What would be YOUR intro music for your at bat?
by Sigualicious on Dec 13, 2008 4:58 PM PST
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PrintThis may have been asked before but I'm somewhat of a noob. If you played for the Giants what music would you have playing during your intro? Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" will always remind me of Barry Bonds.
I'd pick "The Lonely Bull" (El Toro Solo)"by Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana brass. Kind of an oldie but it has lots of swagger and I think it would help me hit more homeruns!
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If I was playing for the Giants, I’d pick YYZ by Rush just to drive the McCoven nuts.
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 13, 2008 5:05 PM PST reply actions
Sounds good to me.
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The last time this was asked, this site didn’t have as many commenters, so it’s worth asking again. Actually, I should loot all of the archives from 2005 for material.
(Also, my answer would be “Green Machine” from Kyuss)
(Because I’m that much of a badass.)
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 13, 2008 5:25 PM PST up reply actions
Best Kyuss album? I say Welcome to Sky Valley. Demon Cleaner is a badass tune.
/deer head
Bay City Ball
And the Circus Leaves Town was always my favorite, mainly because of the last two songs. Spaceship landing effing rocked. El Rodeo was pretty sweet too. I liked Sky Valley, but the three-songs-per-track thing really bugged me. Sometimes I just wanted to listen to Demon Cleaner, and didn’t want to manually find the spot where it started.
Me lose brain? Uh oh.
AtCLT was always waaaaay underrated for my tastes. One of my favorite Kyuss songs ever is “Catamaran.”
I have never been able to choose between Blues, Sky Valley, and Circus. After 10+ years, I still can’t choose.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 14, 2008 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
Wow..
8 comments on that. Kind of puts into context how lame this site used to be compared with how lame it is now.
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by Grant Brisbee on Dec 13, 2008 5:56 PM PST up reply actions
I believe I remember that schtick..
And you may have used it on several other occasions too.
But, does that then make us more or less lame that we’d have a 1:80 comment ratio to times past.
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you should have saved this topic for the next TakeAGiantAStepNGo thread hijack
I would pick Evenflow by Pearl Jam or Green Day’s When I Come Around
by FluLikeSymptoms on Dec 13, 2008 5:20 PM PST reply actions
Scratch that. I want the Greatest American Hero theme as my intro song.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Dec 15, 2008 11:19 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve never really thought about walk-up music, but I think The Rover by Led Zeppelin would be the epitome of bad ass for a closer’s entrance music.
I never really thought of it that way..
But makes a lot of sense. That guitar and drum based intro is great.
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can’t beat those first chords of jumpin jack flash, if the sound system is good
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Yeah , those castanets.
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 13, 2008 8:08 PM PST up reply actions
I always used to say The Punk and the Godfather by The Who, that part where Daltrey’s all “OKAY!” and they do the main riff or whatever, but I don’t know if that really represents ~who I am nowadays.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
You only became what we made you.
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 13, 2008 8:09 PM PST up reply actions
I can think of several..
Probably just from the last thing that’s stuck in my mind I’d go with about 2:15 into Communication Breakdown from 1/11/1969. This brings in the “Communication Breakdown, it’s always the same…” chorus and then on “insane” Plant goes from the high note down to a guttural growl, then Page takes off on a fast guitar solo.
If we’re just talking studio…
Won’t Get Fooled Again-The Who (just like JT when it starts with YEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH)
The Rover-Led Zeppelin (mentioned but it would be great for anyone, I think better for a intro music because past the opening it’s not as hard hitting)
Achilles Last Stand-Led Zeppelin (as you start walking up the early notes start to fade in and then you’re hit with the full song)
Trampled Under Foot-Led Zeppelin (I’ve always found this to motivate me)
Celebration Day-Led Zeppelin (the first shouted lyrics by Plant can pump someone up)
La Grange-ZZ Top (start with the drums after the intro)
Lots of songs-Van Halen (anything with a driving guitar riff really)
Yea, betrays my musical tastes a bit. I know that Omar’s walkup music was something along the lines of “Anything by Led Zeppelin or (insert another band here, maybe Metallica)” and Baggs made a joke about getting pumped up to the Battle of Evermore.
