Derek Jeter wanted to get a success REALLY badly, OK?!
The former New York Yankees shortstop went on The Tonight Show on Wednesday to hang around with longtime host Jimmy Fallon. And whereas he was on set, the previous Yankee nice revealed one thing very attention-grabbing — and salacious — about his enjoying profession!
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At one level, Jeter sat down for an on-show sport with Fallon and singer Rita Ora. The sport was referred to as “True Confessions,” and all three stars got two envelopes — one containing the reality and one containing a lie. Then, they learn out the chosen envelope, and the opposite two on stage have to determine if they’re mendacity or not.
Jeter went first, picked the second envelope, and browse out loud:
“I once wore a thong in public in front of thousands of people.”
Ummmm…. wow!
Ora and Fallon have been thrown by the declare, and each responded that they thought the story was false. But Jeter revealed in any other case, saying:
“It is the truth.”
Whoa!!!
Jimmy was beside himself, and stated at one level:
“What are you talking about? What in the world?!”
So, the famous person shortstop settled in to inform the story. As he recalled, all of it happened in 2004, when he was going via a depressing droop on the plate one summer time:
“I’m going to ultimately regret playing this game but let me explain. I had a new teammate that I played with in 2002, and he always had a gold thong hanging from his locker. And he told me, ‘anytime you struggle, you wear the gold thong, you’re guaranteed to get a hit.’ Now, I thought the guy was crazy. So, in 2004, I went through the worst offensive stretch in my career. And every day, I’d walk in, and he’d point at the thong. So, finally I wore the thong. Now, it wasn’t a thong-to-skin. I had shorts on underneath. So I put the thong over the shorts. First pitch, home run.”
Yankee Doodle DAMN!!
But is it really true?!?! After all, there’s no option to confirm it!
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So, because it seems, the golden thong speak seems to be legit!! In a 2015 interview with the Newark Star-Ledger, former MLB slugger Jason Giambi — who performed for the Yankees from 2002 via 2008 — defined that it was his golden thong. And he confirmed he really gave it to Jeter throughout a depressing droop in 2004!!
Giambi stated to the newspaper on the time:
“The golden thong is legendary. It’s never not gotten a hit. Well, it was just, you know, it was his first slump. I don’t think the guy’s ever slumped in his career. He’s unbelievable. You know, the gold thong, he had to get out of it.”
The slugger additionally confirmed in that just about eight-year-old interview that Jeter did actually hit a house run on the primary pitch whereas sporting the golden thong:
“I never gave it to anybody. I would sometimes put it in their locker. I would sometimes start mentioning I’m going to give a gold thong if you don’t get out of this slump. Sometimes I would break it out because they didn’t want to wear the gold thong. And most of the time it just ended up in their locker. And anybody who’s worn it has gotten a hit. I just know first pitch, home run and the slump was over.”
Well how about that?! A golden thong! Who knew??
You can see Jeter inform the entire story on Fallon’s late-night present (beneath):
And re-live his extra conventional sit-down interview on set with Fallon, as nicely:
Pretty loopy!
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