Fish, but ex-Yank mates are on board

pens, it will be a great move for not only the organization but I think the city,” Posada said.

If the Bush/Jeter group does buy the Marlins, Bush has said the former Yankee will run the team’s baseball operations.

Asked if there were any conflicting

MOVE over Babe and Lou, Joe D. and Mickey, Yogi and Whitey and the rest of the Yankees’ all-time greats. Derek Jeter officially and deservedly now has taken up permanent residence with them in Monument Park, too.

With all due respect and reverence to the winningest franchise in baseball history, however, this definitely should be it with the retired numbers for the next however many years in the Bronx. It has to be, right? The longtime team captain became the 22nd former Yankees player or manager to have his pinstriped jersey retired by the storied franchise on Sunday, when Jeter and his iconic No.2 were celebrated in a typically classy and re2pectful ceremony between games of a Let’s Play ‘2’ doubleheader on Mother’s Day (necessitated by Mother Nature, no less) at the Stadium.

With it, Jeter is absolutely the perfect icon to suspend this practice for an extended period of time, no?

Tell me, who else among recent or long-ago Yankees is a glaring omission or should be next in line to join that already overflowing museum beyond the center field wall?

(Kind of like how The Cure and The Smiths and Depeche Mode and some of everyone’s ’80s alt-rock favorites have been inexplicably excluded from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but that’s a soap-box stance of mine for another day).

Seriously, do any other big-name Yankees through the years fall into that category? Definitely not.

Certainly, no other sports franchise does this sort of pomp and circumstance ceremony and these nods to their history quite like the Yankees, dating back to Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth” speech in 1939.

But 21 numbers officially out of circulation for 22 Yankees — with No.8 jointly retired for feelings about the Yankees while trying to buy another team, Jeter unsurprisingly offered little in response.

“There’s nothing to report on that, absolutely nothing. I think sometimes stories and people get ahead of themselves, and there catching legends Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra — feels like plenty.

It did a while ago, in fact, but the six-deep inclusion from the team’s most recent dynasty – Joe Torre, Bernie Williams and Jeter’s fellow Core Four compatriots Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte – is where the demarcation line properly should be drawn from those teams.

“He was the leader of our group. It’s the end of an era,” an emotional Posada said of Jeter before the ceremony. “He’s it. He’s the last one.”

The overall list of retired jerseys now is probably a few too many, if we’re being honest, as we continue to watch new Yankees regularly wearing numbers usually reserved for offensive linemen each year.

Speaking of football numbers – or perhaps hockey, in this case! – No. 99 did belt another prodigious home run off the batter’s-eye glass above Monument Park in Sunday’s opener. So maybe check back with us on Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez in 15-20 years.

Otherwise, who else do you believe truly is deserving of the highest organizational honor?

Please don’t suggest the self-proclaimed “pink elephant in the room,” Alex Rodriguez, regardless of how No.13 partly has restored his image around baseball and with the Yanks after suing everyone over his season-long PED suspension in 2014.

Jeter actually talked about preferring No.13 – his father Charles’ former number – to No. 2 when he first joined the Yanks, but it was worn at the time by Jim Leyritz, and then in later years, of course, by A-Rod.

Roger Clemens? Nope, for similar reasons. Not that the Rocket even has Rodriguez’s statistical case as a Yankee to lean on here.

Paul O’Neill and Tino Martinez, like Willie Randolph and Mel Stottlemyre and a few others from long-ago eras, got the plaque treatment among the monuments without the additional honor of a number retirement. was a story that got way ahead of themselves a few weeks back…If there’s something to report I’ll let you know,” Jeter said, referring to a Bloomberg report in April that said his group had won the auction for the Marlins. “I like the approach, though. I may be retired,

That’s worked out as an appropriate distinction for very good players, albeit a clear notch below the kings of the hill and top of the heap, as the song says. Hideki Matsui, Mike Mussina and perhaps even Robinson Cano and CC Sabathia might fall into this second-tier category down the line.

Goose Gossage (plaque), Dave Winfield, Tim Raines and eventually Ichiro – the latter three all interestingly having worn the same number (31) for the Yanks — all are or will be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

But their numbers shouldn’t be retired either, same for Catfish and Rickey and Wade Boggs and Randy Johnson and Pudge and some of the others who passed through town later in their HOF careers.

For me, Graig Nettles probably has been most overlooked for a plaque for being an integral two-way member of the Yanks’ championship teams of the 1970s. But that is not to suggest that he should share No.9 in perpetuity with Roger Maris, either.

Jeter, the 14-time All-Star shortstop and five-time World Series champion, rightfully had “Numbah Two” retired alongside those of his brethren in the single-digit club. He joins Billy Martin (1), Babe Ruth (3), Lou Gehrig (4), Joe DiMaggio (5), Torre (6), Mickey Mantle (7), Berra (8), Dickey (8) and Maris (9), as well as a few others from across the generations.

“What else can you say? Your number was retired by the Yankees, it’s hard to believe,” Jeter said. “I never took it for granted.” n Sunday night, we got to relive one more time Jeter’s post-midnight “Mr. November” game-winning homer during the 2001 World Series against Arizona, his famed flip play against Oakland in the playoffs earlier in that postseason, his face-first crash into the left-field stands after running down a popup in foul territory against Boston in 2003, and much more.

That should hold everyone over until the next one of these ceremonies, although that wait now should be several years away.

Obut I still know how people try to get you to (say things).”

Andy Pettitte doesn’t have any doubt that Jeter can thrive as an owner.

“I think he’d be a good one,” Pettitte said. “It’s always something he’s had a desire to do.”

Would it weird to see him associated with another team?

“I guess it’d be kind of strange, but that’s what he’s always wanted to do, and it’s not like he can buy the New York Yankees,” Pettitte said. “What else is he supposed to do?”