Multiple teams have recently credited Creed with their winning streaks. Is the aging butt-rock band really taking them higher?
The Texas Rangers, who are one game away from securing their first World Series championship in franchise history, are one of the more unlikely success stories in recent baseball history. They finished with a decent, but not spectacular, 90–72 record during the regular season while nursing one of the worst bullpens in the Majors and an astonishing eight-game losing streak during the home stretch that almost left them out of the playoffs entirely.
All of this set the stage for a World Series against the similarly scrappy Arizona Diamondbacks in which the Rangers are currently leading three games to one. How are they staving off elimination? Some would point to the Rangers’ explosive, power-hitting offense or the savvy of veteran ace Max Scherzer, but personally, I think the answer is simple. Like so many other sports success stories recently, the Rangers have found absolution in the power of Creed.
I don’t have a great answer for why all of these athletes are suddenly orienting toward Creed—who, again, hasn’t been a force in pop culture since the end of the Clinton administration. However, I do think there has been a general reassessment of the various punchlines who dominated the post-Nirvana confusion on the modern rock charts; you can now buy Korn shirts from Urban Outfitters, and I think most people on Earth would admit that Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” kinda bangs.
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