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ain't talkin' bout [g]love, is a fine, fine choice
how bout a little Billy Squire:
either the stroke, if you’ve got a nice LH swing
or in the dark, if you’re trying to get off the schneid.
"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"
by The Gene Hackman on Dec 16, 2008 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
Or if your name's Teixbathia
“Everybody Wants You”
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 17, 2008 1:19 PM PST up reply actions
Hmm
when i played in college i was a closer and my song was POD – Lights Out, but that’s not an at-bat. I liked it because having a lincecumesque body, i didn’t get a ton of respect until after i pitched.
I guess its between these 2 songs:
- Tiffany – I Think We’re Alone now
- Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
Reminds me of Robert DeNiro singing in his van in The Fan.
If God had intended us not to rosterbate, he would've made our arms shorter.
Padre renuente de Luis Perdomo, porque él es todo el que se deja hasta junio.
Unbanned because the “show throwing” comment was timely/funny.
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
What show throwing comment? I see no show throwing comment.
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You’ve been typing for years. You’ve been chewing for years too and your cheek is right next to it, do you still bite your cheek?
Damn bad example.
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eat the alicia keys first
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by The Gene Hackman on Dec 16, 2008 11:01 AM PST up reply actions
Only youuuuuu....
Jeez , Pops.
Grab a mitt and catch a clue.
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 17, 2008 1:21 PM PST up reply actions
I love how Eric Byrnes came up to The Outfield’s Your Love (great 80s classic)
Also, Adam Dunn walking up to Sister Christian by Knight Ranger was pretty awesome
by FluLikeSymptoms on Dec 13, 2008 6:05 PM PST reply actions
HA!
That is an amazingly awesome ’80s song.
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by tk on Dec 13, 2008 6:33 PM PST up reply actions
I'm picturing Dunn in a tutu doing a mincing little pirouette at the plate to that.
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 13, 2008 8:11 PM PST up reply actions
It's Raining Men by Gerri Halliwell
No seriously I’d go for Hip Hop by Dead Presidents.
It was, originally
But for even more cheese there’s the cover by Ginger Spice.
I’ve never heard anyone use Search and Destroy by the Stooges, and that’s always baffled me.
It’s kind of a wussy song, but “Spirit in the Sky” has that badass sounding rif at the beginning.
No MLBer would ever use it, but “TKO” by Le Tigre would be great closer music. Same thing with The Clash’s “Clampdown”.
I’d probably go with either “What’s Golden” by Jurassic Five or “I Get Wet” by Andrew WK.
Guilty as charged. To make things worse, I like Hieroglyphics, MF Doom and Blackalicious too. My wife is from the East Bay, an she makes fun of my taste in hip hop all the time.
Six - All That Remains
I’m not really one of those METUL METUL \m/ kinda guys but it would be a pretty good 10 second bit of music I guess.
Galvanize by the Chemical Brothers. Even though it’s been co-opted by annoying crap on television. It’s still a great song.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 13, 2008 6:29 PM PST reply actions
Velouria by the Pixies
Badass opening chords.
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It's "my song" anyway
velouria.net is my site, Velouria has been my handle for most of my Internet-using life before I decided to go with the initials …
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by tk on Dec 13, 2008 6:47 PM PST up reply actions
Two minutes into No. 13 Baby...
…is one hypnotic li’l instrumental.
Just sayin’.
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 14, 2008 3:24 AM PST up reply actions
Ecstasy of Gold, Ennio Morricone, but the remixed version from these Nike commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uiWyly2oMc
Personally, I think this would be the greatest closer song ever.
Giants Cove: You'll be a better person for reading
Good one. The theme from that movie (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) wouldn’t be bad either. I also kind of like Metallica’s version of Ecstasy.
by Sigualicious on Dec 14, 2008 12:07 AM PST up reply actions
metallica-ew.
absolutely anything by ennio morricone.
“Gringo like Me” with Peter Tavis. Hot damn.
Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Dec 14, 2008 1:52 PM PST up reply actions
On a similar note
My choice would be the theme from “Hang ’Em High” by Ennio Morricone.
Sergio Romo: striking out professional hitters since 2005.
I love that song
if you’re big star bound let me warn ya it’s a long hard ride!
by FluLikeSymptoms on Dec 13, 2008 8:08 PM PST up reply actions
He was dressed like 1950
Half drunk and hollow-eyed!
