December 22, 2023 • 23 mins
Erin and Charissa continue their conversation with The Captain as he takes us on a trip down memory lane reflecting on his final game in Yankee Stadium and what made it so special. He shares some of his favorite athletes from today’s generation and the surprising basketball player he finds himself rooting for. He also explains the importance of overcoming failure and the struggles he faced early in his career.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I feel quite a bit. You know, throughout my career
baseball on film seventy percent of the time, you're good,
right crazy, But I've really really struggled when I turned
professional and I thought about you, this is I made
the wrong decision. I should just shut it down and
move on and try something else.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Hey guys, welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. There should
be a theme song for that. By the way, I'll
tell you who had a lot of songs. Derek Jeter.
We talked to him about his walk up songs. Well,
first of all, this is part two of our Derek
(00:39):
Jeter interview. He is our teammate at Fox.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, all that he did with the Yankees, we get
it major League Baseball. He's one of us now and
we love it so much. We talked to him about
his walk up songs. He had several, Carissa, and he
stumped you on his first one, which I kind of loved.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, but I just didn't know the name of it,
but I loved the song.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I also tried to sing it athletes that he loves watching.
I was also I asked the questions from the media.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I know Erin and I.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Both appreciated his response. Enjoy part two of our conversation
with the Captain. Okay, So, Derek, when you look back,
so you've had, you know, a fourteen time All Star,
the five time World Series, You're a Hall of Famer,
all of these things. I know that you have said
that your favorite game, aside from winning World Series, was
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your last game.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Why, well, I think one. I think it's a little unfair.
I wouldn't say I wouldn't say it's a favorite if
I said that before, then that I did particulated properly,
because when you win, that's the most fun you can
possibly have. The last game I played in Yankee Stadium, ironically,
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is the only game I ever played in Yankee Stadium,
old or New that didn't count. So it was the
only game I ever played in New York where we
were mathematically eliminated. And it was special to me because
the fans treated it like it was a playoff game.
Because I grew up with fans just twenty years and
the thing about Yankee fans, no disrespect to any other fans.
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I think they're the greatest fans in the world because
they watch every day, so they watched they pretty much
watched me grow up. I mean it's one hundred and
sixty two games, plus it's spring training games, plus it's
the postseason. They're watching you every day, and they treated
that game like it was a postseason game, and it
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was extremely special even though it did mean anything. It
didn't even count. And it's the freshest game that I
have in my mind.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Because it's still lasting and your nephew and that moment,
and that is my favorite commercial of all time. I
will embarrass myself if I tell you how many times
I've watched that Jordan commercial of you and going around
and all the everyone doing this and just it gives
me chills, Like thinking about it. When you saw that
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commercial for the first time, what did you think.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well, I mean, it's very humbling because you have people
that you know, whether it's John Lester was on the mound,
people icons in New York. I didn't even know everyone
that was a part of the commercial until I saw it.
And it goes back to what I said, when you
play in New York before are watching and I always
said that playing in the Yankee Stadium was like being
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on a Broadway stage, you know it. You know, we
won a lot, and it almost made it seem like
Yankee Stadium was a hotspot, so people would come out there.
And you know, the great thing about sports, not just baseball.
A great thing about sports, and I say music as well,
is it brings back memories and you know, you remember
where you were, who you're with. That's what makes sports
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so great. And playing in New York, it was just
you know that commercial to respect commercial, it really makes
you sit back and you know, Michael's like a big
brother than me. He played baseball, and it was just
one of those moments at the end of my career.
I was like, you know, I've had a very very fortunate.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Career, just saying that Michael is a big brother, like immediately,
because he's the one person I will never ever ever
want to interview or meet. And I had an opportionity
psycho to tell you him. One time. I'm at the
Concicco field House. It's during the Big Ten tournament. Aaron
and I were both working it. You had already gone
air and at this point and my producer gets in
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my ear and he says, you need to go up
to the suite and interview Jordan because Jeffrey was playing
for Illinois at the time, and then Larry Bird was
up there because he's we're in Indianapolis, and are you
saying I need you to go interview both of them?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I go no, and he goes, what'd you just say?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I go no, I'm not doing it, because it was
I didn't want to meet my hero and I was like,
wonder if he has bad breath, or wonder if he's mean,
or wonder if he's all these things that I don't want,
and now it's ruined my whole life in loving this person.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So I didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I said no, and I'm surprised I wasn't fired, but
I was like, I can't do it, and it was
just that moment. It's like I can only imagine, like
the first time I had to interview you actually was
We're in Colorado. I had just started working for the
Rockies and you hadn't been there in years because of
interleague play stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So it was a massive deal.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The Yankees are in town and my producer says to me, like,
I need you to interview Derek Jeeter. At this point,
I had already said no to Jordan and Burt, and
I was like, I can't do the trifecta of nose
to all of them, so and you couldn't have been nicer.
