Mariano Rivera got a special message from Metallica when being interviewed by MLB Network about his election to baseball’s Hall of Fame. The band sent a video congratulating the New York Yankees reliever on being the first player to be unanimously voted in by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Watch it on Twitter.
Hey Mo, we’ve got some old friends that wanted to say congrats. pic.twitter.com/enlwrVpaCc
— Cut4 (@Cut4) January 22, 2019
As it turns out though Rivera isn’t a fan of the band and says the famous song was actually picked by someone in the New York Yankees organization to be his entrance music.
“As a Christian, with all due respect to Metallica, I don’t listen to that kind of music.”
Rivera, who was elected alongside the late Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez and Mike Mussina, used “Enter Sandman” as his entrance music for most of his career as a closer. They’ll be inducted into the Hall in Cooperstown, New York on July 20th.
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