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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Village Voice: “I’m Keith Hernandez”: The Complete Interview Pt. 1

An interview with Rob Perri about his film “I’m Keith Hernandez.”......hmm, now where did I ditch my “Inside Deep Note” CD soundtrack?

Just how times have changed. Also just how cocaine and drinking and that kind of stuff—I wanted baseball to go back to that, you know? I was going through all this footage and looking at this stuff and I went to the ’82 World Series and the best hitter is Robin Yount. They guy is like 160 pounds. He is the best player, and these guys are like blowing lines and banging chicks—and that’s baseball to me, not some pituitary case of some guy who can’t get his helmet on his head, with shrunken testicles. The game doesn’t look the same to me, doesn’t feel the same. It doesn’t feel right. It feels almost wrong or strange. Some giant dude with a little toothpick in his hand is like… Not every guy who was stepping up the plate looked like that: there were a couple of big fat guys. It was a different feel. So I kind of wanted to remind myself of what I loved about baseball why it meant so much to me as a kid growing up, why it was exciting back then, because it’s a lot less exciting to me now.

Repoz Posted: September 05, 2007 at 04:19 PM | 26 comment(s)
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   1. Banta  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 03:45 PM (#2513234)
He is the best player, and these guys are like blowing lines and banging chicks—and that’s baseball to me, not some pituitary case of some guy who can’t get his helmet on his head, with shrunken testicles.

Word.
   2. Shooty Did Not Kill McGurk  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 03:47 PM (#2513237)
Also just how cocaine and drinking and that kind of stuff—I wanted baseball to go back to that, you know? I was going through all this footage and looking at this stuff and I went to the ’82 World Series and the best hitter is Robin Yount. They guy is like 160 pounds. He is the best player, and these guys are like blowing lines and banging chicks

At first I thought Keith Hernandez was saying this, and I was like, totally, "whoa man! I can't believe you're saying this! Cool!"

Alas, it's not Keith saying this. FWIW, I miss 80's baseball, too. That 1982 World Series was a pinnacle of contrasting styles. Also the 1987 series.

Lots of pinnacles in the 80's!
   3. Dayton Moore is a Big Fat Idiot (AG#1F)  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 03:48 PM (#2513238)
Ah yes, I enjoyed baseball much more in the good ol' days when players were taking illegal performance diminishing drugs, rather than illegal performance enhancing drugs.
   4. Shooty Did Not Kill McGurk  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 03:49 PM (#2513241)
Well, at least blow ain't cheating!
   5. Dayton Moore is a Big Fat Idiot (AG#1F)  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 03:55 PM (#2513256)
Does Seinfeld hurt or help Keith Hernandez's HOF chances?
   6. Eamus Catuli  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 03:59 PM (#2513265)
Does Seinfeld hurt or help Keith Hernandez's HOF chances?

Turns out he wasn't the spitter. I think it helps his chances by removing that black cloud from his record.

I wish I could say the same for Roger McDowell.
   7. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66)  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 04:03 PM (#2513271)
That 1982 World Series was a pinnacle of contrasting styles.

what, cocaine vs. alcohol?
   8. Joe C and the Pop Culture Portmanteau  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 04:32 PM (#2513296)
why it was exciting back then, because it’s a lot less exciting to me now.

Because you played back then, and you don't play now, Keith?
   9. Crispix Attacks is in the best shape of his life.  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 04:43 PM (#2513301)
Wow, in comment #2 someone admits that he thought the quoted statement was Keith Hernandez talking, and then in comment #8 someone actually does assume that the quoted statement is Keith Hernandez talking.

Keith Hernandez never should have directed this movie and then conducted this interview with himself.
   10. galaxieboi  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 04:48 PM (#2513304)
I thought it was Hernandez until I clicked to read the whole article. Wishful thinking perhaps...
   11. Van Lingle Mungo Jerry  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 05:00 PM (#2513310)
Because you played back then, and you don't play now, Keith?

Wow, in comment #2 someone admits that he thought the quoted statement was Keith Hernandez talking, and then in comment #8 someone actually does assume that the quoted statement is Keith Hernandez talking.

