Denzel Dusts Off a Classic Derek Jeter Story

Trash-talking at Angel Stadium and paying the price

According to a number of Oscar prognosticators, Denzel Washington is poised to pull off the statistical upset next Sunday and win the 2016 Best Actor Oscar over Casey Affleck, Viggo Mortensen and the rest. As opposed to a decade ago, when he tangled with a different captain fantastic and wound up, comically, on the losing end.

Washington has told this story before, to Grantland’s Daniel Kellison in 2012 for example. But it’s well-worth occasionally repeating, as the actor did during a recent conversation with Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr.

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