You probably know it as MYANMAR, but it will always be BURMA to me!
by NuschlerFace on Dec 15, 2008 10:03 AM PST up reply actions
One of these probably...
California Soul – Marlena Shaw
Chelsea Dagger – The Fratellis
Don’t Speak (I Came to Make a Bang) – Eagles of Death Metal (from a kickass Nike soccer commercial)
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
hands down
it would be Simon Says by Pharoahe Monch… i’m sure you have all heard the opening to it and not known what that song is called.
Dodgers fans eat their young.
Mountain Song, by Jane’s Addiction, starting at :23 in
either that or Rush… by talib kweli
"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."
either that or Rush... by talib kweli
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Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
If I was a UFC fighter, I would enter to Fergie’s Clumsy, because it would be hilarious to me. Also, it might make my opponent shit his pants. How much of a psycho would you have to be to enter with that song?
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness. - Emo Philips
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I really like that Mudvayne song.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 13, 2008 8:28 PM PST up reply actions
Me too. Although, I’m sort of obsessed with Mudvayne in general.
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I just picked up the new CD. Good stuff, but I like Lost and Found more.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 15, 2008 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
Agreed. L.D 50 is my favorite though.
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Death Blooms would be cool to come out to… But I really don’t like post-L.D. 50 at all.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Dec 15, 2008 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
I’d enter the octagon with this song
Sergio Romo will gladly hand you a bench to sit on / GIANTSPACE™ / Adopted brother of the AnVil
by SoFa King Mike on Dec 13, 2008 8:47 PM PST up reply actions
Anarchy In The UK
Great opening riff, followed by “rrrright now,” then some insane laughter followed by “I am the Antichrist.” That should be enough to either scare the pitcher or get myself on base with an HBP.
Brian Sabean's dad- will make a few phone calls to help his son find a new job after next season
Hyrule Field Orchestrated by Koji Kondo
Just to give the opposition the knowledge that I’ll be running for a long time.
hell yeah, zelda music.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Gammondorf disapproves.
Sergio Romo will gladly hand you a bench to sit on / GIANTSPACE™ / Adopted brother of the AnVil
by SoFa King Mike on Dec 13, 2008 8:39 PM PST up reply actions
Remember the Name – Fort Minor
or
Ayo Technology (instrumental) – Timbaland
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wtf
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 13, 2008 9:31 PM PST up reply actions
The guitar riff from 3’s and 7’s by Queens of the Stone Age or the beat from “The Next Episode”
I see the future, and it is Pablo
Queens of the Stone Age have some really good songs for intro music.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 15, 2008 10:37 AM PST up reply actions
Heh.
“The Zoo” by The Scorpions.
Good guitar hammering intro , then you get to stride to the plate. Try it.
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 13, 2008 8:51 PM PST reply actions
nice.... although
I like the chorus better than the intro.
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
Isaac Hayes
Theme from Shaft.
Kevin Correia: much more Seoul than Pyongyang
by VidaWantsYourCar on Dec 13, 2008 9:13 PM PST reply actions
+10
Curtis Mayfield rules.
I mean, Theme From Shaft is nice, but.. Curtis Mayfield.
Could you imagine...
Striding up to “If theres a Hell Below” The Spoken intro would probably get you in trouble, but the guitar intro would be pretty sweet.
For serious:
I’m probably going to date myself, but I was always partial the guitar riffing in KMFDM’s Flesh off of Nihil.
I like industrial, sue me!
/deer head
Bay City Ball
omg
this was the first thought I had as soon as I saw the title. Someone else put this too. I guess this proves its the best song ever. Actually I think Id choose Apocalyptica – Hall of the Mountain King
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 13, 2008 11:57 PM PST up reply actions
Europe
Read a great review of a Europe concert once, and the fact that they opened AND closed with The Final Countdown. To paraphrase the author, this was not a good look.
Kevin Correia: much more Seoul than Pyongyang
by VidaWantsYourCar on Dec 14, 2008 8:47 AM PST up reply actions
I would pick... The World's Greatest by R.Kelly
I think Bonds used it for a while and I loved it. You have to be one cocky SOB to play that song, luckily that’s pretty much Barry in a nut shell.
