Ok let's say...

by Slurvey on Jan 7, 2009 6:33 PM PST Comment 56 comments

...You were in charge of the M's sound system/giant screens thingy and had control of the sounds/music/visuals that went on during the ballgame.

What would you do?

You get to choose the at-bat music for each player or entrance music for a pitcher to come into game to.

Let's say you has this lineup...(feel free to switch out players)

1.Ichiro-

2.Guti-

3.Lopez-

4.Beltre-

5.Branyan-

6.Clement-

7.Wlad-

8.Joh-

9.Yuni-

(Man if we had Corey Hart I would totally play sunglasses at night)

What song would you have our closer walk into?

Everytime a player gets a hit of some sorts or when a pitcher K's a opposing hitter what corny pun would you put on the jumbo screen or song you would play in the background?

After "take me out to the ball game" what song would you play?

Or there is rally starting?

What would you play when we win and the crowd is leaving? How bout when we lose?

Let's hear some ideas...

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I'd pull a wrigley field.

No screen, no corny music during the game, just the 7th inning stretch, no videos.

I did like the Cubs’ idea of a victory song that all the fans know the lyrics to.

But regardless, the less scoreboard stuff, the better for me.

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by BrettJMiller on Jan 7, 2009 7:07 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Hey chicago whaddya say? Cubs are gonna win today.

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!! I DRINK IT UP!!

by abender20 on Jan 8, 2009 8:07 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Zombie Nation!

Oh wait, maybe something everyone isn’t sick to death of.

by DCMariner on Jan 7, 2009 7:38 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

The Final Countdown.

by HARRYP09 on Jan 7, 2009 7:41 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

The only thing I want to do that is feasible is upgrade the scoreboard to not ass.

by Robert on Jan 7, 2009 8:56 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Sometimes I swear we share a brain

Your mom must have been on PCP when you were a fetus

by JI on Jan 7, 2009 10:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I remember being impressed while at Fenway

One of their players, I think it was Pedroia, had Dre Day playing as he went to bat. Another had Cherub Rock as his theme when he approached the plate. It was cool to hear songs I like, rather than the same hip-hop songs that seem to flood Safeco much more than they rightfully should. Having contemporary music that doesn’t suck would be wonderful.

While I’m at it, I’ve always wished a closer would come to the mound in the 9th inning to Semisonic’s Closing Time. The lyrics are about how now it’s closing time; time to go home. It’s a mellow-sounding song, but the message would still get across.

by katal on Jan 7, 2009 9:03 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I like the closing time thing actually.

BOOYA! You got Slurved!

by Slurvey on Jan 7, 2009 9:05 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

Besides, considering how many closers nowadays come out to AC/DC, it would seem that doing the inverse – coming out to a quiet song – would be the most badass thing possible.

by katal on Jan 7, 2009 9:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

On the road again - Willie Nelson

by Fin on Jan 7, 2009 9:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Quiet is the new loud

by johnbai on Jan 7, 2009 10:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Closing Song

I always thought Johnny Cash’s rendition of “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” would make a very cool entrance for a closer.

by J.W. Pezzino on Jan 7, 2009 9:23 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know enough local music

but I think it would be really cool if the people in charge of game management were deeply involved in the local music scene. I don’t mind say, one mainstream song per player, and then two local songs (and no, local bands that went mainstream don’t count as local).

You’d still have to have more mainstream stuff for between-innings and maybe rally points, because those are the times when you really want some mass appeal to get people into it.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 7, 2009 9:48 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

YES

I really like that idea.

by Woodinville_12thMan on Jan 7, 2009 9:53 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I've had the chance to go to a few road games over the years

and it always bothered me that the players in Chicago (or wherever) had the same music as some of my favorite players. This would break that rather nicely and create a more distinctly local flavor to the game. Similar to how the M’s use the Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” after the Stretch, the Brewers use “Roll out the Barrel,” and NYY closes every game with “New York New York,” but all game long instead of at that one point.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 7, 2009 9:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Don't players get input into what their song is?

by johnbai on Jan 7, 2009 10:03 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Some players care, but I think almost all the players don't really.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 7, 2009 10:28 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I think you might be surprised...

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by PositivePaul on Jan 8, 2009 10:05 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

At least, whenever they do a TV thing about the music that's played before the batters come up

they always find at least a couple of people who claim to not care. Some just want to make sure it’s NOT something.

I’d be cool with having it be 1 mainstream song, 1 player’s choice song, 1 local song. The point is just to localize the event a little more and make it a unique production in baseball.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 8, 2009 11:47 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I wish the M's would use a good version of Louie Louie.

Also, Boston using Dirty Water is great too.

by acblue on Jan 7, 2009 11:53 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

How about "Viva Seatac!" by Robyn Hitchcock?

Or a little Perry Como, or… what popular song really encapsulates the experience of living in the urban northwest?

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 8, 2009 12:02 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx30kfiCe6A

by acblue on Jan 8, 2009 12:10 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I would love to hear the Sonics version of Louie Louie just once.

It will never happen, but it would make my life.

by acblue on Jan 8, 2009 12:11 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Dodgers play I love LA or something

after each win.

