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.