{"id":237525,"date":"2025-08-10T05:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/237525\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T05:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:09:18","slug":"i-won-world-series-with-the-new-york-yankees-but-im-stopped-in-street-more-for-my-how-i-met-your-mother-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/237525\/","title":{"rendered":"I won World Series with the New York Yankees – but I’m stopped in street more for my ‘How I Met Your Mother’ cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"

NICK Swisher played on one of the most iconic and star-studded teams in all of sports.<\/p>\n

But the 44-year-old World Series<\/a> champion admitted he’s even more reconizable for his TV cameo.<\/p>\n

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Nick Swisher was part of the New York Yankees team that won the World Series in 2009Credit: Getty\"Nick<\/a><\/p>\n

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He then starred as himself on sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother’Credit: CBS<\/p>\n

Swisher was part of the 2009 New York Yankees<\/a> team that won Major League Baseball’s<\/a> biggest prize.<\/p>\n

And in February 2010, Swisher starred as himself in popular sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.”<\/p>\n

The episode in the show’s fifth season was called “Perfect Week” and aired months after he won the World Series.<\/p>\n

“Legendary,” Swisher described his TV cameo in an interview with The Sun.<\/p>\n

“I probably get stopped more for that episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ than any other thing I’ve ever done in my life.<\/p>\n

“‘How I Met Your Mother’ was one of the biggest shows going and probably still is today.<\/p>\n

“Just to be able to be part of an iconic show for one little episode, that’s something that people stop me for all the time.<\/p>\n

“The cast, the crew, everybody on that set is professional, they’re absolutely fantastic.”<\/p>\n

Swisher married his actress wife JoAnna Garcia the same year as his TV cameo.<\/p>\n

He recalled, “I remember running lines for like a week with my wife being like, ‘baby, hey, what do you think about if I say the line like this?’<\/p>\n

MLB legend Derek Jeter opens up on former Yankees teammate CC Sabathia’s Hall of Fame induction<\/p>\n

“And she’s like, ‘Nick, you always have a tendency to go over the top.<\/p>\n

“‘Just read the line. Just read the line and that’s fine.'”<\/p>\n

Swisher’s MLB career began in 2004 with his debut for the Oakland Athletics.<\/p>\n

He grew up in a baseball family with his father a former MLB player and coach.<\/p>\n

His career took off in 2009 when he joined the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n

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Swisher remembers his first day walking into the New York Yankees clubhouseCredit: Getty\"Nick<\/a><\/p>\n

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He married his wife, actress JoAnna Garcia in 2010Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

Swisher went on to become a key part of the World Series-winning team and was an All-Star the following year.<\/p>\n

But he remembers when he first stepped into the clubhouse alongside the likes of Derek Jeter and CC Sabathia.<\/p>\n

He said, “There’s already three Hall of Famers that were on that roster.<\/p>\n

“I just remember that first day. I am a talker, I am a hyper guy, but I was not that first day.<\/p>\n

“I was very quiet, sitting in my locker, just kind of looking around, feeling out the situation, figuring out where I kind of slot in.<\/p>\n

“At that point I would’ve sat in the bathroom stall if I needed to. <\/p>\n

“To be able to be a part of a team like that was magical and changed my life forever.<\/p>\n

“They taught me how to win. You don’t just show up and start winning. You have to learn how to win.”<\/p>\n

“It took me a minute to feel like I was crazy welcome. <\/p>\n

“But when we rolled out at Yankee Stadium for game one against the Cleveland Indians, the bleacher creatures made me feel like I was one of them. <\/p>\n

“That’s a relationship that I hold near and dear to my heart.”<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball returns to the BBC this summer with a dedicated UK show, Bases Covered Live each week. Tune in to BBC iPlayer from 7pm on Sunday 10th August to watch New York Mets take on the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NICK Swisher played on one of the most iconic and star-studded teams in all of sports. But the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,8080,1690,62,2548,2547,4322,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-237525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-world-series","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-section-sportbaseball","16":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115002747668144405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}