WASHINGTON — It made its way through the Twins clubhouse this spring training until Edouard Julien finally heard it. In the song titled “Edouard Julien, Are You Gonna Rule Again?” FanGraphs’ Davy Andrews, asks the simple question repeatedly. “It was funny because I’ve never heard any song about me,” Julien said of the song, which was accompanied by a music video with multiple cutouts of his face bouncing around the screen.
“I wasn’t expecting that.” ADVERTISEMENT Tuesday, he was serenaded in person. Andrews showed up at the Nationals Park pregame — Twins bench coach Jayce Tingler had told Julien that Andrews would attend a game in either New York or Washington D.
C. — and after the Twins’ 10-0 win over the Nationals, he performed his song in the middle of the clubhouse with Julien sitting right next to him. “Obviously I’ve heard (it) a lot in spring training, and it was good to have him in person here and get in front of the guys,” Julien said.
“It was fun.” The performance, starter Joe Ryan said, was “electric.” Manager Rocco Baldelli referred to the song multiple times as “a hit.
” ADVERTISEMENT Andrews’ song is set to the same tune as California rock band Wckr Spgt’s song about former French president François Mitterrand, replacing the lyric “François Mitterrand, do you have the heater on?” with “Edouard Julien, are you gonna rule again?” “I think Eddy was loving it. The rest of the guys were loving it,” Baldell.
