Mookie Wilson
Appearances
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Baseball
I don't think so. I think that sports has survived. I mean, over the years, as much as we've tried to mess baseball up, we haven't with strikes and all that. The game will survive. I get thinking you can make all the rules you want to, but until you change the attitudes of people, you're going to have this kind of idiocy no matter what you do. It's just going to happen.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Baseball
Well, first of all, athletes deal with pressure every day. Every day to go out on the field is all about what you do that day. And this is no different. They're not playing for the honor. They're playing for their own self-respect. And, you know, I've heard things about, well, should the team boycott, you know, and not play. That serves no real purpose.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Baseball
I mean, it would defeat the purpose of you being there, playing basketball at the NBA level. That's a great, great honor. And to let some idiot, you know, not let you fulfill the potential that your team has, I think you'd be doing yourself a disservice in the league itself.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Baseball
No, I know that. But we do get together, and when we do, there's this one big reunion, and we talk a lot, and we lie a little bit, too.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Baseball
I think it's the characters. I think that we're a group of individuals that weren't afraid to be themselves. And I think you need more of that in sports, actually.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Baseball
No, I think the team, we had this group over here that was really outgoing. A lot of people called them the scum bunch, you know. Then we had this other group over here that was really, you know, Gary Carters, you know, Ron Darlings, guys like that. Then had those guys in the middle, you know, like myself and Raphael Santana that kind of...
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Baseball
I think it's always going to be that weird relationship between players and management, knowing that management does have the last word. Sometimes it doesn't matter how well you play. It's all about relationship between the player and ownership. Now, this basketball situation is really, really different. We got a lot of racist remarks, and here he owns a team that's, what, 80% black? Right.