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February 14, 2013(Update: Apparently, this track was recorded in December and the release date was just coincidentally timed around the recent incident. The team has reportedly met with the pitcher. Bauer stated that the song, despite the lyrics, was aimed at “Twitter haters” and not Montero.)
Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Trevor Bauer has fired a shot across the bow of Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero Twitter haters through what may be the most intriguing manner in recent Cleveland sports history — a diss track titled “You Don’t Know Me” wherein the chorus includes a line about “hiding behind a mask.”
Bauer was the recent target of criticism from former teammate and catcher Miguel Montero. Following a brief stint in the majors with the Diamondbacks, Montero and Bauer had a well-documented difference of opinion. Just this week, Montero wished Indians catcher Carlos Santana “good luck” in dealing with the 22-year old Bauer — “When you get a guy like that and he thinks he’s got everything figured out, it’s just tough to commence and try to get on the same page with you.” The song was reportedly recorded in December, but was released on Wednesday.
Upon the acquisition of Bauer, we opened the lid on Bauer’s rapping career with the group “Consumate 4sight.” We have embedded the recently released track for your listening pleasure, complete with Bain’s introduction. We’ve also snipped a few choice lines.
Your fifteen minutes, I guess I get that.
With that, its time to get back to all these fans that I’ve been losing due in part to the rumors moving about that that I refuse to listen
So people get this vision of me, no one goes up hitting for me
I swear I’ve never been gifted nothing[…]
It don’t matter how many Xs or Os you draw
I plan to get that, bro
You’re a mouse in a cat’s game
Get where I’m at, man
I ain’t playing tic-tac-toe
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65 Comments
Oh yeah, this makes me feel COMPLETELY better about Bauer
I’ve heard worse rap….
Not much….
Pride. Bauer’s pride (once again) was wounded and he needs to vindicate by pointing back the finger. Realize he is only 22, but I hope being coached AND mentored by Terry Francona will speed up his maturation. Actions speak louder than words (I know cliche, but true nonetheless).
“If I weren’t too proud, I’d boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself.” – Bauvard
Thank God we traded him
you guys are crazy. lots of athletes like music – and while most of the guys used to sing in the shower, that was before rap came out. Now guys like to rap. Big deal. These guys have the money for recording equipment (barrier to entry is close to nothing) and can sit at home and make beats and rhymes.
I got love for this.
(EDIT: i got love for the concept, but most definitely NOT this. He should stick to pitching.)
Battle, Battle, Battle
Very reminiscent of the time Ty Cobb released a diss phonograph at Honus Wagner. The more things change and so on and so forth.
God, does anyone remember the good old days when two guys had a beef and one guy would just wing a baseball into someone’s back at 100 mph?
What in the literal F is going on here?
Just what we need. A screwball who thinks fans covet his mouth more then his arm. When you reach the Big Leagues you have reached the “SHOW”, but you are not the “SHOW”. Let’s face it clown, we have had our L.James and you are no James. Shut your mouth, earn a spot in the rotation, and produce!
if we can love Delonte West, then Bauer shouldn’t be a problem.
if he produces, he can have all the sidebar battles with Miggy Montero he wants.
This is as bad as the stuff that Clint Dempsey came out with… but if Bauer ends up being as successful at baseball as Dempsey is at soccer, then I could care less what kind of music he’s creating.
Nobody gave Jack McDowell crap for his awful rock band.
Good on Bauer. He’s obviously not ignorant of conventional thinking. He has looked at things and decided he wants to practice and condition according to his own program. Why doesn’t everyone just piss off and let him do things how he wants?
He raps? This can’t be life…..
Ten pounds of crap, meet five pound bag.
I respect a diss track as much as the next guy, but that was pretty terrible.
But in a strange way, this makes me like him more.
Speak for yourself. If YOU can love West…….. Don’t assume widespread love for a dangerous, deranged and delusional talented dribbler of a round rubber ball.
you might not love Delonte, but I would venture to say that the majority of fans did.
he usually showed his fun-loving, light-hearted side to the fans. his sad and sometimes deranged side was mostly hidden from public view. i still hope he finds peace and worry the worst anytime his name is brought up on ESPN, etc.
Yes. Those were the days.
I think Bauer should probably stick to his day job.
