The Captain

There's only enough interesting content about Derek Jeter for one, maybe two episodes. They instead fill the rest of the time just showing like a thousand photos of Derek Jeter. Once you've seen a dozen, you've seen them all. This documentary does NOT help the stereotype of baseball being boring, because this was too boring to even just have on in the background while I'm on the internet.

The life of Derek Jeter, former shortstop for the New York Yankees and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Superb documentary on an extremely talented baseball player. Takes you through his life and baseball career, from younger years to Minor Leagues to the Majors and success with the Yankees. Also covers his post-playing career and his personal life.

Not just a linear event-by-event account of his career, but through interviews with himself, his family, former teammates, opposition players and staff, baseball reporters and baseball experts we get to see what made him so great, not just on the field but off it, e.g. Handling the media, PR in general, avoiding the trappings of fame.

Very interesting and illuminating and a blueprint for other aspiring sportspeople.

I watched it and it was interesting but not great. The Michael Jordan one was great, this one not so much. Very much like Jeter always felt calculated as a player in how his "public persona" was handled this documentary seemed very manufactured into "what Jeter wanted you to take from it, as opposed to a real behind the scenes look". Jordan's documentary was much better at getting to see the real Michael Jordan. Not that Jeter owes it to any of us to show the "real Derek Jeter" but if you put a documentary out there then don't script it. If you want privacy, go for it. If you want fame, go for it. But to me this felt like Jeter riding the yellow line and pushing a story that he wanted you to believe about him instead of a behind the scenes look of transparency. I didn't love this one. Would not be high on my list of recommendations. Felt very manufactured to me.

First I just want to get this out of the way. This is the BEST representation of Jeter. Bravo to the director who DJ trusted and for great reason.

Not many people know the real Jeter i.e best sense of humor and always made his teammates laugh. Also too many people misconstrue Jeter as being overrated. The latter makes absolutely no sense and isn't logical.

Finally this brilliant docu series shows how fundamentally important Jeter was in playing a role as a Captain. He led by example. Non Yanks fans know he hit over 3,000 hits but aren't aware that he could have had many many more hits but he ALWAYS ALWAYS put the team first that's why he always bunted to get the player over rather then go for the hit. He sacrificed a lot and put a lot on the line.

He's not the best player. However he is one of the best players that demonstrates what it is to be a leader and be the anchor to their championships. Mo, Posada, Bernie, and Andy would be the first to admit that.

When he retired I felt so detached from the Yankees without the players i grew up watching had all moved on and especially Jeter. His career is a storybook ending. Whether hitting his 3k hit as a homerun,, his final game at the stadium and his final game. He left it all on the field. You can't gage Jeter by his career numbers but by the context in which he played.

As for this incredible series, I'm so glad Jeter revealed a side of his personality while showing his sense of humor. Awesome behind the scenes details that I've never knew about as a Yanks fan.

The first two episodes are significant because it shows that you need to face adversity to shape and mold your character. It should be a lesson and inspiration to other aspiring athletes. If you want it enough NEVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF. Just believe in yourselves.

This is a doozy 10 out of 10.

Bravo DJ and the whole production team involved that helped create such a masterpiece and I'm 100% confident that it will only get better.

Love the content and background info this gives us on Jeter. Really cool to learn more about a player that already has books written about him. Excited to see where it progresses from here.