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  • The bonus track version of "Tessie" starts with WEEI baseball commentator Joe Castiglione's last call of the 2004 World Series:
    "Swing and a ground ball, stabbed by Foulke, he has it, he underhands to first... AND THE BOSTON RED SOX ARE THE WORLD CHAMPIONS! FOR THE FIRST TIME IN EIGHTY-SIX YEARS, THE RED SOX HAVE WON BASEBALL'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!?"
    The Rooters gave the other team a dreadful fright
    BOSTON’S TENTH MAN COULD NOT BE WRONG!
    Up from Third Base to Huntington
    THEY SING ANOTHER VICTORY SONG!
    Don’t blame us if we ever doubt ya
    You know we couldn’t live without ya
    RED SOX!
    You are the only, only, only…
  • In their typical working class fashion, they made their opinion known on notoriously anti-union Wisconsin governor Scott Walker using their music. They also posted an angry message on their Facebook denouncing another anti-union politician on using their music.
    @ScottWalker @GovWalker please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you !!! Love, Dropkick Murphys
  • The band was forced to cancel their yearly St. Patrick's Day concert in Boston because of Coronavirus outbreak. Were they gonna let that stop them? Hell no! They set up a charity livestream on YouTube with a skeleton crew of camera men and played their set all the same.
    • And then topped that with a livestreamed concert from Fenway Park that featured a two-song duet with The Boss himself and raised over 700k in charity donations.

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