myself in
the back yet. We go just they're very young.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I heard they're very well behaved.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well, we we try. I mean, I wouldn't say, you know,
all I can do is learn from what my parents
taught me. I wouldn't say my parents were overly strict,
but they were big on being respectful of people. And
I think you know, when your parents, everyone wants to
sit out and say, oh, my kids going to go
to Harvard, my kids gonna go to You know, I
don't care where my kids go to school. I want
(10:00):
to raise good people. I think that's much more important
than if whether or not I probably kick myself for
staying this, whether they get all a's in school, right,
you want them to get all a's, but I'd much
rather than be good people. So that's our focus of it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, Derek, you are now one of our teammates at Fox,
and we feel so lucky to have you on our team.
We've you know, I was thinking about it yesterday when
I was in studio. I have been there in that
studio since two thousand and six, and it's been I've
grown up in that place, and it has helped shape
me and make me who I am. And you know,
all these different paths that we take along the way,
(10:34):
we end up, you know, back in a place that's home,
and our teammates there, you know, Aaron's my best friend,
like they become family. So for you in your short
tenure at Fox, I know that you have such a
great group that you work with. What have you learned
about your new team at Fox?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I would say, you know, people told me I remember
talking to you guys before I actually even started, and
everyone's saying how great they treat you a box and
it's really truly like a family. I mean, it sort
of sounds like a cliche, we're all families, we're on
the same team, but literally I was I was, I
don't say shot. I was pleasantly surprised at how well
(11:15):
everyone gets along, how well they treat you, how well
they support you, how well they want you to do,
because you know, they view it as the better you are,
the better we are as a team. And and you know,
being an athlete, you know, my entire life, I enjoyed
being a part of teams, you know, And that's how
I truly feel at Fox and you guys are right.
(11:38):
You said that from day one, and it's been a
great experience for me. It's really been.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We're dysfunctional, but that's part of being a family too.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I was going to let you.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Well, after our first event we did with you, we
were all doing a tequila shot. So I mean that's
where it was like welcome and.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Really take.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Up No, I just we were blown away. So I
have to tell you a story. We haven't told you
this yet. At Super Bowl last year in Arizona, there
were rumblings and I kind of felt like one of
my bosses wasn't being honest with me. When I you
would come and you made an appearance, and I said
he should work with us, Like why wouldn't he do this?
But I was like, I get it. He may not
(12:21):
want to be in front of the camera, but he
was amazing. And then at Super Bowl, one of our
bosses had said at a dinner at a function, we
were all having a very good time, really close to
landing Derek, and we were like, shut up, this is amazing.
So then the next night we go to dinner. It's
my husband, Chris's boyfriend, my husband's friend. We're all sitting
(12:42):
there in my back was I guess towards the entrance
and you walked out, and my husband's best friend said,
I think Derek Jeter just.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Walked out, and I said, shut up, he is coming.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So I texted my boss, who was trying to keep
it quiet, and I said, hey, I just saw the
captain and he confirmed he's coming.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So excited and he's like, damn it, why did he
in the surprise? I'm calling his agent.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I was like, gosh, yeah, it was awesome, but I
say that right. Eventually recently, yeah, yeah, obviously when your
doc was coming out, you had made an appearance on Instagram.
(13:27):
I still remember your daughter is in the backseat. I
could hear Hannah laughing saying, Dad, I want to go
see also I want to go, and you're like, all right,
we're going. We're trying to get to school. And I
just kept saying to my husband, this is incredible because
you don't see this part of him, you don't see
this side of him. And then the doc comes out.
I was gushing on this about it, and then you
come to us and it's like, this is but I
(13:48):
am so glad you made this move. I think we've
discussed it with Kevin. We've discussed on this. Even if
you're not a fan of baseball, to sit back and
watch you guys on the set, it reminds me a
lot of the TNT show. I haven't watched NBA, I
haven't watched baseball year, but I want to hear what
you have to say. Do you I mean, are you
glad you did it? Well, you have to say you're
glad because you're under contract.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
That question.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Actually I wish I never agreed. No, I tell you,
when I was first approached, I said absolutely not, absolutely not,
because it just I never thought I never crossed my
mind to do TV and cover sports and be an analyst.
(14:33):
And then I had a chance. I went to the
World Series. Not this most recent the year before because
I was doing a small segment with Capital One at
the desk and I saw how much fun they were having.
I got a chance to go to the production meeting
prior to and then they asked me, I would I
like to do it? And I said, you know, as
long as it can just be me. I mean everyone
(14:55):
always says, oh, we're seeing the side of you that
no one saw before, and A well, that's by design.
Like my job and Aaron you know it, especially, my
job was to limit distractions. My job was to be vanilla.
My job was to limit headlines because that's what helped
(15:16):
us form on the field. So it wasn't like I
was trying to be someone else. I just wasn't trying
to be a headline. And it doesn't mean you don't
have opinions. It doesn't mean you don't have a perspective.
