FanGraphs Audio: Craig Robinson, Live from Mexico City

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March 28, 2015

Episode 542
Craig Robinson is a native of Lincoln, England; resident of Mexico City; author of Flip Flop Fly Ball, a book of infographics on the topic of baseball; and, most importantly, owner-operator of the URL CraigRobinson.com. He’s also the guest on this edition of FanGraphs Audio, recorded at La Bipo, a cantina in the Coyoacán district of Mexico City.

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Audio after the jump. (Approximately 57 min play time.)

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Matt Snyder
9 years ago

In which an American and an Englishman expect native Mexicans to communicate with them in English.

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Carson Cistullimember
9 years ago
Reply to  Matt Snyder

I don’t understand why you’d make this comment, except out of spite. We both make the point at some length that we feel like intruders/impostors/idiots in another people’s home (although Craig lives there and speaks the language quite well). Any other conclusion is the result only of willful misunderstanding, i.e. the least appealing sort of misunderstanding. It’s not welcome here.

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Matt Snyder
9 years ago
Reply to  Carson Cistulli

I was actually projecting my own ignorance of the Spanish language — and the ignorance of many in the English speaking world — onto the two of you. That many English speakers visit other nations and attempt to communicate only to myself.

I chuckled to myself because I know that you and Mr. Robinson are expressly not this sort, but during for a brief 15-second clip, one might assume (out of the larger context) that you were.

Like you say, you felt like an intruder into the lives of the locals, but many Americans might feel indignant if the locals didn’t cater to their Americanism.

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Craig Robinson
9 years ago
Reply to  Matt Snyder

Well, the first language of Carson and I is, obviously, English, talking to each other for an English language podcast for a, primarily, English speaking audience. Where that conversation took place is pretty much irrelevant given the above. My girlfriend speaks English, and when I asked her a question with the “tape” running, it felt pertinent to ask that question in English so that Carson and the listeners could understand her answer. This, of course, ignores the rest of our time together when we dragged our knuckles around Mexico yelling “BEER!” at waiters.

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