{"id":2218,"date":"2014-05-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yogworld.com\/blog\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2014-05-22T14:40:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:40:29","slug":"george-michael-josh-reddick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yogworld.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/george-michael-josh-reddick\/","title":{"rendered":"George Michael&#8217;s Opportunity in Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland A&#8217;s Josh Reddick has been using George Michael&#8217;s &#8220;Careless Whisper&#8221; as his walk-up song and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshreddick16\">Twitter cover<\/a>. Reddick usually uses WWE themes and country music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=32859103?topic_id=6479266&amp;width=400&amp;height=224&amp;property=mlb\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" frameborder=\"0\">Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>George Michael has been approached to make an appearance. According to the San Francisco Gate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s no official word yet on whether Michael will show, but there has been contact and the A\u2019s are hopeful they can pull it off. Which would be amazing, and pretty darn cool. Michael, who is English, presumably has little background in baseball and probably hadn\u2019t heard of Josh Reddick until recently, but the Oakland outfielder has brought Michael\u2019s sax-heavy ballad \u201cCareless Whisper\u201d back into cultural relevance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland A&#8217;s Josh Reddick has been using George Michael&#8217;s &#8220;Careless Whisper&#8221; as his walk-up song and Twitter cover. Reddick usually uses WWE themes and country music. Your browser does not support iframes. George Michael has been approached to make an appearance. 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