N.Y. Daily News: Spector: The end of the X-Man

As if Good Guy sweatshirt giveaways and ‘name it and claim it’ puffery weren’t enough...now Spector has to track down Kuff and the Buttheads!

Back in 2006, I wrote a story about some of baseball’s Internet oddities - that is, before I became one myself. Included in the story was a mention of a local band called Kuff and the Buttheads, whose song “The Ballad of X” was a heartfelt, humorous and more than a little off-color tribute to Xavier Nady after the Mets traded him to Pittsburgh.

Now that Nady has been traded at the deadline once again, this time from Pittsburgh to the Yankees, I had to find out how singer/songwriter Tim Kuffner was feeling about it, and to find out if this might result in another song.

Well, he’s not happy.

“Words alone can not express how deeply, and genuinely hurt and disappointed I am with this trade,” Kuffner said. “Xavier is no longer the X-Man to me. To have to see him playing in pinstripes is kind of like being forced to watch an endless string of Golden Girl episodes. As for a song, there will be one, maybe just a continuation of the original, except X will lose his mythical status as he puts on the uniform of that evil Bronx franchise.”