Hank Steinbrenner had some very intersting comments about the Yankee Captain Derek Jeter.

Though later he said he wasn't singling anyone out, his comment made it very clear he was:

"Sometimes I think maybe they celebrated a little too much last year," said Steinbrenner of the team.  "Some of the players are too busy building mansions and doing other things, not concentrating on winning.  I have no problem saying that."

If Steinbrenner didn't want to single anyone out then he should have picked his words more carefully.  The only Yankee known to the public that finished building a mansion over the offseason was Jeter. 

On another note, the construction on Jeter's mansion began in 2008 which would mean that it was going on during the offseason before 2009...the year the Yankees won the World Series for the first time since 2000.

Not to mention that you are criticizing a 2010 team that won 95 games and were only two games shy of making it to the World Series.

So, Hank, why don't you reveal the real reason why you singled out Jeter.  You are obviously still irritated about the way the contract negotiations went with Jeter and agent Casey Close.  Maybe it was easier to pick on him because Jeter is coming off his worst season.  Sorry, but no one is buying it.

You're trying to single out a player...a captain...a living Yankee legend...whose career has been circled around winning and the drive to win.

Jeter has always been a player who has kept his private life in no other way than it is...private.  I heard he even snapped at a reporter recently who asked him about the house.  Private life questions cross a line between baseball life and personal life, and Jeter values the use of that line.  Although he didn't want it to be, Jeter's house is now an issue thanks to Hank Steinbrenner.