Have you seen this? The Twins have inexplicably allowed their good name to be put to music. Awful music. It looks like their television partner, FSNorth, needed some rousing tune they could play before the game and during advertisements. They probably thought they wanted something raw, original, and exciting. So where did they go to find this next great sports rock anthem?
The suburbs. Not the band, the place. FSNorth are a bunch of suits looking to make a buck off some music, so why would they investigate the seedy underbelly of the Minneapolis music scene to find something actually good? Instead, they turned to GB Leighton, whose most famous tune is 651-488-8888 (Pizza Hut Delivery Is Really Great.) With a hit single like that with amazingly wide airplay, this seemed like a sure thing.
The suits must have been ecstatic when they first read these lyrics, which GB probably wrote while shopping at the Galleria in Edina.
We got baseball outside
Minnesota Pride
Target Field bring on the heat
Twins are the team to beat
Duluth, St. Paul, Rochester, Minneapolis
Are you ready? Get Ready.
This is where we start the World Series story
this is Twins Territory
Bring on Mauer and Morneau
the fans are ready to go
Dick and Bert on every call
they're gonna circle em all
Brainerd, St Cloud, Winona, hey Dakotas
Are you ready? Get ready.
This is now our time to shine in the glory
Fox Sports is Twins Territory
This is how we start the World Series story
This is Twins Territory
As Bert Blyleven would say, that's a Grammy-type tune. It's Very Serious.
[Watch the music video HERE ]
If the Twins win the World Series this year, I know I'll be telling the story to my kids someday. And how will I start that story? By explaining that GB Leighton kicked it off by singing a very clutch and inspiring tune at the beginning of the season.
But whatayagonnado? It seems like no one can write a song for a professional sports team and get away with it (besides The Hold Steady). Prince's fight song for the Vikings was decidedly awful, but at least it wasn't completely bland and cliche. I would take that over "Twins Territory."
Amazingly, this song falls somewhere in the middle of pro sports songs. Because nothing will ever be as bad as this:
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4 comments:
Ugh! Horrible song! I didn't even finish watching it. I couldn't finish watching the Marlins song either.
Thank you. Much like tearing off a band aid, I've avoided reading the lyrics to G.B. Leighton's FSN jingle along with listening to Stapp's nonsense.
Sometimes it's good to get experiences like this over and done with.
I think Charles Barkley said it best when describing the new Twins song. Tuurabul.
For the last six months I thought GB Leighton was saying "this is now our time to shine in the north" except "north" was stretched out to sound like "nooooor-eth". That almost is a better lyric than the actual lyric which I now understand is "glory" according to your post. As bad as that song is it's been maddeningly annoying to me that I can't tell WTF he's been saying all season.
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