On a side note, R.Kelly is a piece of work.
Proud father of Eric Surcamp!
But the man can hold his breath...
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 14, 2008 3:20 AM PST up reply actions
What—you dont like Primus?
They say some players get out of bed hitting; Pablo Sandoval doesn't wait that long
‘Primus Sucks’ is a joke phrase that fans of the band use to show their support!
/deer head
Bay City Ball
Looks like I’m not a true fan.
/Boos self
by chilibean_3 on Dec 15, 2008 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
Priums= 3rd starter at best.
Clearly.
Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
I thought the band all their fans agreed Primus sucks.
They say some players get out of bed hitting; Pablo Sandoval doesn't wait that long
Primus sucks sucks
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
if you didn’t like Primus before… you probably won’t like them now
by FluLikeSymptoms on Dec 15, 2008 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
Ballad of Bodacious
"Forget it Donny, you're out of your element"-Walter Sobchak
by icanplaythird on Dec 14, 2008 4:06 AM PST up reply actions
Too Many Puppies
Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Dec 14, 2008 1:55 PM PST up reply actions
poetry and prose
Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.
Frederic Rzewski playing the thema
from his own 36 variations on the People United Will United will Never be Defeated.
Yeah, I’m a classical geek.
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Bah, should be
the People United will Never be Defeated.
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And a bespoked suit
a waistcoat, and a top hat.
ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524
YES!
that is an AMAZING song.
the husband and I are trying to learn it on the piano right now.
Still-proud, adoptive mama of Notgardo Alfonzo, who's back from the 50-game purgatory. He promises never to do it again. I couldn't get him to promise to hit, though. We're working on that with bribes of M&Ms, kind of like potty training.
I was wonering whether anyone would have heard of it
since it’s not “traditional” classical music.
Have you head the original, non classical, El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido, by Sergio Ortega and Quilpayun, that the variations are based on?
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Oh yeah, if you really like the work,
you might want to get the DVD of Rzewski playing it live in 1997 at the Miami International Piano Festival.
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thanks!
we saw Rzewski playing it live in Berkeley a few years ago. One of those Major Life Experiences. And I have heard “El Pueblo Unido …” once but I couldn’t get into it. Will try again.
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by tk on Dec 15, 2008 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
Put mine below...
… but if I was going to go classical, I think I’d have to say either Holst, Mars, Bringer of War – the climax about two-thirds of the way through – or something from the fifth movement of Mahler’s Second.
Well, I picked that because
it is one of my favourite pieces of music. And also because it isn’t “traditional” classical: the composer is a white man, but not a dead white man.
To make lots of noise, I’d pick maybe, Bach’s Prelude in E flat major, BVW 552, from his Organ mass. Preferably in a flashy bombastic performace by E Powers Biggs.
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Sure. It’s a good piece, and I’m extra biased in favor because marching through midtown Manhattan on May Day 2006 with half a million people screaming “el pueblo, unido, jamás será vencido” was as much fun as I’ve ever had. But over a PA, it seems like bombast is required, and I have a soft spot for the melodramatic stuff anyway.
The opening theme to “Who’s The Boss”.
But only on days when the Giants were playing the Dodgers..or on days when Zito was scheduled to pitch.
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 13, 2008 10:29 PM PST up reply actions
That actually works really really well with Zito.
"And you just don't get it, you keep it copacetic..."
Most badass at-bat music ever? EVAR?
Still-proud, adoptive mama of Notgardo Alfonzo, who's back from the 50-game purgatory. He promises never to do it again. I couldn't get him to promise to hit, though. We're working on that with bribes of M&Ms, kind of like potty training.
I can’t believe I just fell for that for the 17,865th time.
"Forget it Donny, you're out of your element"-Walter Sobchak
by icanplaythird on Dec 14, 2008 4:07 AM PST up reply actions
Me 3.
You probably know it as MYANMAR, but it will always be BURMA to me!
by NuschlerFace on Dec 15, 2008 7:16 PM PST up reply actions
try the intro to 'Non-Alignment Pact'
We had this earlier this year, and my answer is exactly the same:
You know, Pere Ubu’s classic, ominous, evil-sounding squeals before the song (great as it is), even gets going. I mean, something so weirdly portentious, the Enter Sandman geeks will probably spend the first at-bat trying to claw out their eardrums.
