January 15, 2011
Marwencol Showtimes At The Uptown
TMR: ‘Meanwhile In Marwencol…’
Unable to pay for therapy after losing his memory from a severe beating, Mark Hogancamp coped by creating a miniature World War II-era European village in his backyard for an alter ego to live.
I was invited down to the Uptown theatre down on 8th Avenue Southwest, which I’d never been to before, for a free guest viewing of this new documentary, Marwencol. Once I’d calmed my ego down about getting the invite, I checked out this as-of-yet-to-me unknown film. It seemed goddamn interesting, and I was not let down. Before I continue, I would like to thank the person who’d invited me down, Brennan Tilley. So, thanks again.
Back in 2000, Mark Hogancamp left a bar and was attacked by five bastards. Hogancamp was in a coma for nine days and had to stay in the hospital for a total of forty. When he was released (because he couldn’t pay them anymore), he had no real memory of anything prior to the beating. He previously had a high skill for drawing, but this, along with many of his more basic motor skills, were obliterated from the repeated blows to the head. Seemingly the only bright point of this mental and physical damage was the sudden absence of his devotion to the drink; he no longer had any desire for alcohol.
Hogancamp’s frustration with his diminished capacity continued until he began creating Marwencol in his backyard. He populated it with dolls, and began creating a long and involved story to go with it. I am finding it difficult to talk too much more of the film simply because I enjoyed it so much, I feel like I need to tell everything about it. I want to talk about the history of Marwencol, its inhabitants, and the battles that have taken place there. This movie is touching and infectious, and I was personally moved because I could relate to Mark Hogancamp’s struggles with reality. This personal touch isn’t needed to enjoy the movie though, if the heaps of awards it’s won and been nominated for are any indication.
Even if you only get a chance to see Mark’s photographs of the goings on in Marwencol, essentially pictures of his psyche even an amateur psychologist could read loud and clear, you can see the talent that this man has. He didn’t even consider what he was doing as art until a chance meeting on one of his walks to town. As stated in the film, his pictures contain no irony, as doll using photographers often do; they are honest and poignant and to put it bluntly, in some case just plain fuckin’ cool.
Looking at the city’s movie listings, it doesn’t look like this movie is playing anywhere but the Uptown, which is both a shame and blessing. It’s a shame because it’s just the one theatre, and this movie deserves so much more exposure. It’s a blessing because after having just now experienced the Uptown, I don’t know if any other theatre could have shown it better. It’s got some features about it that I bet most city folk and young people would probably dislike it or, occasionally worse, ironically enjoy it, but in my mind, these features enhanced the viewing.
Theatre: Storm the Uptown. There’s plenty of seating and the popcorn is deliciously terrible.
Buy: I know I’m buying it when it comes out on DVD. If you like a good documentary about a personal struggle, then you should buy it too.
Rent: Only if you’re some sort of noncommittal dick who doesn’t enjoy owning greatness. Or maybe you’re just broke.
Download: While I do think as many people should see this as possible this is a movie that I implore readers to pay money for. I’ve said similar before but this time I really mean it.
To contact the author of this post: corey.hales@wildgunmen.com
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Ken Griffey Jr. in at DH, Milton Bradley in left field and batting clean-up for Mariners tonight
Those of you expecting big offensive changes tonight because of the recent roster moves are going to be disappointed. The Mariners have Ken Griffey Jr.griffey shoes in at designated hitter once again and batting fifth against Tampa Bay ace James Shields. Milton Bradley is now in front of Griffey at the clean-up spot while Jose Lopez bats sixth.
So, those of you expecting to see Ryan Langerhans replacing Bradley as the left fielder on at least a semi-regular basis so Bradley can be the DH? It isn’t happening. At least, not for now. For now, the big idea is to have a real backup shortstop in Josh Wilson and a guy who can give center fielder Franklin Gutierrez a rest every now and then in Langerhans.
“Obviously, these weren’t as much offensive moves as defensive moves,cheap griffeys” Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu said. “Where, you look at Guti’s season so far, he’s playing every day. And there are times where he’s still, you see him getting a litle bit tired and we didn’t really have that option of putting anybody out there in center field. Langerhans gives us coverage in all three (outfield) positions. He’s a guy we’re comfortable with.”
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Wakmatsu believes “the talent is there” on is current club and that the regulars have to have more productive at-bats,griffeys 2012 espeically in key situations. The Mariners had a hitters’ meeting this afternoon and talked about the need to execute the fundamentals of offense — like moving the runners over, getting bunts down and having productive at-bats.
So, we’ll see whether anything changes.
One thing I can tell you: it won’t be easy tonight. Shields throws an above-average change-up to opposite-handed hitters and Griffey and company had best be ready for it or it will be a very long night once again.
Anyhow, Josh Wilson comes back to the majors after hitting .333 in Class AAA and leading the Pacific Coast League with 11 doubles.griffeys sneakers He hit .300 this past spring with the Mariners after never really being considered much of an offensive force.
Wilson says the big difference was returning to Seattle this year, where he had coaches — like former Colorado mentor Allan Cockrell, when he used to be in the Rockies organization — who believed in him.
“It was nice knowing all winter long that I was working on something and it was going to carry over,king griffeys” Wilson said. “It was just that I worked on the same things. A swing that I always felt comfortable with. Numerous times, I’d get into spring training and before I even had an at-bat in a game, I had the coaches telling me I’d have to do something different.”
Langerhans said he understood why the Mariners designated him for assignment in the opening week of the season. He knew the bullpen needed an extra arm and says he told GM Jack Zduriencik he’d love to stay with the organization if he cleared waivers.
He did and worked on improving his bat once he went to Class AAA.cheap ken griffey shoes Langerhans started 0-for-6, but soon went 11-for-33 after that with six doubles.
“If you go down there with a sour attitude, you’re not going to endear yourself to your teammates,” he said. “If you hold grudges or have a sour attitude,griffey shoes 2012 it’s not going to get you back to where you need to be anyway.”
So, Langerhans avoided ny bitterness and got to work. Now, he’s back. We’ll see how he’s used from here.
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His eighth-inning, line-drive double scorched into the left-center-field gap scored Ichiro with the go-ahead run. And as Ken Griffey Jr. jogged back to the dugout, replaced by pinch-runner Wladimir Balentien, the Safeco Field crowd rose once again to voice its appreciation, for today and every other day Griffey has worn a Mariners uniform.
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After 56 games, the reception is as warm and as grateful as it was at the home opener two months ago. The homecoming celebration continues as each new home crowd relished the opportunity to thank Griffey for what he did for baseball in this city and thank him for returning to lift this lumbering sports town.
“It’s been overwhelming, really,” Griffey said,griffeys 2012 relaxing in front of his locker before Saturday’s 2-1 win over Minnesota. “And I’m not taking any of it for granted. When I come up and I get those standing O’s and stuff like that, I’m really trying to give them something to clap for after that.
