Granderson Interview
John Black
David Panian
February, he was great. Well, everyone I spoke to was - Curtis, Nate
Robertson, Mike Maroth, Jeff Jones and Al Avila - but I suspect the
Tigers try to pick well-spoken players for the media tour. Curtis was
also wearing a really sharp, dark blue suit with a light pink tie. I
thought he was the best-dressed there, and that included
multimillionaires Gary Sheffield, Magglio Ordonez and Kenny Rogers,
who were all dressed well, but more casually. I wouldn't have picked
a pink tie, but it worked for him.
Granderson went to Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing,
Ill., a suburb of Chicago near the Indiana border. Both of his
parents are teachers. He was drafted by the Tigers after his junior
season at University of Illinois-Chicago, but he completed his
degree. From a Q&A with Granderson the UIC campus newspaper:
"What is your biggest accomplishment from your time at UIC?
"Graduating was my biggest accomplishment. I got drafted as a junior
and I still had a year and half left in my major. Everyone said that
if you leave school early to go into professional sports, you're
probably not going to get a chance to get it done. I ended up
graduating on time in business managing and business marketing."
Obama was born in Honolulu and graduated from a private high school
there. He then started his college studies at Occidental College in
Los Angeles, transfered to Columbia University, graduated from there,
had one job for a year then took a job in Chicago in 1985 when
Granderson was 4. He then got his law degree at Harvard University
and returned to Chicago.
It would be interesting to find out if they've ever crossed paths.
David
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multimillionaires Gary Sheffield, Magglio Ordonez and Kenny Rogers,
who were all dressed well, but more casually. I wouldn't have picked
a pink tie, but it worked for him.
what's that supposed to mean?
Pink is the new power colour. Shows a man is secure with himself.
-chris
Paul Meloche
playoffs talking about how much they enjoyed talking to Granderson and
how smart/articulate/engaging he is. They also said something to the
effect of that when they interviewed Leyland and the coaching staff and
asked about Granderson the coaches talked more about what a good person
he is (a couple of them reportedly said he's the kind of guy they'd want
their daughters to marry) than about his considerable baseball ability.
Paul M.
kar...@aol.com wrote:
> Having seen interviews with Curtis
> Granderson over the past 3 seasons on FSD as well as reading his ESPN
> blog regularly this comes as no surprise to me. Curtis is a very
> intelligent and well educated young man. If you saw him in a suit
> making a speech, and didn't know he was a professional athlete, you
> could easily mistake him for a young executive of a major corporation.
> Major League baseball recognized this last year and sent Granderson to
> Europe in November as an ambassador for baseball. The following link
> is to a story, written by Jason Beck for the Tiger web site last
> November, that describes Granderson's trip through Europe.
>
> http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.
> <http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061115&content_id=1741211&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb>jsp?ymd=20061115&content_id=1741211&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
>
>
>
>
>
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> After missing the entire second half of the game I did get back for a
> portion of the Sox station (NESN) post-game show. One segment featured
> the regular female on-field color reporter (no idea who she is)
> interviewing Curtis Granderson (generally speaking the Red Sox system
> is pretty good about acknowledging when the other team does well. IAE,
> I was most impressed with Granderson in that interview - smooth
> speaking voice, very articulate, spoke in complete sentences (bee! n a
> while since I heard *any* pro/collegiate athlete other than a golfer
> pull that off), and was not beset by the use of interjections. Perhaps
> he and O'Bama went to school together :-)
>
> JtE
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> Like everything else, pink is a recycled power color, having had a brief
> heyday in the mid-1980s.
............... and the late 1950s :-)
JtE
Roger King
My only problem is, now that Gabriel and I have that bet, I'm cheering for every Granderson at bat to be a triple. I was actually momentarily disappointed when he hit the home run last night. Couldn't it just hit the top of the wall instead :)-
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Steve Bielawski
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> Perhaps he and O'Bama went to school together :-)
No, Mr. Granderson has never been to a madrassa.
For those who don't follow the news, it seems that Barack Obama grew up in
Indonesia, if memory serves. The place where he went to school is called a
"madrassa", just like these mind-control centres run by certain Islamic
extremists. However, the term "madrassa" simply means "school" in Arabic,
so any school is called a "madrassa". (That's one of the tricks that these
fundamentalists play; they use the same word that is used for something
common and ordinary, and give it a very uncommon meaning.) The school Mr.
Obama attended not only has female students (and had them when he was a
student there) but also has (and had) female teachers. The fundamentalists
do not allow females into their madrassas, neither as students nor as
teachers, so obviously, this wasn't one of their schools.
As for Mr. Granderson, yes, he is articulate. On the other hand, my
personal observation is that baseball players tend to me more articulate
than some other athletes. Perhaps it's because baseball is a gentleman's
sport. Granted, there are a lot of players for whom English is not their
primary language, but even they tend to be better spoken than some athletes
from other sports. Having said that, Mr. Granderson is even more articulate
than the average baseball player, which is saying something.
Chris Beard
off-season: the meat department of Sam's Club. He was with a woman with
young children (obviously not his), I thought it might be an old flame (or
just friend, as they didn't show any type of affection, but then again, who
does in the meat department at Sam's Club) from his Mud Hens days in Toledo.
Anyway, he was very nice, he and I compared pork chops, as that was what we
both were getting. I first noticed him because of his nice casual wear and
the most perfect-looking Detroit Tigers cap I have ever seen around. I could
tell it wasn't the cheap New Era kind we minions can buy. Anyway, he and I
talked about all the people lining up for the free samples, and how he was
sorry he had eaten lunch, he was going to come back the next Saturday for a
free lunch! We had a chuckle over that and then parted ways.
And yes, I let him have the better looking and leaner pork chops...
Chris