John Kruk Is With Leather

Posted Mar 11, 2007 10:39PM By Pat Lackey (RSS feed)

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When the famous phrase "You're with me, leather" entered the lexicon, I didn't think anyone had John Kruk in mind. I was wrong; ESPN most certainly did. If you haven't seen the WWL's new fantasy baseball commercial and you don't want to see Krukie doing his best Meatloaf impression, for the love of all that is holy do not click play on the video below. If you're into that kind of thing, then by all means, go ahead. If you're not blind after the video is over, there's more after the jump.

I immediately thought the following things in this exact order after my first viewing. Understandably, this raised more than a few questions inside of my fragile little mind:

John Kruk looks like Meatloaf singing the National Anthem at the 1994 All-Star Game in Pittsburgh.
Holy crap, I remember Meatloaf singing the National Anthem at the 1994 All-Star Game.
Peter Gammons. WHY?!?!
Bronson Arroyo playing guitar. Not surprised at all.
Is that Buster Olney? Between this and being forced to ask questions at the infamous "Steve Phillips Press Conferences" how can he possibly still be working at ESPN?
Is that a key-tar?
Gary Sheffield on the drums? With this group? Does. Not. Compute.
What the hell would make you brag about drafting Carlos Lee? Also, El Caballo looks a bit out of shape. $100 million for that guy? Really?
Did anyone actually think this was a good idea? Is that person already fired?

And I haven't even touched on Geddy Lee. I thought that was it, but as it turns out, "Iron Diamond" (their name, not mine) has it's own MySpace page. I will never unsee this.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-11-2007 @ 11:53PM

micah said...

wow. that is unreal.
what inspired and who approved this?
that keytar i own just became a LOT less cool.

3-12-2007 @ 2:05AM

Matt W. said...

I love the Marlin's mascot cameo where he's just checking out the dancing girls. Though I still hate you for showing me this.

3-12-2007 @ 4:17AM

Fornelli said...

Looks like I'll never be having sex again. Thanks, Pat.

3-12-2007 @ 3:41PM

ed zajac said...

it was great, i watched it over n over again...but i think i need a life

3-12-2007 @ 10:50PM

john park said...

That's hilarious. Have you no souls? What is not funny about Kruk in leather and Joe Bo on a keytar? Okay, I'll indulge you in a better idea. Kruk, Gammons, and Oleny sitting around talking about Fantasy Baseball stats. Gammons gets angry, "what? you'd draft Miguel Cabrerra before Miguel Tejada? You've got MMD, Miguel Mixture Disorder" John Kruk shakes his head. End scene. On second thought, I like the song here better.

3-12-2007 @ 10:59PM

Sean said...

Geddy Lee doing ESPN commercials..that is a total chaotic scene going on there. I just watched Geddy on ESPN 360 for about 15 mins talking about Fantasy Baseball as well...you can watch it here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/ivp/index_allaccess?id=2792955

Probably explains why he was on the commercial

3-12-2007 @ 11:30PM

Mike F said...

Amazing I was repulsed and laughing at the same time.
Looks like Krukker is gaining than weight back and yet he looks better than Carlos Lee
good luck Astros

3-14-2007 @ 9:36PM

Mike said...

Lighten up, Francis. This spot is supposed to be over the top, 80s metal cheesy, very Spinal Tap. It's funny.

I saw it today with no volume and noticed Geddy Lee at the end--that is totally classic!

Ged is a HUGE baseball fanatic, sang the Anthem when the All Star Game was in Toronto and is, not surprisingly, a roto-baseball nut.

As a fan, (baseball and Rush) it's very cool to see him in a national ad like that. Way to go Ged, and to the guys who cast this spot.