Comedian and die-hard Boston Red Sox fan Bill Burr was in the NESN booth on Tuesday at Fenway Park to promote a show he is doing this summer at the ballpark, but not before taking aim at a Yankees icon.
His target? Derek Jeter.
During the top of the third inning with Blue Jays DH Zack Collins at the plate, Nathan Eovaldi threw an inside pitch the Collins jumped out of the way from.
This prompted Burr to begin mocking a move Derek Jeter used to do at the plate.
“If that was a strike, Derek Jeter would have made it a ball,” Burr said, as he got up and began doing his Jeter batting stance. “Here’s Derek Jeter — a strike, right down the middle, with no movement on it, here’s what he’d do…”
Burr proceed to move his haps back and arms up as if the pitch was coming close to hit him.
“I swear to God, like six times out of 10 he’d get a ball,” he said. “But granted, he was one of the greatest to ever do it.”
Kevin Youkilis then pointed out he’d do something similar to outside pitches where he’d lean in but not swing, only to poke the same exact pitch the other way for a base hit later in the at-bat.
Burr didn’t go too hard on Jeter, though, acknowledging that he is an all-time great and even saying there are Yankees players he loves, but there’s one problem.
“There’s a whole bunch of Yankees that I love, but I just hate them,” he said. “That’s what you’re supposed to do.”
Jeter was not his only target. He also took aim at Toronto fans.
“Toronto…Canada in general is low-key hostile,” he said. “They act like they’re the best white people. It’s like, dude, there were people here before you were here. Get off your high horse.”
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