I wrote and interview that I did with my totally awesome uncle Bryan for school, as well as an evualtion and report. I thought maybe you guys would like to see. Here is the interview:
1. At what age were you drafted by the Kansas City Royals?
“I was drafted at 17. I had what is called a draft follow in Jr. College, so I was redrafted at 18. Then I was at another Jr. College when I signed my contract when I turned 19.”
2. Did you always want to play baseball as a profession?
“Yeah. Well pretty much always, I’ve been playing my whole life since I turned five. I stopped playing for a year when I was about 7 but then I started again at 8 or 9. I’ve pretty much always wanted to play baseball as a career.”
3. Did you always play pitcher on your baseball teams when you were younger?
“I didn’t start pitching until about halfway through Little League. I started when I was about 9, when I started baseball again, but I used to play first base too. When I got into Junior year I started strictly pitching.”
4. Who is someone you think is inspiring?
“My parents, both my mom and my dad were always really inspiring. They put me through baseball and they just always taught me to always give things a shot and never really quit.”
5. What is your favorite place to eat when you go home?
“There’s this Mexican place called ‘Los Palomeno’s’ right next to where I used to go to college that I like, or In N Out is also really good too.”
6. What is your favorite thing to do while visiting home?
“I just like being at home, hanging out with my girlfriend, Nicole, or my family. You know when you spend the whole year traveling around and playing baseball you really start to miss them and so when I get home I just want to stay home a lot and hang out with them.”
7. Did you get good grades in school?
“I got pretty good grades through Middle school, all A’s. Then in High School I got A’s and B’s. From Sophomore on it was kind of mediocre, I became more of a C student. It’s not really good, now I regret it, I wish I had done better in school. It’s always good to do well in school.”
8. What is one event that made a large impact on your life?
“Well having surgery on my elbow. I had to have surgery on my elbow in 2008 when I broke my arm. There was physical pain, but then there was also the mental strain. I had to spend the whole year of 2008 up here in Arizona mostly in rehab. I couldn’t go home so I would just go down the field every day and lift the little 5 lb weights to try and strengthen my shoulders and arms. It was just a lot of mental and physical strain for me at that time.”
9. What are challenges you face a lot in daily life for your job?
“Well there are hotels. The hotels can sometimes be really bad. And sometimes you’ll get a good roommate, which is alright. But sometimes you’ll get a really bad roommate and that just sucks. It’s really hard to live with a roommate, and after about six months whether you have a good roommate or a bad one, you’re both really strained and it can be really crazy.”
10. What do you do to keep yourself in shape for your job?
“Oh, a lot. I lift some weights, but for pitchers it’s not really about that. There are plenty of guys who play baseball who have never lifted weights in their lives and they play fine. For a pitcher it’s good to have strong legs, so sprints are good.”
11. Is there a specific diet you follow for your job?
“Oh it’s hard to follow a strict diet while in season, you eat a lot of just whatever they have at the field! It’s just that when you get off you’re pretty much starving so you eat whatever they’re serving there, which means a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and stuff like that. You can’t really cook, you know, when you’re living in a hotel, so I usually just end up eating out a lot. I try to eat healthy when I'm home though.”
No comments:
Post a Comment