I'm not Derek Jeter, there will be no farewell tour.
Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!
Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.
People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.
Jeter is a six-tool player...I've never eaten with him so I can't tell you if he has good table mannners, but I would imagine he has those too.
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.
I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees.
He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.
