Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Your walk out song.

Baseball season is upon us and I can't wait. This is easily my favorite time of the year. The weather is gorgeous, the birds are singing, and the Coors Light guy is only a "Hey Beerman!" away. I find it so relaxing to go to a baseball game and just enjoy sights and sounds of the Ballpark. It helps when the Rangers win, but let's not kid ourselves here.

Something I've always found interesting in baseball are walk out songs. For those that are unaware of what that is (even though I'm sure all of my small audience are baseball watchers), the walk out song is played over the stadium sound system when a particular player goes up to bat. Generally players pick about 3 or 4 songs at the beginning of the season that they feel will pump them up as the walk out to the batter's box. Only about the first 10 seconds of the song is played, so they need songs that start out strong, or ones that they find inspirational to their lives.

I often find myself thinking "I wonder what I would use as a walk out song if I were a Major League player?" So, in anticipation of the upcoming season, I pulled together five songs that I think would be great "get psyched" songs for when I step up to the plate. (Hopefully the links will work. If not, feel free to Google them.)

1. "Supermassive Black Hole" -Muse
2. "Cobrastyle" -Teddybears
3. "Icky Thump" -The White Stripes
4. "Empty Like the Ocean" -Midtown
5. "Escape the Nest" -Editors

What songs would you pick to pump you up for your next at-bat? Post your five song playlist in the comments and lets see what psyches everyone up.

1 comment:

Sarah Abroad said...

I've always wondered which songs I would choose. Here's what I've picked from my itunes collection.

1. Pump It - Black Eyed Peas
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2. Yeah - Usher
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3.Boom Boom Boom - Jock Jams
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4. Womanizer - Britney Spears
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5. Blankest Year - Nada Surf
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