Next week he’s going to be on Charlie Rose talking about Cet obscur objet du désir.
Anyway, R.A. Dickey, the New York Mets knuckleballer who was so good this year he got a biography, a documentary and the 2012 National League Cy Young Award, showed up on ‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’ to discuss his magical super pitch, talk about the permanency of the written word and do his very best to avoid Jon’s nonstop string of HOW ARE THE METS PREPARING TO MAKE ME MISERABLE questions. I don’t blame Jon for asking those questions while he’s got the chance … if I interviewed R.A. Dickey, it’d just be “do you know Mr. Met personally,” followed by 10 minutes of silence.
The full, extended interview (courtesy of TheDailyShow.com). It’s a fascinating look into the life of a legitimately interesting baseball guy, and holy shit I miss baseball. Is it baseball yet?
My next question: Does the Knuckleball Fraternity get special parking privileges at games, like the Stonecutters?
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A week or so ago Dickey came and donated 1,200 books to the school my program is connected with and read to the kids for an hour. His handlers wanted him to leave as soon as the general assembly was done but he insisted on visiting each individual classroom where he answered the kids questions and signed autographs for anyone who wanted one. Most of the kids and staff didn’t really know who he was, and some of the kids asked him “Don’t you want to play for the Yankees?” Adorable and enraging all in one.
Wow, that’s way cool! I would have been petty and taken back the books.
I think if they weren’t 1st and 2nd graders, it would have been way worse.
well, that is excusable.
I think Dickey should come back next season and start insisting Keith Hernandez refer to his trademark pitch as the “Articulus Globo Aequet”, just so we can hear Hernandez explain that it means “Knuckleball of Disdain” 84 times a game.
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Stop laughing, me. Stop it!