Serby Q&A With Moose
Via Steve Serby’s Sunday Q&A With…Mike Mussina in the Post today -
Q: Would your career be unfulfilled if you didn’t win a championship?
A: No. Unfulfilled is too strong a word. I’ve been really lucky. I’ve played a long time, on some really good teams, and I’m still out there doing something that I always loved to do. It’s great to be a champion and I’d obviously love to have it. But I don’t think my career is gonna be defined by the fact that I didn’t happen to win a championship if we don’t win this year or next year or whenever I retire.
I’m in the process of reading “Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember.” And, I have to confess, I’m starting to see a side of Mussina that I can appreciate…in terms of him as a person. I’ll wait until I finish the book before I say I’m now a big fan of Mussina…because you never know. But, I think I’m starting to soften on my stance that Moose is a snob, priss, and a carpetbagger…as I could have been wrong about some of that…based on what I am now learning about him.
That book is really good. As a Mussina fan going in, I’ve enjoyed it even more and learned quite a bit about the guy. The parts on Glavine are very good as well.
I guess it’s true what they say about assumptions.
It’s amazing to me what so many Yankee fans think of Mussina. It’s at the level of high-school jealousy. The popular, smart, good-looking kid that people make out to be a prissy ogre because of one situation that they’ve completely blown out of proportion — when of course the whole thing is simply about jealousy. This has lasted basically Mussina’s entire career in New York. It’s probably one of the most annoying things I hear from Yankee fans — that Mussina is some sort of soft, effete snob… and all because he went to a good school, finished early and can complete a sentence, unlike most of his teammates.
baileywalk – has there ever been a Yankees starting pitcher, or pitching prospect, that you didn’t think was a regular slice of heaven?
Regardless, he is right. There is a lot about him that we do not know, so we should reserve judgement. And Yankees fans are not the only ones who have that opinion of Mussina.
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