Getting to Know Moritz Wagner
John Niyo has a nice fluff piece about Moritz Wagner's integration into the team and U.S. culture in this morning's news. Not much more than fluff to the article, but it's nice to read about Michigan basketball, get to know more about a player, and to have no mention of recruiting shenanigans (shenanigans? - yeah, I said it!) in an article on MBB.
Interesting that he's up to 228 already (thanks, Chipotle - wait until he discovers BTB!). Glad to see this young man aboard the team, and Beilein Uber Alles.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:05 AM ^
Now that's a great nickname.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:52 AM ^
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October 23rd, 2015 at 11:30 AM ^
We've become a bit cynical about traditional media. They are still good for human-interest stories like this. I enjoyed the article.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:09 AM ^
Thanks for posting - agreed mostly fluff, but great to hear about an exciting addition to the team.
“I love Chipotle,” Wagner said, laughing. “We don’t have that in Germany. I live for Chipotle.”
Well played Moritz, well played.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:29 AM ^
October 23rd, 2015 at 11:58 AM ^
posts, I still do a pretty good impression of Klink. Nice piece to read, thanks.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:17 AM ^
Not because the show itself was funny. But the concept was almost like a real-life The Producers (and substantially pre-dated The Producers).
Sometime in early 1965, Hollywood, CA:
"Guys, I've got a great idea for a comedy series. It will be set in a German P.O.W. camp! It will have a multi-cultural set of prisoners, and they'll have comic misadventures with the bumbling camp staff!"
"What? No, that was 20 years ago. This will be comic gold! What's funnier than a Nazi prison camp?"
October 23rd, 2015 at 12:01 PM ^
an ordinary prison.
The studios balked, thinking that the American public wouldn't give a warm reception to a group of convicts. Searching for a way to make the prisoners likable, they switched to a show about American prisoners of war.
BTW, all of the main German characters (Klink, Schultz, General Bulkhalter, Major Hochstetter) were played by Jewish actors.
October 23rd, 2015 at 12:33 PM ^
Werner Klemperer's (Klink, for those who weren't aware of the actor's name) father Otto Klemperer is regarded as one of the more gifted conductors of the last century. When the family moved to the United States in the 1930s, Otto became the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a time, but not before stops as the director of orchestras in Hamburg, Strasbourg, Cologne and even Berlin at the Kroll Opera House. He managed to get his first position in Prague at the reocmmendation of Gustav Mahler, if I remember correctly.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:43 AM ^
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:46 PM ^
Thank you for your perspective. :)
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:18 AM ^
This surprised me from Beilein:
- “Mo’s exceptional,” Beilein said. “I know I’ve said that in the past with some guys, and once you got past the addition and the subtraction, they sort of stopped. I don’t see any stopping Mo’s learning curve right now. …
Starting to get excited about what's coming in basketball season. I know that Wagner probably won't get many minutes this year (and may RS), but the future is looking good.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:30 AM ^
October 23rd, 2015 at 12:55 PM ^
play this year. I think he can help the team.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:22 AM ^
Back to topic-I think Wagner is going to be real good in 2 years
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
I'm with you. +1 for risking the negs.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:54 AM ^
I was a Panchero's fan through and through. BTB was good, but not outstanding.
October 23rd, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
I'm with you, much preferred Panchero's to BTB.
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:24 AM ^
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October 23rd, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
October 23rd, 2015 at 11:50 AM ^
Agreed on the burritos. Those shredded chicken quesadillas doe...
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
October 23rd, 2015 at 12:58 PM ^
for UM basketball.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:41 AM ^
Most Germans I know revile American fast food. Fortunately, in A2 he can actually eat well. In fact, this should be a selling point for Beilein with foreign players.
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:07 AM ^
Most Germans I know revile American fast food.I've had currywurst. They got no right. It's both delicious and vile at the same time.
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:27 AM ^
It's just a bit different. I went to a Burger King in Germany for lunch (like 8 days into an 8 day work trip, everywhere I went for dinner brewed their own beer in the building, I ate local) and it was pretty similar to BK here. Except everything was tiny. I think the small drink was about 8oz (here lots of smalls are 24), same with fries and the sandwiches themselves.
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:31 AM ^
What do they call a Quarter Pounder?
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
Viertelpfünder. But someone who speaks much better German than me might know different (I had to look this up).
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:59 AM ^
EM: You mean they don't call it the Quarter Pounder?
TBG: Naw, because of the metric system.
EM: Look at the brain on TBG!
TBG: What?
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October 23rd, 2015 at 12:01 PM ^
Say "what" again! I DARE YOU!
October 23rd, 2015 at 12:45 PM ^
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
I was in the former East Germany not long ago. The Burger King was the only restaurant open on Sunday. I didn't notice anything labeled by weight ("Quarter Pounder" or "Eighth Kilo"). There was a Curry Burger, though.
October 23rd, 2015 at 11:11 AM ^
If it wasn't for the Turkish Kebop/Pizza place in town I'd have died when living overseas on those days I drank too much and forgot to go grocery shopping. It was the only thing open on the weekends and some of the best pizza I've had.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
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October 23rd, 2015 at 10:41 AM ^
is to ask for half chicken/half steak. 90% of the time they give a full scoop of each and just charge you for a steak bowl. You never asked for double meat, and when they ask just smile and say "nope not double meat, its half chicken, half steak.
October 23rd, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
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October 23rd, 2015 at 11:42 AM ^
There was someone a couple months ago who published his study on the best way to maximize your order at Chipotle while still paying for no doubles/extras. It was something along the lines of this. Went there every day for a year, then went home, deconstructed the burrito, and weighed-out all the ingredients, etc.
Google it or something.
October 23rd, 2015 at 9:55 AM ^
Super impressed with him at practice yesterday. Excited for his future.
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
But how soon we'll start seeing him on the court remains to be seen, given how much he has to learn. I'm guessing it's more likely he redshirts this year than plays. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if we see him in games later in the year.
October 23rd, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
That is fine. It will give the band some more time to practice Ride of the Valkyries.
October 23rd, 2015 at 11:01 AM ^
Preserve the redshirt unless and until he develops so well that you have no choice but to play him.
October 23rd, 2015 at 11:13 AM ^
film for which Wiliam Holden won Best Actor Oscar is the basis for "Hogan's Heros"
great flick