Getting To Know You

Getting To Know You: Rickie Weeks

Too often, we see baseball players as essentially different from the rest of us. In order to combat that trend, we at ChatterBalks have started Getting To Know You, in which we conduct informal interviews in order to humanize them. This time: Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks!

ChatterBalks: Rickie, thanks for taking the time to talk to us.

Rickie Weeks: It’s good to be here.

CB: So, how do you expect the Brewers to do this year?

RW: We’ve got a good solid team and I think we’re going to compete in the NL Central.

CB: Name one reason why anyone would think that.

RW: …what?

CB: Why would you be good this year? That doesn’t make any sense.

RW: Sure it does. You saw what we could do last year when we made the playoffs…

CB: Last year, you had Ben Sheets and CC Sabathia. You’ve lost your good pitchers. You made the playoffs last year by one game, and now you’re replacing your two best pitchers with Braden Looper and Toucan Sam.

RW: I think you’re being a little unfair to Manny Parra there.

CB: We don’t know who that is.

RW: He’s our fifth star-

CB: We also don’t care.

(Awkward silence)

CB: What’s your all-time favorite TV show?

RW: Well, lately I’ve been watching Jeff [Suppan]’s Deadwood DVDs. It’s pretty good.

CB: You mean Deadwood, the show that spent years building up to something that never actually happened?

RW: I haven’t gotten that far in it yet…

CB: Well, the whole thing was building up to a confrontation between the town and the bad guy’s men. The whole third season was, like, nothing but building up tension for this huge epic fight that was gonna go down. And you could feel it too, “Oh, this is gonna be great. This is gonna be huge! This is gonna be worth these dull people I don’t care about being on my TV screen. They’re definitely gonna matter at some point! This’ll get better!”

RW: Right.

CB: Then it didn’t. It just ended.

RW: That’s too bad.

CB: Yeah, it is too bad. I really, really wanted it to be good. I even drafted it in the 9^th round of my fantasy TV show draft because I had a hole at second base and this was supposed to be its year. But it never had that year, did it? It started off good, and then got better, and then sucked and there were supposed to be better things ahead, but they’re never coming, are they Rickie? There are no better things ahead, are there Rickie?

(The phone is dead)

CB: God damn it.

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