Q+A with Rob Aubertin

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

Rob Aubertin: Willie Mays, because he was a centrefielder extraordinaire

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

RA: I don't know how I got the MC Hammer U Can't Touch This tape, and I KNOW the New Kids tape was a gift (thanks "friend"), so it was probably Contact, a collection of pseudo-hockey songs.

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

RA: Smart Kid by the Clumsy Lovers. Good clean fun.

CC: Do you have any baseball superstitions?

RA: I always have to wear the same helmet while hitting. Chris better not have it.

CC: What is your favorite baseball movie?

RA: Does "A League of Their Own" count? Tom Hanks was very funny. Or does it have to be men playing baseball? Fine, Major League.

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

RA: Mmmmmmmmm pizza.

CC: Besides baseball, what is your favorite sport to play?

RA: Tennis anyone?

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

RA: Lucky to be Good, starring Tobey Maguire

CC: What is your most embarrassing baseball moment?

RA: Two seasons ago, in the only game that my parents and brother attended, I struck out in my first at-bat. Walking to the dugout I turned my head and said something stupid to the ump. I got ejected for the first, and only, time of my life. "Thanks for coming to see me play, guys!"

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

RA: Last summer. Spent a week at a cabin in upstate New York, kayaking, tubing, eating ice cream at Martha's, and watching fantastic lightning & thunder storms that knocked out power. Relaxing. Then spent a night in Boston, watching the Sox beat the Jays at Fenway. Magical. Then spent a week in New York City, seeing the essentials and having a blast one night at a certain comedy club, 30 comics in 4 hours for 5 bucks. Hilarious.

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

RA: Right now I'm reading Spadework by Timothy Findley. I recommend most of Douglas Coupland's work. Try his Polaroids from the Dead.

CC: What is your proudest baseball moment?

RA: There hasn't really been any one standout moment. Let's go with my two career home runs, both at Tamanawis of course.

CC: Any words of advice for the thousands of young fans who dream of one day playing for the mighty Surrey Indians?

RA: Don't lose focus. You can change what you focus on, but don't lose focus.

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

RA: A guy is in a bar sipping beer and munching on peanuts. All of a sudden, he hears a tiny voice say "nice tie." He looks around and sees no one close. The bartender is at the other end of the bar on the phone. So he goes back to sipping his beer and munching his peanuts. A minute later, he hears a tiny voice say "good haircut." He looks around and still sees no one close. A few minutes later, the tiny voice says "you're handsome." At this point, he calls the bartender over and tells him he's heard these voices saying nice things to him. The bartender says, "Yeah, those are the peanuts. They're complimentary."