Kenny Chesney Makes Nice With the Yankees
Filed under: New York, Yankees, AL East, MLB Gossip, Featured Stories, The Word
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not a country music fan, but as I understand it Kenny Chesney is quite popular in a “lowest common denominator” kind of way. He’s kind of like Tim McGraw but less talented and without the hot wife — at least ever since his marriage with Renee Zellwegger ended amidst rumors of an inappropriate “friendship” with Peyton Manning. Not that they’re exclusive or anything — brother Eli has also made a few appearances.
As Mr. Irrelevant points out, though, Chesney has moved on from courting sibling quarterbacks to hanging with guys who really know how to handle a stick and balls. Here’s an account of Chesney’s concert last night in New York from the Village Voice:
At one point, he brought out Roger Clemens, Johnny Damon, and a couple of other baseball players I didn’t recognize. All the baseball players positively towered over Chesney and hogged the stage for a bit, Clemens lugging his kid around and making him high-five Chesney like twenty times. At the end of the show, instead of an encore we got five minutes of Chesney and Clemens signing autographs while his band, all of whom looked like casual-Friday office-workers, pounded out some generic frat-rock riffage.
Too good to be true? Head to the YouTubes and see for yourself – if you squint hard enough, you can just make out Damon on the video board, but I’ll have to take the Village Voice at its word that any other ballplayers were there.