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The early season numbers have been disappointing, the only imperfections in this otherwise perfectly scripted return. Playing almost exclusively at designated hitter, he is hitting .224 with six home runs and 15 RBI. In the last week of May, he endured an 0-for-22 slump.
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“I think last year’s situation in this clubhouse, it wasn’t much fun for anyone,” he said. “We’re trying to change that, and a lot of that is just about changing the attitude about being here. Giving guys hugs when they need it. Giving them support. Giving them a hard time sometimes.”
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“I still enjoy getting to the ballpark. Getting on people and harassing them,” Griffey said. “And, like I’ve always told people, when it’s not fun, then I’ll go home.”
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First, the 4×100m relay in a discipline where Jamaica pulled off the trifecta in the 200m final (Bolt, Blake, Warren Weir). “The fact that both of us have run fast this year means there could be a record. But you can never know with the relay,” Bolt said. “It would be a good way to close the show.”cheap nike high heels
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The odds are strongly against Bolt chasing a hat-trick of sprint titles in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 but he sounds half-serious about picking up the gauntlet thrown by Kenya’s wonderful 800m champion, David Rudisha, who said he was willing to drop a distance to confront the lightning man.
we see Bolt’s all-seeing, academic side. He was already alive to that possibility before Rudisha called him out. “I don’t know if I’m going to stay around the 200 or try something else. I’m going to sit down with my coach and discuss it,” he said.
“But Yohan Blake’s going to be there, so it’s going to be good. If I trained well I could take Rudisha at 400m. Anything more and I don’t think I could do it.cheap nike heels
“I was watching his 800m and I think he went through the 500m in 56sec. My personal best at the 500 is one minute. So he’d be way ahead of me. At 400m I think I could take him. Not now, but I could.”
intriguing observation confirms that Bolt thinks in assignments, in chunks of time. He is not just blowing along with the breeze. And the truth is that Blake had him rattled in those Jamaican championships. Nor was he completely sound as he opened his campaign with a 9.63sec victory over his younger friend in the 100m.
“I really came here a little bit off, but I said if I focused I could come here 90 per cent and do it. I did just that,” Bolt said. Few elite athletes could overcome those doubts, especially in an event where the margins of victory are so tiny.
Yet Bolt, as we saw twice on the London track, is blessed with almighty self-belief to go with his huge stride and speed: a confidence that allowed him to unfurl his talent with unanswerable power and precision.nike heels 2012
Even he, though, is daunted by the long road to Rio. “When I get to 30 I’ll think about retiring also because athletics is way too hard. It’s rough, day in day out. As you can see Yohan Blake is running 19.4 already, his personal best is 19.2 [for the 200m]. He’s running 9.7. So in the next four years he’s going to be firing. I’d like to get out early before he starts running too fast.
“[Rio] is going to be a hard mission. Both these guys [Blake and Weir] are training too well. I’m going to be 30. They’re going to be 26. Both these guys are training extremely well and I think I’ve had my time. In life anything is possible, but that’s going to be a hard reach, because there’s going to be a lot more talent coming up, and these guys have stepped up already. I’m not looking that far. I’ve made myself a legend. I’m just going to enjoy it right now.”
Before and after the show, there is calculation and cunning. During it, there is a sublime skill of mixing the jokey and the serious. The whole world saw Bolt messing about with the young woman who was looking after his kit as he stood on the starting blocks. “I was looking at her and she looked kind of nervous,” he explained. “I said, ‘Are you nervous?’ She said, ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Why?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m so excited’.
“That’s what I like to do. I like to talk to them and smile with the person carrying my bag, just to show appreciation. To meet the athletes, they’re over the moon, so for me to interact with them is good.”jordan heels 2012
These are astonishing vignettes. They defy the old orthodoxy of intense concentration and being ‘in the zone’. Maybe Bolt does this to relax himself as much as the volunteer. The clue might be Blake’s revelation: “Usain’s always told me, ‘You’re not doing this for the people or the fans, you’re doing this for you’.”
An obsession with the here and now is not required to see that Bolt is out in front of Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson and all the other greats of Olympic track and field. Reporters wanted to place him in another pantheon, beyond the Olympic lanes.nike high heels
“I can’t say if I have the status of Ali or Pele. I’ve really set myself high in track and field,” Bolt said. “Michael Jordan was the greatest in his sport and I’m the greatest in mine. Ali was the greatest in his. I’m guessing I am in that category but I’ll let other people decide that. I just know I’m a legend.
“When it comes to Bob Marley, Bob Marley is one of the greatest Jamaican legends. He did great for the country before me. I’m just carrying out his duty, pretty much. I wouldn’t say I’m greater than him. We had the same goal: to make Jamaica one of the most loved countries in the world.”jordan heels
His desire to inspire sounds genuine, and touching. It could hardly be anything else on an island of 2.9 million where athletics has become the biggest source of national self-esteem, and where elevating superstar behaviour would not be tolerated. Again, with a depth of seriousness in his voice Bolt said: “I know a lot of kids look up to me. When I came home from Jamaica even the girls were saying, ‘I want to be the next Usain Bolt’.
know I inspire a lot of kids. I always encourage them to work hard. I get a lot of messages on Facebook from kids who ask me about coaching. I try to give them inspiring messages. I push myself hard because I know they want to see my run fast and do good. There will be rough times. It’s all about how you focus and how much you want it.”
is such a good comic, too. Asked about his apparent celebration with the Swedish women’s handball team after the 100m (it was no such thing, he says) he started out: “Ha. Ha. Ha,” to show he was one step ahead of the questioner.jordan high heels
Asked how a wife or girlfriend could ever reach his standards he said: “That’s a tough question, huh? I don’t know. For me it’s all about falling in love. There, I said it. If I could find the right girl it wouldn’t matter what she did. But I’m looking forward to it. I’m a bachelor. Huh.”
the euphoria, you could sense the weight lifting from him. The slab of expectation was off his back, and it was time to settle a score with Lewis, who has questioned the legitimacy of Jamaica’s triumphs in the sprints: “I’m going to say something controversial. Carl Lewis: I have no respect for him,” Bolt said. “It was really sad for me when I heard what he’s saying. I’ve lost all respect for him. All respect.
“It was all about drugs what he was saying. All about drugs. For an athlete to be out of the sport and to be saying that is really upsetting.”nike heels
But Lewis cannot lower the colours of champion who has dominated from Beijing to London and filled both congregations with awe. “To set a goal for yourself, and then achieve it, is just a wonderful feeling,” he says.
“You can’t really explain because it’s not going to hit you until you get home, sit down and talk to your friends, reminisce.
“And they’ll say, ‘Do you remember when you got injured here, and injured here, and beat there?’ Those are the things that will bring tears to your eyes. Because you’ll remember the journey.”
Mike Cameron says he’s retiring as Mariner
On his way to Seattle earlier this week, Mike Cameron decided he wanted to retire as a member of the Mariners.
