Yesterday, on Joe Buck's DIRECTV show, Derek Jeter finally put to rest one of life's greatest mysteries: Did Derek Jeter give away gift baskets filled with Derek Jeter memorabilia to his one-night stands? Derek Jeter said no, but of course Derek Jeter would say no.The rumors seem to have started with the New York Post (of course) in 2011—the post-Minka Kelly era—when it was detailed (read: probably made up) that Jeter was caught not only sending a woman home with a gift basket but doing this twice with the same woman. The basket was said to include an autographed baseball (there's a balls joke in there that I'm just going to leave alone) among other Jeter-themed knickknacks. Unsurprisingly, the Post article ended with a "Neither the Yankees nor Jeter's reps immediately returned messages for comment."Among the many hook-up rumors associated with Jeter, this one stuck the most. So much so that he's dwelling on it four years later on TV. Jeter had Joe Buck say what the rumor was (decent PR work), only to address it head on (kind of undoing his own PR work):
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But he also dove in, calling all believers a bunch of stupids."I don't address them because once you address it, you have to address every single rumor that comes out. And then if one time you don't, they automatically assume it's true. So I just chose not to address any rumors out there."
Sure, he gave it a decent wave-off with the hand (he's also recently engaged—coincidence?). But he addressed it, which means it eats at him for some reason. Whether he did it or not, it's nice to think that the guy might be shuttling one-night stands off with their very own sex packets."On top of it, it was a gift basket of my own memorabilia. It's a dumb story. And you really have to be dumber to believe it. But they believe it!…You guys really believe that? My own memorabilia, I'm signing?"
Mr. November is a (low-key) classy guy like that.