Gatorade’s new Derek Jeter commercial featuring the legendary shortstop walking to work and embracing New Yorkers seems to be getting positive reviews by everyone.
Well, almost everyone. Chris Carlin, the host of SportsNet New York’s “Loud Mouths,” isn’t a big fan.
Carlin called Jeter a “fraud” for doing the ad, saying that it’s not reflective of who he actually is. He then called the rest of us “suckers” for buying into it.
“It’s that this has never been what Derek Jeter has been about. He has been about the team — not me. He’s never let us into his personal life, because he’s always been about the team. Frankly he’s being a complete fraud right now.”
Carlin then went on to bash the scene where he gets out of his car service and decides to walk into Stan’s Bowling Alley near Yankee Stadium. In the scene, the people at the bar tell him they’ve been waiting for him to show up since 1998 to which Jeter responds, “Well, you didn’t invite me.”
“No! Gatorade wasn’t paying (Jeter) an absolute ton of cash to show up and hang out,” Carlin exclaimed. “Otherwise (Jeter) wouldn’t be caught dead (there) and (he) didn’t even know this place existed! What a complete and utter joke!”
Watch the rest of the rant below.