It was the one stop in his major league career that most felt like home for the former All-Star center fielder.griffey shoes
“It’s a long way from home for me, but it’s also been a special home for me,” Cameron said on Friday night. “I felt like it was only fitting to try to slide my way into the Mariner family for the rest of my life.”
Cameron made that decision official Friday when he signed a one-day employment contract that allowed him to retire as a member of the Mariners organization. Cameron was in town to throw out the first pitch before the team’s home opener.ken griffey shoes
It was a largely ceremonial move, but one Cameron wanted to do while he was here. Cameron was signed for the 2012 season by Washington, but informed the Nationals shortly before spring training that he planned to retire, concluding a career that spanned 17 seasons and seven teams. Cameron also played for the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati, the New York Mets, San Diego, Milwaukee, Boston and Florida.
“The days that I played here and replacing a legend and the fact that the people took hold and took shape of me and walked me through everything, gave me a great opportunity to start my career off right,” Cameron said. “This is basically where I want to finish.”ken griffey jr shoes
The four seasons Cameron spent in Seattle matched the longest stint he spent with one franchise. But while his four seasons with the White Sox came at the beginning of his career when Cameron was just getting started, his time in Seattle was arguably the prime of Cameron’s career.king griffey shoes
He was an All-Star in 2001 and also won a Gold Glove that season before adding a second in 2003. He had the unenviable task of taking over in center field after Ken Griffey Jr. was traded to Cincinnati, but quickly made his own mark. In his first week with the Mariners, Cameron made a fence-climbing leap to rob Derek Jeter of a home run and showed he was just as capable in the outfield as his predecessor.
Later in his Seattle career, Cameron hit four homers in one game and was perhaps most remembered for circling the field with an American flag after the Mariners clinched the AL West title in 2001 in the days following the attacks of Sept. 11.
Cameron played 610 games and hit .256 with 87 homers and 344 RBIs with the Mariners. His best season was also Seattle’s best season in 2001 when the Mariners won 116 regular-season games and Cameron hit .267 with 25 homers and 110 RBIs.griffeys 2012
“We were winners. We won a lot of games here. Came up short as far as getting to the ultimate prize,” Cameron said. “But I couldn’t be more proud of the thing I was able to do here, so that’s why I feel like it should end here.”
Reds’ Votto agrees to 12-year, $251.5 million deal | Baseball
Joey Votto agreed to a $251.5 million, 12-year deal with the Cincinnati Reds that is the longest guaranteed contract in major-league history.
The agreement adds $225 million over 10 years to his previous contract. The deal includes a club option for 2024, when the 2010 National League MVP turns 41.air griffey max 1
After watching NL Central rivals St. Louis and Milwaukee lose their first basemen to bigger markets, the Reds secured Votto with a package that easily eclipsed Ken Griffey Jr.’s $116.5 million, nine-year deal from 2000 as the largest in franchise history. In the majors, it trails only Alex Rodriguez’s $275 million and $252 million deals, both over 10 years.
“Is it risky?” said owner Bob Castellini. “No doubt. That’s the environment we live in, especially as a small market. We feel Joe will be a cornerstone.”nike air griffey max 1
Said Votto, 28: “Maybe I could have found that elsewhere. Maybe not. But I like what I’ve got here.”
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MIAMI — Commissioner Bud Selig offered a one-word review of the Miami Marlins’ new ballpark. “All you can say is,’Wow,’ ” Selig said.
Muhammad Ali had the same reaction.griffey max fury 2012
Selig’s critique came 90 minutes before the first pitch of the first game Wednesday in the Marlins’ season opener against the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals, who won 4-1.
The ballpark’s retractable roof, which is expected to be closed for all but about 10 games, was opened 30 minutes before the start. When the Marlins were introduced, each starter was accompanied by a Latin showgirl.griffeys for kids
The surprise guest delivering the first pitch: Ali. He emerged from behind the center-field gate in a cart alongside team owner Jeffrey Loria.griffeys 2012
Notes
? Left-hander John Lannan asked the Washington Nationals for a trade after they demoted him to Class AAA Syracuse, and he declared in an email sent to reporters: “I believe that I belong in a big-league rotation.”
? Left-hander Jonathon Niese agreed to a $25.5 million, five-year contract with the New York Mets.nike air griffey max ii
? The Cleveland Indians finalized a three-year contract with shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera. He’ll make $4.55 million in 2012, $6.5 million in 2013 and $10 million in 2014. Also, the Indians placed oft-injured center fielder Grady Sizemore from Everett on the 60-day disabled list.air griffey max 2
? Reliever Yoshinori Tateyama will begin the season on the Texas Rangers’ disabled list, and outfielder Julio Borbon is headed for the minor leagues.
Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox combine to win 6 Gold Gloves | Baseball
Clayton Kershaw, Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier became the first trio of Los Angeles Dodgers to win National League Gold Gloves in the same year, while Adrian Gonzalez, Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury became the first three Boston Red Sox in 32 seasons to win the AL honor together.
Kershaw became a first-time winner at pitcher when the awards were announced Tuesday. Ethier earned his first Gold Glove in the outfield and outfielder Kemp won the NL honor he also received in 2009.women ken griffey shoes
First baseman Gonzalez earned his first AL Gold Glove to go along with two he won in the NL while with San Diego, Pedroia won at second base for the first time since 2008 and center fielder Ellsbury picked up his first Gold Glove. The previous three Red Sox to win in the same year were shortstop Rick Burleson along with outfielders Dwight Evans and Fred Lynn in 1979.
For the first time since 1986, the Mariners lacked a Gold Glove winner. Ichiro’s streak ended at 10; he shares the AL record for Gold Gloves won by an outfielder with ex-Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. and Al Kaline.women griffey shoes
Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle, who won for the third year in a row, was the lone AL honoree who also earned a Gold Glove last year.griffeys for women
Other AL Gold Gloves went to catcher Matt Wieters and right fielder Nick Markakis of Baltimore, shortstop Erick Aybar of the Los Angeles Angels, ex-Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre of Texas and left fielder Alex Gordon of Kansas City.cheap griffey shoes
Non-Dodgers to win NL Gold Gloves were St. Lous catcher Yadier Molina, Cincinnati first baseman Joey Votto and second baseman Brandon Phillips, Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, Philadelphia third baseman Placido Polanco and Arizona left fielder Gerardo Parra.
Managers and coaches do the voting.cheap ken griffey shoes
McCourt to sell Dodgers
LOS ANGELES — Frank McCourt has agreed to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers, surrendering the team he fought to retain for two years and in two courts.
McCourt and Major League Baseball have agreed to seek approval from U.S. Bankruptcy Court for an auction of the Dodgers.griffeys sneakers
Notes
? Former Mariners infielder Willie Bloomquist, 33, has declined his end of a $1.1 million mutual option for 2012 with the Arizona Diamondbacks.ken griffey sneakers
? Brian Cashman, New York Yankees general manager, signed a three-year, $9 million contract.
