{"id":481242,"date":"2019-01-23T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=783258"},"modified":"2019-01-23T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T18:11:06","slug":"mariano-rivera-loves-the-guys-in-metallica-their-music-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/mariano-rivera-loves-the-guys-in-metallica-their-music-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariano Rivera Loves the Guys in Metallica. Their Music? Not So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For years, it was one of baseball\u2019s most reliable traditions: Yankee closer Mariano Rivera<\/a> trotting out from the bullpen to Metallica<\/a>\u2019s \u201cEnter Sandman<\/a>.\u201d It was fitting theme music for a guy who, as the saying goes, put bats to sleep. During Rivera\u2019s final season, in 2013, Metallica even showed up at Yankee Stadium<\/a> to perform the 1991 hit as the pitcher\u2019s number was retired.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Rivera became the first player ever unanimously elected to baseball\u2019s Hall of Fame, and Metallica sent along a heartfelt message of congratulations<\/a>. In an interview with the MLB Network, Rivera watched the clip and responded with gratitude. \u201cThat is amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s a blessing on top of blessings. I have so much respect for those guys. I met them and they\u2019re great people, great great people. Thank God [for] everything they have done, being there for me at the moment that I retired was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.@Metallica<\/a> dropped in to congratulate Mariano Rivera on his unanimous election to the Hall of Fame!<\/p>\n

Check out the full interview with the @Yankees<\/a> legend here: https:\/\/t.co\/4CLO3uIcmK<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/2giMDjXHB3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) January 23, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But it turns out that the love-fest does not extend to Rivera actually liking Metallica\u2019s music.\u00a0\u201cWith all due respect to the guys, I\u2019ve never been to one of [their shows],\u201d he said during the same interview, according to the New York Post<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0\u201cAs a Christian, with all due respect to Metallica, I don\u2019t listen to that kind of music.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a different MLB Network interview<\/a>, this one with his former catcher (and manager) Joe Girardi, Rivera also addressed the subject of his former walk-up music. \u201cIf that was me, I would have never picked that song,\u201d he said of \u201cEnter Sandman.\u201d \u201cIt would\u2019ve been Christian music \u2026 It should have been something that put people to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t have killed him to at least pretend to like The Black Album.<\/a>\u00a0Still a nice story, though.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years, it was one of baseball\u2019s most reliable traditions: Yankee closer Mariano Rivera trotting out from the bullpen to Metallica\u2019s \u201cEnter Sandman.\u201d It was fitting theme music for a guy who, as the saying goes, put bats to sleep. During Rivera\u2019s final season, in 2013, Metallica even showed up at Yankee Stadium to perform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 23:51:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}