Jake Peavy Speaks!

by Al Yellon on Feb 11, 2009 8:41 PM CST

Our fellow SBN'ers at Gaslamp Ball conducted a long interview with Jake Peavy; the link has both mp3's of the interview as well as some highlights. Among the highlights:

▝ "If I wanted to be on another team... then I think we could have pressed the issue." He signed last year's contract in order to play in San Diego and bring a World Championship to the city.

▝ Jake Peavy didn't want to talk to press because if he says one thing then it can be misconstrued.

▝ "The internet is such a helpful thing at times... there is so much stuff on the internet that's just false." Peavy's family reads the internet and he tells them "You guys know me and know what I would do and wouldn't do, you can't believe all that you read and that's with the utmost respect to the media but these BLOGS..." Peavy doesn't know how the "Go Cubs Go" song goes and he doesn't know why someone would say that he sang it.

Emphasis to that last sentence added by me.

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When is the next post on Brian Roberts?

by LT on Feb 11, 2009 8:44 PM CST reply actions

I suppose, if someone does an interview with him, I'd post it.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Feb 11, 2009 8:50 PM CST up reply actions

Saw this on their website earlier today.

Chose not to get flamed for posting it here :D

What to do, with Larry Hughe?

by Rudey on Feb 11, 2009 8:52 PM CST up reply actions

that was just a joke

and a lame one at that lol

by LT on Feb 11, 2009 9:07 PM CST up reply actions

OK...

http://masnsports.com/2009/02/brian-roberts-on-masn-and-1057.html

B-Rob appears on a weekly show and the link covers excerpts from yesterdays’ call-in. There isn’t much new stuff there but since you said you’d post it if he does an interview……

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on Feb 12, 2009 6:26 AM CST up reply actions

No problem.

I didn’t see that or I would have.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Feb 12, 2009 8:57 AM CST up reply actions

Ah don't do it if

you don’t want. Just because I whine about wanting him leading off in Cubbie Blue doesn’t mean we need to start numerous B-Rob threads.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on Feb 12, 2009 12:13 PM CST up reply actions

I dont believe that for one minute

That he wants to waste away while SD begins a decade long rebuilding process, come on

Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.

by bren on Feb 11, 2009 8:54 PM CST reply actions 2 recs

+1

by lexmarklover on Feb 11, 2009 9:01 PM CST up reply actions

+1

Since he didn’t get traded (as we all know he wants/wanted), he is going to play the good little player who wants to help his team win a championship. He changed his tune based on the fact he didn’t get traded.

"Prince Fielder Dies Of Inside-The-Park Homerun" - The Onion

by DTJchris on Feb 11, 2009 9:44 PM CST up reply actions

+1!

rec’d

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on Feb 12, 2009 6:15 AM CST up reply actions

What else is he going to say?

-Get me the heck out of town!
-Help, my marketability is going to get trashed when this team scores 1.2 runs a game for me!
-There is nowhere else I’d rather be…except Chicago, or New York, or heck even Seattle.

"Manny Trillo is coming in to pinch run. You know, for a lot of teams, you would pinch run [i]for[/i] Manny Trillo." - Harry Caray

by Archie on Feb 12, 2009 11:57 AM CST up reply actions

is it me only

or does this reek of "lets calm the masses:

"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic

by Cubbie-Tim on Feb 11, 2009 9:01 PM CST reply actions

Nah.

If it were on the Pads website, then maybe. This is on a random blog though. I don’t see any agenda here.

by kanderber on Feb 11, 2009 9:15 PM CST up reply actions

maybe

it was not Peavy, but an impersonator, because Peavy answered each question with Cubs, Tradition, Cubs, BCB, Cubs, Wrigley, Cubs, Cub Fans

"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic

by Cubbie-Tim on Feb 11, 2009 9:26 PM CST up reply actions

The San Diego Padres

have masses of fans?

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Feb 11, 2009 11:14 PM CST up reply actions

Sort of

IMO, it’s the “gentlemanly” thing to say. He’s being cordial and saying the right things.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on Feb 12, 2009 6:16 AM CST up reply actions

Jake Peavy Speaks...

…and the Red Sea parts. :-P

by Flatley on Feb 11, 2009 9:07 PM CST reply actions

His only chance to win a championship in San Diego...

… is if he suits up with the Chargers. Maybe he can play tight end?

In the middle of a good time, Truth gave me her icy kiss. Look around, you must be joking. All that way, all that way for this? -Oysterband

by Ross on Feb 11, 2009 9:45 PM CST reply actions

Or joins

Womens Roller Derby

"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic

by Cubbie-Tim on Feb 11, 2009 9:49 PM CST up reply actions

Has someone checked the park effect on this interview?

I think it only sounded the way it did because it was at Gaslamp Ball. Take that same interview, put it on a different blog and it turns out he was saying, “You know me, what I’d do and what I wouldn’t do. I can’t sing alone. My harmony is all off. In reality, it was me and Brian singing ‘Go, Cubs, Go’ together. He’s the one who taught me the words.”

The author of this post is not a certified scout, doctor, agent, statistician, manager, or journalist, nor was he ever a very good player, though he tried very hard to be like Ryne Sandberg and was about as scrappy as it gets (in T-ball). Any opinion expressed above should in no way be confused with fact, truth, or reality and is hereby qualified in the following ways: 1) The author does not know as much about baseball as Lou Piniella. 2) The author does not know as much about baseball as Jim Hendry. 3) The author does not know as much about baseball as either Dusty or Darren Baker.

by DGU on Feb 11, 2009 9:58 PM CST reply actions

Where is San Diego Jazz Man now that we need him?

