Derek Jeter remembers Alex Rodriguez's steroid admission: 'Another distraction'

Derek Jeter not too long ago explained that he has "no challenges" with Alex Rodriguez right after they ended up friends turned foes.

Having said that, in 2009, when Rodriguez admitted to utilizing steroids, Jeter was, obviously, not a fan.

In the sixth episode of ESPN's "The Captain," Jeter reflected on his reaction towards Rodriguez's (initial) PED admission, and how he thought it would hurt the Evil Empire.

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Derek Jeter, #2, (R) and Alex Rodriguez, #13 of the New York Yankees, glance on versus the Tampa Bay Rays on July 16, 2010 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Photos)

"My reaction was: a further distraction. Like, f---, we gotta deal with this now? That was my reaction," he claimed in the documentary.

Rodriguez gave an apology at the team's spring instruction facility in February of that 12 months, with Jeter and quite a few other Yankee teammates in attendance.

Jeter, nonetheless, would have considerably fairly been training.

"I did not want to be there. I never think anybody wished to be there," he claimed. "I’m certain he did not want to be there, you know what I indicate? We got to respond to queries about it, man, and I did not like to answer issues that didn’t have to do with what was heading on on the area.

DEREK JETER DISHES ON Partnership WITH ALEX RODRIGUEZ IN NEW DOCUSERIES

Alex Rodriguez, #13, (L) and Derek Jeter, #2 of the New York Yankees, look on in opposition to the Baltimore Orioles in the ninth inning at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on September 11, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Image by Patrick Smith/Getty Pictures)

"I was like, I never want to talk about this s--- anymore. But it wasn’t anything that you could just close like that."

Thankfully for the Yankees, it did not distract them way too a great deal - Jeter, Rodriguez, and the Yanks received their 27th World Collection title that November.

Derek Jeter, #2, and Alex Rodriguez, #13 of the New York Yankees, rejoice on the field soon after their 7-3 win from the Philadelphia Phillies in Activity Six of the 2009 MLB World Sequence at Yankee Stadium on November 4, 2009 in the Bronx borough of New York City.  (Nick Laham/Getty Images)

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Jeter concluded in third place in the AL MVP voting that yr, whilst Rodriguez eventually broke his postseason druthers and was one of the team's very best hitters that Oct and November.