The Verizon iPhone hype: Oh, where do we begin
The news release, from Verizon Wireless, was marked urgent.
Complete text:
“iPhone 4. Verizon. It begins.”king griffeys 2012
Hate to break it to the phone company, but honestly, the “It begins” line really should be saved for actual, monumental events. Like wars. Periods of drought or famine. Breaking of ground on a viaduct replacement. Free chowder at Ivar’s. Or Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.
Otherwise, you risk looking especially lame when, as in this case, the decided lack of enthusiasm for said overpriced product at Verizon stores signals that, even before “it” began, something unexpected might have occurred.king griffeys
It ended.
More unsettling hype:
You Hate It When This Happens: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s announcement of his triumphant returning to acting was tempered by the sobering realization that there’s only one role for a sad, old, sexist former steroid abuser who has left an entire state in ruins. And he’s already played it.kids ken griffey shoes
Welcome To Jacques Cousteau Realty: About a third of Seattle metro-area residents with home mortgages now owe more than their homes are worth, http://www.griffeys2012forcheap.com estimates. Everyone else is living with their parents.kids griffey shoes
Ding Dong: Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down. Sources said it was the incessant breathless coverage of that Egypt-fleeing grandma on Seattle-area TV stations (She’s lost at the Cairo airport! She’s found at the Cairo airport! She’s lifted off! She’s landed in New York! She’s landed in Seattle! She’s at baggage claim! She can’t get a cab! She’s on Shuttle Express! She’s at her doorstep! She’s on her couch! She’s eating Bran Chex! … ) that finally pushed him over the edge.
The Week’s Poetic Justice Award: More than 100 pages of interview transcripts, photographs and other documents related to sexual-assault claims against WikiLeaks head Julian Assange have been leaked online.griffey shoes
Still Huffing, No Puffing: President Obama, D-Marlboro Country, quit smoking almost a year ago, first lady Michelle Obama said. He’s using replacement therapy: Every time he’s tempted to light one up, he caves in to a Republican demand instead.king griffey shoes
Meanwhile, In Gotham City: Donald Trump is considering throwing the strange animal that rides atop his head into the ring for the U.S. presidency in 2012.griffey shoes 2012
The Captain Has Turned On The d-CON Light: An Alaska Airlines flight from Sea-Tac was delayed when a rat was found prancing around inside the cabin. Seems like a lot of fuss, especially when Southwest is running that First-Rat-Flies-Free promotion.
Speaking Of Which: Anyone willing to bet that Alaska plane made a recent stop in Newark?ken griffey shoes
Leading By Example: Rumor is that Ken Griffey Jr. might return to the Mariners in a “consulting” role. He could bring a badly needed dose of entitlement to the clubhouse.cheap griffeys
And Finally: It says something about America; we’re just not sure what. The “most-shared” story list on Google News, Friday afternoon: 1) Egypt Unrest. 2) Egypt Unrest. 3) Listen to Lady Gaga’s New Single, “Born This Way,” HERE!!! 4) Mubarak Steps Down. 5) Mubarak Refuses To Step Down. 6) Egypt Protests. 7) Beer Lovers More Likely to Have Sex on First Date.ken griffey jr shoes
Ron Judd’s column appears each Sunday. He also writes Restless Native columns. Reach him at griffeys2012forcheap.com
NBA | Charles Barkley arrested on DUI charges
Charles Barkley was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol early Wednesday.
An officer with a task force that targets drunken driving saw the former NBA star run a stop sign about 1:30 a.m., Gilbert police Lt. Eric Shuhandler said. Barkley was in Scottsdale’s Old Town area, a trendy spot in the Phoenix area.
“I am disappointed that I put myself in that situation,” Barkley said in a statement to The Associated Press. “The Scottsdale police were fantastic. I will not comment any further as it is a legal matter.”Air Max2 CB 94
The 45-year-old Barkley, now an NBA television commentator, failed field sobriety tests after the officer smelled alcohol on him, and he was arrested. Barkley declined to submit to a breath test but was given a blood test. The results weren’t immediately available.
Barkley was cited and released. His car was impounded and he left in a cab, Shuhandler said. Police described Barkley as cooperative, adding it is customary to release people after an arrest on suspicion of DUI.
“There was nothing unusual about how he was taken into custody,” Shuhandler said. “He was treated exactly like we treat anybody else.”Nike Air Max2 CB 94
Thunder wins No. 4
OKLAHOMA CITY — Scott Brooks figured his Oklahoma City Thunder team had been in enough close games in the fourth quarter to eventually win one. The team’s time came Wednesday night.
The Thunder pulled away in the third quarter and held on for a 107-100 victory over Golden State. It was only the fourth win of the season for Oklahoma City, which snapped a five-game losing streak.
“We’ve had a lot of fourth-quarter games. When you’re put in that situation constantly, you get better,” the interim coach said. “You find a rhythm. You find a little bit of anger inside your soul and say you’re going to keep fighting, we’re going to break through. And we’ve done that.”
Jeff Green scored 18 of his 26 points in the second half. Oklahoma City turned 20 Golden State turnovers into 24 points, many coming off steals.Charles Barkley shoes
“It’s obviously a big win for all of us, fans included,” Scott said. “They’re sticking with us, which is incredible. I’ve been around 17, 18 years in the league and you don’t see that. Players feel good about that and we all appreciate that.”
? Orlando guard Mickael Pietrus will be out indefinitely after breaking his right wrist on a dunk against Detroit on Monday.Nike Air Trainer Max 2 94
One of the Magic’s main three-point threats, Pietrus is averaging 11.7 points. But he has had trouble staying healthy after the Magic signed him away from Golden State in the offseason. Pietrus was appearing in his fifth straight game on Monday after missing 10 with a torn ligament in his right thumb.
? Forward Jermaine O’Neal (knee) and guard Jason Kapono (quadriceps) missed Toronto’s game against Denver.Air Trainer Max 2 94
? Washington forward Caron Butler had an MRI that revealed no serious damage to his injured left ankle. The MRI confirmed the initial diagnosis of a sprain, and he will continue to be listed as day-to-day.
Butler hurt the ankle during the loss to Cleveland on Christmas Day. He has since missed three games.
? Longtime NBA assistant Ron Adams has been hired to complete Brooks’ staff in Oklahoma City.
Mercer Island teen opts for charity at his bar mitzvah
Earlier this year, Rebecca Fox-Dewhurst and her son, Ben Dewhurst, were perusing invitations for his coming bar mitzvah when Ben noticed one in particular. On the front were the image of a globe and a quote from the Talmud: “Whoever saves a single life,” it read, “is as if one saves the entire world.”
