Sunday, June 27, 2010

Closers and themes

So I watch baseball and I listen to rock n' roll music and when the two come to together it's nice for me. I've been listening lately to walk up music that players have when they go up to bat and typically it's either some hip hop or metal machoness which is fine but what really appreciate are the songs chosen for the team's closing pitcher. Some examples:

Rob Nen: "Hells Bells" by AC/DC; it's ominous almost mysterious deep toll of church bells seeming informing the opposing team that they're dead.

Mariano Rivera and Billy Wagner: "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. It's evil sounding and powerful. I guess it says that they're going to be putting the other team to sleep.

John Rocker: "I Wanna' Rock" by Twisted Sister. He was so racist the band asked him not to play this song which unfortunately is a great energetic anthem that can really get a crowd into the situation.

Greg Gagne: "Welcome To The Jungle" by Guns N' Roses. This is a wicked beginning as if to tell the batters stepping up to the plate that they are entering a whole new ferocious realm of pitching.

J.J. Putz: "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC; it works well on an energizing level but he should really start hitting more batters if he wants it to be intimidating.

Johnathan Papelbon: "Shipping Up To Boston" by The Dropkick Murpheys. It anouces that there is a battle going on it is very territorial, the visiting team is not home and they are going to be beat by the Red Sox. If Papelbon ever leaves Boston I can't see him using this song as his theme music in another city so this piece may just become the team's song whenever the closer comes in.

There are some others but these are the best. I would use Slayer's, "Raining Blood", how evil is that, batters would decline their chance to bat feeling that they were about to be pitched a great ball of evil fire which would consume them as it boomed across the plate. I would be the best closer ever . . . this is assuming I had a 100mph fastball, control and a violent slider

3 comments:

  1. i like "hells bells"

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  2. i would use "simply the best". not sure if that's at all intimidating but the title says it all!!!!

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  3. that song would irritate the other team enough to earn you a save

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