Best Coming out songs for baseball

if you havent ever thought about having a coming out song just think of some good begginings of songs that you like. for you people that don't know what a coming out song is it about 20 sec. clip of a beggining of a song that they play over the speaker system while you make your way from the on-deck to the box

indianaman- i think the profesonals pick songs that represent them and that pump them up and help them put there game faces on. whats the reason u would wanna step up 2 the plate with bob blasting in the back ground? probably the same reason everyone else picks there..i would wanna step up 2 the plate with some rap song goin just bc the loud bass being able 2 get me ready for what lies ahead. so i think it all depends on ur personality and what puts u in that state of mind.

I worked in the bullpen for a Northern League team last summer. They had some interesting songs. An older white veteran had the rap song "lean back" as his song. A little different for a larger white guy in his mid 30s that didn't seem like the rap listening type. We also had a few country songs, ie:The Duke's of Hazard Theme song, and a Chris Ledoux song as well. There were also some of the regular hard rock songs as well.

Personally, my song for the last 2 years has been Kenny Chesney's "She Thinks My Tractor's ****." The rest of the guys hate it, but it's a fan favorite. I like the fiddle at the beginning, it gets me pumped. Don't ask me how a kid from the south side of Chicago gets pumped by fiddles, but I do.

I say don't worry too much about a song though. I've discussed having music on during bp and before at bats with a few people that think it's too much of a distraction to the player. They say it makes the player worry more about what song is playing than actually playing. I can see that argument, but I like having something on during bp that gets me going. Believe it or not, I don't really hear the music being played before I hit. It's already the background track in my head as I'm on deck checking everything out before my at bat.

I believe they are called stingers.

Ron Nen of the Giants always came out of the bullpen with "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple. My wife and I thought it was pretty cool and it always got the crowd fired up, cause when he came in to close it was usually lights out.

"YMCA" for those coming out of the closet.

Oldest son: Save a horse ride a Cowboy, Big & Rich

Middle Son: Bad Company, Bad Company

Youngest son: Crazy Train, Ozzy Ozborne the kids nuts!

How about "Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood and the Destroyers?

I think Trevor has the best one bar none!
I live in San Diego and when they crank Hells Bells that place goes bonkers!!! I hope he has fully recovered from shoulder surgery because he was a bit off last year. Should be fun to watch this year.

If ours was allowed (I'm working on the coach to let them have them) my son's would be Molly Hatchet's Flirtin' With Disaster.

all great choices, but a suggestion - - - could ya refer to it as "walk up music"

a "coming out song" brings a different image - - - (not that there's anything wrong with it!!)

For you late 70's rock aficionados..the first 30 seconds of Robin Trower's "Day of the Eagle" has always been my choice.

Big and Rich

Are there actually high school field sound systems that have the ability to do that??

We have a microphone and it's connected to a tape player that we can play the national anthem on, and we can turn up the radio in between innings, but that's about it.

Our High School, Northwest, has a great sound system. I love this thread, cause I run the
music for our Freshman games and have been trying
to come up some more ideas.
I like playing "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen when our pitchers gets a strike out.

our high school bought a system that was put onto a lab top specifically for sporting event music...its pretty fun stuff....but our baseball speakers arent the best but im hopin they are going to be upgraded soon..

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Originally posted by Kungaloosh:
Are there actually high school field sound systems that have the ability to do that??

We have a microphone and it's connected to a tape player that we can play the national anthem on, and we can turn up the radio in between innings, but that's about it.

For $50 bucks, you add CD player, burn a few CD's and you're there!

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Only Dibble would have thought of those. I've finally found something worse than losing... dibble's song choices.

Dibs, almost an hour later an I'm still in pain...

I heard they are reducing crime by forcing inmates to watch the acky break heat and she bang video

It might reduce crime, but that is probably by increasing the suicide rate from listening to those tunes.

I never did this...but we had a 250lb lefty senior pitcher (who was very good) who was the guy who kept everyone loose. Funny, funny kid. Anyway...I was listening to stuff on the computer and I saw on one of our lists, "Big Papa" by Biggie Smalls...I cranked it up and it was perfect. I wanted to play that everytime the kid waddled to the mound....no guts though, no glory! Kid went 7-1 and took us to state! Now I can't get the dang song out of my head.

