Perhaps you’ve played out the scenario in your head: Bottom of the 7th (this is softball, remember), down by 1. 1 on, 2 out. And who should step up to bat but you. And as you gloriously stride up to the plate, “The Final Countdown” by Europe echoes throughout the stadium / Fairmount Park. And, of course, you crush it.
Thanks to the genius of modern boomboxes, this fantasy can come to fruition. I ask you now: what is your At Bat Jam? Is it... a juicy cut from Jock Jams? "I Believe I Can Fly"? Some emo affair by The Get Up Kids? Whatever reinforces your sense of your own hardcore-dom, so be it.
So. Shout out / give me the jams, and I’ll collect and re-distribute in some cohesive, mixed tape fashion. Strictly for the purpose of pumping you up while you take the long walk to domination.
My ABJ, for instance, is “Strawberry Letter 23” by the Brothers Johnson. Alternate is “Like Mike” from the Gatorade commercial of yesteryear.
GUYS, I really feel that these jams are the key to hitting dingers, turning double plays and such. So please. Stake a claim for your preferred ABJ as a comment on this here blog, and let's do this thing.
11 comments:
I think I am going to go with Nevermind by Nirvana.
Or, on a happier note, Jammin by Bob Marley and the Wailers. You choose.
love the idea. i have emailed you my song request along with the mp3.
Heartbreaker by Pat Benetar
My ode to softball.
"Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on
Don't stop believing"
Journey all the way baby
I am going to go with "American Girl" by Tom Petty.
Because that's what I am...
My submission is in and it's 100% Philadelphia.
i have to think about this one. i can't remember what i told linda last summer at a phils game. ironically, this type of thing came up because we like to play pretend a lot, and we were pretending to be professional ballers :)
such rich fantasy lives have we.
okay. i can't remember what i said last summer in a drunken haze, but i have managed to come up with a couple of requests:
"Tequila" a la the scene in Sandlot when they all puke on the ride.
Theme to the Golden Girls, "Thank you for being a friend" but specifically, the middle part when they really break it down, "BUM BUM BUM-and if you threw a par-tay...invited everyone you knew...YOU would SEE the biggest gift would be from ME and the card attached would say, THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND!"
Real American by Rick Derringer. You know it better as Hulk Hogan's theme music.
Born to Run. It's what happens after you swing the bat.
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