Great, we have a white guy who retaliates within a week by making a mixtape of his old catchers… Its the Taylor Swift of the Indians.
He’s not a pitcher, he’s the new wave, an artist.
Actually, I’m resigned to this. C’mon, Arizona didn’t give up a potential front of the rotation stud only because Nagy doesn’t approve of so much long toss. If the tribe wants another’s stud he’ll come with perceived warts. The Wedgie Good Heartbeat Era is over, and Francona can supposedly handle some quirks in exchange for talent. This stuff seems almost high-brow when juxtaposed against the crude Gimme That Mic So I Get My Attention Fix stylings of Chris Perez. In this instance Bauer seems to be reacting, not initiating trouble.
To misquote Keith Hernandez – you don’t win World Series singing opera.
I am all for athletes with some personality. Give me some Ks, don’t beat your spouse, don’t hurt/kill anyone, and then you can do whatever you want off the field, even make crappy songs about back-up catchers.
‘Percieved’ warts. If the only thing wrong with Bauer is that he is 22 years old and he is pretty independent, I’ll take it. He hasn’t done anything that screams ‘character issues’ yet.
“Bauer, Bauer, Bauer can’t you see? Sometimes your words just frustrate me. And ‘Zona hated your flashy ways. Guess that’s why you’re gone and Montero stayed.”
Wait. So diss tracks aren’t cool? Dang it.
/exits out of Garage Band, closes laptop, shreds printed Comments section from last week’s WFNY with down ticks next to his name, locks pictures of ex-girlfriends who dumped him, along with the “Dear Garry” letters, back in the “super secret” safe, and decides to finally get dressed and eat something for the first time since Tuesday
y’all better have my donuts
nice!
I bet he doesn’t get nearly as much backlash if it wasn’t a rap song (a bad one at that).
He’s no Joe Beast
perfect
I played ball in high.school with this guy and he’s as weird as they come. He grew up in a wealthy, majority white area. I’m not sure who he thinks he is but trust me, he’s no rapper. I think this garbage confirms that.
Many of us loved Delonte because there was lovable/vulnerable mixed with the volatility and hard-nosed play. Like how Clevelanders loved Julio Franco when he came up.
If Bauer is a great pitcher but he relates to fans and teammates as cold reptile, like Albert Belle, he’ll be celebrated but not loved. Hard to hug your alligator.
A whole bunch of figurative S.
I did not listen to this, for I already know it would give me the douche chills.
This could possibly be my favorite post ever on this site.
Well crafted sir.
From everything I’ve read (and I’m sure it’s biased), he does seem like a decent fellow.
“Rather than run from these issues, Bauer dove in head first. After the
season ended, the pitcher called some of his Arizona teammates,
searching for where he went wrong in his first taste of the big leagues.
Bauer asked for honesty, and he got it. At some points, what he heard
hurt, but he feels he has learned a lot from the experience.
“I just kind of wanted to reach out and get some opinions on it,” Bauer
said, “It was really beneficial for me to hear. It wasn’t easy to hear
in a lot of ways, but it was beneficial for me to hear kind of the
perception of me: ‘You do this, and it’s perceived this way.'”
http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130109&content_id=40900464&vkey=news_cle&c_id=cle
Bauer and Perez together just imagine the good times!
When you win 20 in the show, you can make “diss tracks” and the press will think you’re colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it only means you’re a bad rapper.
I love it. Not the song but the attention it’s getting. Get that publicity baby! As long as they win, I don’t care
NERD ALERT NERD ALERT: “Bane” gives the intro
Also, why didn’t he just go with the much more tasteful – “Miggy, Miggy tell me how my @$$ tastes?”
Seems to work for other diss tracks.
Top drawer sir, top… drawer. I narly fell from my chesterfield from your verbal folly.
Can I love Ben Broussard and his musical stylings?
This is absolutely the worst thing I’ve ever heard
Or in other news, Trevor Bauer can’t rap.
…My… God…
That’s a little harsh. I realize you wrote that before Bauer faced the press corps and explained, but damn…..
I’m no rap fan in general. Guess I'[m way too old to even appreciate the concept as “music”. But I’m Ok with letting Bauer have a “hobby”, as he explains it. Too bad it’s that hard on the ears, though….sheesh…