10 best 'Indie Rock Trade Deadline' Twitter rumours
by Nicole Villeneuve
July 31, 2012
Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard is a baseball nerd. Says so in his Twitter bio. Plus he released that feelings-y song over a trade the other day. He’s been tweeting about (and at) the Seattle Mariners ever since, and then, presumably to deal with his grief, he started riffing. He created the #IndieRockTradeDeadline.
Gibbard really owned it, if we’re being honest.
But that’s not to say some other music/sports nerds weren’t on-point too:
And while this one was a bit of a stretch, we do appreciate taking a joke too far. Always.
The “trades” are still ongoing. Follow along here.
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