‘I can definitely take a loss with the best of them’

On November 29, 2024By Littum

Season 12 of “The Masked Singer” continued Wednesday evening on FOX with the Group C final on “Peanuts Night.” After the studio audience’s vote, Royal Knight became the first singer to be eliminatedfollowed by Sherlock Hound losing a Battle Royale to Strawberry Shortcake. The doggy detective became the 10th eliminated singer of the season and was revealed as the 2004 World Champion Bronson Arroyo. Watch our video interview above.

While waiting for host Nick Cannon to read the results, the former pitcher admits, “I was definitely nervous. Anytime you get in a position where you’re fighting for something or just competing, whether it’s playing dodgeball as a kid or table tennis, you get a little competitive fire. I can definitely take a loss with the best of them, but you get nervous and you want to go to the next round and do your best.”

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Panelists Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeongand Rita Ora thought Arroyo was a professional rock star throughout most of her time on the show. Robin eventually found out Sherlock Hound’s true identity just before the mask came off. The athlete-turned-musician says, “I grew up on alternative ’90s stuff. I was in high school back then Soundgarden, Nirvanaand Pearl Jam all hit.” He laughed at being compared to Eddie Vedderand remarked, “I’m about a foot and a half taller, but I’ll take the compliment.”

Arroyo now plays music professionally and says that Pearl Jam’s album “Ten” has been a big influence on him. “For probably the best part of 22 years of playing baseball, if I was in the weight room or squatting heavy, I’d listen to that ‘Ten’ record. There was so much angst and energy in those songs. Even to this day, when I play in a cover band around Cincinnati, I play those songs a lot. It’s just freeing to be able to sing at the top of my lungs like that.”

The former athlete has a new album out called “Life Lessons,” and says, “It was a slow process for me. I picked up the guitar in the minor leagues. I was 22 years old, I’d never played an instrument before. It slowly went from playing around a campfire to open mic night and making a cover album in 2005 and slowly getting on stages, it’s been a slow maturation over 20 years of getting up on stage and peeling back the layers to become more. familiar with performing on stage, playing an instrument and keeping your voice in shape. Now it feels like if I didn’t have that in my life, it would be kind of hard.”

Arroyo recalls, “Winning the World Series in 2004 was so remarkable. If there’s anything I could change about it, I wish I’d been a little bit older to kind of really feel more established at the Major League level before that happened. Then I got nine years in Cincinnati where I felt like I was where I needed to be. I felt like I was leading that team and bringing up the young guys.”

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