New York Yankees co-chairman, Hank Steinbrenner, was not too thrilled with the final results of 2010 and indicated that his team may have still been on the honeymoon of their 2009 World Series championship.

“I think maybe they celebrated a little bit too much last year,” Steinbrenner said, according to Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. “Some of the players are too busy building mansions and other things and not concentrating on winning.

Captain Derek Jeter just shrugged off the comments and called it “funny”.

“We can have a difference of opinion, but I didn’t sense that at all,” Jeter later told Hoch. “I thought guys were ready to play. We just lost to a team that was better than us. That’s my point of view.”

Jeter was not bothered by Steinbrenner’s comments, and he doesn’t have any issues with ownership.

“Owners can say what they want to say. They can have their opinion,” Jeter said. “That’s one of the things that you respected about the Boss when he was around. He had his opinion.”

“Everyone didn’t always agree with the opinion, but you respected his opinion because he’s the boss. The same thing with Hank and Hal. They’re entitled to their opinions, they can say what they want to say; they’re the owners.”

Many thought that Steinbrenner was referring to Jeter because he recently completed a $7.7 million mansion in the Tampa area, but Jeter shrugged it off as well.

“My name wasn’t brought up,” Jeter said. “He didn’t say my name. I know there’s the assumption, but I look at the positive side of it. My name didn’t come out of his mouth.”