Michael Young

Michael Young
Can you tell me anything about Michael Young from the Rangers?

I've overheard sports radio host call him the best AL shortstop right now, but I haven't heard of him...someone get me a clue, I guess.

Michael Brian Young (born October 19, 1976 in Covina, California) is a Mexican-American shortstop in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Texas Rangers.

Originally drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the fifth round in 1997, Young was traded to the Texas Rangers in 2000 along with Darwin Cubillán for Esteban Loaiza. In 2001, Young became a regular with the Rangers at second base between shortstop Alex Rodriguez and first baseman Rafael Palmeiro. Young and Rodriguez became fast friends in the infield.

Young hit .306 with 14 home runs and 72 RBI during the 2003 season. However, during the off-season, the Rangers made the well-publicized trade of Rodriguez to the New York Yankees for second baseman Alfonso Soriano. Now not only had Young's friend been taken away from the Rangers, Young was now in danger of losing his position on the field with another talented second baseman on the team. Young, however, told manager Buck Showalter that he would defer his second base position to Soriano and Young made his move to shortstop.

In 2004, with many critics uncertain of the Rangers' future following the Rodriguez trade, the Rangers blossomed with their young talent and Young was no exception. Batting primarily from the lead off position, by June 11, Young had a .332 batting average with nine home runs and 37 RBI. In the field, Young became an important part of the double play tandem of Young, Soriano and first baseman Mark Teixeira, assisting on 44 double plays by June 11.

Young had a stellar 2005 campaign with Texas, finishing the year with a .331 average. This was good enough to make him the American League batting champion, becoming only the second Ranger to accomplish the feat (the first being Julio Franco in 1991).

Young was elected as a member of 2006 World Baseball Classic roster. He hit .267 and played as a second baseman (unusual role), but failed to successfully sacrifice bunt twice.

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An interview with Michael mehas, author, filmmaker, and lawyer, on Stolen Boy

Stolen Boy is a work of fiction, but on the Jesse James Hollywood related ... what says author Michael mehas, can mean the difference between life and death in Hollywood to make.

Stolen Boy is powerful stuff. How you're interested in?

One day in April 2003 while I was a tendency to end of life to my dog, Sadie, I got a call from an old buddy, Nick Cassavetes, who said he wanted to a film about Jesse James Hollywood, the youngest man ever to make the FBI Most Wanted List. Since I lived near Santa Barbara, where the crime was committed, I had all the these articles about this amazing crime, read all these young children. Kids are suspected of crimes against children. It was an incredible story. One wanted I know more.

After all, who does not know what it's like a Cassavetes film work, it's one of those rare occasions in life that you do not want to just to turn down. A Cassavetes film is not so much about fame and fortune, as it is about to experience a slice of life. And that was a piece of life that I simply can not miss want. So about a week later, after Sadie had moved, I asked where I could sign up Nick. He set a meeting with the Santa Barbara District Attorney, and the rest is just kind of of history, as they say. The whole thing has this his own life - among all these incredibly crazy is that, before the film (Alpha Dog), my book, and then the madness my legal dispute with the death penalty.

It is certainly unusual for a "casual" observer from the outside, a part a process, but you were twice summoned to appear before the court. What are your thoughts?

Actually I have three times summoned to Jesse Hollywood. To date, I twice witnessed and suffered the misfortune of having the court to make me of all the notes and tapes from my interviews. Very early in the process, I twice had the very real prospect of jail for non-compliance with the orders, which at first I had seriously considered doing.

In the beginning, according to Hollywood in Brazil - recorded by one of the world's largest manhunt in history - my life has completely turned on its head. I met with the famous Hollywood trial attorney, James Sheet, several times, and he asked me to testify in the case. He wanted to help me to save him, his client's life.

While Hollywood had been on the run, had the Santa Barbara County District Attorney and other law enforcement agencies all over him vilified by the media. Basically, they had tried, and sentenced him in absentia. As a consequence Public opinion was heavily against Hollywood. The people wanted him to see that a violent death for a crime he had not even appeared in court. The prosecution wanted him to kill. The victim's family requested a ten-eye-for-two kinds of justice. I really believed Mr. Blatt's client was very little Chances of a fair trial. I think at the time of any jury would have handed a swift condemnation followed by an even faster justice - namely, the death penalty.

