The Dodgers Need To Give Their Organist All Of Shohei Ohtani's Money For Playing "We Didn't Start The Fire" While A Car Was Engulfed In Flames In The Parking Lot
I've always been curious about the pathway of mascots and organ players for professional sports teams. Do these guys have to work their way up through the minor leagues like the players do? Are there any phenoms out there who land a job in the big leagues right out of high school? Has there ever been a trade? Maybe one franchise has an abundance of killers on the organ, but their mascot is a dud. A quick one-for-one trade makes everybody happy.
And if there's any sort of free agency in that world, this Dodgers organist better lock up the biggest contract in organ history after this performance.
That's the thing about all these guys who make it to the big leagues. Everybody knows the players need to be locked in and make massive plays when they need to, but the organists need to be on their game at all times as well. You can't let a situation like this pass you by and not make a play on it. You can't be timid out there on the keys because there's always going to be someone else looking to take your job.
But it takes a legend of the game to whip this one out while a car is engulfed in flames in the parking lot. For starters, you have to have the ability to pull "We Didn't Start The Fire" off the top of your head. I'm sure most guys in the league are capable of doing that, but then you also have to have the stones that it's going to land. You don't know the situation. You don't know if anyone is still in the car. But you just have to go for it anyway because that's what the great ones do. And this organist deserves a contract fit for one of the greats.
Sidenote: I was never a big Billy Joel guy before but I've been on a huge kick recently. I probably work Vienna into my rotation 3 times a day.