YOUR OBSESSION WITH PAUL O'NEILL

Just an observation and I guess it all started this year because Paulie seems to be more comfortable in the booth.  Paul O’Neill is insanely popular.  Look, I always loved "the Warrior" because no one played harder than him.  It’s funny, over the past several weeks, people are delving into our interview with Paul O’Neill and on Bleeding Yankee Blue and the readership on that particular piece is way, way up!  It was an interview we did last December, yet, it’s a post that is continually in our top 10 most read posts on an average day. 

Paul O’Neill is played hard, real hard and was a tough Son of a Bitch.  I asked him point blank about his passion for the game and his want and need to hit the ball “every time” as I worded it.   Here’s that exchange from our interview:

BYB: My son once asked me why you got so angry if you got an out in a big moment. I told him because Paul O’Neill wanted to hit the ball every time. Would that be a safe assessment of your passion for the game?

Paul O'Neill: That’s half of it. I tend to be a perfectionist, hating failure. That may have started long ago as the youngest of six. There were so many of us, you sort of had to vie for dad’s praise and attention. But baseball is a game where great hitters get beat 7 out of 10 times. Where a guy could play fifteen years and feel accomplished because he has two World Series rings. Over 95% of roster players go home losing every year in baseball. I probably needed a thicker skin. I spent too many sleepless nights going over strikeouts or popups.

The full Paul O'Neill interview is HERE.

But that’s not all about Paul, he also runs a charity that we have posted on Bleeding Yankee Blue called Right Field Charities.  You know how much we love helping others here, we’re doing it with the Robertson’s right now giving money toward High Socks for Hope.  Giving back rocks and if you can do alittle something for someone less fortunate…do it. 

But back to Paulie. Not only was it a pleasure to interview Paul O’Neill, it seems the interview has a huge following months after.  I love that.  It just goes to show that not only do some of our past posts still hold up, they’re entertaining…and that’s all because you believe in us and dare I say, you may even like us here at BYB. Nice!

Well, thanks for reading us… we like you guys too.

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