I am a criminal defense lawyer from the heart and by profession. I am also a humanist. And I sincerely believe that all living things have this inherent right to life. It is not our job to make the final decision on each other. I'm no fan of state-sanctioned murder. So I wanted to do what I could to help save Client Mr leaf.

Besides, I knew Jesse Hollywood's family. Jesse had a little brother, he was very protecting. He had parents who loved their son. They did not want him to die. Nor I. But the problem with the request that Mr. Leaf was that when I testify at the end, my statement could serve as the foundation for a criminal Be persecution against Ron Zonen, the prosecutor on the case - and his office - for potential illegal misconduct in dealing with me used. I have a lot of Information from the prosecutor. A lot of it - he probably should not have given to me. Decided until the California Attorney General to pursue him or his office, that I finally agreed to testify. And then when I did, the Court turn over my notes. If I do not comply, I would go to jail. Ultimately So have I complied. I was not really interested in staying in the gray bar hotel. I had to live a life. I'd finish a book. So I turned the comments and tapes about. But I was not really happy about the way the situation had materialized at all.

Perhaps I it wrong, but when I read your writings about the fictional Mickey with those of Jesse James Hollywood I see comparing a divergence. Mickey is the devil incarnate, but I have a real sense that your feelings for Jesse are something else. Am I right?

The real Jesse James Hollywood is far from the devil in human form. He's actually a very intelligent child. If you think about it, he was very successful in what he did. But Jesse was not evil. He was an arrogant hothead, perhaps. And he had Fear, definitely. He lived in pretty rough company at the time. But by accepting all that, Jesse James Hollywood, despite the fame of his name - is a man. And then, when he did, what it was that he really did not, he was just a child. He was twenty years old child trying to play the great man, and it was away from him. But he, like his co-defendants has, does not deserve to die as a consequence. When he received the death penalty, and if we like the state of California, agree to kill him, what makes us? People who kill to avenge a death scene? Is this really what is a member of the human race all that? Taking justice into their own hands? I know that not what I mean. I believe in life, and I'm not trying to create my energies executed. So I will do everything I can someone who is in serious trouble to help. To raise the consciousness of every who cares. Try in the world around us with the dedication of our collective consciousness to life-saving measures to increase, to not change the death.

Are You still involved with the case? You clearly have a connection with his father Jesse's formed.

That are two very different things. First of all, yes, I am still involved in the event that I suspect, the prosecutor and defender are not compatible with my service yet completed. The new prosecutor on the case has tried to get a subpoena. From what I understand, he's a really nice guy. But he wants more information get from me, and I think that is totally uncool. What could I possibly know or have at this point that he might need? He tries to kill Jesse Hollywood. And I do not go to help him, even if it does me to go on risk, put in jail. It is so easy. That's why I sent my lawyer in court June this year, and the mouthpieces were arguing about the subpoena. The judge in his wisdom, "the prosecutor and my lawyer that he did not decide the question of Validity of the subpoena until the case came out of the California Supreme Court.

The Supremes are set to decide a very important question in this case. As I understand it, they are dealing with how prosecutors should or not be able to cozy up to the media while trying high-profile cases. It is similar how the whole debacle with the Duke lacrosse team. The prosecutor in this case, in principle, provided court and sentenced these poor children in the media before she ever had a chance to to defend. The same has happened. The prosecution wants to Jesse James Hollywood in the death cell. I'll do what I can help, make sure that happens. We things must change here. I think if we put our energies into life measures to increase we all come as a whole. We are all related, you know. We all benefit when the rest of us do well. We must stop killing our brothers. And it is certainly not the job of our government do for us.

As far as Jesse's father, Jack, go. I could not quite empathy for the guy. Here is a Man Who felt terrible about his participation is to the increase of His Son. His son was to be placed on the lookout to death, and this guy somehow felt responsible. Jack told me a story over time, law enforcement authorities searched his home and served a search warrant on him disappeared not long after Jesse. One of the judicial officers, a supervisor from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, told Jack that he hoped to be the one to find Jesse, because he wanted to be the one to shoot and kill. Can you imagine that someone tells you that about your child? Jack was devastated. He did not want his son, by a member of the Sheriff's Department be murdered. At the time, I think all he really wanted was to be able to keep his son in his arms and know that it happens to be in order.

