Craig you are clearly missing the point!

The point here is that the Yankees have badly mismanaged this negotiation from the very start with their attempt to gain public support. They would have been better served to keep quite and let Jeter come to them without all the very public acrimony. Let Jeter quietly come to realize his best contract offer was going to come from the Yankees, .. by far. Now they’ve added a level of complexity and difficulty that will not be easy to over come. And there was no reason for it.

It is an ill conceived, poorly thought out and flawed strategy. It says far more about the current Yankee owners and FO than Jeter. I don’t see why they think publicly humiliating Jeter is in the long term best interest of the Yankees. The Yankee brass is demonstrating far more hubris than Jeter is being cited for. And they are doing so needlessly and against their own interest.