Zack Greinke’s difficulty socializing with fans, the press and his teammates is well-documented. It’s all a part of his struggle with social anxiety disorder and he does the best he can with it. It’s not easy, I’m sure, but if there is one upside to it at all, it’s that he can be be 100% honest with the media and no one is going to give him crap for it.
To that end, here he is today talking to the Milwaukee media about whey he prefers pre-scheduled press availabilities instead of the usual walk-up-talk-up dynamic in the clubhouse:
“Probably 99% of the time I do it like this is because every day I come to the park and want to get focused on my start, and then random people come and waste my time talking every day. It takes eight minutes to get a real question out because they’re like buttering me up. Then they get to the question and it’s a stupid question. So it’s a waste of 10 minutes, and in that 10-minute time I don’t get to do what I needed to do.”
I bet there are a bunch of players in Major League Baseball who don’t suffer from social anxiety disorder who think the same thing and would love to be able to say it out loud.
