Yankees Icon Derek Jeter Showed His Competitive Nature by Shunning a Reporter to Leave Fellow All-Stars Stunned – “We’ve Got a Game to Play”

Derek Jeter, throughout his 20-year-long Yankee career, made 14 All-Star appearances. An element that always stood out about captain Jeter was the way he carried himself. With his personality and his perpetual drive for competitiveness, the way he spoke to the media and his fans, everyone loved Jeter. He represented the Yankee ideology.

A similar instance occurred before the 2014 All-Star game when reporter Joe Buck entered the American League All-Star’s locker room and managed to gather a good amount of surprise and irritation on all the player’s faces.

Evidently, Derek Jeter doesn’t like reporters in the locker room

The sign next to the locker room door said, “Team personnel only beyond this point.” Very ironically, Joe Buck stood outside the locker room. Completely disregarding the sign, Buck entered the locker room.

First, he walked toward Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera. He proceeds to walk toward then-23-year-old Mike Trout, who went on to win the MVP award for the 2014 All-Star game. Finally, he walked towards Robinson Cano who was sitting with captain Derek Jeter. Jeter, who was palpably not happy about the reporter’s presence, said, “We got a game to play.”

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Notably, the American League All-Star team beat the National League All-Stars, 5-3 at the Target Field.

Will Jeter be the last Yankee captain?

The Pinstripes management has always been particularly selective about picking their captains. After Don Mattingly retired in 1995, it took the Yanks eight years to elect Jeter as their next on-field captain. Jeter moved to lead the Yankee roster for 11 years until he retired in 2014.

Now, it’s been eight years since Jeter’s retirement and the Yanks are yet to announce a worthy predecessor. Given Aaron Judge’s spectacular form and good rapport with the team’s management, he would be a fit replacement. But, he is not even fixed in the Yankee 2022 roster yet.

Yankees general manager, Brian Cashman, believed that Jeter should be the last Yankee captain as no one can be worthier than him. He said, “As far as I’m concerned — and I’m not the decision-maker on this — that captaincy should be retired with No. 2 [Jeter]. “I wouldn’t give up another captain’s title to anyone else.”

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Do you agree with Cashman? Can the Pinstripes take a drastic step like retiring captaincy? Or will they find a replacement for Jeter?