Wow, look at you. Can I just
look at you for a second, Tom?
What's up man? How you doing?
Good. More importantly, how are
you doing during this whole crisis?
I'm doing pretty good. I've had,
I've had a lot of things going
on so I tried to, you know,
be smart but not fearful. And I actually
moved to Tampa and I'm down here now,
my family's here.
You're renting Derek Jeter's place until
you find a place of your own, right?
No, I'm going to stay here
for a while. You know,
cause I had to find a place on really
short notice and he's been a friend of
mine so we just talked and it all
worked out cause he's living in Miami.
He owns part of the baseball team there.
The thing I heard about
Jeter's place, which is great,
he got special permission to build super
high walls so no one can get to you
cause I got to figure the fans down
there are driving you up a wall. I mean,
you know, literally. So Jeter has super
high walls and no one can see, right?
It's almost like Osama
bin Laden's compound.
Not quite. That's a, a Derek did
a pretty good job of screening it.
And I think I'm a little
bit of a introvert.
I feel like my house is kind of
the place where I can relax and um,
you know when you walk outside the house
you understand everything that goes
along with being me and you know,
and I think part of it is when I come
home I want to feel like I can, you know,
let my guard down and relax.
But this is a little different
cause then you got to the backyard.
There's a lot of boats
that have pulled up and /
Let's say the washing machine breaks.
Does Jeter have to come over and
fix it cause you're paying him?
I call and I bitch to
him and he gets it fixed.
Everyone thinks they want to
own a home. It's nice to rent.
I mean I would definitely
say like there's no,
you can get all the benefits with
none of the responsibilities. So,
I'm totally cool with this.
Yeah. I mean how does that all work?
Like does Jeter, like say, look Tom,
we are friends but now
we gotta talk business.
This is what I'm charging you a
month. And do you kind of say, Hey,
you know dude, what about a
little price break here or,
who negotiated that?
Neither of us handle it.
So it worked out good.
He left it furnished for me so I
didn't have to deal with any of that.
So it was just a lot of
great things about it.
Not crappy furniture? In other words,
I know you're a bit of
an architectural freak,
love to design your own home and you look
at Jeter's taste and you don't want to
throw up?
No, no. He's got great tastes.
Did Jeter collect like a first month
security deposit and last month's security
deposit?
You're like my lawyer over here,
I mean he was pretty good about
it that the right way. He's,
he's a really cool guy and
I've known him for a long time.
So I actually think it was pretty simple.
Man. Over the years when you were playing
with new England and everything and,
and doing your thing. There was so
many times you almost came on my show.
Well, first off, I've loved the show for
a long time. I lived in Boston for 20,
for about 15 years, and I
would have a about a 30,
40 minute drive into work every day. So
I listened to you for years upon years.
And, uh, and I always loved really
a lot, a lot of things. I mean,
your work ethic and you know,
how important it was to you,
how important you take your job
and how you prepare and, you know,
the collective teamwork of it.
So I always thought, you know,
if I ever went on the show, I'd
want it to be really good. You know,
because I think you, you just have a
way that, that, you know, you make,
you make things very special.
