![]() ![]() He’s out on the road now with Morgan Wallen as part of his monumental 2023 One Night At A Time Tour, and already selling out football stadiums coast-to-coast including SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Wrigley Field in Chicago and Truist Park in Atlanta. The 2023 ACM Awards New Male Artist of the Year nominee and CMT Music Awards multi-nominee has ignited television audiences with show-stopping performances on Good Morning America, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! and the 58 th Academy of Country Music Awards, and incited critical applause from Forbes, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Billboard and many more. Quickly closing in on 2 billion streams and counting, Zimmerman closed out 2022 as the year’s only country artist to receive two Platinum certifications from the RIAA and was named Billboard ’s #2 Top New Country Artist and #4 Top New Artist Overall. Both tracks were also included on his record-shattering debut EP, Leave The Light On, which made history upon release as the biggest streaming country debut of all time and the most-streamed all-genre debut of the year. Alongside current single and title track “Religiously,” the album features his Multi-Platinum, debut #1 single, “Fall In Love,” alongside his most recent Multi-Platinum hit, “Rock And A Hard Place,” which spent a whopping six consecutive weeks at the top of Billboard ’s Country Airplay Chart in addition to being his first Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hit to date. The album finds Zimmerman making a statement, amplifying tried-and-true country stories with unapologetic arena rock ambition and electrifying power from every angle. (Warner Music Nashville/Elektra), this young artist with the rasp of a seasoned rocker and the heart of a sensitive songwriter surges to the forefront of 21 st century country music and arrives at the cusp of superstardom. And now, with the release of his full-length debut LP, Religiously. And then we’ll see what happens.As a spellbinding storyteller, sharp songwriter, powerhouse performer and history-making, platinum-certified phenomenon, Bailey Zimmerman has personified the American dream from the get-go. For the first time in my life, I can take a deep breath and, like I said, get healthy. I’m kind of looking forward to this now, just to see how I do feel. And I put my equipment bag away and never looked at it again. “You know, I thought when I got done playing (1990), I would be a typical guy (who missed playing because) that’s all I’ve ever done. But I’m really looking forward to seeing what’s next, and what do I miss? You know, how much do you miss it? Do you miss it? And it’ll take me a while to kind of get healthy. … Right when the season’s over, I’m going to get another set of surgeries. Bush was president, gas cost 2, and t-shirts were called torso shorts. HEADLINE has been making intelligently funny tees and apparel from San Francisco since 2004. Fast, free US shipping over 45 and easy, free returns. So I asked him if it has been hard to imagine himself not managing, after 23 seasons. Shop for Bourbon & Books Mens T-Shirt and hundreds of other 100 original funny t-shirts & gifts. And there’s always got to be a huge respect for the game.” And there’s things I’m not able to do, even just because physically (he can’t anymore). “I never want to overstay or stay for the wrong reasons. So as the aches, the pains and the trips to the operating room mounted, how could he not begin to ask himself: How much longer can I keep doing this? And there’s a reason for that.įor two months in midsummer - until he finally summoned the resolve last month to deliver the news to his two bosses, Guardians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti and general manager Mike Chernoff - he found out the hard way that the big retirement debate is a slightly tougher decision than, say, whether to bunt the Zombie Runner over in the 10th inning.īut this is a man who needs shoulder replacement surgery this winter … and also two hernia procedures … and then there are all the months he has spent dealing with the lingering effects of a staph infection in his foot. And luckily for all of us, he was willing to spend a half-hour with me and Doug Glanville on Starkville, not just explaining why it’s time but also regaling us with one spectacular managerial tale after another.Īsked if he is finding it hard to say that word, “retire,” Francona replied, “No, it really isn’t.” But if you noticed, he was careful to answer that question in the present tense. After 3,695 games as a big-league manager, two World Series parades and three Manager of the Year awards, Francona knows it’s time. ![]() So Francona’s first mention of the word “retire” - may not come until next week. “Once you give out T-shirts,” the Guardians’ Cooperstown-bound manager quipped on a new Starkville edition of “The Athletic Baseball Show” podcast, “there’s no going back.” And Francona has come to grips with that. ![]()
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