Oh my GOD.
A Pere Ubu fan, are you kidding me?
Are you KIDDING?
How about “Final Solution” for a closer?
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Or how about "Navvy"?
I’ve got these arms and legs that flip-flop! flip-flop!
Josh Phelps is the new Scott McClain.
My feet are my friends
… they just wanna go (to first base).
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by tk on Dec 15, 2008 4:20 PM PST up reply actions
The closer for my college’s team always came out to “Blinded by the Light”, which I always thought was a pretty awesome choice.
I was THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 13, 2008 11:03 PM PST reply actions
Europe
The Final Countdown
formerly April3rdLifeBegins
by YaSquare on Dec 13, 2008 11:35 PM PST reply actions
this is an easy one
Pantera – By Demon Be Driven
Of course, if we really needed me to get on base, I’d use this one.
Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal
by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 13, 2008 11:45 PM PST reply actions
Opening to Thunderstruck
AC/DC
Proud supporter of the Fightin' Hydrants.
by Little Napoleon on Dec 14, 2008 6:15 AM PST reply actions
good
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
Wild Thing - Tone Loc
I Don't Tolerate Intolerance!
by Giant among Angels on Dec 14, 2008 7:59 AM PST reply actions
Bombshell by Operation Ivy
Props to Joe Nathan for using the fake song from Markie Mark’s “Rockstar”.
and if this didn’t work I would go with “Night Man Cometh”
"Why you gotta be cardin' my hos?" - Charlie Hayes
Believe it or not I got Op Ivy in the dash right now
"Forget it Donny, you're out of your element"-Walter Sobchak
by icanplaythird on Dec 14, 2008 12:45 PM PST up reply actions
Either Wonderboy by Tenacious D, or This.
It's spelled "M-A-R-C-H-I-N-G-B-A-N-D."
I support inroywetrust in his support of The VD Special in his support of me supporting Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
“this” song would be hilarious for a closer.
I Don't Tolerate Intolerance!
by Giant among Angels on Dec 14, 2008 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
Tenacious D? Really?
And “This” was already named, see tk’s post.
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Scott Farcas Takes It On the Chin, by Less Than Jake. Great opening to the song.
Additionally, I think the Giants need to open every Giants-Dodgers series by playing Why You’d Want To Live Here, by Death Cab. (I’m in Los Angeles today, it smells like an airport runway…)
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler
+1
Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Dec 14, 2008 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
Is there really any other band..
Other than Journey that a group of 20-21 year old guys want to drive down the beach blasting out their car windows?
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Olaf, metal!
Girls think sexy!
Still-proud, adoptive mama of Notgardo Alfonzo, who's back from the 50-game purgatory. He promises never to do it again. I couldn't get him to promise to hit, though. We're working on that with bribes of M&Ms, kind of like potty training.
by tk on Dec 16, 2008 5:58 PM PST up reply actions
my love for you is like a truck
"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"
by The Gene Hackman on Dec 17, 2008 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
Berserrrkerrr!
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 17, 2008 1:27 PM PST up reply actions
“Push it to the limit” by Rick Ross (best workout song ever made) or “bulls on parade” by rage, starting at the buildup right before he yells “come wit it now!”
"I didn't know (after seeing a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch) whether to shit or go blind." - Former Giants Outfielder Harvey Kuenn on Willie Mays
“Push It To The Limit” – Good Song
I Don't Tolerate Intolerance!
by Giant among Angels on Dec 14, 2008 2:17 PM PST up reply actions
When I hear it, I think of this guy
I Don't Tolerate Intolerance!
by Giant among Angels on Dec 14, 2008 2:21 PM PST up reply actions
If you go Rick Ross, you have to go Hustlin’.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 15, 2008 10:43 AM PST up reply actions
I'd have to go heavy for this...
Procreation of the Wicked – Celtic Frost
or
Ride the Lightning – Metallica
Fairley odd parent to Wendell
X Gon’ Give it To Ya – DMX
God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
Ch-Check it Out – The Beastie Boys
Blazing Arrow – Blackalicious
You! Me! Dancing! – Los Campesinos (not the intro, the pre-verse)
and even though it’s overplayed, “Paper Planes” by MIA. It’d just be worth it for the chorus.
