Baseball season is here and New York already has its first baseball controversy.
In case you don't live in New York or just have the common sense not to spend your day listening to the two arrogant a-holes on New York's sports leader, you may have missed the two of them ripping new Met closer Billy Wagner for having "Enter Sandman" played when he came into the game in the ninth inning today. Their reasoning is, the song belongs to Mariano Rivera and therefore Wagner - despite the fact that it has been his theme song for several years - should literally change his tune. Of course, the two radio hosts - both Met haters and Met fan agitators - are completely wrong again, and here's why.
1. I guarantee, GUARANTEE, that Billy Wagner actually picked the song for himself, while Mo didn't. Think about it, Wagner is a white dude from West Virginia, and Mariano is from Panama. Who do you think actually likes Metallica? Honestly, what are the chances some dude working the Yankee Stadium PA system picked that out for Rivera and what are the chances that Wagner actually heard the song on the radio and said "that sounds like a good song for me."
2. Wagner has been a closer since 1996. Rivera started in 1997. The song came out in 1996. Therefore, chances are they both have been using the song the same amount of time or Wagner actually adopted it first.
3. Last time i checked the Metallica black album, there are no writing or publishing credits for a M. Rivera on the album. He has no more friggin rights the song than Wagner does. F him.
4. Yankee fans honestly believe they not only invented baseball, but they, because they root for a team who's payroll is twice of it's nearest competitior, think they carry more clout in the sport. Well, f them, too. I think the fact that Wagner plays the song infuriates them is the No. 1 reason to keep playing it. Hell, the Mets should crank it when Anderson Hernandez comes to bat.
5. What are the Mets supposed to do? Tell their $13 million closer that "We really like you, but we don't want to offend the greatest franchise in sports, so you have to change your song." And what is Wagner supposed to do? Change his song because it may offend some dopey guido in the Bronx who couldn't spell Metallica if his sorry life depended on it.
In closing, F the Yankees, F Mike and the Mad Dog and F Metallica (the song is overrated anyway). Rock on William Wagner.
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4 comments:
This is me giving Joe P a standing ovation!
This latest blog echoes the same argument I had with my best friend -- a Yankees fan -- less than an hour ago when he, too, tried the "it's Rivera's song" argument.
Joe, I'll pick you up in an hour, we'll swing by and pick up the Local Shill, too, and we can drive to the Bronx and go kick the crap out of random Yankees fans with Enter Sandman blaring on our car stereo!
Two small things, though.
1- The black album was released in 1991, not 1996, but your point is still valid (perhaps it was merely a typo?)
2- Eff Metallica, yes! But only for selling out. Ironically, the aforementioned black album was the last thing of quality they ever put out.
They went from being one of the greatest bands on the planet to being another piece of shit group of overly commercialized, money-grubbing posers with their three or four-chord pop metal, totally void of feeling and intelligence.
Fuck them.
I lived and breathed Metallica from the day I first heard Master of Puppets in 1987, until June 6, 1996 (the day "Load" was released). Or as I've come to call it, "the day the metal died."
Sandman: Sorry about the typo. Awful job by me.
The other thing about this whole thing is, Yankee fans all act as if they are above it all, and the Mets are a non-factor, but they all seem awfully consumed by what goes on at Shea. All the time.
By the way, I guess Omar doesn't have to worry about swinging a deal for Barry Zito after that cat's performance tonight. STENCH.
Let's face facts. The world would be a better place if Fatso had his overdue heart attack and checked out.
It's amazing what topics can be drawn up to waste time on sports talk radio.
I don't know what's more agonizing....this argument or listening to those two clowns discuss television ratings for NASCAR.
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