Q+A with Brad Cumiskey

Clubhouse Chatter: Who is your favorite baseball player of all-time, and why?

Brad Cumiskey: Rafael Palmeiro – How can a 3000 Hit, 500 Home Run, Viagra Popping, Viagra Touting, Stud like Rafi be under rated? People just don’t give him the respect he deserves. Take the U.S. congress for instance, what guile that organization must have to march Rafi up to Washington and accuse him of taking Steroids, essentially forcing him to point his finger at those men and declare in a forceful, low tone: “I have never taken steroids, ever, period.”

CC: There's a movie about your life. What's the title and who plays you?

BC: ‘From the Streetz’ – myself played by Eric Stoltz. Eric is one of Hollywood’s finest ginger haired actors, able to play a litany of characters. Including, my life story, about a Canadian suburban gangster, who’s had a hard life, and has a hard edge. Of note: Street is spelled with a ‘Z’ at the end to enforce the gangsterness of the source material, much like the Langley Playaz of the LMBA.

CC: Do you have any baseball superstitions?

BC: I like to visualize getting a hit prior to stepping in the box each and every time. Because, as you know, 90% of the game is half mental.

CC: What is your most embarrassing baseball moment?

BC: One year in midget ball, I was back catching a fireballer, and with a base runner on first I was primed to gun that b#@tch down. The pitch comes in, I wiff on the ball and it strikes me square in the mask; and the ball lodges itself in my mask between my eyes. I let out a highly feminine yelp, scramble around a bit trying my darndest to get the ball out of the mask. I finally get the ball out, just as the runner strolls into third base for a two base steal. Brilliant Brad.

CC: We want to read a good book, what should we read and why?

BC: No jokes on this one, 5 great books I’ve read recently:
Guns, Germs & Steel. (Jared Diamond) – Non-fiction, it explains the history of Human progress. Amazing. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Da Vinci’s Code. (Dan Brown) – Fiction. The church is mean to girls.
Into Thin Air. (John Krakauer) – Non-Fiction. An incredible story of climbing Mount Everest in the spring of 1996.
Live From New York (Various) – Non-Fiction. Numerous accounts of Writers and Actors working for Saturday Night Live.
Super System II (Doyle Brunson) – Non-Fiction. How to make money without really trying.

CC: What was the best vacation you've ever been on?

BC: Cancun, MEX. There is a video, go to my boy Riaz’s site, and download the fun:http://www.riazmeghji.com/Downloads/rm%20online%20-%20Downloads.htm

CC: What is your favorite baseball movie?

BC: Gonna have to go with ‘The Sandlot’, when that kid fakes a drowning in order to get mouth-to-mouth from the life guard — whooo weee.

CC: What's the first music album you ever bought?

BC: Mini-Pops Sing the Hitz. (with a ‘Z’)

CC: What's the most recent music album you bought?

BC: Nowadays, I only download music and mostly listen to AM sports talk radio. McKeechie is singularly the worst talk radio personality ever and Jim Rome rules, hang up clones.

CC: You have $20. It's the last $20 you can ever spend. How do you spend it?

BC: A 50 pack, the thin variety. “It feels like you're not wearing one.”

CC: Tell us a good joke. Keep it clean.

BC: Q. What did the porcupine say to the cactus?
A. "Are you my mommy?"