Before long, Ben — a 13-year-old, soccer-playing Kanye West fan — found himself immersed in the life of a young woman 60 years before his time, a non-Jew whose family in Ukraine had helped rescue a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust.Nike Air Yeezy 2
Now, with his celebration today, Ben not only will acknowledge his transition into adulthood but the actions of those who, in one of history’s darkest periods, helped Jews survive persecution.
The invitation that broadened Ben’s purpose touted the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR), a 22-year-old New York-based agency offering financial support to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during World War II.Air Yeezy 2
Through its bar/bat mitzvah program, the JFR encourages boys and girls to incorporate the Jewish commitments to tzedakah, or charity, and hakarat hatov, the seeking out and recognition of goodness, into their experience. Children choose to pair with one of the 100 or so rescuers profiled on the JFR Web site, typically honoring that rescuer’s deeds during their celebrations.
Ultimately, they contribute to the foundation, which suggests a donation of $5 per invitation mailed. In Ben’s case, that would be about $500. “Ben just felt that this invitation did what he wanted to do with his bar mitzvah,” Fox-Dewhurst said. “He said, ‘That is so incredibly cool, Mom.’ “Air Yeezy
The JFR each month sends money to nearly 1,200 verified rescuers in 26 countries. The greatest numbers are in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Hungary; 17 are in the U.S. Most are Catholic, some Muslim, and their stories are verified by Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem, a 55-year-old organization that documents the history of Jews during the Holocaust and those who helped save them.
Ben, a seventh-grader at Mercer Island’s Islander Middle School, scrolled through the dozens of JFR’s rescuer anecdotes and an hour later came to his parents with one that had stuck out to him — the story of Emilia Maksimova, a Ukrainian.Air Yeezy shoes
“She helped a kid about my age,” he said. “She and her family took her home. They even moved and went to a lot of trouble to help.”Air Yeezys sneakers
Maksimova’s parents found Nusia, a 10-year-old Jewish girl abandoned on the street. The family kept her in hiding, sometimes under the floorboards of their home, until the war ended. At age 13, Nusia was reunited with her parents. Now living in Israel, she still corresponds with Maksimova, who is in her 90s and has since relocated to Russia.
Like Maksimova, many surviving rescuers are now aged and struggling, perhaps coping with the aftermath of communism’s fall in Eastern Europe.Air Yeezy glow in the dark
“The elderly are not running around with fur coats and driving Mercedeses,” said JFR Executive Director Stanlee Stahl. “The idea is to provide additional funds so they can live out the remainder of their years in dignity.”Nike Air Yeezy For Women
“After learning the stories, I realized not enough people know about them,” said Rachel Siegel, a Dallas girl who celebrated her bat mitzvah in September 2007 and has earned more than $12,000 for the organization through sales of a book she wrote about Holocaust rescuers, “Stories of Moral Courage.”
Rescuers apply their money toward expenses such as food, heat and medication. Alternately, they might put out a big holiday feast for their grandchildren, or save their money in order to replace an outhouse with a new bathroom.Cheap Air Yeezy
While the notion of tzedakah is a responsibility, Stahl said, it nonetheless takes “a special kind of kid” to opt for a charity-oriented celebration. “That says to me that the child and the family have put the bar mitzvah into the right perspective,” she said.kanye west shoes
That’s what drew Susan Hoerger, of Chapel Hill, N.C., to the organization, when her son Jacob celebrated his bar mitzvah in 2005. “The greatest charity you can do is not only to save people you don’t know, but people who aren’t even your people,” she said. “It’s the height of righteousness.”
More than 900 youngsters have participated in the program. The matches with rescuers are strictly symbolic; donations don’t go directly to those individuals but into a pool of funds that benefit all rescuers.air yeezy shoes glow in the dark
“I think it’s important that you teach young people that you need to give back, that there’s something bigger than themselves,” Stahl said.Air Yeezy kanye west shoes
For 90 minutes every Thursday, Ben has been studying for his big day at Temple B’nai Torah, reading out of the Torah in Hebrew. One night, he looks over the script, fidgeting in his polo shirt and tennis shoes, anticipating the day when he’ll be draped with a tallit, or prayer shawl, and sing a hymn for the congregation.
Ben is earning his donation by doing odd jobs for his parents — six extra hours of work a week, including some recycling and yard duty and organizing some of his dad’s old files.Nike Air Yeezy Shoes
“A lot of things he’d like to do, like video gaming, have just disappeared from his life right now,” said Ben’s father, Tim Dewhurst.air yeezy shoes for sale
“[Ben] has kept up with it, despite his overloaded schedule,” Fox-Dewhurst said. Sure, sometimes he needs to be reminded; he’s a kid after all. Nonetheless, he’s going to have a party, and most of the attendees will be kids his age. The setting, as is Ben’s style, will be a modest community-center one.
“Ben’s only real request is that he has a chocolate fountain there,” Fox-Dewhurst said.cheap air yeezy shoes
What has Ben learned from his involvement? “That you should help people through their hard times,” he said. That even under the most trying of circumstances, he said, it’s possible to find goodness in people.
Ken Griffey Jr. announces retirement
“The players didn’t hear the news – Ken Griffey Jr. had just announced his retirement – until manager Don Wakamatsu huddled his Seattle Mariners around him just before batting practice Wednesday.
Milton Bradley glanced at the gray sky above Safeco Field and turned to teammate Mike Sweeney.griffey shoes
“It ought to rain on this day,” he said.ken griffey shoes
The face of the Mariners organization since being drafted as a teenager in 1987, Griffey retired Wednesday with a telephone call to friend and team president Chuck Armstrong.ken griffey jr shoes
“While I feel I am still able to make a contribution on the field, and nobody in the Mariners front office has asked me to retire, I told the Mariners … I will never allow myself to become a distraction,” Griffey said in a written statement.
“Without enough occasional starts to be sharper coming off the bench, my continued presence as a player would be an unfair distraction to my teammates.”griffeys
Griffey left the game at age 40, after 22 big-league seasons in which he became one of baseball’s most recognizable players. He retired with a .284 lifetime average, 630 home runs and 1,836 RBI.griffeys 2012
“Speaking for every other player on this team, I love Ken Griffey Jr.,” Sweeney said. “It’s hard, there’s a void that will never be filled. Ken’s heart, his charisma, you can’t replace that – on or off the field.”
This season, Junior batted just .184 in 33 games – 98 at-bats – and had seen his role diminished from primary designated hitter to occasional pinch-hitter.cheap griffeys
“It’s a sad day for all of us with the team, because he’s not just been a great baseball player, he’s been a personal friend,” Wakamatsu said.king griffey shoes
It wasn’t long after the news became public that people began talking about Griffey and his remarkable career.”
Randy Johnson, Dan Wilson’s return sparks memories of Mariners’ golden era
One complaint about the Mariners and their fans (and some media, for that matter) is that they live in the past, specifically clinging too tightly to 1995.
There’s some truth to that, but the obsession with their (relative) glory days will dissipate when there’s a better present. And 1995, along with the era closely surrounding it, was pretty darned amazing. So was the cast of characters that populated that vintage of Mariners baseball.