You know what? Fuck you Sports Gods, fuck you.

by bluemax on Jan 8, 2009 11:13 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

After "Take Me Out"

I’d play Willie Nelson’s “Gotta Get Drunk” but that probably wouldn’t fly. So I’ll go with Fastbacks’ “In The Summer”.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Jan 7, 2009 9:25 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

looks like Brayan is on the AC/DC train

his entrance music is “Hells Bells”

BOOYA! You got Slurved!

by Slurvey on Jan 7, 2009 9:32 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

LA Woman again

It worked so well last year

by Mariner John on Jan 7, 2009 9:54 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I'd love a closer to walk out to "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Some kind of abbreviated edit so that the 4 minute or so intro didn’t take the point out of it, but it would be rad to have the loud bells to go off to start the song, and then the vocals to start shortly thereafter

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by tootthekazoo on Jan 7, 2009 11:26 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I was a fan of "King Nothing" by Metallica for closer.

JJ used it for a short time before the infamous Thunderstruck.

by appleshampoo on Jan 8, 2009 12:55 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I would pay a million dollars to hear "He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)" played after a pitcher gets shelled early on.

by acblue on Jan 8, 2009 12:12 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

It's a tad obvious to me but

does anyone think that a closer walking in to When the Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin sounds badass?

by sunshinem'sfan on Jan 8, 2009 12:17 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

I want to see anyone step up to the batter's box while Canon in D is playing.

by BrianL on Jan 8, 2009 12:30 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Hilarious!

by JMKaustin on Jan 8, 2009 7:17 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm a sucker for it

But Raul and Werewolves in London was a great one.

Also, ACDC is bad ass intro although its already all used up.

by Edgar for Pres on Jan 8, 2009 2:22 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Hmmm. M's Lineup as introduced by various Weird Al (or wrongly attributed to Weird Al) songs...

1.Ichiro- “Livin’ La Vida Yoda”

2.Guti-“Frank’s 2000” TV"

3.Lopez-“Callin’ in Sick”

4.Beltre-“Ode to a Superhero”

5.Branyan-“Good Enough For Now”

6.Clement-“Wanna B Ur Lovr”

7.Wlad-“Close But No Cigar”

8.Joh-“I Can’t Watch This”

9.Yuni-“Livin’ in the Fridge”

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by PositivePaul on Jan 8, 2009 10:28 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

I think we have to put "Guti" up for a vote.

Guts, maybe?

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by Faux on Jan 8, 2009 11:30 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Is it pronounced "gooty" or "gueti" ?

by johnbai on Jan 8, 2009 11:33 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I'd imagine Gooty.

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by Faux on Jan 8, 2009 11:37 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Cleveland fans call him Gootz.

by acblue on Jan 8, 2009 1:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I vote nay

I’m tired of nicknames that are nothing but the “ee” sound after the name. Didn’t we have enough of that with Booney et al?

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by pdb on Jan 8, 2009 12:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

The only one I ever liked was Cammie because I could pretend he was my bestest friend in the whole wide world.

by acblue on Jan 8, 2009 1:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Like I said, Guts.

It’s different enough to be fun, yet close enough to the name to work.

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by Faux on Jan 8, 2009 1:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Gutz or Gootz is fine by me...

…I was just copying/pasting from the FanPost text :-)

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by PositivePaul on Jan 8, 2009 1:53 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I'll take a stab.

(I tried to find links to the best version of each one I could find, in case people weren’t familiar with them)

1. Ichiro: Battle Without Honor or Humanity – Tomoyasu Hotei
2. Gutierrez: The Remedy – Jason Mraz
3. Lopez: Man of Constant Sorrow – Dan Tyminski cover
4. Beltre: Dirty Hands – Bear McCreary (specifically the bass and drum part at 2:10)
5. Branyon: The Devil Went Down to Georgia – The Charlie Daniels Band
6. Clement: White and Nerdy – Weird Al Yankovic
7. Wlad: Superstition – Stevie Wonder
8. Joh: Feel Good Inc – Gorillaz
9. Yuni: Code Monkey – Jonathan Coulton

While I’m at it, here are some songs for the (speculative) starting rotation.
Felix: Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows – Leslie Gore (what can I say, that song makes me think of Felix now)
Bedard: AirTap! – Erik Mongrain
Morrow: America, F*$k Yeah! – Matt Stone and Trey Parker
Washburn: Desolation Row – Bob Dylan
Silva: Burger Man – ZZ Top

And for the miscellaneous ones.
For the closer (I’m hoping not Morrow): Rockstar – N.E.R.D. (Jason Nevins Remix)
After big hits/strike outs: Walk This Way – Aerosmith
After take me out to the ballgame: Alech Taadi – Cheb Khaled
Rally starting time: Name of the Game – The Crystal Method
Crowd leaving win: Fire – Rebirth Brass Band
Crowd leaving loss: Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix

And a few more random ones.
For all the league average no-name players: Everyday Normal Guy – Jon Lajoie
Pinch hitters in high leverage at-bats: Count On Me – Meredith Luce
Opposing runner thrown out at the plate: Stop – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Pitcher pulled from the game: Miss You – Zach Kim (we’d have to wait till he’s out of the Korean army though so we could get a studio quality recording)

by Vatinius on Jan 8, 2009 2:33 PM PST reply actions 4 recs