Swisher plays DJ for a morning
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Feb 19, 2009 
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Johnny Damon (who else?) has a large portable speaker stack on wheels that you can plug an iPod into. Music is generally not allowed in the clubhouse except for after games.
But Nick Swisher, unfamiliar with the buttoned-down ways of the Yankees, plugged his iPod in and turned up the tunes. “My clubhouse mix,” he said. “I listen to a lot of country. But I have some other stuff, too.”
His other stuff was solid. He played Live Your Life by T.I. and Rihanna and One More Drink by Ludacris and T-Pain. The guys were digging it.
Meanwhile, there will be live batting practice today. Brian Bruney and Joba Chamberlain will face Damon, A-Rod, Mark Teixeira and Jorge Posada.
CC Sabathia will take on Justin Leone, John Rodruguez, Chase Weems and Ramiro Pena. Good luck to those guys.
The team is on the field now and I’ll be back later on with some reports and iPhone photos.
If there’s no Metallica on that they need to unplug it.
Swish for President!
Country music FTW!
I love Swish! I was definitely upset seeing Griffey chose Seattle over Atlanta, now that possible outfielder trade is still up in the air. Keep Swish!
M — Not sure if you saw my response to you on the last thread but my distrust of Nady everyday in RF would be the splits from last year:
Pitt:
.330 .383 .535
NYY:
.268 .320 .474
The first set of numbers should be an all-star and a starter, but was likely a fluke since his Yankee numbers look more like Xavier Nady. Swish gives you those Yankee numbers with .50 -.60 more points of OBP. Plus he likes country and T.I. how do you beat that?
m -
In response to your question from last thread, yeah Brown’s block/foul against the Hawks was SICK. Had no idea he had hops like that. I think he could be a player. Definitely has the athletic ability to at least be a good defender.
They need a guy like Swish to keep things loose.
What, do they think that CC needs a confidence booster? Or is this some kind of rookie initiation/hazing thing?
On Swisher/Nady, Nady is really at his best when he can just be a lefty masher. Neither Damon nor Matsui really need a platoon partner, so using him in right only makes sense if they deal Swisher for help and then get someone like Jim Edmonds (who can still handle right field and hitting rigthies four days a week) to partner with him. Personally, I’d rather sucker somebody into thinking the X-man is the real deal and keep Swisher in right.
Anybody else out there who would willingly chop off a pinkie toe to be down in Tampa watching cc, joba and bruney facing damon posada arod and tex? Opening day cannot freaking come soon enough.
RobNY,
Sorry. I have to hold country music against Swish. Nady’s a half-year player for me anyway. I think he goes at the deadline if everyone’s healthy.
rodg,
HooHaw! That was all ball. He got a make-up call after that, though. Friday will be tough, but it’s a home game. Did you see that Chandler failed his physical? What’s with that? And T-Mac. What a waste of talent.
Great report with the music in the clubhouse, how did the rest of the clubhouse (besides the players) react to the music?
CAN’T WAIT for those live batting practice photos!!
Swish seems to fit the hole in the clubhouse Big G left
m -
Yeah, I didn’t think it was a foul either. Looked clean to me. Friday’s game should be interesting. Gotta find a way to slow down CP3 and I think we’ll be alright. I’m hearing that OKC was pretty conservative in saying Chandler failed his physical and might have overreacted to a turf toe issue. There’s some rumblings that he still might be traded to someone else. Couldn’t believe T-Mac’s way of notifying his coach he was having season-ending surgery was to do so through the papers. What a waste is right.
From the last thread. Meant to ask RobNY if thought Swish gets the nod over Nady.
pat,
Yeah, I don’t really see Swish as a backup player, but I think we’ll try to get what we can out of Nady. I’d get a migraine trying to finish the lineup card on a daily basis. That’s a lot of pieces to work with. Isn’t it great?!
rodg,
And what’s with all the back-2-backs. You could tell their legs were toast. Thank the lord for Ariza.
Yikes…none of that is any good. But it’s good to hear there is some life in the clubhouse.
I can see some logic to keeping the music out of the clubhouse as well as allowing it. I think its all dependant on the players. Prior to games, some probably like it quiet to put them in a game ready frame of mind. Others might enjoy the music loud and banging to firethemselves up.