I was reminded of that anew on Friday while watching a video tribute to Randy Johnson and Dan Wilson at a luncheon to honor their induction into the Mariners Hall of Fame, which took place Saturday.griffeys
It was hard not to be stirred by the images of Johnson storming off the mound, eyes ablaze after a big strikeout, gesticulating and screaming to no one and everyone. You can count Wilson — an integral, if much less flashy, part of those teams — as one of those stirred as he watched from the podium.
“I think the thing that struck me, as a player you understand that intensity,” he said. “But having been out of the game, to see Randy’s intensity, the fire, I’d kind of forgotten about that, and how awesome that is.
“For me, that’s what struck me — and how fun it was.”griffeys 2012
Fun — that’s a condition too often missing from Safeco Field these days. It takes a pennant race to truly reach the pinnacle of enjoyment in a baseball season, and that one was our first, and still our best.
Johnson was asked about one particular, iconic image: him embracing Wilson after finishing off the Angels in the one-game playoff for the division title at the Kingdome. You know the one.cheap griffeys
“That was the most powerful moment while I was here, ‘95,” he said. “Had we not won the division, we never would have played the Yankees. We got more fan support, more attention, when we won that one-game playoff. We gave fans and national media more time to figure out who we were up in Seattle.”
What they discovered, among other things, was an endearing battery comprised of two guys who couldn’t have been more polar opposite. Wilson was mannered and smooth, so baby-faced that Ken Griffey Jr. joked in a video message Friday that “when Dan was traded here from the Reds, Jay (Buhner) and I looked at each other and said, ‘Did they throw in the bat boy, too?’ With that boyish look you had, we thought you were part of a boy band.”
Johnson was rough around the edges, mulleted and mean, someone you didn’t want to cross on game day — or any other day. He played with a grudge and, all these years later, wasn’t apologizing for it.griffey shoes
“I wasn’t the easiest to work with, I’ll admit that,” he said. “I wouldn’t change that, because that’s what made me me, and why Dan is him, because he could handle me back then. Some catchers couldn’t. I’ll make up for not being nice back then by saying, ‘Dan, let’s go get a beer tonight.’ ”
Both Johnson and Wilson thrived under Lou Piniella — another of the charismatic characters who make that era so compelling. Wilson mentioned playing with four first-ballot Hall of Famers — Johnson, Griffey, Alex Rodriguez and Ichiro — before turning on the podium to Edgar Martinez and saying, “Gar, we know you’re going to be the fifth one in the Hall of Fame. Can’t wait for that day. Coming soon.”
All but Ichiro intertwined with Johnson and Wilson between 1995 and 1998 (and all but Martinez eventually left Seattle). The fact that period produced just two playoff appearances, and no World Series, is an enduring mystery and the organization’s ultimate underachievement. Johnson says flatly that the 1995 Mariners were more talented than his 2001 Diamondbacks, who won the World Series over the Yankees (the Yankees knocked out the 116-win Mariners in the American League Championship Series)
“The (Mariners) team we had, the amount of talent we had, was unparalleled to any team,” Johnson said. “All that being said, yes, I’m surprised we didn’t do more. Not a lot materialized, not as much as everyone hoped.”ken griffey shoes
Wilson has the distinction of being on every Mariners playoff team — 2000 and ‘01 in addition to ‘95 and ‘97. He talked about how his buddy Rich Amaral, who made the trip to Seattle for the ceremony this weekend from his home in Southern California, used to give him surfing lessons.
“He’d say the key is to be patient and catch a good wave,” Wilson told the crowd at Safeco Field during the luncheon. “As I look out over my baseball career in Seattle, what a great wave it was for me in Seattle.”ken griffey jr shoes
It was the greatest wave this organization has ever known, cresting in 1995. And while we wait for the next one, we’ll keep reminiscing about the Big Unit, Dan of Steel, and the rest of those bygone players. It might be nostalgia overkill, but at times like this, with Johnson and Wilson at the forefront, it still seems right.
Mariners’ Eric Wedge will hold players to a higher standard
If you fear the Mariners’ youth movement is an aimless attempt to waste time, don’t tell Eric Wedge. His eyes, which seemingly talk louder than his booming voice, might pop out and berate you.
Actually, Wedge is quite mild-mannered, even though he’s so passionate. But he’s bullish on the idea that the Mariners can be young and progressive instead of young and reckless. You look at another season of development as more of the same for a franchise that hasn’t been to the playoffs in 11 years. He looks at it differently.
In short, Wedge expects and will push for more even as the Mariners try to sell the importance of patience. For Wedge, this season won’t just be about tossing a baseball to the kiddies and seeing what they can do with it. It’s about expediting their growth process by holding them to a higher standard.ken griffey shoes
“I want these kids to understand it’s about going out there and getting it done,” the second-year Mariners manager said recently. “The expectations are coming from me right now. I’m not waiting.ken griffey jr shoes
“The difference between last year and this year is all about advancing and achieving. It’s not about surviving, which many of them had to do last season. It’s not about getting to the big leagues and seeing what you can do. Now it’s about performance and production. And that’s what leads to winning.”
This is an important footnote as spring training begins this week in Peoria, Ariz., with pitchers and catchers reporting Saturday. The common concern about a rebuilding process heavy on player development is that a team can fall into the disappointing cycle of always being a year away. The Mariners need to speed up the process as much as possible.cheap griffeys
To do that, Wedge needs to get more out of players such as second baseman Dustin Ackley, catcher Jesus Montero and first baseman Justin Smoak as soon possible. And in the front office, general manager Jack Zduriencik needs to have the proper foresight to make decisions on which players to build around and which ones to use as assets to acquire the right pieces to build a winner.
It’s a misperception to believe the Mariners are only interested in methodically developing a 25-man roster full of homegrown players. That’s not realistic. They need to identify stars, put them in a position to succeed and trade some potential for certainty when appropriate. As much as anything, the Montero/Michael Pineda trade served as a difficult-to-accept reminder that every intriguing young star won’t get to grow up fully in the organization.
While the Pineda move was a deal made because the Mariners are desperate for hitting, the guess is the future deals won’t be young-talent-for-young-talent swaps. Moving forward, the Mariners will need to be shrewd in determining when it’s right to swap promise for immediate help. Just as important, they’ll need to know when it’s right not to do so.king griffey shoes
“I could pick up the phone right now and trade a Taijuan Walker or a Danny Hultzen or a James Paxton,” Zduriencik said, referring to his top three pitching prospects. “But would it be the right thing to do? No, it wouldn’t. We’re trying to build an organization, and part of that is knowing who to build this thing around. We want to be the best at it. We want the Ken Griffeys, the A-Rods, the Felix Hernandezes.”
