All About At-Bat Songs...

by flipgatey3 on May 28, 2008 8:12 PM PDT Comment 19 comments

I was thinking about this the other day when I was at the Friday game against the Red Sox. During the game, it seemed like everyone had at-bat music. Baseball is a quirky game; there are players who, if they don't get a hit, have the PA announcer play a different song the next at-bat (I did this in high school, actually).

When I was at the game last Wednesday (day game), I could only remember a handful of guys who even had at-bat music. I guess we were trying to make our organization seem legitimate for all the Sox fans there.

Let's break it down.

If you know any of the ones I don't know the names to, please fill in.

Going by the recent lineup:

Jack Hannahan: AC/DC "Thunderstruck". This seems perfect.

Bobby Crosby: nothing

Jack Cust: Kanye West "Can't Tell Me Nothing". Cool choice.

Frank Thomas: Couldn't really make it out because he's the only guy people cheer for, sadly.

Ryan Sweeney: I don't know the name of this song, it's got a pretty good beat though. Kinda sounds like "Fireman" by Lil' Wayne, but it isn't.

Mark Ellis: nothing

Emil Brown: some absolutely bizarre song that I have no idea of...sounds like a fiddle or something.

Daric Barton: Atreyu "Becoming The Bull". Cool song, but it's funny because they play the part where they sing "back and forth, the struggle consumes us..." and that seems ironic to me. Wonder why.

Kurt Suzuki: nothing, but they played a Hawaiian band once before IIRC.

To make this even more fun...what songs would YOU use? I used "Intergalactic" by Beastie Boys and the intro to "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers in high school. We weren't allowed to have music in high school, but at the college I'm at now, we get it. Still deciding. If you have any suggestions...

Go A's.

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Emil Brown's song

Is from the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack. Awesome choice. I get pumped every time I hear it; probably my favorite player at-bat song I’ve ever heard. Certainly wins the award for originality.

"Let’s just hope he’s not a complete turd out there." -thejd44, describing Crosby's best scenario.

by notsellingjeans on May 28, 2008 8:27 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

+1

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by DMOAS on May 28, 2008 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you want the song:

Here it is

by drink409 on May 28, 2008 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

good find

i recommended you and nsj for that find

"It's not my fault your team's so shitty." -Steve Friend, head coach, Chabot College, to Laney College's head coach, who asked why we scored so many runs after we beat Laney 30-3 in 2006

by flipgatey3 on May 28, 2008 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bartons choice

Is so awesome

I’d definately come out to that song

by OakLgb on May 28, 2008 9:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Kurt Suzuki's

entrance was augured by the Hawaii 5-0 theme song during their last televised game against Boston.

by sarchasmic on May 28, 2008 9:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

nice

good find

"It's not my fault your team's so shitty." -Steve Friend, head coach, Chabot College, to Laney College's head coach, who asked why we scored so many runs after we beat Laney 30-3 in 2006

by flipgatey3 on May 28, 2008 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hannahan

tonight came to the plate with an Irish jig playing… I think it was “Live from Matt Molloy’s Pub” by The Chieftains.

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by anomaly_kat on May 28, 2008 10:37 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

interesting

the last three games i went to it was thunderstruck, and he seemed to be doing well…

...who knows.

"It's not my fault your team's so shitty." -Steve Friend, head coach, Chabot College, to Laney College's head coach, who asked why we scored so many runs after we beat Laney 30-3 in 2006

by flipgatey3 on May 28, 2008 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If and when someone decides to use the score from

The Godfather, I will have a new hero.

That or “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” by War.

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by BWH on May 28, 2008 10:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Whatever happens to be played on the PA after the last thing that happened

(like if the previous batter had a hit, or whatever the between-inning music happened to be) sometimes bleeds into the time that an A’s batter is coming up to the plate… so it sounds like it’s a walkup song for him when it isn’t.

Barton: The only thing I’ve been able to pick up consistently for him (like it’s an actual walkup song) sounds like Big & Rich… but I have no idea.

Hannahan: Like anomaly_kat says above, it’s usually an Irish jig-sounding thing.

I think my favorite was a few years ago when Chavy had War’s “Low Rider” for a couple of months, at the suggestion of one of the batboys. Also U2’s “Bullet the Blue Sky” for Ellis last year, but I think I read somewhere that was picked by one of the PA guys.

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by Poppy on May 28, 2008 11:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

i know sometimes

the PA guys pick…like i remember john jaha used to have crazy train, but when we traded for dye, they used it because the beginning (aye aye aye) sounded like dye dye dye…no joke

"It's not my fault your team's so shitty." -Steve Friend, head coach, Chabot College, to Laney College's head coach, who asked why we scored so many runs after we beat Laney 30-3 in 2006

by flipgatey3 on May 28, 2008 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Frank Tanana

When the Yankee’s traded for Frank Tanana, he didn’t have one, so the PA guys picked Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes. I seem to recall him flipping off the scoreboard.

by As Fan in the Bronx on May 29, 2008 7:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd have probably done the same thing

Especially if I was in Los Lobos.

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by Flashfire on May 29, 2008 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If I were a hitter,

I’d have the PA people cycle through old art-punk songs as my AB music… sometimes The Slits, sometimes Wire, sometimes the Pistols, sometimes The Clash, The Buzzcocks, etc…

If I were a closer, though, my closer song would be “Watch Me Jumpstart” by Guided By Voices.

"You have to have a catcher or you'll have all passed balls."- Casey Stengel

by Gaijin_Suketto on May 29, 2008 12:57 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

excellent band choices

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by franks a lot on May 29, 2008 7:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll be the 'no fun' contrarian

I’d prefer that the players have no say in what songs are played. I’d prefer the players concern themsleves with playing. Anything outside of the field, during the game, should be of no interest to them whatsoever.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. ~Earl Weaver

by UncleLeo on May 29, 2008 9:26 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

booooo

but absolutely playing should be their focus…kinda their job or something i hear

"It's not my fault your team's so shitty." -Steve Friend, head coach, Chabot College, to Laney College's head coach, who asked why we scored so many runs after we beat Laney 30-3 in 2006

by flipgatey3 on May 29, 2008 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs