The Cleveland Indians bullpen can't live without Apple products or they badly desire to own them. A lot of them. Luckily for Brandon Moss, Apple CEO Tim Cook is a baseball fan, too.
When Moss smacked his 100th career home run last Tuesday night, members of Cleveland's bullpen nabbed the ball and held it ransom, before presenting the Indians right fielder with a laundry list of items of mostly Apple products that they wanted in exchange. Basically, if Moss wanted to ever see the ball again and frame it somewhere in his home, he'd have to pay up for it. So what are some of the Apple items on the list?
An iPhone 6, three iPads, three MacBook Airs, three Apple Watches. One player gave Moss the choice between an iPad or $5,000 in cash. Another contended that if Moss couldn't give him an Apple Watch, that he'd settle for a "50-gallon drum of lube." Good grief.
Well, good thing that Cook is a baseball fan. With his opening remarks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, Cook told the story about the Indians bullpen's wish list for Moss, before proclaiming, "we're paying the ransom" to the crowd's delight.
That's going to be a whole lot of Apple products in the Cleveland Indians bullpen, not to mention the 100th home run ball being the only place it should be—in Moss's possession.
This little baseball prank sure had some legs, didn't it? Not a bad way for Cook to kick off WWDC, huh?
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