It all starts with Wedge. A few weeks ago, he invited nine players to Seattle for several days of meetings, which included tough love, bonding and clarity on their roles and what he expects. The nine players were a combination of veterans and youngsters who need to show significant improvement if they want to improve on their 67-95 record of last season. They were: Chone Figgins, Franklin Gutierrez, Miguel Olivo, Casper Wells, Kyle Seager, Brendan Ryan, new catcher John Jaso, Smoak and Ackley.
Wedge’s standard will be much higher this season, and he wanted those players to be the first to know it. The manager did a solid job a year ago helping the Mariners return to an acceptable level of accountability and professionalism. But he had to work with 18 rookies, and struggles were inevitable.griffeys
In 2012, that won’t be an excuse. He won’t have nearly as many rookies this time. And now that many of those 2011 rookies have major-league experience, he wants more — especially at the plate, where the Mariners have had one of the worst two-year runs in history.
“I’m sticking my neck out, but I think this should be a year we take a significant leap forward offensively, and I’ll be disappointed if we don’t,” Wedge said. “That’s how confident I am in this plan and in our young kids.”
The words sound like music now, but in practice, it will be much more difficult. This season can’t be a 162-game exhibition of weighing what they’ve got. They’re still in the business of projecting with so many youngsters, but they need production, too.
Will they get it? It’s a must to avoid the cycle of always being a year away.
Ken Griffey Jr. returns to Seattle a grown man
Ken Griffey Jr. is back, and it’s tempting to add the traditional addendum: It’s like he never left.
On the surface, that seems to be true. The face may be a bit more weathered, and the body a little more padded. But when he puts on the iconic No. 24 and steps in the box, bat cocked, Griffey still strikes the same imposing image.
Griffey once again is the hub of the Mariners’ clubhouse, just as he was in his Seattle glory days, minus the recliner — a veritable magnetic field that attracts players, media, team employees and anyone else who wanders by into his web.cheap griffeys 2012
“When he starts talking and telling stories, you’ll see everybody in the locker room just start circling around him,” observed Mike Morse.
He still gives off that intoxicating mix of energy, humor, bravado, charisma and, when something crosses him, flashes of rancor.cheap ken griffey shoes
“To me, everything seems the same,” said longtime Mariners trainer Rick Griffin. “I think he’s glad he came back. I think he’s very comfortable.”
That much is undeniably true. Griffey noted that his adjustment period in his second Seattle incarnation is greatly accelerated from that of the traditional free agent trying to find his place among new teammates and team personnel.
“Who’s who, who can you trust — I pretty much have that down pat,” he said.griffeys for women
But let’s get past the notion that Griffey has somehow been frozen in time and will be unleashed on Monday as a slightly grizzled version of his old self.
Obviously, from a baseball standpoint, his career has been in steady decline since he left Seattle after the 1999 season, ravaged by a staggering rash of injuries. Griffey is 39, coming off a season in which he was hampered much of the second half by a gimpy knee that required October surgery.
The Mariners know they’re not going to get the Griffey who ruled baseball in the 1990s, the one who averaged 52 homers from 1996 to 1999, won the 1997 Most Valuable Player award and vied with Barry Bonds for the title of Best Player in the World.
And their more realistic fans know it, too.griffeys for kids
“What I’d like to have is have Ken Griffey for 162 games,” said general manager Jack Zduriencik. “We as a group have to be cautious and careful, realizing he’s had injuries in the past. He’s coming off a surgery this year alone.
“We acquired him because we think his at-bats are going to help us. If he’s healthy for 162 games, he can be a productive player for us, and that’s what we’re counting on.”griffey shoes
But beyond what Griffey has to offer on the playing field — and remember, his career arc is not abnormal, although conspicuously different from peers like Bonds and Roger Clemens who had miraculous upswings in their late 30s — are the unseen changes.
Not from the amalgam of knee, hamstring, calf, ankle and wrist injuries that derailed him in Cincinnati, leaving Griffey with 611 home runs that somehow feel like a mere shadow of what could have been.
The ones in his heart. The ones in his soul.ken griffey shoes
“I don’t think people realize how much I’ve changed since I left,” Griffey said in a wide-ranging, 90-minute interview during spring training. “They just think of me as a 19-year-old kid.
“I have a son now that’s 15 — four years younger than I was when I was there. He’s at that stage of his life, a lot of people can be an influence on him. I have to be there to guide him.”
Talk about déjà vu — just as when he pushed for his Seattle departure a decade ago, Griffey had to wrestle with family considerations when his decision for a 2009 destiny came down to Seattle or Atlanta.ken griffey jr shoes
The Mariners offered roots, the completion of a journey. But Atlanta offered a much more feasible opportunity to watch his three children — Trey, 15; Taryn, 13; and Tevin, 6 — in their sports and school ventures.
It was, as has been well-chronicled, an agonizing decision, one in which just about everyone seemed to have a tip or piece of advice. Harold Reynolds, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, et al.
In the end, however, it came down to Griffey, wife Melissa, and the three children. And, at its fundamental level, to Junior himself.air griffey max fury 2012
“It was just a matter of what I felt was best,” he said. “Not what everyone else bleeping wanted me to think. Everybody calling my house — ‘you should do that, you should do this.’
“I can’t be persuaded by what someone else says. I’m going to make up my own mind, because I’m the one that has to live with it. How can someone tell you where to go, someone who had nothing to do with my life, never been inside my walls?
“At 19, that might have happened. At 39, no. Like I told everybody, I’m a grown-ass man. Simple and plain.”king griffey shoes
In the end, Griffey laid out all of his kids’ sports schedules — high school football for Trey, AAU basketball for Taryn — on the kitchen counter, juxtaposed against the schedules of the Mariners and Braves, and hashed out the logistics.
Hard as it was to give up the proximity to Orlando that Atlanta would have brought, it might have been the wisdom of Taryn that sealed the deal for Seattle.
“It was Wednesday, and Kenny had promised by the end of that day to make a decision,” related Brian Goldberg, Griffey’s longtime agent. “That was when he had his conversation with Willie Mays, who asked him about all the years left in his life, how he wanted his legacy to be remembered.
“Taryn came home a couple of hours later. Melissa said, ‘Ken, Taryn has something to tell you.’ She said, ‘Dad, I know you want input from all us kids. I have to tell you, even though my games are the ones you’ll miss the most, I think you should finish up your baseball career in Seattle.’
“That seemed to put things right over the top. It was just an hour or two after that Junior decided Seattle was where he wanted to end up.”griffeys
And so now Junior returns — a senior, really; just a year younger than his father when he joined Ken Jr. in Seattle in 1990 as the first father-son pairing in baseball history. Griffey has been tempered, as so many middle-aged people have, by tragedy and family trauma.
His parents, Birdie and Ken Sr., both have had cancer battles. One close friend died of sickle-cell anemia, and another acquaintance, a stuntman, died recently in a motorcycle accident.
