ESPN will release a ten-part Derek Jeter documentary series later this year. It is something plenty of baseball fans are looking forward to. If you followed Jeter’s career in the 90s and early 2000s though, it is very possible you have some reservations, given how polished Jeter was with the media and how little he was willing to say about his personal life.
That personal life will have to show up though, and it is the only part of Jeter’s life and career Bomani Jones is interested in.
“The dude was a rookie and he stopped calling Mariah Carey,” Jones said on his ESPN podcast The Right Time last week.
The list of famous ex-girlfriends is long for Derek Jeter. Before the former Yankee captain married SI Swimsuit model Hannah Davis, he dated Carey, Miss Universe Lara Dutta, Jessica Biel, Vida Guerra, and Minka Kelly to name a few.
“The list is mean and you don’t see none of them in no pictures with them. You found out about all of them after the fact!’” Jones said.
NFL analyst Domonique Foxworth, who joins Jones on his show every Friday, called it “a hall of fame career within a hall of fame career.”
Foxworth said that the documentary will have to address the urban legend that Derek Jeter had gift baskets made for every woman he brought back to his home. They supposedly included an autographed baseball. He noted that if ESPN won’t talk about it, it is something Jones should address on a future episode of his HBO show Game Theory.
Jones says he would do it if the documentary doesn’t cover Jeter’s dating life. He added that jokes aside, it is an important part of building the legend of Derek Jeter in the media.
“I feel like they’re using Jeter as a proxy for that entire Yankees run and that would make sense,” Bomani Jones said of the documentary project, “but you cannot do a Derek Jeter documentary, whether you like it or not, you can’t do it without talking about the women. That is a significant part of the legend. That’s a big part about why we’re around here talking about him at all.”