I want my crowd to get happy and excited as shit.
Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Dec 14, 2008 2:02 PM PST reply actions
yee to blackalicious
I also feel sky is falling would be a pretty ridiculous song walk up song for a closer
"I didn't know (after seeing a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch) whether to shit or go blind." - Former Giants Outfielder Harvey Kuenn on Willie Mays
by stealth snail on Dec 14, 2008 3:30 PM PST up reply actions
yeah well that song
has some pretty robust lyrics.
those who live in glass houses though, I mean I did include DMX.
Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Dec 14, 2008 4:57 PM PST up reply actions
Really surprised no one has said this yet
I Don't Tolerate Intolerance!
by Giant among Angels on Dec 14, 2008 2:49 PM PST reply actions
THAT would be an awesome closer song
"I didn't know (after seeing a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch) whether to shit or go blind." - Former Giants Outfielder Harvey Kuenn on Willie Mays
by stealth snail on Dec 14, 2008 3:25 PM PST up reply actions
Ahahah that would be totally awesome
The jumbotron all showing lasers and 80s style filters
Barry Zito - Mildly half-OK! Sometimes.
No
Sergio Romo will gladly hand you a bench to sit on / GIANTSPACE™ / Adopted brother of the AnVil
by SoFa King Mike on Dec 16, 2008 11:10 AM PST up reply actions
New Kanye and Lil' Wayne
See You in my Nightmares
proud father of the newly acquired Brandon Crawford..
Na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na BATMAN!
Since they probably would approve of “Pussy Control” or “My Neck, My Back”, I’d probably go with the opening riff of “One Vision” by Queen. That would get me fired up.
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
try
Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Dec 14, 2008 6:14 PM PST up reply actions
I’m sure this has already been said but Final Countdown by Europe
or Headstrong by Trapt
or anything from Ruderalis
If God had intended us not to rosterbate, he would've made our arms shorter.
Padre renuente de Luis Perdomo, porque él es todo el que se deja hasta junio.
I think Final Countdown and that song that they always played at Bulls’ games are a little too overplayed for me.
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
I’d ride the bench so you wouldn’t have to hear it too often…
If God had intended us not to rosterbate, he would've made our arms shorter.
Padre renuente de Luis Perdomo, porque él es todo el que se deja hasta junio.
Pinball Wizard, by The Who – love that opening
Fire, by Scooter – a lot of their songs would work, actually
The Point of No Return, by Immortal Technique – awesome for a closer
Something different...
Okay, in a world where they let ME take a major-league at bat, things have seriously gone off the deep end. Therefore, the only fitting music that could be played as I walked up to the plate would be “Three Blind Mice,” from the theme to The Three Stooges.
No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
Megadeth- Symphony of Destruction
Megadeth- Train of Consequences
Rush- Tom Sawyer
Broadway- Omar Vizquel
Tom O' Malley - 1983 SF Giants opening day 3B; 1989 International League (AAA- Mets) MVP; 1995 Japan Central League MVP
I was
going to go with Megadeth’s “Into the Lungs of Hell” – great intro, rest of the song doesn’t quite live up to it (kinda like AC/DC Thunderstruck)
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
Wow, I almost forgot about Vizquel’s rendition of broadway. That may have accounted for my heartiest ballpark laugh ever.
Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
If I were a closer...
and could hit that number on the gun, I’d go with “99 Luftballons”
Leading the Pro-Aaron Rowand contingent on the McC!
You can ridicule me in 2009 if you like...
by ThrillisGone22 on Dec 14, 2008 10:04 PM PST reply actions
Or "99 Problems"
I Don't Tolerate Intolerance!
by Giant among Angels on Dec 14, 2008 10:28 PM PST up reply actions
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/darkxallure/99problems_graphsmall.jpg
Leading the Pro-Aaron Rowand contingent on the McC!
You can ridicule me in 2009 if you like...
by ThrillisGone22 on Dec 15, 2008 2:04 PM PST up reply actions
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Leading the Pro-Aaron Rowand contingent on the McC!
