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Friday, January 08, 2010

The Ichiro interview

By Tangotiger, 04:30 PM

Part 1 and Part 2:

I am definitely not the kind of person where people would say, he’s a nice guy, he’s a great guy. I am definitely not that guy especially because if I felt something was wrong I would definitely fight over it and I am not a nice guy to everyone. I think if you look at the friends, the kinds of relationships I have, I am not the kind of guy who has many shallow relationships. I think you could say I am the kind of guy who has a few relationships, but those are very deep.
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“If you could trade places with anybody in the history of the game for one day who would you like to trade with and why?” (Becomes very animated) There’s not really a certain who that comes to mind but I think I would like to become a really fat player.
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I don’t like the rule that if you write a line in the batters box, I don’t think you should be ejected for that. I would like to change that. Yellow card maybe, but no ejection. Instant red card? I don’t think that is right.
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(laughs) When I see Junior I always think he should sleep at home rather than at the clubhouse. I always think if he was able to that he could have easily hit seven hundred homeruns by now.

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