Speak Neutrally and Carry a Big Bat
GQ profiles Derek Jeter this month and it highlights various things I noted about the guy over the years.One thing that is amusing about this feature is that they used Terry Richardson to shoot it. Richardson's pictures are full of energy, but are also usually on the raunchy side. Just Google his name. The usual highlighted body part is the tongue or the breasts or the crotch. Hence the big bat in the pic. The big bat represents (wait for it)... Jeter's dick. Richardson also has this ability to get starlets to eat on film and/or lick food off each other. Maybe there are outtakes of ARod licking ice cream off the big bat.
Anyway, the actual article is sort of typical Jeter stuff. The guy has an unbelievable talent for keeping his cards close to his chest. He had the worst year of his MLB career in 2010, and this is what he says:
"My focus is always one year at a time. I don't go into 2011 thinking about 2010. I haven't met a person who can change what's happened in the past, and I haven't met a person who can tell the future, so my job is 2011. That's the only thing I'm focused on. That's the only thing I'm concerned with."
True to form, Jeter is mum on being jerked around by the Yankees this past winter. They were snotty and went to the press to passive-aggressively dis him. It couldn't have been easy for him.
Mariah Carey, Minka Kelly, Lara Dutta, Adriana Lima,Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jordana Brewster, and Vanessa Minnillo. Those are some very famous women and he dated them all. Yet not a single one of them have talked shit about him. At least one of them seems like a shit talker ('sup, Mimi?) and yet nothing has been said.
"There's never been any kiss-and-tell stuff where a girl breaks up with Jeter and then says what a creep he is. I don't know how he avoids it. He must have some sort of vetting process—maybe he makes them fill out a questionnaire or has a psychological profile done. He's incredible." Richard Johnson, legendary former editor of Page Six.
I can totally imagine some chicks sitting in a room, and Jeter's people handing out clipboards with forms and pencils.
Mariah Carey, Minka Kelly, Lara Dutta, Adriana Lima,Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jordana Brewster, and Vanessa Minnillo. Those are some very famous women and he dated them all. Yet not a single one of them have talked shit about him. At least one of them seems like a shit talker ('sup, Mimi?) and yet nothing has been said.
"There's never been any kiss-and-tell stuff where a girl breaks up with Jeter and then says what a creep he is. I don't know how he avoids it. He must have some sort of vetting process—maybe he makes them fill out a questionnaire or has a psychological profile done. He's incredible." Richard Johnson, legendary former editor of Page Six.
I can totally imagine some chicks sitting in a room, and Jeter's people handing out clipboards with forms and pencils.