You can ridicule me in 2009 if you like...
by ThrillisGone22 on Dec 15, 2008 2:05 PM PST up reply actions
intimidating closer music
How about “Twightlight Zone” by Golden Earring. The part that says “Soon you will come to know, when the bullet hits the bone.”
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
Eye of The Tiger?
Hasheem "The Dream" Thabeet or Brandon Jennings. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.
Hmmm
Move on Up – Curtis Mayfield
Cadillac on 22s – David Banner
Gangsta Boy – Jake One & MOP
Watchya Got – Brother Ali <<<< probably my top choice
MURS for President!!!!!!!
I’d go with Alien Ant Farm’s cover of “Smooth Criminal”…then it would be stuck in everybody’s head for a week.
Great question...
Rock You Like a Hurricane by the Scorpions
Kickstart my Heart by Motley Crue
Yes, I have a thing for 80s rock.
Ghost Ride It – how has nobody picked that yet!?
We Takin Over by DJ Khaled
by CaliforniaSoulPatch on Dec 15, 2008 8:39 AM PST reply actions
startin up a posse- anthrax
i adopt brian sabean... take that dramatic irony!
by Headhunter Rollins on Dec 15, 2008 8:44 AM PST reply actions
Helter Skelter
By the Beatles
Though since someone already selected that, I would also nominate “Hey Bulldog” or “Revolution” (single version).
Or as a sleeper “You Know My Name (Look up the Number)”.
Adoptive parental unit of Kevin " 2007's Most Spectacular Pitcher" Pucetas.
"I'm a Giant now... I like watching the ball get up there" - Wendell Fairley
"I'm really proud to be on this team." - Nate Schierholtz
"Woo hoo" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Dec 15, 2008 9:51 AM PST reply actions
I'm not sure how well..
YKMN would go over…Great song though.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
I know what you mean
I was just thinking of some of the outsized egos that populate the professional sports scene and how appropriate that song is, like I can see it working for Reggie, Manny, even A-Rod, Deion Sanders too, though he never walked the talk.
Adoptive parental unit of Kevin " 2007's Most Spectacular Pitcher" Pucetas.
"I'm a Giant now... I like watching the ball get up there" - Wendell Fairley
"I'm really proud to be on this team." - Nate Schierholtz
"Woo hoo" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Dec 15, 2008 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
Welll...
I like to take allot of practice swings so,
Skynrd’s Freebird (live). I’d be like the Steve Traschel of batters.
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
Late to the party, but:
The opening of Neil Young’s Cowgirl in the Sand is pretty crunchy.
I also like the aforementioned choice of The Who’s Punk and the Godfather.
The dub-y intro to the Clash’s cover of Armagideon Time would be cool.
And just to be weird, Zappa’s Peaches in Regalia.
They say some players get out of bed hitting; Pablo Sandoval doesn't wait that long
since howtheyscored hasn't answered yet
I’ll suggest one for him: Truly Madly Deeply by his favorite band
by FluLikeSymptoms on Dec 15, 2008 11:33 AM PST reply actions
I listened to the album Affirmation so much when I was 13.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
When you were HOW old?! Jebus, I am ancient. :D
Still-proud, adoptive mama of Notgardo Alfonzo, who's back from the 50-game purgatory. He promises never to do it again. I couldn't get him to promise to hit, though. We're working on that with bribes of M&Ms, kind of like potty training.
by tk on Dec 15, 2008 4:23 PM PST up reply actions
Before I strike out on three pitches in my one and only MLB plate appearance, I’d like my intro music to be Use It by the New Pornographers.
My plans for 2009: getting married and attending Tim Lincecum Bobblehead Day.
Even later to the party,
but I would choose between:
Magnicent Seven – Clash
Wave of Mutilation – Pixies
Blue-eyed Devil – Soul Coughing
Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.
Guitar riff intro to "When Doves Cry" by, of course, Prince
The guitar part and then the thumps of BUM-bum-bum-BUM, BUM-bum-bum-BUM,and the first few bars of the piano part. That would be several seconds, which is about all one gets.
I'm adopting a true Giant and an awe-inspring gamer: tk. "Atta babe."
THRILLER!!!
Right when Renel says my name that part in the very beginning when it blows up starts to play.
