Q: Has much changed with hitting since you were playing?
A: No. It’s the same thing. The only difference I hear a lot about is staying inside the ball, staying inside the ball, where when I came up it was always about getting the head of the bat to the ball. That’s about it. And, to me, more kids are guessing more today. Before, we’d just look for the ball, see what the ball is doing and react to it.
Q: I’ve been waiting to ask you this for three years; the Beastie Boys name-checked you in a song. Was that cool?
A: It was. You know they invited me to come on “Saturday Night Live” when they were performing that song, but I was on my way to Japan, so I couldn’t go. I wish - you know, it would have been kind of neat to be there and meet the guys.
Q: It’s neat because it’s a reference to your ability as a hitter. ...
A: I hadn’t heard it, and everyone said, “Have you heard the Beastie Boys song?” So when I first heard it, I thought, “OK, they thought that much of me to put me in their song because they knew I was good at the plate.”
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1. DarrenIt is 35 years later and I've had all kinds of successes in my life. And yet all these years later that one moment on a warm summer day in Minnesota still stands out as one of the best times I've ever had.
But do you date women on TV with the help of Chuck Woollery?
(Geez, we could do this all day...)
Jews choose Carews who choose Jews?
As were all 3 Beastie Boys.
If the song came out in 1994, why has the author only been waiting to ask him that for three years?
Mighty Cur-Dog?
I know which homeboy your lady prefers, dawg
I got more steals than my man Whitey Herzog
*drops mic*
*retires to study to think of words that rhyme with Saltalamacchia*
If you're pretty cute, I might come over to talk to ya.
The Red Sox start Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
PEACE! I'm outta here.
*waves them around without enthusiasm*
I'm beverage stealin like Whitey Herzog
He reminded of another guy named Whitey Herzog.
That wasn't so hard. Sheesh.
I'd listen if you called, like Whitey Herzog
His lineups ran faster than Whitey Herzog's.
Scratchin my crotch more than Whitey Herzog
Workin' harder than Jack Clark's twelve chauffeurs slog
The way Ozzie likes Brno, but Herr prefers Prague
When Coleman got tarped, I was filled with bedauernvorrichtungablösungeinzerschräg (*)
*The standard German compound word meaning "simultaneous regret on behalf of another for the unintended consequences of machine operation yet relief that one's own person was uninvolved."
Next chump on the hitlist, Whitey Herzog!
I'm old school just like Whitey Herzog
But that still leaves him smarter than Whitey Herzog
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