You were so sweet to me and just so gracious.
But I remember that Troy Tulowitzki Todd Hilton had just
messed with him because Troy Tulowitzki wears the number two
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because of you, and Todd Helton and Matt Holliday put
your cologne driven all over to Uluwitzky's uniform so he
would just smell like you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
So when he came up to meet you, you were
going to be like, bro, why do you smell like me?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But it was so cool, and it was just those
moments where you're like, wait a minute, like this young
kid in Troy like grew up wanting to be you.
So I know you've had a myriad of those examples,
but you and Jordan and Burt and all those people
like for us, it's like the Mount rushmore so.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
The millionaires question, did I have that bread?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
No? You did not have bad breath, and thank god,
because it would have ruined it for me.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Derek, is there anybody you love watching?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It doesn't have to be basketball baseball, football, It can
be any sport.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Do you have like a Derek Cheater that you cheer on.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I cheer for people, you know, I cheered for for people.
Usually it's people that I've gotten to know over the years.
You know, Steph Curry, I don't know him well. I
don't know him well at all, but just from what
I see from afar, how he handles himself. I'm big
on players and how they handle themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know, love Mookie Bets, Aaron obviously, Corey Seor for
going through baseball players. You know, there's there's so many guys.
You know. He always looked up to Tom because we
sort of came up similar times as a Michigan guy
who's a little after me but started a little after me.
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But yeah, those are the types of guys that I'd
like to follow.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Look at you, guys, and now you're both joining the
Fox family. Tom about to enter the media sphere himself.
So now that you're the veteran in media, I need
you to give Tom a piece of advice in entering
that boot.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Ooh, that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
The piece of advice I would say is go on
the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
There were he's so good.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yes, that's what I was telling you.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He's going to be living the Calm Down Podcast with
me for eighteen weeks of his life with Kevin Burkhardt.
Come on, wait. I got a couple of stories from keV.
I was texting him today when I was on the plane.
One thing I heard from keV kind of because we
would all be like, how's it going, how's it going
on the road? Like how great is Derek? He said,
one of the coolest things. And I love this after
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being raised a Red Sox fan, just watching you and
David or Poppy go off to the side at the
end of like games, when you get back to the
hotel and just talk. I was curious how close you
guys were before because obviously Red Sox Yankees we get
it all Star games events, but then now you're working
with him. Anything that you took away from the year
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and getting close to Poppy besides the fact he smells incredible,
I mean he does. No bad breath coming from that.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
One well, commenting on that, but what I would say.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Is he's good.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I didn't really know David when I played against him,
fascinating I was. I was. I didn't try to be
best friends with players I competed against. You know, I
didn't because we were trying to beat them. They're trying
to beat us. So I wasn't going to dinner, we
weren't going to lunch. You know. I was always respectful,
you know when I saw him a second base or
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during stretch, during bad effects, but I just wasn't really
trying to get to know them because the only thing
I want to do is beaching. So I really didn't
know him, and then just getting to know David. He's
what you think, he's like a character. You know, he's
a cartoon character. He is one of the nicest people
that you will meet, right, he really is. And I
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enjoyed spending time with him, like Kevin mentioned, not only
on set, but you know after games four games, spending
some time with them, talking to him about family. You know,
my girls love him because they think he's you know,
they're like, where's Big Poppy.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Because Mickey Mouse. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So I really have enjoyed to know him over the
month or so that I was doing the game.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
So David, I have nothing but good things to say
about Derek.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You mentioned that you weren't friends with the people that
you competed again. So this is a thing I will
never understand. And maybe you're aligned with me, or maybe
you don't have a comment on it. The exchanging jerseys
after the game, and we see it football players do
it a lot and they swap jerseys. I'm not into
it because I'm like, I can get that you're respectful
and like when the season's over, maybe send me a
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jersey things like that, But like, you just beat me
on this field, on this you know, battlefield that we're on,
and now you're asking for my jersey.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Like, I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So the competitor in you, what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well, I think there's two sides. One. I think there's
a mutual admiration that you have for players that.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You play against, okay, and respect you respect them.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I personally, if you beat us, I'm getting out. You know,
I'm not trying to go back out and do anything,
you know, and then do things behind the scenes. But
to players defense, that's what they know. I mean, you know,
there's there's there's a difference. You know, I never want
to be back when I played, but let me use it.