And then I hit a homerun and I moonwalk the bases.
+1
Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
I imagine my at bat and trip around the bases would go something like this version
by Norm Median on Dec 16, 2008 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
the french national anthem
and i would try to act all aristocratic before my ABs.
either that or the song the ice cream man used to play when i was a kid. then the whole other team would be, like, “ICE CREAM MAN!” and while they were all fumbling for the change in their pockets, we could probably score a run from 3rd base with less than two outs.
"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"
by The Gene Hackman on Dec 15, 2008 4:14 PM PST reply actions
Brilliant!
Although you should combine the two. You can also wear a monocle as you step to the plate.
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 15, 2008 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
La Marseillaise?
Aristocratic?
ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524
Good point. Right on.
I'm adopting a true Giant and an awe-inspring gamer: tk. "Atta babe."
by Mayor of 311 on Dec 16, 2008 4:02 PM PST up reply actions
Thank you , GH
for my morning guffaw
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 16, 2008 7:55 AM PST up reply actions
My Morning Jacket – Gideon
Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
No , I said guffaw.
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 16, 2008 7:56 AM PST up reply actions
If only I had gone back in time to change the name of the band or my post. Consarned time space continuum.
Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
by BrianBokake on Dec 16, 2008 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back , Bokake…
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 17, 2008 1:31 PM PST up reply actions
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back , Bokake…
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 17, 2008 1:31 PM PST up reply actions
Great song. Though John Lennon singing about bokake would make me say Ono
Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
Note:
Paul McCartney was singing the lead in that song.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Shit, you’re totally right. Didn’t work for my joke though, so facts were ignored.
Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
by BrianBokake on Dec 18, 2008 12:37 AM PST up reply actions
Ono-an-ism?
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
Intro Music
Don’t take me for granted-Social D
At bat music
No question: “Kill City” by Iggy Pop.
If I was a closer, I couldn’t pitch for the Giants. It would have to be the Cubs or White Sox, because my music would be the first minute or so of “Sweet Home Chicago”. (Watch “The Blues Brothers”; it’s the last song in their concert at the Palace Hotel Ballroom at Lake Wasapamani.)
Wait, lemme answer that again: As closer for your San Francisco Giants, I’ll stick with the Iggster and go for “Lust for Life”, and hope people don’t remember how Jim Rome crapped on that song.
Insert witty signature of your own choosing here.
by Flapjacks McGurty on Dec 16, 2008 10:50 AM PST reply actions
400 , 000 people cover that...
…and you choose the Blues Bros?
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 17, 2008 1:33 PM PST up reply actions
I finally decided
Four Leaf Clover by the Old 97s. Or wait – maybe Time Bomb.
No, I think I gotta go with Four Leaf Clover, with the ominous tom-tom intro.
Josh Phelps is the new Scott McClain.
The Ocean
bam bam baddabam…
baddabam baddabam bamp pa bamp
bam bam baddabam…
baddabam baddabam bamp pa bamp…
bringing you moral turpitude since 1963
Oooo! I just thought of a good one
“World Destruction” by John Lydon and Afrika Bambaata.
The intial drums, guitar and Bambaata yelling “Speak about destrucTION!”
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
Crackup exchange
Bambaataa: “WHO WANTS..TO BE..A PRESIDENT OR KING?”
Lydon:“Me!”
In my more idiotic youth I thought Lydon was the Pistol who had died.
Then I heard PIL…He Is Risen!
Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers
by victor frankenstein on Dec 17, 2008 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
I'm old school
So absolutely nothing.
But if I was forced to choose, “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Also Sparch Zarathurstra)
A McC newcomer but not outstanding.
Doomsday Clock – Smashing Pumpkins
But if I were a closer, I’d take the Top Gun Theme.
"Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time."
S.F. Artist!
If I were a Giant,I would pay tribute to the City & its artist by having “S.F. Anthem” by Messy Marv as my music!
Batting and pitching
For batting, I’d go with the Grateful Dead’s “Shakedown Street,” although I appreciate that Brent Mayne’s already done that.
For coming in from the bullpen, I’d like Van Halen’s “Right Now,” ideally timing the first pitch when the song shifts gears and the guitar riff kicks in.
"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002
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