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Twisted Sister?!?!?
January 7th, 2009, 10:16 am · 9 Comments · posted by Sam Miller, The Orange County Register
The Yankees wooed Mark Teixeira with a video montage backed by Teixeira’s favorite band, Twisted Sister. No, I’m serious!
Writes Lisa Olson with AOL:
So he did a bit of research, discovered Teixeira had a fondness for Twisted Sister, the iron men of ’80s rock. Sometimes it really is this simple, this high-stakes recruiting game. Sure, it helped that the Yankees eventually offered $180 million over eight years, but what really wowed Teixeira was the super cool video Cashman revealed when he came to visit in the middle of December.
Shot in the new stadium, with digitalized images of what Teixeira might look like as he ran out of the dugout and onto the grass, the crowd at a froth, the New York skyline in the distance, the sound track blared “I Wanna Rock.” Cashman pressed play.
“Hey, that’s my song!” Cashman recalled Teixeira saying as he and I walked through the old stadium hallways. “I was like, yeah, we know that.” And at that point, with Twisted Sister on blast, Leigh, Teixeira’s college sweetheart who is now his wife, said, “I want you to be a Yankee.”
These guys.
(hat tip to MLBTradeRumors.)
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Maybe Teixeira just got tired of “Calling All Angels.” Try listening to it for five years.
Also, the “Pick Me Up, Buttercup” in the eighth inning is lame.
I think AC/DC was put on earth to play ballpark rock and should probably be the only band you ever hear between innings. I would grandfather in “Enter Sandman” by Metallica for Mariano Rivera. Truly one of the great moments in baseball.
Did Ca$hman also include the Yankee fans booing Teixeira after each strikeout?
Teixeira never wanted to stay in Anaheim so let him have the Yankees and that transexual Dee Snider, both are old boring news!
If losing in the first round would have scared Tex off, he wouldn’t have signed with the one-and-done Yankees, who haven’t won a playoff series since 2003.
it wasn’t the video..it was the MONEY!!!!
We knew who wore the pants when Tex was in Anaheim for the short time. Tex does whatever the wife wants. Hope she can hit a baseball.
Once he slips into a slump in the Yankee pinners, they may want to sing his swan song. On another note, I hope the Yankees win 140 games so the owners will finally decide to put a salary cap on baseball salaries. A $27M luxury tax is nothing to the Yankees, so seem to have money growing on trees in The Bronx.
Salary cap only hurts players and helps owners stay rich, Angels Fan. The fairest option might be to let another team or two move into the NY area so the Yanks and Mets don’t get such an enormous media market.
Maybe I’m oversimplifying things and I’m definitely no market analyst, but isn’t the reason areas become such large media markets a result of the demand of the residents that are part of said market? The people of NY allowed their tax dollars to be used to finance the stadium, correct? Or at least they didn’t put up much of a fight. The Yankees have their own network, but it survives because of the huge fan support. How is it that the Giants and A’s play in essentially the same market yet their payrolls look like they should be playing in different countries from each other? And while we’re on the subject of those two teams, how does one stay competitive with a miniscule payroll while the other spends and spends to stay in the cellar most years?
Salary cap is unethical, and frankly, un-American. And theres no proof that it helps. It hasn’t stopped the Red Wings dominance in the NHL, the Lakers have stayed elite (mostly) since the salary cap has come in, and the parity in the NFL has been widely over-stated. Over the last 10 years, the Red Sox are the only team thats won more than one World Series. The Twins, A’s, Marlins, Rays, and even the Padres have been competitive despite being financially disadvantaged, while the Tigers and Mariners finished in last with $100 million+ payrolls.
Again, I haven’t done any extensive research on the subject and am shooting competely from the sleeve, so if I’m completely off base here, someone please correct me. And I don’t think MLB’s revenue sharing system is perfect, but it seems a heck of a lot more fair than depressing player salaries and filling the owners pockets even more.