I wonder if he believes any of this….

"I'm not much of a chemistry guy, you know. Chemistry to me is a pinch-hit double with the bases loaded"--Jim Frey, Chicago Tribune, 1985.

by zevkalman on Feb 11, 2009 10:49 PM CST reply actions

I live there too

Peavy is a great guy. He never says the wrong thing. If you are looking for any info on this potential trade, you aren’t going to get it from him.

The trade to the Cubs was never a good fit. They need more than we could offer for a pitcher of his calibur. They will likely dump him to some desperate contender at the deadline.

by Kornchex on Feb 12, 2009 11:04 AM CST up reply actions

"I want to be a World Champion and that's all that matters to me is winning"

Read the undertones of his messages…he practically came out and said that all he wants in life is to be on the Chicago Cubs. He’ll be here shortly….Book it.

Free Ronny Cedeno

by Kansas25 on Feb 12, 2009 1:00 AM CST reply actions

Yes

Because all of the other ballplayers who have wanted to win a World Championship over the last 100 years have wanted to play for the Cubs.

by Josh Timmers on Feb 12, 2009 1:56 AM CST up reply actions

Yeah...

I meant to put the big SARCASM sign on but couldn’t find it.

Free Ronny Cedeno

by Kansas25 on Feb 12, 2009 3:25 AM CST up reply actions

Here you go.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Feb 12, 2009 8:58 AM CST up reply actions

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We are a fever ... we are a fever ... we ain't born typical.

by daver on Feb 12, 2009 10:41 AM CST up reply actions

Not necessarily "I want to be a world champion" equals "I want to play for the Cubs"

but an argument could be made that it means “I don’t want to play for the Padres.”

make*art

by neverAcquiesce on Feb 12, 2009 11:42 AM CST up reply actions

Really

in light of recent events, can you really believe any freaking athlete?
Go ahead Jake go pitch for the Padres, go 11-15 on a club that will lose 95 games on a good year.

"Have You heard of the Boom on Mizar 5?"

by Grockcubs on Feb 12, 2009 6:08 AM CST reply actions

What do you want Jake Peavy to say

Peavy has grown up in the San Diego organization and they pay him very many millions of dollars to pitch and be a good soldier. So you expect him to rip the Padres? And isn’t there just a wee bit of hypocrisy in Cub fans ripping the Padres? I mean, after all we are an organization who trademarked the phrase Luvable Loser while the Padres have actually had more playoff success since Ray Kroc founded the ballclub.

by BLou on Feb 12, 2009 8:06 AM CST up reply actions

Maybe be honest for a change

thats all, but that is to hard to ask in this day.

"Have You heard of the Boom on Mizar 5?"

by Grockcubs on Feb 12, 2009 10:52 AM CST up reply actions

Come on Al

What’s he going to say?

Hey I like the city and all. The ballpark is very friendly to me but for the love of God, please get me off this team!

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on Feb 12, 2009 6:18 AM CST reply actions

I can infer from that last statement

HE KNOWS HENDRY IS TRADING FOR HIM SO BY SAYING THAT HE ACTUALLY DOESN’T MEAN IT!! PEAVY WILL BE HERE TODAY!!

#34: You'll be missed!

by Chanman25 on Feb 12, 2009 6:42 AM CST reply actions

thats a strong

assumtion. Today? you wanna bet on it?

by Kchance on Feb 12, 2009 8:43 AM CST up reply actions

I mean the deal could happen within the hour based on this article

Clearly it stated we are getting him and Roberts..

#34: You'll be missed!

by Chanman25 on Feb 12, 2009 9:08 AM CST up reply actions

Please let this be an end to Jake Peavy talk

Memo from Al to DGU….

Peavy is dead. So is Brian Roberts, Adam Dunn, Moe Green. Slacci. Cuneo. Today I settled all family business so don’t tell me that you’re innocent. Admit what you did in the rumor mongering.

by BLou on Feb 12, 2009 8:03 AM CST reply actions

The surest way to know that Jake Peavy will be a Cub...

…is for Phil Rogers to say it isn’t going to happen.

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Feb 12, 2009 9:40 AM CST reply actions

I saw on MLB Network last night...

…that Peavy also did an interview with a local San Diego radio station. They played a brief soundbite and he sounded just about as sick and tired of hearing about Jake Peavy as the rest of us.

We are a fever ... we are a fever ... we ain't born typical.

by daver on Feb 12, 2009 10:44 AM CST reply actions

Uh, actually, having listened to the MP3s...

…it appears the Gaslamp Ball interview is the one MLBn was referring to.

We are a fever ... we are a fever ... we ain't born typical.

by daver on Feb 12, 2009 11:11 AM CST up reply actions

So what you're saying

is it’s only a matter of time until MLBN starts referencing my posts?

“Good effort by the Cubs today despite the loss, though BCB reader ‘neverAcquiesce’ claimed it was ‘a crock of shit’ and ‘Piniella needs to pull his head out of his ass ASAP.’ Thoughts?”

make*art

by neverAcquiesce on Feb 12, 2009 11:45 AM CST up reply actions