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20 Questions With… Ozzie Smith

David Brown...with the dopenist questions this side of a gruel-fueled Elegant Elliott Offen interview!

4. Why didn’t you use your superpowers to save Vince Coleman, baseball’s fastest man at the time, from the plodding killer tarp?

[Laughs]. I was too far away and I didn’t know what was going on. If I had been in the vicinity, I probably could have kept the thing from rolling over him. It was a slow-moving tarp, but once it started moving, it starts devouring you and just keeps going.

7. Considering the racial nature of our society, did it take you a couple of minutes to get used to playing for a guy named “Whitey”?

It was a little bit different, but it also did give me the privilege to call him “Whitey.”

Repoz Posted: June 10, 2007 at 11:26 AM | 8 comment(s)
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1. RMc is the Commissioner of Baseball Posted: June 10, 2007 at 10:40 AM (#2399057)

21. Why did you waltz into the Hall of Fame when you weren't as good as Alan Trammell, who the Hall treats like a rat in a dark elevator?

[Laughs] Because I did backflips, and I didn't have to play in Detroit.

2. McCoy Posted: June 10, 2007 at 11:06 AM (#2399072)

Now that was a nice fluff piece.

3. No Cure for the Francoeur (Dave) Posted: June 10, 2007 at 12:15 PM (#2399110)

21. Why did you waltz into the Hall of Fame when you weren't as good as Alan Trammell, who the Hall treats like a rat in a dark elevator?

The injustice is Trammell's exclusion, not Ozzie's inclusion. And according to BPro's stats, Ozzie had the higher career value.

4. robinred

Posted: June 10, 2007 at 03:28 PM (#2399310)

The injustice is Trammell's exclusion, not Ozzie's inclusion.

Yep. I saw Smith when he was a rookie in '78 with the Padres, BTW.

5. The District Attorney Posted: June 10, 2007 at 03:39 PM (#2399320)

10. Didn’t you die on the “Simpsons”?

I fell into a hole. I was a tourist and I fell into a hole that I'm still trying to get out of.

I don't think the Mystery Spot was really a "hole." It was like... a mystical vortex, or something.

Also, in episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones.

6. The Grich Who Stole Christmas Posted: June 10, 2007 at 06:14 PM (#2399586)

Also, in episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones.

Let me ask you a question. Why would a man whose shirt says "Genius at Work" spend all of his time watching a children's cartoon show?

7. Gary Hoggatt Posted: June 10, 2007 at 11:53 PM (#2400129)

Well-played, DA and Grich.

8. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: June 11, 2007 at 07:25 AM (#2400176)

I think we've posted stuff by this writer before. He's quite good.

It was a little bit different, but it also did give me the privilege to call him “Whitey.”

If that was off the cuff, it was positively brilliant. Even if it was meditated on and polished, it was pretty good.

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