
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of The Cooler, where I hope you wanted to hear a lot about music. Let's get to it:
*After two seasons, the Wild is ditching "Let's Go Crazy" as the song played after goals.
The team paid tribute to Prince by playing the song after goals during its final playoff game of the 2015-16 season, and season-ticket holders liked it enough that they voted to permanently change to "Let's Go Crazy" from Joe Satriani's "Crowd Chant," which had been the goal song for a decade.
Now it seems those same fans have had another change of heart. Fans surveyed this offseason favored another switch, according to a letter emailed to season ticket holders. The Wild will either go back to "Crowd Chant" or roll with "Glass House" by Kaleo.
There seemed to be a strange unease among the Xcel faithful with having "Let's Go Crazy" as the goal song, so I'm not terribly surprised by the switch.
Then again, the Wild scored the most goals in franchise history (266) when it went with Prince full-time two years ago, and it had the second-most in franchise history (253) last season.
I'd say the smart money is on a return to "Crowd Chant" because of familiarity — and because fans probably never had a chance to get tired of it because they rarely heard it.
*Speaking of music, it struck me the other day that a weird offshoot of Joe Mauer's likely retirement is that we won't be hearing his trademark walk-up music anymore.