Interview
Jeffrey Kirchick: What is your name?
Guest: Clemens Schlipp (Editor's Note: DUH)
JK: Where do you live?
CS: in Bad Sobernheim - that's a very little town about 70 miles away from Frankfurt, it's nearby the American army base Rammstein
JK: And what is your favorite sport?
CS: of course baseball - but I also like football , soccer and tennis
JK: How often are you able to attend a baseball game, of any sort, whether it be American or European?
CS: There was the European championship this year in Germany and there I went to a lot of games, in the USA I have just been to two games of the Atlanta Braves and to one game of the Lowell Spinners
JK: Are European baseball games recognized greatly by Europeans or are they overshadowed by other sports?
CS: in Italy and the Netherlands it's quite popular and you even can see games on TV - in Germany only a few peopel know that there is a baseball league
JK: how do you feel about this?
CS: I'm not so happy about - I love to be on the field and have pratice but I also would like to play games aginst other teams but we didn't get enough people for a complete team
JK: What do you think we should do in the future to encourage baseball in Europe?
CS: it would be great if the MLB brought a season opener to Europe - unfortunately we either don't have the good stadiums or good weather - we don't have domes like in Japan and don't have the weather like it is in the Dominican republic, it might be cool if they install somethin like the NFLEurope for the Major League in Germany - the problem is agin the weather - in the winter it's pretty cold in germany
JK: Those are superb ideasFinally, who is your favorite Red Sox ballplayer?
CS: tough question - I go with Nomar and Pedro
Jeffrey Kirchick would like to thank Clemens Schlipp for helping him in this interview to let Americans better understand the situation of baseball in Europe