How do you separate the two extremes though? Put it to a vote? Have a quiet room? A noise room? Taste in music can be varied as well, and lead to dissent. I know personally that I can’t stand any kind of rap, and would be looking to rip the speakers apart if it got played when I am trying to focus on something else.
Some rules seem bottled up and up tight, but if you think them through a bit they might just make some sense.
Swish= Younger, Steroid-Free (supposedly) version of Giambi.
I really like what I hear in regards to Swisher. There needs to be some real life in the Yankees clubhouse, and he sounds like the man to bring it.
Less business…more fun. That’s what the team needs.
m
Options are nice especially when they are good ones.
The Yankees felt Swish was undervalued and is due for a bounce back year. Nady is the anti-Swisher. He’s due to regress to the mean. Swish is therefore the much more intriguing player if the change in scenery and his place in the batting order helps him produce. But that’s one of the things ST is for, testing the off season theories.
live batting practice is an interesting experience. it doesn’t happen as far as i know except in early spring training . you can’t have your regular catchers be back there catching for long because they’d get too beat up.
i did it a lot as a bullpen catcher and one of the interesting things is that the manager , clete boyer, would be leaning on the cage that i had my back to and was always talking discreetly to his coaches about what he thought of different players both pitching and hitting. i was a few feet away so i could hear clearly.
it got so i could read the tea leaves and tell who was going to be cut or sent down. the yankees i’m sure don’t use live bp to make cuts, but it still is a time impressions are made.
the most impressive live bp hitting i caught was when willie mays aikens hit about 15 straight pitches into orbit over the right field fence. players like al oliver and hal mcrae who were part of his group said that it was the most impressive bp display they had ever seen.
aikens completed this hr barrage by hitting me solidly in the back of the head with the bat with an extra long follow through. i wasn’t very impressed with charlie lau’s teaching at that moment.
that is one reason why you won’t see posada or molina back there very much.
Did Joe take away Swishes ice cream?
Top 3 Yankees I’d like to have a beer with
1. Swish- seems like a great all around guy
2. Jeter- would love to get leftovers
3. Joba – calling a cab though
LOL, great post Han Ram! Me and my buddies always have that conversation and Jetes is always on the top of my list for the same reason you cite.
For those who haven’t seen the video for One More Drink, you have to check it out: http://new.music.yahoo.com/vid.....;202157432
Can’t wait til tomorrow when we can talk about how the press managed to “do its job” by hunting down Arod’s cousin! Talk about major PsOS.
Sorry, but I am furious about this and couldn’t wait. I don’t know what should be a bigger badge of shame for them, the fact that they didn’t believe there was a cousin and so now they look like total fools, or the fact that they actually took the time to track down his cousin. What heroes! Of course they will never give him credit for telling the truth about his cousin, will they…)
Done for now.
What don’t you understand about the theme of the day? YOU’RE NOT BIGGER THAN THE THEME OF THE DAY
I think they keep Swish and Nady. Matsui probably wont ever go back to actually playing in the outfield on any sort of regular basis, I think he’ll simply DH. So we do need an extra guy to switch out LF/CF/RF on some regular basis, so why would be get rid of Nady or Swish?
“His other stuff was solid.”
Uhh Country is 10 times better then RAP.
Come on Peter…….
i wouldn’t know a Rihanna, t-pain, T.I., or T-bone song if i heard one….
Ditto, saucY. Guess the good music left with the Moose! Sad…
anyway, I know I’m replying to an old post, but I couldnt help but bemoan an issue that has long troubled me greatly. Why do most baseball players have such horrific taste in music? If even Swisher is listening to Rihanna and T.I. (being that he looks like a person who would be pretty cool to chill with), that to me means there’s no hope for mostly everyone else!
I do hold out a flicker of optimism regarding Burnett though. I keep hearing he’s a ‘metalhead,’ hopefully that means Iron Maiden and Anthrax rather than this nu-metal garbage that Damon and some of the other guys listen to. Please keep it real, A.J., and take over Moose’s job of FORCING good music on the Yankee clubhouse!
I guess Swish didn’t check with the Captain to see if the playlist was ok…
I wonder just how loose the clubhouse would get if there were no rules or whatever…Animal House, stripper poles, beer kegs, etc. That would be too funny.