Major League Baseball Sluggers Are Going Nuts For Negan’s ‘The Walking Dead’ Bat
Find out why MLB superstars are obsessed with this barbed-wire beauty.
It’s late February, which means Florida and Arizona are filling up with out-of-shape baseball players who will spend the next month shaking off five months of rust to prepare for the season ahead.
If you’re wondering how many of those players spent winter, the answer now seems obvious: They were watching The Walking Dead, just like everyone else. And AMC appears to know it.
In the first week of spring training, the network has turned Negan’s skull-smashing baseball bat, lovingly dubbed Lucille, into the must-have item in the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71H7p-9tZ4U
Now players who’ve received replicas of the bat are tweeting pictures of themselves pretending to be TV’s most sinister villain. Now, if they can crush baseballs with the same enthusiasm with which Negan crushes brains, they’ll all have huge seasons.
Yasiel Puig is ready for the zombies this season, with his "The Walking Dead" bat. Photo… https://t.co/6Xc3O3XTNy pic.twitter.com/8c8sAH78VL
— Doug Padilla (@DougPadilla) February 17, 2017
I'm so happy right now! Thanks @WalkingDead_AMC for this gift! #MeetLucille pic.twitter.com/rdAWXpxZ3O
— J.D. Martinez (@JDMartinez28) February 17, 2017
Bryce Harper has a bat wrapped in barbed wire, because why not? pic.twitter.com/DRBhhg02h3
— Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) February 19, 2017
#KHOU11 #Astros @TeamCJCorrea Carlos received a gift Walking Dead bat pic.twitter.com/l4XlcSVNB9
— Matt Musil (@KHOUSportsMatt) February 18, 2017
.@SalvadorPerez15 has a new piece of lumber in his arsenal thanks to @WalkingDead_AMC. #RoyalsST pic.twitter.com/eXk44fRewa
— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) February 19, 2017
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