Mets outfielder Curtis Granderson sat down for a question-and-answer session with Steve Serby of the New York Post. A lot of the questions had to do with his feelings about the first-place Mets, now 72-58 after Sunday’s win against the Red Sox.
But there was response which stood out among the others:Q: You’re one of the most polished, politically correct athletes I’ve ever dealt with. Now say something controversial.
A: Let’s see … I can probably go with … I had this conversation with people — if we landed on the moon, how come we’ve never been back? I think there might be some conspiracy stuff to that.
Q: You do?
A: We haven’t been back, it’s been [43] years, technology’s all gotten better, and I’ve actually looked that one up a little bit and saw something on the NASA website and it said something that that space shuttle that was made back then is no longer made any more. They’re making one now, but it costs $30 billion to be able to go there. And we’re constantly coming back, you always hear of spaceships landing: oh, so-and-so just got back from its mission … where’d they go, you know? No one else in the world has ever been, so…
Really makes you think.
(A tip of the ballcap to Buzzfeed’s Lindsey Adler for bringing this to my attention.)
