{"id":30804,"date":"2022-05-31T17:53:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/derek-jeter-joins-twitter-run-out-of-excuses\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T17:53:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:53:48","slug":"derek-jeter-joins-twitter-run-out-of-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/derek-jeter-joins-twitter-run-out-of-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Jeter joins Twitter: &#8216;Run out of excuses&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Derek Jeter couldn&#8217;t stay away from Twitter forever.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees legend, or whomever he&#8217;s paying to run his account, announced his arrival to the social media platform Tuesday morning by responding to a tweet from Dec. 9, 2014 &#8211; more than two months after his final game &#8211; which said, \u201cDerek Jeter has no excuse not to have a Twitter account by now. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Jeter&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekjeter\/status\/1531629611662069762?s=20&amp;t=4RwVukqVm_PTz9ihEC4cmg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first tweet<\/a>: &#8220;Looks like I&#8217;ve officially run out of excuses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old then responded to a tweet from The Players&#8217; Tribune, the media platform he founded, which posted a photo of a young Jeter with seemingly long hair.  A caption for the photo asks, &#8220;mullet or tree?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s my hair but it&#8217;s a shag &#8230; a Ralph Tresvant shag,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekjeter\/status\/1531634820606046208?s=20&amp;t=4RwVukqVm_PTz9ihEC4cmg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote Jeter<\/a>whose bio says he&#8217;s a &#8220;sleep-deprived father to three amazing girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>The Yankees posted a welcome message to Jeter on their Twitter account.  Though his first tweets about him were Tuesday, his account about him says he joined Twitter in April.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Famer left his post as CEO and minority owner of the Miami Marlins in February after roughly four and a half years with the club.  The Post&#8217;s Joel Sherman reported at the time that Jeter believed owner Bruce Sherman had approved the team spending another $ 10 million to $ 15 million on the roster entering the MLB lockout.  Jeter felt that a promise wasn&#8217;t kept.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Derek Jeter has officially joined Twitter.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of a statement announcing his departure from the Marlins, Jeter said, \u201cThe vision for the future of the franchise is different than the one I signed up to lead.  Now is the right time for me to step aside as a new season begins. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Jeter couldn&#8217;t stay away from Twitter forever. The Yankees legend, or whomever he&#8217;s paying to run his account, announced his arrival to the social media platform Tuesday morning by responding to a tweet from Dec. 9, 2014 &#8211; more than two months after his final game &#8211; which said, \u201cDerek Jeter has no excuse &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/derek-jeter-joins-twitter-run-out-of-excuses\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Derek Jeter joins Twitter: &#8216;Run out of excuses&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[388,176,14035,3853,614,295,515],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Derek-Jeter-Twitter-comp.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Derek-Jeter-Twitter-comp.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}