Derek Jeter can’t stand to think of the moment the Yankees tried to use as motivation to come back from a 3-0 hole in the American League Championship Series.
“I don’t know the context of it,” Jeter said Wednesday night, “I still don’t like to talk about it myself. Makes me sick to this day thinking about it.”
On Sunday morning, Yankees Director of Mental Conditioning Chad Bohling forwarded to players a hype video of the 2004 Boston team that authored one of the darkest chapters in pinstripes history.
That postseason, the Yankees went ahead of the Red Sox, 3-0, in the ALCS before Boston stormed back to win it in Game 7 and eventually capture their first World Series title in 86 years.
Jeter was on the team at the time.
“I’m not as close to the organization as I was,” he said. “Like I said, I don’t know the context. I’d have to get a little more information. It still makes me sick to this day.”
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