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Back when I played now, I grew up in Calumsey, Michigan.
No disrespect to Callums and Michigan, but I wasn't playing
against the best players in the country or the best
players in the world. Now you have these players and
the showcases and summer ball, winter ball, whatever sports you have.
They know these guys, they're playing against them at all times,
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and they build relationships and they're friendships. So I get
it from that sense, But I just if if just
for me, and I'm not saying it's right, this is
if you beat me. I wasn't trying to hang.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Around and yeah, yeah, no, I was just curious and it's.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
A different time though it really is a different time.
I don't have a problem with it. I just personally,
I personally couldn't. I don't think I could do it.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Mm hmm. Any Jersey are you a Jersey guy? Do
you uh? Do you collect him?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I don't know. No, I don't. I don't. I have
a few, but I don't go out to try to
collect them.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Can we know your favorite one you have?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It's a good question.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
How many do you have?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It's another good question.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I lived in Tampa for years and we moved to
Miami seven years ago, so all of my stuff is
in storage.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And I have to go through it. Okay, if you
guys have on the show, we'll.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Ask you at the next work dinner. Okay, can we
rapid fire?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I was just gonna say I have some I have
some quick hitters because I know we got to let
you go at some point.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yere.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, you talked about music earlier and how that immediately
attaches emotion to things and puts you back into place.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
What was your walk up song? I don't know this.
I don't remember it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I had a bunch there.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Okay, okay, okay, what were some What were some of them?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Black Rob?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I don't know about that. What can you? Can you
sing a chorus or what? Give me what you want?
I wanted to run into.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It, absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Can you work like?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Boy, here comes it? Okay? What else was?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I think the last one that came to was eminem
Lose Yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I would go through I would have five. That's five
different songs.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
It depends on your mood.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, I would stick with a lot of times with
also New York hip hop, so depends.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Crazy like yeah, okay, you know it, like whoa, haws, Oh,
this is a great song. I just didn't know the
name of it, The Bad Mother, Like whoa, I could
sing it got me.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That's amazing in the head, I mean whoa yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
No, hey, Now would you pick anything differently now? I
mean with all the music now anything, if you were
playing right now, you'd say yes that I'm adding that.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
You know, I'm old school hip hop and R and B.
That's what I listened to, you know, so a lot
of it's probably I mean new edition Bobby Brown.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Voice, Show to see Bill Step Show, Sisters two of Yeah, Escape,
favorite meal.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Chicken farmers own favorite haunt.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Like favorite stop low key in New York to get
a favorite meal. It didn't have to be a hot
spot back in the day.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Man.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
You know what back in the day, you know what
people don't realize is, you know, when you're in New York,
when you're playing in New York, by the time you're
eating dinner.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It's midnight. Yeah, so a lot of places aren't even open. So, man,
my favorite spot now in New York is Cargo. I
go down in Miami as well, So I love Cargo.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, I just I ate there in Vegas and those
you will definitely after the Caesar salad you need breath mits,
no interviews after that Caesar salad, believe them. Mark, Okay,
favorite nineties rom com movie or just rom com doesn't.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Even have to be nineties. Wow, Steal Magnolias, Leap Listen Seattle.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
How to Lose a Guy in nine days? That's my favorite.
I know there isn't it ten days? I know, well,
I can lose it at nine. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I can't even I can't even think of one. I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Hannah doesn't watch one, and you sit there and you're like,
I've seen this a thousand times n nineties Hannah, No,
it was important, good for her and her skin.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, okay. Favorite Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We've been watching a lot of The Grinch.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Cute which one the cartoon? Yeah, just watching it on
the plane. Okay. Favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Man, I saw Mommy cass.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Adorable Michael, Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What Michael Jackson has a Christmas album? Everyone dies? We
should have one album? But oh, okay, okay, I'm on it.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Okay, wait, word association. I'm gonna say the name. First
thing you think of Kevin Burkhart.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
True professional. It's amazing what he is able to do.
Like seriously, I mean we we He's covering the playoffs
in the World Series and at the same time he
has an NFL game on Sunday. Don't know how he
does it? True professional.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Have you seen Kevin Burkhart be sassy? Sassy? Kevin Burkhart
is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I have not seen that.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well wait for year two. Okay, big poppy.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
As a player, my response would have been clutched, But
now I would just say, like I said, just a
really really really good person.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Patrick Mahomes very talented.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Obviously, it was interesting because I had a chance to
have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
With him, and I know we saw it was adorable.
The interview was great, so adorable.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Thank you. But I I he's just he's one of
those guys that just goes to show you. I talk
about it with parents a lot, with kids specializing in
sports when they're so very very young, just play multiple sports.
