Derek Jeter wore Jason Giambi's Gold Thong

NJ.com - Derek Jeter will never wear it again. Supermodel Hannah Davis, his soon-to-be wife, probably wouldn't allow it anyway.

But there was a day where the Yankees legend couldn't have been happier to wear a thong.

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Actually, it was a golden thong, to be exact, and it belonged to first baseman Jason Giambi. Jeter was one of several Yankees in the 2000s to wear it, believing in its mystical, slump-busting powers, Giambi said on the Dan Le Batard show on ESPN Radio Thursday.

"The guys did it right," Giambi said of Jeter. "Hall of Famer, dated A-list celebrities. I mean, he finally got engaged, which I'm so happy about. You know, Derek Jeter's a gold thong-wearer. He wore it one time."

Wait. Jeter wore the thong?

"He had to get out of a slump," Giambi said.

Then the retired slugger explained that Jeter was glad he did it. Giambi said he didn't remember whether Jeter asked for it or if it ended up in his locker one day.

"The golden thong is legendary. It's never not gotten a hit," Giambi said.

"Well, it was just, you know, it was his first slump. I don't think the guy's ever slumped in his career. He's unbelievable. You know, the gold thong, he had to get out of it.

"I never gave it to anybody. I would sometimes put it in their locker. I would sometimes start mentioning I'm going to give a gold thong if you don't get out of this slump. Sometimes I would break it out because they didn't want to wear the gold thong. And most of the time it just ended up in their locker. And anybody who's worn it has gotten a hit.

"I just know first pitch, home run and the slump was over."

Before you analyze this you have to remember that before being an icon, a sex symbol and a role model Derek Jeter is first and foremost a baseball player.  And when baseball players are in a slump they do weird things (most of the time much weirder than wearing a lucky thong).

Sure Jeter seems above all that stuff because he's such a confident guy.  It also sounds unbelievable because, like Giambi said, the dude never slumps.  That's why I know exactly when Jeter gave this golden thong the privilege of holding his genitalia.  There was only one moment in his career where he was vulnerable enough to try some weird shit like this.  Going into a game against the Angels on May 20th, 2004 Jeter was hitting .187 on the season.  He was literally getting booed at Yankee Stadium.  That's how bad it was.

Now I'll never believe in a million years that Jeter "asked" for the thong.  He's way too proud a guy to do something like that.  But Giambi saw what his buddy was going through, put the thong in his locker and the rest is history.

First AB single to center.  Second AB home run.  Slump busted.  And of course that's how it happened.  That's how Derek Jeter happens.  When Derek Jeter puts on a thong he's going to have a career night.  The Captain of the New York Yankees isn't walking back into the locker room with a string in between his asscheeks without at least a home run to show for it.  Also I bet A-Rod wore the thong constantly just to try and fit in.  Probably over a hundred times.