If you’ve heard/read all this before, feel free to move on, it’s just a funny story about a young couple and a pop band from the late 1990s-early 2000s, that’s still around today, and has been tangentially connected with sport because of one hit song, and their Twitter feuds and friendships over the years.
During Monday’s pre-All Star Game media availability in Washington, D.C., a reporter asked Nationals’ closer Sean Doolittle about the history of his relationship with the band Smash Mouth, who recently congratulated the reliever for his second All-Star selection and at the urging of Sean’s wife Eireann, said that thing they’re famous for saying:
So how did all this Doolittles and Smash Mouth stuff start (and also why isn’t Smashmouth just one word?