Derek Jeter: Last Game was Like a “Funeral”

I guess it’s safe to say that Derek Jeter’s post-baseball career has begun.

Not long after he hung up his cleats for good on Sunday, the former New York Yankees captain announced his new web venture, “The Players’ Tribune”…a “new media platform that will present the unfiltered voices of professional athletes”.

Thursday, he was on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”.  And, naturally, the talk was all about that last game at Yankee Stadium.

“It’s almost like you’re at your own funeral,” Jeter told the host.  “I thought I was going to lose it on the field, I thought I was going to start crying before the game even started.  I was hoping Joe (Girardi) would get me out of there before I screwed something up.”

Now, as fun as Jeter’s interview was with Fallon…it is (by far) not the best moment involving the pair.  That honor, of course, belongs to the Derek Jeter’s Taco Hole sketch from a 2001 episode of “Saturday Night Live”.