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Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Jeter tells his agent to f-ck -ff?
How else to interpret this:
“It all started with my (reported) salary demands, which still cracks me up,” he said. “What position am I in to demand a salary? Give me this, or what? Where am I going?”
Jeter used the word angry a surprising number of times, always in one way or another directed at the organization and the people he obviously still cares about very deeply. In particular, Jeter said, he was hurt by Brian Cashman’s public comments that he should test the free agent market if he thought there was a better offer to be found.
“I was pretty angry about it, but I let that be known,” Jeter said. “I was angry about it because I was the one that said I didn’t want to do it, that I wasn’t going to (test the market). To hear the organization tell me to go shop it when I just told you I wasn’t going to, if I’m going to be honest, I was angry about it.”
Cashman spoke out only after Jeter’s agent spoke.
Jeter’s agent, Casey Close, was among those who went public during this negotiation, but Jeter said Close’s words and opinions were not Jeter’s words and opinion. Jeter tried to stay out of it. When family and friends urged him to speak up, Jeter refused, “because I said from the get-go I wasn’t going to talk about it.” Getting a fourth year on his contract was important because Jeter wanted to delay his next negotiation as long as possible.
“And I promise you, you won’t hear about that one,” he said.
Somehow his agent is not his employee? He may not change his agent, but we’re pretty much guaranteed to never hear from his agent for as long as we live.
Thanks, Jeter.
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