Lars Ulrich Has the Best Line in the Outtakes From Metallica's SportsCenter Ad

Getting by in a post-Mariano world

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Wieden + Kennedy's latest SportsCenter spot, featuring Metallica, has gotten lots of attention, and almost 800,000 YouTube views, since its debut a week ago.

The veteran band visits ESPN HQ and jokes about having no work since New York Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera, who famously used their thrash-anthem "Enter Sandman" as his theme song, retired after last season. (Other players also enter games to that particular track, but since they're not Rivera, who cares?)

This season, the Yankees desperately need some fresh arms.

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