Published 7/2/2009
by Michael Ielpi
at Bleacher Report - MLB
I received many nice compliments on my slideshow relating the music of Michael Jackson to sports , so I wanted to try my hand at another tribute. Thank you to everyone for the comments, and the POTDs.
This one will be a column and it is dedicated to only one team and one man.
The man is Billy Mays; the team is the New York Mets.
I got to know more about Billy and his fellow pitchman, Anthony Sullivan, thanks to The Discovery Channel’s new program, Pitchmen . The final episode of Pitchmen is tonight.
On Pitchmen I got to see the personal life, and that Billy Mays was not as loud and annoying as he seemed during those commercials. He appeared to have a heart as loud as his voice.
For those who thought Mays was just a showman and people never bought anything he sold, well he did rather well over the years.
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