You never know. He thought he was going to be
a baseball player, ended up being arguably the best quarterback
in the league right now, you know what I mean.
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So I would say you know, just just very, very
athletic and extremely talented.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Favorite eighties song. Sorry, this isn't ord association because I've
been dyna assis. Because I heard keV said you like
eighties too. Favorite eighties song that you always like love.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
To hear favorite eighties song, or it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Could be nineties.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
We were playing Buffalo Stance by Nina Cherry a lot
this weekend in Buffalo really goes well with tequila.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Right man, eighties? Nineties? I like the Humpty dance.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah dance, here's your chance.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It wasn't a request to say it.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Okay, Derek, I'll tell the jokes here.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Let me just say, when you're interviewing this guy back
in the day and you could get a sliver of
that sarcasm or saxiness right there, my sweatstash would start going.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I was like, back to you in the studio, You're like,
that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Being on the other side of it now in the media,
do you find or do you have more a greater
appreciation for the media because you are on this side,
Because I imagine as a player, you must have thought
a myriad of different times, like what a stupid question
that is, or what a dumb question that is, but
now they are a dumb questions, well some of them
are dumb questions. But like, now that you're on the
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other side of it, do you are you softer on
the media or do you have more like? Are you're
more empathetic?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And tell you what I think the problem is. I
think the problem is is every everyone looks at it
as the other side. I think everyone should try to
look at it as the same side, because you, ultimately
the goal is you want people to watch sports, You
want them to be entertained, and you want them to
want to tune in again. So I don't look at
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it as look I think I have a better understanding
of why some questions are asked. And I wouldn't say
i'd necessarily learn that more so in the last year
with Box, but I think I learned quite a bit
more when I was in the front office in Miami.
I think you understand why certain decisions are made, why
questions are asked. I think so I got a little
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bit of a better understanding in that sense. But I
do think the relationship between the media and athletes is fractured.
Anyone that tells you anything differently is lying to you
because I think there's no trust, or I should say
there's a lack of trust. I think there's trust with
certain individuals. That's why they're able to get more information
from people, because there is a sense of trust. And
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I think, so that's fixed, you'll always have that friction,
so I do. I think I have a better understand
of why certain things are asked. But I'll never understand
that got you attitude where so much trying to get you.
They're just trying to get you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And we feel that way too, And if you'd like
to name names, we're here for it. I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I just want to say this before we let you go,
because I've said it before as somebody that started and
she was in her twenties and was green as hell
and probably you know, was quivering and shaking every single time.
You always made me feel important. You were always so
helpful to me. It's why you will always forever be
one of my favorites. I love your teammate now. But
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you just always, despite if people were trying to have
got you moments with you, you just always treated everyone
with so much respect. And you said this to me
a while ago. You never forget the people that treated
you so well, and you've always been that person and
I'm pumped your ours now.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yep, thanks one of the best guys living. Yes, I
sure do. And only because it's recent.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think that what you said last thing was you
any you said, anyone that's had success has failed. There's
always going to be bumps in the roads. It's how
you keep it from being a roadblock. When did you
learn that and how did you learn that to really
in totality understand that success also means you had to
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fail along the way.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, you know, it's funny because when I meet people
who are successful in any walk of life, any profession,
one of the first things I asked him is tell
me about your biggest failure and how did you overcome it?
Because I think a lot of times people assume they
make this assumption that you woke up with success. So
that's not the case. There's a lot of failures that
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go into it. I feel quite a bit. You know,
throughout my career in baseball, you film seventy percent of
the time, you're good, right, crazy, But I really really
struggled when I turned professional and and you know I
thought about you, this is I made the wrong decision.
I should just shut it down and move on and
try something else. But I had a good support group,
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and it starts with my parents, and I think you
know they were big on always being there for me
and making me understand that. You know this is going
to make you stronger. But you have to go through
it because everyone goes through it. Anyone that's had success
goes through it. And you feel like you have those
thoughts that should I quit, should I give up? And
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you don't just wake up and I'll just scoose me
as an example in New York. And now all of
a sudden you have success. You know you have to
go through some things, and I think that makes you.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Coming ironic, says the guy who won for a World
Series in his first five years. You woke up and
had a lot of success, but you had an incredible career,
a Hall of Fame career. I had a cologne, a
cologne Driven by the Way, still on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I've looked it up. You're the Captain.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You have a lot of wonderful titles, but I know
that Dad is your favorite.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Right now. Thank you for sharing some time with us.