And as long as they said to me, look be yourself,
give you a perspective. And the way I look at
it is I'm just giving an opinion. You may not
(15:39):
agree with it, but it's not necessarily wrong. I can
just tell you what my mindset was when I played,
so in that sense, and then they said have fun
and then I'm sitting next to David, so you don't
have much fun anyway. So I'm happy. I had a
great time doing it. I'm looking forward to this upcoming
(16:02):
season as one.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Okay, god you're coming back.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank God. Because so you were at Remember Hannah Storm
had asked you when you were doing your documentary, why now, like,
why did you want to sit down and now tell
your story? So why now did you decide to make
that move into media? Was it because the Fox? I mean,
we can say this, Aaron and I can say this
because we've worked almost everywhere else that it is very
(16:25):
unique that you can be yourself and they encourage that
in all the things that you just mentioned. But why
now was it the time for you to go and
make that move?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Well? I think, look, I when I first retired, I
started a company called The Players, So it's not really
the first time that I was in the so called
media world. And I got destroyed when I started that people,
Oh you didn't say anything, Now you're going to start
a media platform, blah blah blah. I looked at it and ask,
and I truly do believe The Tribune was a little
(16:57):
bit and I say this homely but I think it
was a little bit before its time, because it was
really the first to do it. Where I understand that
speaking with athletes, not only in baseball but other sports,
as you guys do, that we're not two dimensionally. There's
other interests, there's other beliefs, we have opinion, but if
(17:18):
you don't necessarily trust the person that you're speaking with,
you're just not going to share those things. So I
wanted to get athletes a platform where they could talk
about things that are important to them. I looked at
it and as a compliment to mainstream media, because if
someone speaking on something they believe in or they're excited about,
it gives you a chance to have follow up questions,
(17:39):
you know. So I thought it was a compliment to
mainstream media, and so sort of have dabbled in the
Players of You, which is still up and running and
as strong as effort to this day. And then when
I was in Miami with the team, I had my
head down for five years every single day, so didn't
really have a chance to do anything else other than that.
(18:01):
And then when that ended, then I got a chance
to People asked me to do some other things. In
the documentary, I did because first of all, I didn't
want to do it. To ask me a couple of times,
I'm not doing it document it's so good, I'm not
to do it. But then I said, well, I wanted
to film the potential hopeful Hall of Fame call because
(18:22):
my kids never saw me play. I'd want to share
it with them. Then it turned into well, let me
do the induction ceremony, and then COVID hit and then
it was why don't we do a bigger story about
your career? And they got me with it. If you
don't do it, someone else is going to do it.
And I was like, oh, but I said, if I
did it, if there's any individual during my career that
(18:44):
I had any so called friction with, give them an
opportunity to tell their side. I don't want to be
a puff piece, you know what I mean. So we
let people say what they wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Derek, was it hard when you played in I think
just knowing you now and I mean I had a
chance to know you a little bit behind the scenes.
But this has been an amazing experience with Fox At
My husband and Greg Olsen. After we had that big
dinner with you, sat there and after you left, talked
about you the whole time. They just said, he's just
a normal guy, and I was like, yeah, and so
(19:14):
much fun and so funny. Was it hard to be
so guarded in New York? I know that's the way
you felt like you had to be and wanted to be.
But you're hilarious and you have so much personality. Was
it hard to be that way?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I don't think no, because I think look, I grew
up in New York. I was in New York when
I was twenty years old, so I was parts of
twenty seasons in New York, and I just wanted to
draw the line with professional and personal. I didn't want
to cross the line because you guys maybe heard me
say it. Once the toothpastes out of the tube, you
(19:47):
can't put it back in. I think once you share
things certain things, people come to expect it, and I
understand that, but I just didn't want to do it
during my career because I felt as though it would
be a distraction. So it really wasn't. We You know,
we our old teams used to get this this label
as we're so corporate and professional, we don't have fun.
(20:08):
We go through the motion but when the media was
not in there, we had a great time. And that's
nothing against the media, we just wanted to limit those distractions.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, this team of hiding hiding go into the clubhouse,
nobody's around. Why do I have to go into this clubhouse?
Nobody's here, The Yankees aren't. And then you can't even
go on the grass and talk to these guys in
batting practice unless you're called over.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It was tough.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well yeah, and you think about it now, think about
your I mean, the social media world and everything has
changed the landscape of privacy. Even if you want to
be you know, teflon and you have a barricade around
your house, they will find a way somehow. You know,
I don't need to explain that to you. But when
you think about for you, when you showed up in
(20:51):
New York, your first you went a World Series four
out of the first five years that you are in
New York, that's insane and that spot and that pressure
and thinking about the twenty years of being in New
York and now being outside of it, do you even
look back and think like, how did I navigate that?
Or how was I able to navigate that? Because trying
to do that in this day and age seem nearly
(21:13):
impossible to live the life that you were able to
live with as much anonymity as you could.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You can. This changed everything. Yeah, there's everything, absolutely everything.
You have to like used to tell young players when
they came to New York, you have to assume that
everything you do is public knowledge. You just have to
make that assumption, which which in some set look, I'm
not complaining.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
No, no, no, I'm asking the question no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You have to make that assumption. In some sense, it's
not completely fair because you know, I don't know everything
about you. I'm not talking about you too, but I
don't know everything about you. So therefore you shouldn't have
that sense where you feel you have the right to
know everything about me. Right. So I survived, I think
(22:01):
in my career, especially the early years of my career,
because there were no camera phones. I mean, we would
go out in New York. I can say it now.
It's not plan, but we go out in New York
on Friday or Saturday night till two three o'clock in
the morning. You'd lean and there's a line to get in.
But you never had to worry about someone taking a
picture unless you have one of those real cameras, you
(22:24):
know what I mean. So, yeah, it's just a different time.
I feel somewhat, I don't know if it sounds right,
somewhat sorry for some of the younger players that are
coming up now because this is but that's all they know.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
It's so true. All right. Hope you guys enjoyed Part
one with Derek Jeter. What a gem And there's more
where that came from. Next up, we will talk about
These are just some of the things. We'll talk about.
What his relationship is like with say It Aaron, Big Poppy.
There he goes, she does it better than I do.
So we'll talk about that, which is very interesting and
(22:59):
reflecting on his final game at Yankee Stadium. I'm also
going to say this. It's not in our bullet points,
but I'll say it. He said, why did it take
so long for him to be a guest on the podcast?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Everybody listening to.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
That sponsors noted, and he talks about an awesome answer
he has about overcoming failure is an awesome answer and
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