Normally, the sequence of events is the first book, film later. In this case, that the order reversed. Looking at the two plants, which is your favorite, and what are your opinions on this order?

I loved the movie. I thought Nick (Cassavetes) has an exceptional job with it. It was raw. Some of the performances were crude. It was a really unusual blend of pure, hot-looking energy, a very exciting story, an important story, one told the needed telling. The book tells about the same story, but in a completely different way. And I'll tell you why.

Back in October 2003 Nick had a reading of the project, which greatly influenced me when it came to tell which version of the story in the book. There was so much to this story. So much information. There were so many people are involved. It was difficult to decide exactly follow the plot strands. When we started, who wanted the project, we as true a version to tell the story as possible. Therefore, Nick stopped me. He knew I had to find a way to get the information that we needed to. Thus Cassavetes had this reading with many of the best young talents in Hollywood. Great young actors and actresses. This was again with the first draft of the screenplay Nick's, when Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey McGuire were set to produce it. Tobey read part Hollywood, while Leo, who read part of his main opponents, the brother of the victim. Since the low reading progress In the script, you can download the excitement building. The room filled with tension. And as we approached the peak, you could literally feel the fear within to intensify the actors. It was like - No way is that this will not happen. They really are not going to do it. There is no way these people will hurt the child. And Then, suddenly, the room went dead silent. This great collective gasp escaped. It burst like a giant ball. Each fell back to be completely emptied. They could not believe could happen like this. It was like - there is no way these guys who had spent the whole time to celebrate with the boy would ... And then suddenly they commit the worst act you can imagine. The actors were devastated. And I knew this is how my story was over.

A Time Before Me

by Michael Holloway Perronne

iUniverse (2006)

ISBN 9781583484630

Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (1/07)

Mason is a gay teen growing up in rural Mississippi . Not only does he have to deal with all of the normal issues that teens deal with, like deciding his future, but he also has to deal with his secret of being gay. Neither the town, nor his family, is receptive to people with alternative lifestyles. Rather than accept a scholarship to his local college or work with his father in a factory, Mason wants to spread his wings and fly. His best friend and lifelong crush, Billy, has run away to live in New York City. Billy is also gay, but he and Mason never talked about this aspect of their lives. Mason meets an out of town visitor that shows him where the secret gay night life is. He gets to meet other people like himself. It is a relief to be able to be out in the open, even if it is only with this group.

After a summer visit to his Aunt Savannah, who runs a drag queen cabaret in New Orleans, Mason decides that he wants to move there. His aunt really understands him, and in New Orleans, Mason is surrounded by people who accept him for who he is. He meets Joey, who works for his aunt. Joey is very attractive and sweet. Mason feels drawn to Joey and begins to forget about his crush on Billy. Except for a kiss with Billy, Mason has not been with anyone. Joey encourages him not to rush into anything with anyone. New Orleans has a lot of wild stuff going on and Mason admits that he is not ready for that. As he and Joey get closer, his feelings for him deepen.

Out of the blue, Mason gets a call from Billy who is going to be in New Orleans with his current boyfriend. Mason begins to feel tugged away from Joey. Joey can sense this and is hurt. Mason has to figure out what he really wants and he needs to take a good look at what his relationship with Billy really was.

I really enjoyed reading "A Time Before Me." My heart goes out to Mason's character, because throughout the entire story, he was always trying to do what was right. He has a strong sense of values and did not let himself get seduced into the wild New Orleans lifestyle. He is a Young Man that wants to be loved. He just needs to decide who the best man is for him. It is pretty obvious to the reader, but for him, he has to decide where to follow his heart.

I highly recommend this book. I think that it is perfect for young adult readers that are learning how to deal with issues of their sexuality and for people that care about them. In addition to be an excellent story, Mason's story also taught me a lot about how hard it is for a gay youth to fit in and be accepted for who he is. Being a teen is so hard, and being a teen with a secret is so much harder.