We appreciate it and we love you very much. Thank you,
You're the Beast.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
We'll see you guys again in three more years.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
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I feel quite a bit. You know, throughout my career
baseball on film seventy percent of the time, you're good,
right crazy, But I've really really struggled when I turned
professional and I thought about you, this is I made
the wrong decision. I should just shut it down and
move on and try something else.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Hey guys, welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. There should
be a theme song for that. By the way, I'll
tell you who had a lot of songs. Derek Jeter.
We talked to him about his walk up songs. Well,
first of all, this is part two of our Derek
(00:39):
Jeter interview. He is our teammate at Fox.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, all that he did with the Yankees, we get
it major League Baseball. He's one of us now and
we love it so much. We talked to him about
his walk up songs. He had several, Carissa, and he
stumped you on his first one, which I kind of loved.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, but I just didn't know the name of it,
but I loved the song.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I also tried to sing it athletes that he loves watching.
I was also I asked the questions from the media.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I know Erin and I.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Both appreciated his response. Enjoy part two of our conversation
with the Captain. Okay, So, Derek, when you look back,
so you've had, you know, a fourteen time All Star,
the five time World Series, You're a Hall of Famer,
all of these things. I know that you have said
that your favorite game, aside from winning World Series, was
(01:25):
your last game.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Why, well, I think one. I think it's a little unfair.
I wouldn't say I wouldn't say it's a favorite if
I said that before, then that I did particulated properly,
because when you win, that's the most fun you can
possibly have. The last game I played in Yankee Stadium, ironically,
(01:48):
is the only game I ever played in Yankee Stadium,
old or New that didn't count. So it was the
only game I ever played in New York where we
were mathematically eliminated. And it was special to me because
the fans treated it like it was a playoff game.
Because I grew up with fans just twenty years and
the thing about Yankee fans, no disrespect to any other fans.
(02:11):
I think they're the greatest fans in the world because
they watch every day, so they watched they pretty much
watched me grow up. I mean it's one hundred and
sixty two games, plus it's spring training games, plus it's
the postseason. They're watching you every day, and they treated
that game like it was a postseason game, and it
(02:32):
was extremely special even though it did mean anything. It
didn't even count. And it's the freshest game that I
have in my mind.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Because it's still lasting and your nephew and that moment,
and that is my favorite commercial of all time. I
will embarrass myself if I tell you how many times
I've watched that Jordan commercial of you and going around
and all the everyone doing this and just it gives
me chills, Like thinking about it. When you saw that
(03:00):
commercial for the first time, what did you think.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well, I mean, it's very humbling because you have people
that you know, whether it's John Lester was on the mound,
people icons in New York. I didn't even know everyone
that was a part of the commercial until I saw it.
And it goes back to what I said, when you
play in New York before are watching and I always
said that playing in the Yankee Stadium was like being
(03:22):
on a Broadway stage, you know it. You know, we
won a lot, and it almost made it seem like
Yankee Stadium was a hotspot, so people would come out there.
And you know, the great thing about sports, not just baseball.
A great thing about sports, and I say music as well,
is it brings back memories and you know, you remember
where you were, who you're with. That's what makes sports
(03:45):
so great. And playing in New York, it was just
you know that commercial to respect commercial, it really makes
you sit back and you know, Michael's like a big
brother than me. He played baseball, and it was just
one of those moments at the end of my career.
I was like, you know, I've had a very very fortunate.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Career, just saying that Michael is a big brother, like immediately,
because he's the one person I will never ever ever
want to interview or meet. And I had an opportionity
psycho to tell you him. One time. I'm at the
Concicco field House. It's during the Big Ten tournament. Aaron
and I were both working it. You had already gone
air and at this point and my producer gets in
(04:26):
my ear and he says, you need to go up
to the suite and interview Jordan because Jeffrey was playing
for Illinois at the time, and then Larry Bird was
up there because he's we're in Indianapolis, and are you
saying I need you to go interview both of them?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I go no, and he goes, what'd you just say?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I go no, I'm not doing it, because it was
I didn't want to meet my hero and I was like,
wonder if he has bad breath, or wonder if he's mean,
or wonder if he's all these things that I don't want,
and now it's ruined my whole life in loving this person.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So I didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I said no, and I'm surprised I wasn't fired, but
I was like, I can't do it, and it was
just that moment. It's like I can only imagine, like
the first time I had to interview you actually was
We're in Colorado. I had just started working for the
Rockies and you hadn't been there in years because of
interleague play stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So it was a massive deal.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The Yankees are in town and my producer says to me, like,
I need you to interview Derek Jeeter. At this point,
I had already said no to Jordan and Burt, and
I was like, I can't do the trifecta of nose
to all of them, so and you couldn't have been nicer.
