Walk-up Songs?

Yes, we have Alum Parents, volunteers, that handle the PA sound system for Home games..... and yes every player has their "walk-up" song. Of course, the players love it and so do we parents!

I do the PA for my son's high school baseball team...yes, I do walk-ups, but for Varsity only, not JV...kind of look at it as a small fringe benefit once you make varsity. I let them request a song or two for walkups (usually they have to be extensively edited to get the right sound-bite)...seniors gets their first choice and on down. If they don't send me their request, I pick something out for them, and they usually give me a request after the first time they hear it...heard of another local HS that allows the Seniors to pick first-time varsity player's walk-up for them...get lot's of Madonna, Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift...

OK, I'm rambling, but thought I'd chime in. The players do like it...

GT

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Welcome to the HSBBW scdigger. Here's a walk up song for you...

Too much rambling may give you this...




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A highly unscientific study conducted locally over the last two seasons indicated that in games in which walk up songs were utilized, batters took longer to begin to walk to the plate then walked slower. Then the umpire had to hold the pitcher off longer to wait for the announcer to turn off the sound.

This all resulted in an addition to the game time of 10-15 seconds per batter, or an average of about 7-8 minutes per game when one side used music and about 15 minutes per game when each side used music.

Again, this was conducted only locally and by umpire evaluators with stop watches at both games with and without walk up songs.

No scientfic significance is claimed.

Our high school does it, but like scdigger's, only for the varsity.

Our team did it last year.

Son was a freshman last year and the seniors picked his song, which was "Dancing Queen".

Contrary to Jimmy03's quoted study, during his one official AB, he was actually in the box ready to hit before the pitcher got the ball back from the previous play. PA guy played it anyway, the umpire cracked up, called time and made us all listen to a few seconds before he put the ball in play.

I do agree it generally slows things down, is loud and all the songs sound the same, bad.

And yes, I know I sound like my parents.

walk ups are cool!

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Originally posted by Good-eye:
walk ups are cool!

Agree...my son's high school did them for both Varsity and JV games last year...The kids enjoyed it...

I always thought it would be a good Idea to raffle off the walk-out song's to the student body, ( target the girl's ).
And then you would have them coming to your games to listen to your walk-out song, since they picked it out.
Raffle it off every home game. A good fund raiser.
And you just might increase your fan base.

EH

I'd like to see pitchers pick the batter's walk up song.

"Swing and Amiss" by Statepark would make a good one.

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Originally posted by gotwood4sale:
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Welcome to the HSBBW scdigger. Here's a walk up song for you...

Too much rambling may give you this...
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Hehe...I'd probably need to lock the door to the press box before playing it! I'd have players from both teams climbing the stairs to pull the wires out of the wall...now, some of the parents would probably like it! Take care.

Baseball boogie song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...WaoY&feature=related

Where can I get one of those jacket's?

EH

Lux Aeterna

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"Where can I get one of those jacket's?"

And after all of these years they're probably still in good shape...their ability to biodegrade wasn't a selling feature!




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"I'd have players from both teams climbing the stairs to pull the wires out of the wall..."

Pull the wires out of the wall? I wonder what they'd do after hearing this one!




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Originally posted by theEH:
Baseball boogie song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...WaoY&feature=related

Where can I get one of those jacket's?

EH

Wow! Lifelong Dodger fan here....had to turn that off after about 10 seconds!

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Well maybe this is something you can stay tuned into papi?




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At my college, the baseball team picked the walk up songs for the freshmen. Many got TGIF show theme songs ("Step by Step" and "Full House" are the two I remember). All of them were hilarious!!!

"Walk-up" songs are ghey....Unless they are meant to make fun of someone.