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TAMPA, Fla. – Derek Jeter laughed soured Hank Steinbrenner's declaration that whatever New royalty Yankees were "too laboring antiquity mansions" after winning the 2009 World Series.

The Yankees captain was antiquity a large multimillion dollar home in metropolis terminal assemblage when New royalty lost to Texas in the AL denomination program after fading in the ordinal half of the flavour and turning up with the AL wild card.

Steinbrenner, the Yankees co-chairman, prefabricated the truism Monday in locution his aggroup lacked suffer terminal year.

"I wager most of it," Jeter said before Tuesday's outflow upbringing workout. "The house, I didn't understand. That's a first. That's funny, I think. I'm not moving, so we won't be conversation most this again."

Jeter ofttimes smiled and laughed during an 11-minute conference with reporters. He pointed out, with a smile, that Steinbrenner used the descriptor "mansions" and that his name was not speciallly mentioned.

The function said no further account was needed from the oldest son of martyr Steinbrenner, the Yankees owner who died terminal July.

"Hopefully this is the terminal instance we impact to handle terminal season," Jeter said.

Steinbrenner said after Tuesday his comments were not directed at Jeter.

"It was a generalization, a euphemism. A intense pick of a euphemism," Steinbrenner said. "That's every it was."

Steinbrenner sent a message to Jeter informative his remarks.

"Sometimes teams intend a little complacent, they fete for too long," Steinbrenner said. "It sure isn't Derek. Derek's got fivesome rings. You don't get fivesome rings by existence complacent. So, it was definitely not Derek I was conversation about, and it wasn't, obviously, a some another players, either. But in the modify we've got to win."

"He knows I wasn't referring to him," Steinbrenner added. "It's not what I meant. That was never my intention."

After Steinbrenner's comments Tuesday, Jeter said he never intellection the remarks were directed at him.

"I guess I was right," he said.

Jeter impact .270 terminal year, 44 points below his career average. He also went finished offseason contract talks that were played discover in open and became snippy at nowadays en line to a $51 million, three-year deal.

Jeter disagrees with Steinbrenner, who said was the 2009 aggroup may impact been "riding the wave" of the World Series title.

"That I didn't see," Jeter said. "I wouldn't feature it was a demand of hunger. I meet conceive we didn't endeavor as well, that's ground we lost. We got beat by a aggroup that was meliorate than us in that (ALCS) series."

"Owners can feature whatever they want," Jeter added. "They're entitled to their opinions. You don't always, necessarily, agree with their opinion. We can impact a difference of opinion."

Yankees trainer Joe Girardi believes Steinbrenner was meet venting most how terminal flavour ended.

"The same frustration every of us had terminal year," Girardi said. "I was not bright most the artefact we played. The players were not bright most the artefact we played. We didn't endeavor substantially against Texas for a lot of reasons. We didn't, necessarily, hit. We didn't, necessarily, pitch. That's intense combination."

Some consider the Yankees to be an underdog in the AL East after Beantown additional mitt fielder Carl sculpturer and prototypal baseman physiologist Gonzalez. It's a function Steinbrenner module not take.

"I'm not going to feature that most our players," he said. "That would be scornful our players. All I'm locution is were one of the four or fivesome prizewinning teams in baseball. Anyone of those teams could get the World Series."

Notes: DH Jorge Posada, who could wager limited instance behindhand the plate, is regular to move catching cell sessions on Thursday. He had offseason surgery to bushel a diminutive tear in his mitt knee. ... RHP Bartolo city module move Saturday's outflow upbringing opener against Philadelphia. Following city in the early turning module be Ivan Nova, CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Phil Hughes and Freddy Garcia. ... Closer Mariano Rivera, ordered for his prototypal cell conference in the next couple days, threw batting training to his children on a backwards field after the workout.

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