{"id":270,"date":"2021-05-29T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/?p=270"},"modified":"2021-06-09T20:12:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:12:56","slug":"professional-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/professional-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May 28, 2021 &#8211; Joey Votto broadcasted the whole 6th inning on the Cincinnati Reds&#8217; radio feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main takeaways that you can get from his performance is &#8220;how to handle stupid questions&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kershaw and Votto grew up before the &#8220;let the kids play&#8221; era, and they matured to accept it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fangraphs.com\/chin-music-episode-13-i-would-never-have-a-human-child\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fangraphs podcast &#8220;Chin Music&#8221; &#8211; episode 13<\/a>, they talked about Kershaw and his interviews and compared and contrasted his style to Derek Jeter&#8217;s interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These guys are superheroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are people during the day, then they put on their superhero uniform and&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s say this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>they do not complain<\/li><li>they do not criticize<\/li><li>they take full responsibility<\/li><li>they do not get duped by prying or manipulative questions<\/li><li>they care about the image of the sport\/team\/teammates<\/li><li>if they get forced into a bad question &#8211; they find away to say something positive<\/li><li>and they somehow act like they have been there before\u2026.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 28, 2021 &#8211; Joey Votto broadcasted the whole 6th inning on the Cincinnati Reds&#8217; radio feed. One of the main takeaways that you can get from his performance is &#8220;how to handle stupid questions&#8221;. Kershaw and Votto grew up before the &#8220;let the kids play&#8221; era, and they matured to accept it. Even support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,99],"tags":[97,113,112],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}