From Tyler Kepner:It is all about championships for Derek Jeter, or so he has always said, yet he holds no sentiment for the place where the Yankees last won a title. It was Shea Stadium, the former home of the Mets, where Jeter hugged Luis Sojo in triumph after the last out of the 2000 World Series. And he says he does not miss it. “I’m not trying to be disrespectful, I just didn’t like the stadium,” Jeter said on Sunday, before his first game at Citi Field after two days off with the flu. “The field conditions were not good. Hitting at that stadium was a lot different than playing defense.” The visiting clubhouse at Shea was also uncomfortable, Jeter said, even though that is the last place he sprayed Champagne at the end of a season. Jeter hit .321 in the regular season at Shea, five points better than his career average, and was 5 for 13 with two home runs in the three World Series games there in 2000. Jeter has not had much chance to bask in the surroundings of a nicer home par...
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