{"id":21821,"date":"2011-10-09T21:54:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21821"},"modified":"2011-10-09T21:54:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:54:57","slug":"jet-alum-george-rose-quoted-in-nyt-feature-on-hideki-irabu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/09\/jet-alum-george-rose-quoted-in-nyt-feature-on-hideki-irabu\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum George Rose quoted in NYT feature on Hideki Irabu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Rose with Hideki Irabu<\/p><\/div>\n

JET alum George Rose<\/a>\u00a0(Fukushima<\/a>-ken, 1989-91)<\/strong>, former interpreter for Hideki Irabu as well as former JETAA NY<\/a> President, is quoted in a Sunday, October 9 feature article “Irabu Got Lost on the Way Back<\/a>“<\/strong>)\u00a0in the New York Times<\/em>\u00a0about Japanese pitcher Hideki Irabu<\/strong>\u00a0who recently committed suicide<\/a>. \u00a0The article gives the impression that George was one of the few U.S. baseball colleagues who actually got to know Irabu personally.<\/p>\n

Below is a link to the full article along with the quotes by George:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/09\/sports\/baseball\/hideki-irabu-got-lost-on-the-road-back.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=hideki%20irabu&st=cse<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I saw him last summer, he told me he was having a midlife crisis,\u201d said George Rose, who befriended Irabu when he worked for two years as his interpreter on the Yankees. Rose then repeated what had been a kind of conventional wisdom about the Irabu: he had a big heart, but could be his own worst enemy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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JET alum George Rose with Derek Jeter at the 1998 World Series.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cHe was kind of searching for what to do next,\u201d said George Rose, his old interpreter, \u201cand he never did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For additional background on George, here’s a link to a 2008 JETAANY Newsletter\u00a0<\/em>interview with George Rose (“Pride of the Yankees: \u00a0Far East Edition<\/a>“)<\/strong>\u00a0by Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2002-03)<\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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JET alum George Rose\u00a0(Fukushima-ken, 1989-91), former interpreter for Hideki Irabu as well as former JETAA NY President, is quoted in a Sunday, October 9 feature article “Irabu Got Lost on the Way Back“)\u00a0in the New York Times\u00a0about Japanese pitcher Hideki Irabu\u00a0who recently committed suicide. \u00a0The article gives the impression that George was one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,26,318,304,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-celebrity","category-jets-in-the-news","category-notable-jet-alums","category-translatinginterpreting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t