You were so sweet to me and just so gracious.
But I remember that Troy Tulowitzki Todd Hilton had just
messed with him because Troy Tulowitzki wears the number two
(05:30):
because of you, and Todd Helton and Matt Holliday put
your cologne driven all over to Uluwitzky's uniform so he
would just smell like you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
So when he came up to meet you, you were
going to be like, bro, why do you smell like me?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But it was so cool, and it was just those
moments where you're like, wait a minute, like this young
kid in Troy like grew up wanting to be you.
So I know you've had a myriad of those examples,
but you and Jordan and Burt and all those people
like for us, it's like the Mount rushmore so.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
The millionaires question, did I have that bread?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
No? You did not have bad breath, and thank god,
because it would have ruined it for me.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Derek, is there anybody you love watching?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It doesn't have to be basketball baseball, football, It can
be any sport.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Do you have like a Derek Cheater that you cheer on.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I cheer for people, you know, I cheered for for people.
Usually it's people that I've gotten to know over the years.
You know, Steph Curry, I don't know him well. I
don't know him well at all, but just from what
I see from afar, how he handles himself. I'm big
on players and how they handle themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know, love Mookie Bets, Aaron obviously, Corey Seor for
going through baseball players. You know, there's there's so many guys.
You know. He always looked up to Tom because we
sort of came up similar times as a Michigan guy
who's a little after me but started a little after me.
(07:10):
But yeah, those are the types of guys that I'd
like to follow.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Look at you, guys, and now you're both joining the
Fox family. Tom about to enter the media sphere himself.
So now that you're the veteran in media, I need
you to give Tom a piece of advice in entering
that boot.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Ooh, that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
The piece of advice I would say is go on
the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
There were he's so good.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yes, that's what I was telling you.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He's going to be living the Calm Down Podcast with
me for eighteen weeks of his life with Kevin Burkhardt.
Come on, wait. I got a couple of stories from keV.
I was texting him today when I was on the plane.
One thing I heard from keV kind of because we
would all be like, how's it going, how's it going
on the road? Like how great is Derek? He said,
one of the coolest things. And I love this after
(08:01):
being raised a Red Sox fan, just watching you and
David or Poppy go off to the side at the
end of like games, when you get back to the
hotel and just talk. I was curious how close you
guys were before because obviously Red Sox Yankees we get
it all Star games events, but then now you're working
with him. Anything that you took away from the year
(08:22):
and getting close to Poppy besides the fact he smells incredible,
I mean he does. No bad breath coming from that.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
One well, commenting on that, but what I would say.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Is he's good.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I didn't really know David when I played against him,
fascinating I was. I was. I didn't try to be
best friends with players I competed against. You know, I
didn't because we were trying to beat them. They're trying
to beat us. So I wasn't going to dinner, we
weren't going to lunch. You know. I was always respectful,
you know when I saw him a second base or
(08:58):
during stretch, during bad effects, but I just wasn't really
trying to get to know them because the only thing
I want to do is beaching. So I really didn't
know him, and then just getting to know David. He's
what you think, he's like a character. You know, he's
a cartoon character. He is one of the nicest people
that you will meet, right, he really is. And I
(09:20):
enjoyed spending time with him, like Kevin mentioned, not only
on set, but you know after games four games, spending
some time with them, talking to him about family. You know,
my girls love him because they think he's you know,
they're like, where's Big Poppy.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Because Mickey Mouse. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So I really have enjoyed to know him over the
month or so that I was doing the game.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
So David, I have nothing but good things to say
about Derek.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You mentioned that you weren't friends with the people that
you competed again. So this is a thing I will
never understand. And maybe you're aligned with me, or maybe
you don't have a comment on it. The exchanging jerseys
after the game, and we see it football players do
it a lot and they swap jerseys. I'm not into
it because I'm like, I can get that you're respectful
and like when the season's over, maybe send me a
(10:12):
jersey things like that, But like, you just beat me
on this field, on this you know, battlefield that we're on,
and now you're asking for my jersey.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Like, I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So the competitor in you, what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well, I think there's two sides. One. I think there's
a mutual admiration that you have for players that.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You play against, okay, and respect you respect them.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I personally, if you beat us, I'm getting out. You know,
I'm not trying to go back out and do anything,
you know, and then do things behind the scenes. But
to players defense, that's what they know. I mean, you know,
there's there's there's a difference. You know, I never want
to be back when I played, but let me use it.
(10:56):
Back when I played now, I grew up in Calumsey, Michigan.
No disrespect to Callums and Michigan, but I wasn't playing
against the best players in the country or the best
players in the world. Now you have these players and
the showcases and summer ball, winter ball, whatever sports you have.
