Kevin Millar Shares Awesome Story of How His Bruce Springsteen 'Rally Karaoke Guy' Video Found its Way to Red Sox

Sometimes, fortune smiles upon you, my friends.

On Wednesday, I had the chance to speak with Kevin Millar, thanks to Goodyear Auto Services and Just Tires. And now, we bring you to the moment I've been waiting for for 15 years: the chance to ask Millar about the origin of the Rally Karaoke Guy, which spurred the '03 Red Sox to great heights, and in many ways marked the start of that team's "Cowboy Up!" mojo.

In case you need a refresher on the video, have a long look at it.

Yes, that is Kevin. Yes, he's lip syncing Bruce Springsteen. No, he's not making any actual sounds, but he is making one hell of a statement. So, how did we get here? Did he bring this to Boston, and request it be shown on the scoreboard to get a laugh during the '03 stretch run? I'd always kind of assumed so.

Turns out? Noooooooo way was he responsible for this.

"We're playing the Texas Rangers in 2003, and they gather us for a pregame meeting. I'm thinking it's gonna be about Pedro Martinez's citizenship, which he'd been working towards," Millar divulged to 12up. "Then, they roll a TV monitor in, these two guys, and they say they're looking for someone in this locker room who's done some bad things. They play a whole fake news montage. Then they play the video. I couldn't even tell it was me. Everyone looks around, right at me. They're like, 'Is that Millar?!'."

"Turns out, my buddy who I played freshman college baseball with is a PI in Dallas, and he dug up the video and gave it to the Red Sox to play a prank on me," Millar satisfyingly revealed. "[Pitcher] John Burkett kept the video, and he got them to play it on the big board during a game against the A's. I look at the dugout, there's Zito, Mulder, and Hudson, they're keeled over. I swear to you, we played the video, and we came back, like, seven straight games. This stupid video me and my buddy made in 1990. The Angels had the Rally Monkey, and we had the Rally Karaoke Guy."

Now, is anything more 2003 than that? Enjoy baseball for what it's always been, like Kevin Millar always will.

Thanks to Goodyear Auto Services and Just Tires for allowing us a chance to speak with Kevin. You can learn more about Goodyear's March Deal Days by visiting www.goodyearautoservice.com or www.JustTires.com.