Derek Jeter said Tuesday that his cooled friendship with Alex Rodriguez is an unimportant topic, one day after the third baseman admitted that the teammates are no longer as close as they once were. "It doesn't surprise me," Jeter said Tuesday. "I don't see the relevance of it. We support each other and we're pulling for each other. That's all that matters. The relationship has no bearing on us playing baseball." On Monday, Rodriguez said that he and Jeter had been the "best of friends," and drew an analogy with which he claimed that he no longer slept over at Jeter's place five nights a week. Once close friends who were often spotted joking around during games and dining together after them, such a tight bond no longer exists, for a variety of reasons. Even so, both players said the relationship is nowhere near as fractured as some reports would indicate. "Everyone paints this picture of what's going on between us, and no one really knows," Jeter said.