What's the deal with incomprehensible ball players?

[Soulive]

I'm not trying to be xenophobic or prejudice or anything. This is just a light-hearted question to provoke some interesting takes. With that said, I feel like half the post game interviews are impossible to understand. Last night they interviewed Robbie Cano after the Yankees game and I couldn't understand anything he said, as well as Bobby Abreu. Its not exclusive to non-American players either, I mean Manny Ramirez is from NYC and he rarely speaks clearly. I give these guys credit for being able to somewhat speak 2 languages, as I know it isn't easy. But man, they make millions of dollars and I don't know what the hell they're trying to say...

 

[Klainmeister]

I think it's the fact that their blood is still running heavily and they are usually breathing heavily too. Likewise, a big body like theirs also causes a deeper and usually monotone voice which can be incomprehensible. On top of that most the time they are in a hurry to get into the locker room or just sick and tired of the press so they slur, speak fast, or try to be kurz. Some are just too gangsta to know otherwise. That's just my take, but i am drunk.

 

[niquejim]

Baseball been bery,bery good..........................to me.


Gotta love old SNL

 

[uglygoat]

faousto > jabba

 

[EdWort]

I don't follow Baseball since they went on strike in 1989/1990. Bastiges.

 

[Rick_R]

I don't follow Baseball since they went on strike in 1989/1990

They started back playing.

(Just so you know)

Rick

 

[kornkob]

See now, I thought you were talking about incomprehensibile BALL players.

My old boss used to freak me and everyone else out. Except in the most formal of occasions, he would constantly adjust his junk. LIke not subtle 'woah--my balls just got pinched by the fold of my cloth' or 'whoop-- gotta pull up on my waistline to get my boys to fall back over to the left where they below'. No-- not like that.

No,this was serious, once a minute, digging down deep in the creases and giving a long scratch.


My theory was that he shaved his sack and it itched gowing back.

 

[Professor Frink]

It's just the Yankees players.

Go Mets!

 

[Soulive]

It's just the Yankees players.

Go Mets!

I think the Mets lost on Sunday because I was sitting 7 rows behind their dugout. They had to look at my ugly mug after every inning

(cell phone pic)

 

[EdWort]

They started back playing.

(Just so you know)

Rick

Screw that. The bastigs went on strike. Guys who PLAY BALL took their ball and went home. They said "screw the fans" who pay for the tickets and their stadiums, and their drug and sterioid habits.

I actually am turned off by almost all professional sports. It's a disgrace what they have become.

 

[MikeFlynn74]

I actually am turned off by almost all professional sports. It's a disgrace what they have become.

Unlike football whos Commissioner actually has some power and ethics as well as not allowing people from HIGHSCHOOL to make millions even if they suck- Baseball has gone so far down hill. These guys get hurt if they have to play more than 3 games in a week. Give me the league minimum and I will play my ass off, 182 games a year. Fing primadonna *********s.

 

[srm775]

I don't follow Baseball since they went on strike in 1989/1990. Bastiges.

The MLBPA work stoppage was in August 1994. In 1989 the Oakland A's beat the Giants in the World Series (it was also the year of the earthquake and bridge collapse during the world series). In 1990, the Reds beat the A's in four for the World Series.

 

[Professor Frink]

I think the Mets lost on Sunday because I was sitting 7 rows behind their dugout. They had to look at my ugly mug after every inning

(cell phone pic)

Nice picture. I'm going to all 3 Mets-Phillies games in Philly this weekend. I can't wait for them to tear down that hole of a stadium Shea.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

What even more sad is some of the NFL players - quite a few of them are 'thugs and hoodlums'.

I remember when the Lions drafted Charles Rogers out of Michigan State. He did all the standard post draft interviews, and I swear that I could not understand 80% of what he was saying. Which would be somewhat acceptable if English were not his first language, but it was.

 

[RICLARK]

Well We have Magglio Ordonez, Miguel Cabbrera, Carlos Guillen, Edgar Renteria, Placido Polanco, about 4 bull pen guys that I can hardley understand Pudge is the only non american born player on our team that I can Understand fairly well. I can't argue though I love our team even if I cant understand them!

 

[cubbies]

But man, they make millions of dollars and I don't know what the hell they're trying to say...

I think it is the fact that they make millions of dollars that makes it this way. I mean, if you are making $8 an hour working at the checkout at Walmart, you are going to have to pickup at least some English pretty quick. If you are making 10 million a year to play baseball, you can pay someone to speak your English. I mean, what is the motivation?

However, on that note, I personally dont care. I think it is a good thing that all the best players from all of the world come to our country to play baseball. The MLB is the best baseball league in the world and foreign players are a big reason for that.

 

[c.n.budz]

I mean Manny Ramirez is from NYC and he rarely speaks clearly. I give these guys credit for being able to somewhat speak 2 languages, as I know it isn't easy.

Manny speaks perfectly good English, he just fakes it so he doesn't have to talk to the media

 

[the_bird]

Manny speaks perfectly good English, he just fakes it so he doesn't have to talk to the media

You sure he hasn't just been hit by one too many pitches in the head? Manny's just.... well, as they say, Manny's just being Manny.

 

[uglygoat]

speaking of manni, it was good to see him get beaned last night, after they hit garko and pronk...

 

[ColoradoXJ13]

I don't watch baseball to listen to players speak.

 

[Soulive]

Nice picture. I'm going to all 3 Mets-Phillies games in Philly this weekend. I can't wait for them to tear down that hole of a stadium Shea.

Good stuff, have fun man!