The New York Post’s Steve Serby had a great Q&A with Mets’ Curtis Granderson. They talked about Yoenis Cespedes, Jacob deGrom, clubhouse pranks and Granderson’s charity work. There are great bits throughout the interview.
Curtis Granderson is a moon landing conspiracy theorist
Then, Serby straight up asks Granderson to “say something controversial,” and things get a little weird.
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.
CONSPIRACY STUFF! And the 34-year-old centerfielder goes on...
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…
... so what? We’re left hanging, for now.
According to a Public Policy Poll, seven percent of American voters in 2013 also believed that the moon landing was a hoax. Granderson is not alone in his skepticism.
Stay woke.
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