KB: Any interest in a return to the game?
RJ: When the time comes. I have four kids and I didn’t see them grow up. I had opportunities to be a coach when I retired. I had opportunities to work for ESPN. I’m very appreciative of baseball, but I am not a lifer. The game will be there when I am ready to get back into it.
KB: When did your interest in watches begin?
RJ: I’ve always enjoyed watches. I got to visit various watch boutiques because of the cities I visited while playing baseball. I was always interested in visiting the nicer boutiques and looking at the watches I enjoyed wearing. I’ve been a Ulysse Nardin wearer long before our relationship started. I’m honored to be asked to be a part of the company.
...KB: You played during the steroid era. Do you think steroids still a problem in the game today?
RJ: I don’t know. I think baseball has regulated it pretty well. I don’t think it is something that is out of control like maybe it once was. But I don’t follow as much because of the interests I have outside of the game now. Before the World Series and playoffs started, I probably watched two or three games and those were not even in their entirety.
I was so focused on baseball while I was doing it, and now that I have the opportunity to do other things, I am that focused on those things. I think baseball is heading in the right direction. Fans have come out in droves. I think the game is on top of the world right now.
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1. Yastrzemski in left. Posted: November 14, 2012 at 06:28 PM (#4302888)He puts them in the gift baskets for his conquests, along with the "RJ" / "BU" monogrammed fitted cap, the Advanced Auto Parts coupon and the cans of vienna sausages.
Imagine if he'd had a sense of humor, though. He'd be like a (more) talented Manute Bol.
Johnson was famously cranky when he was scheduled to pitch, unapproachable even.
Then you're probably not a six foot ten professional athlete.
It probably helps that the photo is from the chest up. You can't fix gangly as ####.
But part of what made him so awesome was that he rocked the 'stache well after it had gone out of style! And his HOF plaque better be sporting the mullet he had in his Seattle days...
It'll be fun watching him pitch in the 2053 Hall of Fame Game.
edit: added dumb joke.
Did he have a handsome decline phase?
Willie McGee is on the All-Goblin team.
Why? He is ugly enough to stop a clock.
Do you remember the loud, popping sound it made when Randy Johnson pitches?
According to #10, it would seem that it happened after he retired.
The debate went on for years so many points and count-arguments were raised, but I don't recall this one. It's good. I think my strongest argument (I was pro-Johnson) was the hideous prospect of his scraggly beard dangling down and tickling your forehead. Plus, of course, his nickname.
I think that only counts as 1 hobby, since apparently they're combining the two together...
Pop "Randy Johnson Commercial" into youtube, you will find plenty of endorsements, and humor.
Pancake flops
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