RTFT. Hey, a new acronym!
   12. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 05:04 PM (#2513312)
Does Seinfeld hurt or help Keith Hernandez's HOF chances?


Help, but his commercials with Walt Frazier sure don't.
   13. themayor  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 06:01 PM (#2513347)
This is the most sexcellent film ever -> i'm keith hernandez - the movie
   14. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 06:38 PM (#2513379)
This is the most sexcellent film ever


Are you channeling Zapp Brannigan, mayor? :-)
   15. Howie Menckel  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 09:44 PM (#2513657)
Mets-Reds game the other day.
True story.

Coutlangus on in relief for the Reds.
Announcer Gary Cohen says, "I'd better pronounce this one carefully."

Hernandez responds: "Ah, a real tongue-tier for you, huh, Gary?"

Not sure if that helps or hurts his chances, but it happened.
   16. Repoz  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 10:22 PM (#2513666)
Hernandez responds: "Ah, a real tongue-tier for you, huh, Gary?"

Hey...at least he didn't say "women belong in the kitchen...and man in the boat"
   17. HowardMegdal  Posted: September 05, 2007 at 11:38 PM (#2513688)
Help, but his commercials with Walt Frazier sure don't.

These are ironic-the two smoothest NY sports figures of the past 30 years acting consciously silly- and thus I love them.

Mets-Reds game the other day.
True story.


It's like Hernandez is always one comment away from causing a storm, but knows exactly how to straddle that line. He's funny, but he also knows his baseball. It is such a pleasure, getting to hear three intelligent men on any Mets broadcast.
   18. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory)  Posted: September 06, 2007 at 07:19 AM (#2513764)
N.b., from the FA:
"Some of the things that are real, people think are fake. Some of these things that are sort of innocuous that are fake and people would think they were real just because of the way I was presenting it to them."


Just the innocuous ones, eh?
   19. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory)  Posted: September 06, 2007 at 07:21 AM (#2513765)
Lots of pinnacles in the 80's!

More of a massif, maybe?
   20. BFFB  Posted: September 06, 2007 at 07:27 AM (#2513770)
Lots of pinnacles in the 80's!


Madonna certainly went in for pinnacles in the 80's.
   21. Shooty Did Not Kill McGurk  Posted: September 06, 2007 at 07:27 AM (#2513772)
It's like Hernandez is always one comment away from causing a storm, but knows exactly how to straddle that line. He's funny, but he also knows his baseball. It is such a pleasure, getting to hear three intelligent men on any Mets broadcast.

I'm a fan of neither team, but Mets are enormously better than the Yankee team. It's the difference between watching a comedy on HBO or something from CBS's lineup.

More of a massif, maybe?

I admit it, I had to look this up. Smarty pants.
   22. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory)  Posted: September 06, 2007 at 07:34 AM (#2513778)
Smarty pants.

I just read an article in Military History Quarterly on the taking of some Italian Alpine village (whose name I can't recall, San Su'umrother), so that word is kind of stuck in my head right now. Sorry.
   23. Shooty Did Not Kill McGurk  Posted: September 06, 2007 at 07:50 AM (#2513788)
I just read an article in Military History Quarterly on the taking of some Italian Alpine village (whose name I can't recall, San Su'umrother), so that word is kind of stuck in my head right now. Sorry.

No sweat. I'm always happy to learn new words. After reading all of John McPhee's stuff on geology, I should have known that anyway. I retain nothing anymore.
   24. Superunknown Gary Geiger Counter  Posted: September 06, 2007 at 08:22 AM (#2513822)
Unfortunately, I can't put this movie in my queue yet.
   25. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy  Posted: September 06, 2007 at 09:08 AM (#2513891)
After reading all of John McPhee's stuff on geology, I should have known that anyway. I retain nothing anymore.


Bid McPhee was a geologist, too? Wow!

;-)
   26. Shooty Did Not Kill McGurk  Posted: September 06, 2007 at 09:14 AM (#2513903)
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