They know these guys, they're playing against them at all times,
(11:17):
and they build relationships and they're friendships. So I get
it from that sense, But I just if if just
for me, and I'm not saying it's right, this is
if you beat me. I wasn't trying to hang.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Around and yeah, yeah, no, I was just curious and it's.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
A different time though it really is a different time.
I don't have a problem with it. I just personally,
I personally couldn't. I don't think I could do it.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Mm hmm. Any Jersey are you a Jersey guy? Do
you uh? Do you collect him?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I don't know. No, I don't. I don't. I have
a few, but I don't go out to try to
collect them.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Can we know your favorite one you have?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It's a good question.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
How many do you have?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It's another good question.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I lived in Tampa for years and we moved to
Miami seven years ago, so all of my stuff is
in storage.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And I have to go through it. Okay, if you
guys have on the show, we'll.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Ask you at the next work dinner. Okay, can we
rapid fire?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I was just gonna say I have some I have
some quick hitters because I know we got to let
you go at some point.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yere.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, you talked about music earlier and how that immediately
attaches emotion to things and puts you back into place.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
What was your walk up song? I don't know this.
I don't remember it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I had a bunch there.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Okay, okay, okay, what were some What were some of them?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Black Rob?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I don't know about that. What can you? Can you
sing a chorus or what? Give me what you want?
I wanted to run into.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It, absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Can you work like?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Boy, here comes it? Okay? What else was?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I think the last one that came to was eminem
Lose Yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I would go through I would have five. That's five
different songs.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
It depends on your mood.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, I would stick with a lot of times with
also New York hip hop, so depends.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Crazy like yeah, okay, you know it, like whoa, haws, Oh,
this is a great song. I just didn't know the
name of it, The Bad Mother, Like whoa, I could
sing it got me.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That's amazing in the head, I mean whoa yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
No, hey, Now would you pick anything differently now? I
mean with all the music now anything, if you were
playing right now, you'd say yes that I'm adding that.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
You know, I'm old school hip hop and R and B.
That's what I listened to, you know, so a lot
of it's probably I mean new edition Bobby Brown.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Voice, Show to see Bill Step Show, Sisters two of Yeah, Escape,
favorite meal.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Chicken farmers own favorite haunt.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Like favorite stop low key in New York to get
a favorite meal. It didn't have to be a hot
spot back in the day.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Man.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
You know what back in the day, you know what
people don't realize is, you know, when you're in New York,
when you're playing in New York, by the time you're
eating dinner.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It's midnight. Yeah, so a lot of places aren't even open. So, man,
my favorite spot now in New York is Cargo. I
go down in Miami as well, So I love Cargo.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, I just I ate there in Vegas and those
you will definitely after the Caesar salad you need breath mits,
no interviews after that Caesar salad, believe them. Mark, Okay,
favorite nineties rom com movie or just rom com doesn't.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Even have to be nineties. Wow, Steal Magnolias, Leap Listen Seattle.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
How to Lose a Guy in nine days? That's my favorite.
I know there isn't it ten days? I know, well,
I can lose it at nine. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I can't even I can't even think of one. I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Hannah doesn't watch one, and you sit there and you're like,
I've seen this a thousand times n nineties Hannah, No,
it was important, good for her and her skin.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, okay. Favorite Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We've been watching a lot of The Grinch.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Cute which one the cartoon? Yeah, just watching it on
the plane. Okay. Favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Man, I saw Mommy cass.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Adorable Michael, Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What Michael Jackson has a Christmas album? Everyone dies? We
should have one album? But oh, okay, okay, I'm on it.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Okay, wait, word association. I'm gonna say the name. First
thing you think of Kevin Burkhart.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
True professional. It's amazing what he is able to do.
Like seriously, I mean we we He's covering the playoffs
in the World Series and at the same time he
has an NFL game on Sunday. Don't know how he
does it? True professional.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Have you seen Kevin Burkhart be sassy? Sassy? Kevin Burkhart
is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I have not seen that.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well wait for year two. Okay, big poppy.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
As a player, my response would have been clutched, But
now I would just say, like I said, just a
really really really good person.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Patrick Mahomes very talented.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Obviously, it was interesting because I had a chance to
have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
With him, and I know we saw it was adorable.
The interview was great, so adorable.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Thank you. But I I he's just he's one of
those guys that just goes to show you. I talk
about it with parents a lot, with kids specializing in
sports when they're so very very young, just play multiple sports.
You never know. He thought he was going to be
a baseball player, ended up being arguably the best quarterback
in the league right now, you know what I mean.
