Jeter keeps perspective

? Derek Jeter hasn’t been in this spot for five years: a victory at Yankee Stadium away from making another World Series.

You can’t really tell with Jeter. Nothing changes for him.

“The more you do something, the more comfortable you get with it, I guess,” he said before the Yankees’ workout at the Stadium on Friday. “Everyone gets butterflies. If you treat every game the same, you’re able to slow things down a little bit.”

He seemed a little sluggish and his voice was scratchy from the illness he’s been fighting — he described his health as “fine” — but it’s the same old Jeter, even though he hasn’t been in an ALCS Game 6 since 2004, during Boston’s historic comeback from a three-games-to-none deficit.

With the Yankees already having missed one chance to clinch this year’s ALCS, comparisons between the 2004 series and now are silly to the captain.

“Well, I could go down the lineup, pick out all the different guys,” he said. “Different players, we’re playing a different team.”