His best friend — the man that Griffey says was the solitary member of his “inner circle,” Frank King — died of cancer last May at age 38.nike air griffey max 1
“I’ve probably learned a lot over the last three years — both my parents having problems, my best friend dying,” he said. “A guy I know decided to do a back flip and not make it and die. Payne Stewart. I’ve had some people check out on me.
“You really learn not to take things for granted. One day, your best friend is there, looking at you and laughing. The next day, he’s lying in a hospital bed, fighting for his life. Five months later, you’re planning for his funeral.”
King and Griffey met as kids in Cincinnati and forged a lifelong friendship. When Griffey was drafted by the Mariners, King joined him in Seattle, and he followed him back to Cincinnati when Griffey signed with the Reds. He lived just a few miles from the Griffeys in Orlando.
“This is my first spring training since 1990 [that] Frank hasn’t been here,” Griffey said quietly. “One of my friends drove my car in; usually, that would be Frank. There’s certain things I do, and I’ll just start laughing, because I’d know, that’s Frank.”air griffey max 2
From King’s cancer diagnosis early in 2008, to chemotherapy, to surgery, to death was just a matter of months. His last call from the hospital was to Griffey, who was with the Reds. Melissa Griffey was with King in the hospital when he died. Although manager Dusty Baker gave Griffey the opportunity to sit out, he played that night for the Reds.
“Everyone said, ‘Man, take the day off.’ I looked at them and said, ‘No, because Frank King wouldn’t want it that way.’ So our motto is, ‘Frank King wouldn’t want it that way.’ ”
The hardest part, Griffey said, was telling his children, who had grown close to King.cheap griffey shoes
“Taryn’s my rock. Oh, my God,” Griffey said, smiling. “Melissa brought Taryn and Tevin, and Taryn said, ‘Frank died.’ Before Melissa even said anything.”
Griffey attended two funerals for King, one in Florida and one in Cincinnati.
“Everyone wanted me to say something about Frank, and I couldn’t,” he said.
But he reminisced warmly about King this spring, his fondness for his buddy evident.ken griffey shoes 2012
“Frank fixed a whole lot of stuff in other people’s houses,” he said. “Well, all the stuff he fixed? Within a week after he died, something else broke in their house. Something was wrong in about five people’s houses — like a pipe busted behind the toilet, the fan broke, the garage door. Everything Frank knew how to fix. Everyone was like, ‘Damn it, Frank.’
“His prized possession was his toolbox. And I have his toolbox. Jen, his wife, was like, ‘What’s the one thing you want?’ I said, ‘His toolbox.’ So I got it. I put it in my trailer. He cared about his tools. I could call him to fix something, and he’d say, ‘I’ll be there in a minute. Got to get my tools.’ ”
Any conversation with Griffey, he invariably reroutes to friends and family, and it rarely takes long. While he is loath to talk about himself, and merely tolerates talking about baseball, he absolutely adores discussing his family, which dovetails with the description of himself he offered.
“I’m a parent with an abnormal job,” he said. “That’s all I am. If I wasn’t on TV, and I didn’t hit a home run, would you really care who I was? Probably not.”griffeys for sale
Griffey has long rebelled against the lack of privacy that comes with being a celebrity. He regrets that caution and prudence in dealing with the public has at times been misconstrued as petulance.
“It doesn’t mean I’m a [jerk] at all,” he said. “It’s just in the back of my mind, I wonder what you’re thinking when you run up to me. You know what you’re thinking when you come to me. I have no idea. And I think people don’t understand that.”
It’s no wonder, then, that his happiest times are at home with Melissa and his “rockheads,” as he affectionately calls his children.
“There’s no interviews, no contracts,” he said. “I’m just Dad.”griffey shoes 2012
Now that Trey has entered high school, “I think he still considers me one of his friends. I told him, ‘When you go to college, I’m going with you. You can introduce me as your older roommate.’ He didn’t like that. ‘No, you can’t do that, Dad. Please.’ ”
One of Griffey’s concerns this year is to keep the Mariners’ season from turning into a wave of Junior nostalgia, aimed backward rather than at the Mariners’ present and future.
“This is a baseball decision, bringing him here,” team president Chuck Armstrong said. “Ken told me he didn’t come back for some sort of Cal Ripken farewell tour.
“We lost 101 games. Jack and [manager] Don [Wakamatsu] are looking to turn this thing around and establish our own foundation of success. When Jack came to me and said, ‘We really think Griffey will help us; he can be the bat and personality we need,’ only then I went to work to sign him.”
Griffey comes back knowing that, at least initially, everyone will want a piece of him.women ken griffey shoes
“I can hide really well,” he said with a glint.
Griffey, of course, is being counted on by the Mariners to facilitate a different sort of interaction. Their clubhouse was a toxic mess last year, and they hope that veterans like Griffey and Mike Sweeney will help forge a new cohesiveness — a role Griffey embraces.
Under Griffey’s watch, the clubhouse in spring was an inclusive place, and will continue to be, he vowed. It can also be a raunchy place, where no one is safe from his needle.griffey shoes for women
“For the most part, from No. 1 to number … how many other guys are in here … 45? Nobody’s untouchable,” he said.
Including Griffey himself? “Yeah. The difference is I’ve been around, so I’m a little more witty about what I can say.”
Griffey’s firm belief is that horseplay and ribbing in spring fosters meaningful dialogue when issues inevitably crop up.griffey shoes
“It’s all about getting together, making good friendships, and carrying that onto the field,” he said. “It’s trust — like, hey, if he can get on me, and I can get on him, we can talk later if there’s something I need to bring up. Instead of not talking to somebody, and all of a sudden you need to confront him on something. If you don’t have that friendship, they’ll look at you like you’re crazy.
“It’s a little different with me, because I have 20 years. People look at it a little differently than someone with four or five. But I’m not going to be the guy to embarrass somebody. I’ve never done that. If I have something to say, I’ll pull them aside. Because that’s the way I’d want someone to do it to me.
“We can agree to disagree, or come to some sort of understanding. But there’s not 15 guys trying to take sides. It’s just two guys. No one wants to be backed into a corner. First thing they do is come out swinging.”
After one game this spring, a weary looking Russ Branyan entered the clubhouse.
“Where do you find the energy to lift after these games,” he asked Griffey.griffeys 2012
“You just got to dig deep. Dig deep,” Griffey responded.
Branyan turned to the writers surrounding Griffey at the time. “See the type of leader we’ve got?”
He was being whimsical, but the M’s hope there’s truth behind that statement as well.
Wakamatsu has been delighted with what he saw from Griffey in spring.
“When you talk about some of the anxieties or pressures that come with this game, I think Ken takes some of that away,” he said. “Just by his presence and his calmness and, really, his spirit, being there every day. He’s been a joy to be around.”
Adds Armstrong, “I think he’s become a very wise man, a baseball sage. He understands the game and its importance.”
Junior, who came here to Seattle as a teenager, returns as a parent with an abnormal job.
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