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Q&A with Andre Ethier

October 17, 2005
MiLB.com: If you weren't a baseball player, what would you be doing? AE: I would be a rancher in Northern Arizona.

MiLB.com: Favorite TV show?

AE: Lost.

MiLB.com: Favorite type of music?

AE: Rap, because I'm kinda gangsta.

MiLB.com: Best concert you have ever been to?

AE: Usher (in 2002).

MiLB.com: Most people don't know this about me, but ...

AE: I like reading gossip magazines like People and US Weekly.

MiLB.com: Do you have any pregame superstitions?

AE: Check my socks every day. I can't wear socks with holes in them.

MiLB.com: If you could switch places with one person for a day, who would it be?

AE: Jeff Gordon.

MiLB.com: Describe your perfect off day.

AE: Wake up around 7:30 a.m., have pancakes and eggs for breakfast. Head over to the lake to go fishing. Come home and have a BBQ with friends and relax.

MiLB.com: Who's the one person you would want with you on a deserted island?

AE: John Locke (from the TV show Lost).

MiLB.com: What's the best compliment anyone could give you?

AE: That I have nice forearms.

MiLB.com: What material thing will you never give up?

AE: My 65-inch television.

MiLB.com: What's your nickname?

AE: Drizzle, Dre.

MiLB.com: What's the best/worst quality you inherited from your parents?

AE: Stubbornness -- it is both my best and worst quality.

MiLB.com: What do you want to do before you die?

AE: Live on a South Pacific island.