Alex Rodriguez thought Derek Jeter’s 30 for 30 The Captain was fun, but viewers can expect something different when the A-Rod documentary airs.
Rodriguez recently sat down with Dan Le Batard for the latest edition of the South Beach Sessions podcast, and the ESPN and FOX MLB analyst spoke about his relationship with Jeter.
“Right now, we’re in a great place,” Rodriguez said. “He asked me to go to dinner about a year ago almost today when his documentary came out.”
“Our history is rich and it goes back a long time,” he added.
Alex Rodriguez said in terms of Jeter’s 30 for 30, he liked it. But the A-Rod story won’t have as many World Series runs to fall back on. His documentary is going to showcase more of those harder moments from both growing up and throughout his career.
“His documentary was fun,” he said. “It was good to watch. But in many ways, it was up and to the right. There was a lot of celebration. Mine is going to be a lot of volatility. So completely different.”
A-Rod added that in the 30-plus-year history he and Jeter have going back to their teenage years as college prospects, their relationship has ebbed and flowed. He felt as if the New York media obsessed over whether there was any bad blood between the two infielders.
“It was a very meaty story and negativity sells,” Rodriguez said. “Big names sell, and the Yankees sell.”
“It was a mega media story, and he did a nice job of being super disciplined,” he added. “I wasn’t as disciplined, and it created some noise.”
Rodriguez remembers Jeter as a great player, good teammate, a champion, and now a teammate at FOX.
