Pre-At Bat Music

MLB 2004 = french disko 2001.

i remember seeing a Reds/Cubs game at old Riverfront and Bo Diaz, then catcher for the home team, had a little routine he would do at the end of his at salsic sounding pre at bat music..it kinda went..BaPaPa BaPaPa BEEouuu Boom! ..and at the end of the ditty, after well timed swings and stretches, he threlvic pusted to the Boom! part of the song and stepped in the box. Being 12, i thought it was cool as fuck. in retrospect, it was pretty crude, i guess.

I think I would begin with a handful of Superchunk songs until I discovered which one produced the most hits.

Jason Kendall has MM's "The Beautiful People" as his music.

I remember Michael Young's was cool but I can't remember what it was.

Piazza used Led Zep at one of his at-bats last night, didn't help.

OF Ruben Sierra "The Way You Move" OutKast
Sierra requested the OutKast song without knowing the name. So in broken English, he began singing, "I like the way you move, oohh oohh, I like the way move." Well, Jeter, who was only a few feet away from the conversation started cracking up. Since then, Sierra's only at-bat music is "The Way You Move."

Mike Barrett picks Dave Brubeck? STUD.

hstencil and I noticed this at Shea... "Patriots" can get hit hard too:

LHP Mike Stanton
"Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" Toby Keith

"Stanton feels very strongly about his country, and he thinks this song has a true message. He also has an American flag image waving when he comes out of the bullpen."

"The only organization to still have an organist play introduction music, the Cubbies have little influence on their at-bat songs.

Organist and Chicago icon Gary Pressey has been tickling the keys at Wrigley Field for years, and generally prefers traditional tunes over more current hits. Since there is no vocal accompaniment, Cubs fans have fun figuring out what song is being played and why the song was chosen -- but only Pressey can solve such mysteries."

i didn't notice this when i went to a game there. : ( i like it though.

1B Hee Seop Choi - Unknown Korean Rap Song

Info from the Florida Marlins: On opening day, Hee Seop showed up with a Korean rap song, and requested that it be played every time he went up to bat. The song has taken the Marlin fans by storm. The music guys have no clue who sings the song or what it says, but the crowd loves the tune ... and so does Hee Seop.

RHP Jeff Weaver - Assortment of rock tunes

Used to come out to Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver." Weaver thought it was lame and requested that the music guys stop using the song.

They play an unusual amount of crappy pop metal at the Newark park.

Milton Bradley: "Higher," THE GAME

milton bradley and 70's supergroup foreigner...it's fantastic!

Josh Reddick
#16, RF
WWE
Ryback Theme
WWE
Bret Hart Theme
NEW
nWo
Wolfpack Theme Music
NEW

Jarrod Saltalamacchia
#39, C/1B

Falco
Rock Me Amadeus

Lou Marson
#6, C

Phil Collins
Easy Lover

The Kingsmen
Louie Louie

311
All Mixed Up

Sublime
What I Got

A day after actor James Gandolfini died, Reds 3B and New Jersey native Todd Frazier replaced his Frank Sinatra at-bat music with the theme from "The Sopranos."

flickr video

now that he is a dignified four years old, he doesn't really do this anymore, and it doesn't show one of his *really* high jumps, but: my kitty had some yeast

lol wrong thread

this is what i meant to say:

http://i.imgur.com/hRgEg8Z.jpg

josh donaldson - regulate

Yasiel Puig, "Yasiel Puig"

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/09/yasiel-puigs-new-walk-up-song-is-called-yasiel-puig/

Andre Ethier: LORDE - Royals

Trouts right now is Drake - Trophies

& he promptly homers

Eric Young Jr. (NYM) - Forever Young Jr. (The Jay-Z/Mr. Hudson one).

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2063308-josh-reddick-using-whams-careless-whisper-as-at-bat-music-turns-into-huge-hit

@susanslusser 13h
Two doses of Careless Whisper this at-bat, once before visit to mound and one after. And a wild pitch then moves up runner.

@susanslusser 13h
Well, Reddick did tell me today he thought maybe Careless Whisper might put pitchers to sleep.

Sean Doolittle warms up to "For Whom The Bell Tolls"... and the intro bells are played when he strikes somebody out.

The Dodgers reported the most Hip-Hop/Rap selections with 20. The Cubs were rather sparse with just two, and that’s only if we generously interpret the genre contributions of Marky Mark and his funky bunch. The Diamondbacks are the most country-focused team with 8 total selections, although Zack Greinke accounts for a quarter of those. The Nationals were the most metal team; the Oakland A’s the most rock and roll.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=28699

jason werth: werewolves of london

Our friend @whalers44 informs us that the Braves played the "Oompa Loompa" song as Altuve (.342, 12 HR 113 H, 47 RBI) came to bat last week.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 9, 2017

stay classy, barves

Todd Frazier uses Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon," which suggests to me he's still a fuckin' Yankee

Nick Hundley - Candlebox “Shine”

collective soul?

Whoops, yes Collective Soul.

I was just in awe how anyone (esp of baseball playing age) even remembers that terrible, terrible song.

At tonight's Dodgers game, Kenta Maeda's pre-at-bat music is "Slow Down" by Lights Follow, the international theme to Terrace House.

It was interesting to hear the differences between the Japanese crowd and the American crowd. I’d have thought the Japanese wouldn’t be so rowdy for such a long time.

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/the-complete-history-of-the-walk-up-song

Roughly belongs here... Fenway organist Josh Kantor played before (and with) Yo La Tengo last night in NYC.

Get your magnifying glass; here are the 873 song requests I played on the Fenway organ in 2019. Thank you to all whose participation/encouragement makes my dream job so fun and weird. pic.twitter.com/NpE7oO9J01

— Josh Kantor (@jtkantor) October 2, 2019

Set up the poll thread, Morbs!

joc pederson - “dancing queen”

guess we don’t have one of these threads for pitchers

Robb nen - smoke on the water

lol alonso is so corny

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4e4kbXWoAE8tXU?format=jpg&name=medium

"Dreams" isn't exactly corny, it's a song about cheating, heartbreak and the end of a relationship (also a weird choice for a walkup song).

it's a great song! but also it came out 20 years before he was born and yeah, it's not exactly prime walkup material

it would be like me picking something off 'birth of the cool'

Great McNeil pick, what a weirdo

Alonso is a sweet dumb Florida guy, can’t hold that against him

I'm extra unforgiving on sweet dumb Florida guys.

He is not the worst evil on that team (Nimmo)

in this situation i would have to choose beyonce’s ‘all night’

with teammates in the dugout pantomiming the horns

Pretty sure I just heard ATA KAK (!!!) as a bumper in this extra inning game at Dodger Stadium.