Unfortunately you can't play the entire song...bad language...

These songs are picked by the players: Auburn's team song, the song played as they take the field, is AC/DC's "Hell's Bells". My son's coming out song, since his last name is Bell, is "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metalica. We also have a reliever on the team by the name of John Madden... John's song, as he takes the mound, is the theme from "ESPN Sportcenter".
Fungo

when i come out to pitch i have Hell's Bells playing by AC/DC,and when i bat i have 2x4 by metallica. Both get me pumped.

Both Metallica and AC/DC would get thumbs up in our home.
My lefty is partial to the drum intro and guitar in Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People" if he's up to bat. It worked last year as he led in rbis.
And of course, AC/DC, "For those about to Rock" for warm up on the bump.

If you know someone with a laptop you can hook it up to your PA. We use a program developed by the Portland Trailblazers called "Game Ops Commander" It is really great and you can do a lot of cool things.
Be sure and check lyrics it can be very embarrassing to hear #*%@ over the PA. You need to make your clips no shorter than 45 seconds. That way if there is a timeout you can let it play...
Some songs to consider -
Walkout Songs-
Cha-Cha, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Song of the South, Good Old Boys,Man in the Box, Jump around, AC/DC and Metallica have a lot of good songs.
Other Songs-
You dropped the Bomb on Me (for Homeruns)

We also do sound effects which are quite fun, but need to be in good taste.

bbmom- when i was posting earlier i said our high school used a program. this is what we use, "game ops commander" is a great program and makes playing music at sporting events a peice of cake...its a great thing....

I use a program called Sports Sounds Pro. Very easy to use and not very expensive.

But I will take a look at Game Ops Commander to see if it is any better.

I remember the my sons HS team had some great infield warmup music, much of it was 70's rock. But, I thought the best to get the mood going was "White Wedding" by Billy Idol.

Music is fine as long as it is kept in proper perspective......

Do what you want before the game and in between innings, but:

A. Stop the music when the game resumes. Do not make the Umpire signal to cut the music.

B. As a player do not delay the game while waiting for "your music" to be played. Get out there and be ready to play.

C. Do not use music to embarrass your opposition. NFHS rules forbid it....... remember all it takes to have it stopped is one complaint from the visiting coach.

and finally be aware of irony............Nothing sillier than a pitcher coming in to "wild thing" and promptly walking in the winning run.... or a #9 hitter coming out to "Bad to the bone".....and getting k'd in 3 pitches.............

At the Cal/Stanford series this past weeekend, when the first baseman for Stanford came up to bat, they played the theme from Mayberry R.F.D. (yes, his name is John Mayberry JR).

A bit off topic, but years ago at a Brewers game (I think), there was a streaker on the field - without missing a beat, the organist started playing 'Is That All There Is'. I always thought that was pretty funny.

Mariano Rivera - Enter Sandman

"Exit Light, enter night"
Man...that's such an ominous song. Amazing for any closer.

I like Stone Cold Steve Austion's theme. The glassbreaker. And for a pregame song, "its a long way to the top" is good against a rival.

Joe Satriani's Mind Storm. Take about the first 30 or so seconds of it and add the drum at the end of the song. Nice thing about this cut - just about no one has ever heard it - nice to be different!! Joe has played with just about everyone - Santanna, Metallica, Stevie Ray Vaughn, etc.

Rbi99,

That sounds like cool music given some of the others that you mentioned. Sent you a PM. Thanks.

After this weekend (we went to Kansas), I'm having serious doubts about the music thing. I've never heard so much LOUD, obnoxious music in my life. My head hurt, couldn't hear any dialogue on the field, and quite frankly didn't approve of some of the music selections. Example: lyrics like: "I'm a loser, why don't you just kill me"

I like the natural sounds of a baseball game, the players voices, the "ping" of the bat, the encouraging words, the sound of digging in at the plate, and of course you can't hear the umpire/coach "discussions" when the music is blasting!

If I want loud music, I'll go to a club after the game.

Okay, you can blast me now

Welcome to the Jungle is what our team ran out onto the field to last year. Also another good one is right now by van halen!