I think I speak for everyone when I say that I'm beginning to see why Derek Jeter kept any and all of his thoughts and opinions under lock and the key that he was given to the city for being a highly accomplished robot during his time in pinstripes. We are talking about a question from Bryant Gumbel, the man whose "interrogations" are typically so harmless that they were hyperbolically used as a punchline in a Dave Chappelle skit... If whiffing on softballs has a public figure throwing out baseless insults towards the least objectionable of interviewers then being open and honest with the ruthless New York media would have resulted in a two decade long pissing contest that would have flooded the local papers with more waves of bullshit than the narrative that Derek Jeter was the irreproachable epitome of altruism. Let's pretend that trading away all of your best players in a shameless attempt to shed salary and gutting everything that both the franchise and its fanbase held near and dear isn't the very definition of tanking. Even if every single thing that Derek Jeter has done since taking ownership of the Miami Marlins wasn't aimed at losing both games and local interest, his rebuttal to the suggestion that he might not be putting forth the most valiant of efforts in winning both games and fans is proof positive of his guilt. Perhaps he's not familiar with the intricacies of arguing, seeing as he's avoided having a personality publicly since the mid-90's, but lashing out at a question that's not only more than fair but also likely the impetus for the entire segment in the first place is a good way to look delusional in a debate. If you call someone "mentally weak" unprovoked than you might as well be saying it into the mirror, and having 3,000+ plus hits doesn't make someone an exception to that rule. As far as I can tell, Bryant Gumbel didn't state anything that wasn't a fact, yet Derek Jeter responded by taking offense to something that was inoffensive and getting defensive about something that's indefensible. If I listened to that interview while being completely ignorant towards the building processes of the last two winners of the World Series, I'd still believe that Miami was tanking, and it's because their owner - who won multiple championships on insanely talented teams - was obviously splitting hairs, abusing semantics, and dodging questions by playing dumb. The unmistakably high pitch in his voice when he said "I do, I do" when asked whether or not he expected his 5-16 team to contend should be all you need to hear to determine that Derek Jeter was talking directly out of his asshole. That's without even taking into account how much every move he's made has repulsively reeked like the unattended outhouse that Marlins Park has become.
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