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Derek Jeter joins Twitter and hilariously responds to a tweet from 8 years ago

Sound the alarms, Derek Jeter is on Twitter! Jeter’s a tweeter!

That’s right, the former New York Yankees captain and brief Miami Marlins CEO has joined the social media platform, and his first tweet is very funny.

Before we get to that, I have to shout out his bio: “Sleep-deprived father to three amazing girls. HOF Class of 2020.”

I love that! Family first, then baseball!

But yes, let’s get to his first tweet: On Tuesday, The Captain sent one out quote-tweeting someone who said that Jeter had no excuse not to have a Twitter account.

That tweet? It’s from December of 2014. Guess someone found it for him … or he kept some receipts? Here you go:

Here's the tweet

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