I took in a lot of baseball last week, first at the Cubs/Nationals game with Sarah from Was It For This and we saw something no person should ever see:
Covering Your Ass FAIL.
Ew.
I also went this past Sunday’s Padres/Nationals game with the MoCo crew to celebrate Sarah’s birthday/Sarah & Falkor’s farewell. It was quite the game, after the Nationals lost the lead in the 9th with two outs left, Austin Kearns hit a walk-off single in extra innings to end the ball game. That’s right, that Nationals won. I don’t know if it’ll ever happen again, so I snapped a photo:
Another Curly "W" for the Nats!
Anyways with all the ball games I’ve been to, I’ve been thinking about some of the nuances of the game, more specifically the walk-up music.
Now Adam Dunn has a cool walk-up song: Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight. Everytime I hear it at the game I can’t help but think of a memorable scene from The Hangover:
“It’s my favorite part.”
Also memorable on the Nats: Anderson Hernandez who walks up to Lilu’s favorite diddy.
Besides WWE, there aren’t many other sports where the players get a theme song every time they come up to play.
But what if we got our own songs, little clips that would play when you entered a meeting or when you walk up to your desk. It’s like a little song to pump you up or your imaginary audience, something to get you going for the day.
If you had to pick a song to be your walk-up song what would it be?
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Patrick
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July 29th, 2009 at 11:26 am
True – we’ll have to talk about it on Sunday.
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And um. I wanna go to a baseball game with you. Just sayin. Pfft.
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Patrick
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July 29th, 2009 at 11:26 am
*adds another blogger to the list. Done.
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Dude, we will so have to hit up a game soon!
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Patrick
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July 29th, 2009 at 11:27 am
* adds two more bloggers to the list- done.
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dude, why haven’t we been to another game? much beer drinking has been missed.
I’d use something by Live – maybe the “Lakini’s Juice” or “Dam at Otter Creek” intro riffs (if I could hold back from actively headbanging) depending on my mood. Or something by Too Much Joy, like “Sort of Haunted House”. Hm, all these songs have quiet-ish intro riffs that break out into pogo-like guitar. Trend?
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Patrick
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July 29th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Oh these are good choices- I could use a hard guitar riff to walk into.
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Pump It Up! It’s a techno/dance song, and my girlfriends and I use to play when we would head downtown in college.
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Patrick
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July 29th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I’ve heard of that one- not that bad.
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It would have to be something with tons of swag, which I pretend I have. Like, Lupe Fiasco’s “Pressure” or Kanye’s “Glory.”
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Patrick
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July 29th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Swag? Like Swagga like us?
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The most awesome song to get people excited is Twilight Zone by 2 Ultimate. It would be my homage to the Caps, since they play that song at hockey games for power plays.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ-OU-MtU7w&feature=player_embedded )
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Ah this reminded me of another video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG_GdzH4AlU
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i don’t know if it *represents* me well per se, but my fave pump-me-up song right now is “bleed it out” by linkin park..
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Patrick
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July 29th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
That’s another good one- you can never go wrong with Linkin Park…
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Great question. I get into this with my friends at every game. My song: Seinfeld Theme
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Patrick
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July 30th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
That’s an interesting one- most athletes want the pump-up or intimidating song, I can see the crowds roaring with laughter over this one.
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This got weird.
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Patrick
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July 30th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Well if you were playing baseball, that would be totally right.
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So I’ve actually had to think of and use my “Walk-Up” music for my last company’s softball team.
The first one I chose was the opening riff to “Sweet Child of Mine”.
Then I switched mid season to AC/DC “Shook Me All night” or whatever the name of that song is.
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Patrick
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August 5th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I can see that working if you got the chorus blaring- good choice.
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