(17:32):
So I would say you know, just just very, very
athletic and extremely talented.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Favorite eighties song. Sorry, this isn't ord association because I've
been dyna assis. Because I heard keV said you like
eighties too. Favorite eighties song that you always like love.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
To hear favorite eighties song, or it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Could be nineties.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
We were playing Buffalo Stance by Nina Cherry a lot
this weekend in Buffalo really goes well with tequila.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Right man, eighties? Nineties? I like the Humpty dance.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah dance, here's your chance.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It wasn't a request to say it.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Okay, Derek, I'll tell the jokes here.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Let me just say, when you're interviewing this guy back
in the day and you could get a sliver of
that sarcasm or saxiness right there, my sweatstash would start going.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I was like, back to you in the studio, You're like,
that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Being on the other side of it now in the media,
do you find or do you have more a greater
appreciation for the media because you are on this side,
Because I imagine as a player, you must have thought
a myriad of different times, like what a stupid question
that is, or what a dumb question that is, but
now they are a dumb questions, well some of them
are dumb questions. But like, now that you're on the
(18:50):
other side of it, do you are you softer on
the media or do you have more like? Are you're
more empathetic?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And tell you what I think the problem is. I
think the problem is is every everyone looks at it
as the other side. I think everyone should try to
look at it as the same side, because you, ultimately
the goal is you want people to watch sports, You
want them to be entertained, and you want them to
want to tune in again. So I don't look at
(19:16):
it as look I think I have a better understanding
of why some questions are asked. And I wouldn't say
i'd necessarily learn that more so in the last year
with Box, but I think I learned quite a bit
more when I was in the front office in Miami.
I think you understand why certain decisions are made, why
questions are asked. I think so I got a little
(19:38):
bit of a better understanding in that sense. But I
do think the relationship between the media and athletes is fractured.
Anyone that tells you anything differently is lying to you
because I think there's no trust, or I should say
there's a lack of trust. I think there's trust with
certain individuals. That's why they're able to get more information
from people, because there is a sense of trust. And
(20:00):
I think, so that's fixed, you'll always have that friction,
so I do. I think I have a better understand
of why certain things are asked. But I'll never understand
that got you attitude where so much trying to get you.
They're just trying to get you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And we feel that way too, And if you'd like
to name names, we're here for it. I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I just want to say this before we let you go,
because I've said it before as somebody that started and
she was in her twenties and was green as hell
and probably you know, was quivering and shaking every single time.
You always made me feel important. You were always so
helpful to me. It's why you will always forever be
one of my favorites. I love your teammate now. But
(20:41):
you just always, despite if people were trying to have
got you moments with you, you just always treated everyone
with so much respect. And you said this to me
a while ago. You never forget the people that treated
you so well, and you've always been that person and
I'm pumped your ours now.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yep, thanks one of the best guys living. Yes, I
sure do. And only because it's recent.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think that what you said last thing was you
any you said, anyone that's had success has failed. There's
always going to be bumps in the roads. It's how
you keep it from being a roadblock. When did you
learn that and how did you learn that to really
in totality understand that success also means you had to
(21:26):
fail along the way.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, you know, it's funny because when I meet people
who are successful in any walk of life, any profession,
one of the first things I asked him is tell
me about your biggest failure and how did you overcome it?
Because I think a lot of times people assume they
make this assumption that you woke up with success. So
that's not the case. There's a lot of failures that
(21:48):
go into it. I feel quite a bit. You know,
throughout my career in baseball, you film seventy percent of
the time, you're good, right, crazy, But I really really
struggled when I turned professional and and you know I
thought about you, this is I made the wrong decision.
I should just shut it down and move on and
try something else. But I had a good support group,
(22:08):
and it starts with my parents, and I think you
know they were big on always being there for me
and making me understand that. You know this is going
to make you stronger. But you have to go through
it because everyone goes through it. Anyone that's had success
goes through it. And you feel like you have those
thoughts that should I quit, should I give up? And
(22:28):
you don't just wake up and I'll just scoose me
as an example in New York. And now all of
a sudden you have success. You know you have to
go through some things, and I think that makes you.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Coming ironic, says the guy who won for a World
Series in his first five years. You woke up and
had a lot of success, but you had an incredible career,
a Hall of Fame career. I had a cologne, a
cologne Driven by the Way, still on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I've looked it up. You're the Captain.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You have a lot of wonderful titles, but I know
that Dad is your favorite.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Right now. Thank you for sharing some time with us.
We appreciate it and we love you very much. Thank you,
You're the Beast.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
We'll see you guys again in three more years.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
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