{"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":"<div id=\"attachment_20910\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GeorgeRoseHidekiIrabu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20910\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20910\" title=\"GeorgeRoseHidekiIrabu\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GeorgeRoseHidekiIrabu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Rose with Hideki Irabu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>JET alum <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/11\/best-of-jq-pride-of-the-yankees-far-east-edition-summer-2008\/\">George Rose<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/fuku-tabi.jp\/en\/\">Fukushima<\/a>-ken, 1989-91)<\/strong>, former interpreter for Hideki Irabu as well as former <a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\">JETAA NY<\/a> President, is quoted in a Sunday, October 9 feature article <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/09\/sports\/baseball\/hideki-irabu-got-lost-on-the-road-back.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=hideki%20irabu&amp;st=cse\">Irabu Got Lost on the Way Back<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong>)\u00a0in the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0about Japanese pitcher <strong>Hideki Irabu<\/strong>\u00a0who <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/28\/former-yankee-pitcher-hideki-irabu-dies-in-apparent-suicide-jet-alum-served-as-his-translator\/\">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<p>Below is a link to the full article along with the quotes by George:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/09\/sports\/baseball\/hideki-irabu-got-lost-on-the-road-back.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=hideki%20irabu&amp;st=cse\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/09\/sports\/baseball\/hideki-irabu-got-lost-on-the-road-back.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=hideki%20irabu&amp;st=cse<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\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<p style=\"text-align: center;\">**********<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_12537\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Rose-Jeter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12537\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12537   \" title=\"Rose Jeter\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Rose-Jeter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Rose-Jeter.png 817w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Rose-Jeter-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JET alum George Rose with Derek Jeter at the 1998 World Series.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\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<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For additional background on George, here&#8217;s a link to a 2008 <em>JETAANY Newsletter\u00a0<\/em>interview with George Rose <strong>(&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/11\/best-of-jq-pride-of-the-yankees-far-east-edition-summer-2008\/\">Pride of the Yankees: \u00a0Far East Edition<\/a>&#8220;)<\/strong>\u00a0by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0(Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2002-03)<\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Irabu Got Lost on the Way Back&#8220;)\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 [&hellip;]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5FX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21824,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21821\/revisions\/21824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}