ESPN commercial accurately stars Metallica as band with nothing to do

by Tyler Munro

July 16, 2014

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Released over the weekend, ESPN’s new commercial shows a bored, restless Metallica hanging around the office, desperate for something to do. It hits all the notes—Lars wears a hat! Kirk plays blues scales! That guy with the pigtails is there!

But in spite of our cynicism, it’s funny. And for the world’s once biggest metal band, kind of cute. For ESPN, it fits the trend, falling in line with other in-office skits that have featured everyone from Lebron James to Calvin Johnson. Still, the timing is weird. For baseball fans, the joke’s about a year old.

With the New York Yankees pulling and scratching for a Wild Card spot, Derek Jeter’s bloated retirement tour might have hit its critical mass at Major League Baseball’s all star game last night. Last year, the same fate befell Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera, a Christian closer who famously used Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” as his walk-on music after stadium employees stumbled on it ten years prior.

This skit shows what the band’s been doing since Rivera famously called it quits. As fans already know, the answer is very, very little.

Tonight Drake hosts the ESPY’s, EPSN’s annual sports award show. But before Toronto’s very own hits the stage for inevitable skits, glitz and glamour, the comedy baseball cap belongs to Metallica.

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