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Right now, you can vote for the song that the Mets should play during the eighth-inning singalong at Shea this year. The choices are as boring as you'd expect: "Brown Eyed Girl," "Sweet Caroline," ... jeez, is that the theme song from "Friends?" Ack!
Anyway, Radio Exile is trying to liven it up a little bit, encouraging readers to write in "I Came to Make a Bang" by The Eagles Of Death Metal. We could not agree with this cause more, though of course we'd go with "Lament for the Auroch."
Anyway, get out there and vote. We're going to the game Wednesday, and we'll jump from the upper deck if we have to hear that Friends song.
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What about "Loser" by Beck?
"One Week" by Barenaked Ladies.
Now THAT'S a singalong I'd like to see thousands of drunk New Yorkers stumble their way through.
Could the Mets BE anymore embarassing?
-Chandler Bing
I love "Movin' Out," but it doesn't exactly get me pumped up during the 7th inning stretch. Might as well have had "She's Always a Woman" or "Goodnight Saigon" as a choice. Jeezus.
"Pour Some Sugar On Me"
Failing that, "You've Lost that Loving Feeling"
Of course, everyone's gotta be drunk first, which at Shea shouldn't be a problem
I'm here for the gang bang?
Get drunk and screw?
For Pedro: "Tell Me Where It Hurts" by MYMP
Or anything by David Allen Coe.
Why is Forsberg holding a guitar gun?
"Big City Nights," by the Scorpions
How about some Bad Brains? That always lights a fire under my ass. To the Mets credit they do play "London Calling" for some reason when Aaron Heilman comes out of the bullpen.
"Catch Me Now I'm Falling"?
"Could've Been"?
Or they could just be like the Yankees and play a 42-minute version of "God Bless America" to freeze the opponent's pitcher and claim it's "patriotism"....
April to August 31: I Came to Make a Bang
September: The Benny Hill Theme Song (Yakety Sax)
"Free Falling" by Tom Petty. Too early?
If they really want to rock, this is the only choice:
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"New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down"
rickroll those fuckers. every 8th inning, 81 times a year.
I voted for Tupac - All Eyez on Me. I won't deny it, I'm a straight rider.
"..we'll jump from the upper deck if we have to hear that Friends song."
Darren Prince and Dennis Rodman think this is self-aggrandizing media whoredom and would like to talk with you about a collaboration.
Nothing rocks harder than the official Toronto Blue Jays theme song:
You've got a diamond
You've got nine men
You've got a hat and a bat
And that's not all
You've got the bleachers
Got 'em from spring 'til fall
You got a dog and a drink
And the umpire's call
Whaddaya want?
Let's play ball!
(Chorus)
Okay! (Okay!)
Blue Jays (Blue Jays)
Let's (Let's)
Play (Play)
Ball!
Is that a fly ball
Or is it a seagull
Coming in from the lake
Just to catch the game?
It's the last inning
Our guys are winning [ed. note - this used to happen!]
Dave's put down a smoker [ed. note - "Dave" is dave Stieb]
A strike
And you've got no doubt
(You're out!)
Whaddaya want?
Let's play ball!
(Chorus)
It's a beautiful evenin', fans
At the ballpark
Warm summer breezes
Sun's goin' down
And it's all dark
At the ballpark
But that's okay...it's a night game!
Whaddaya want?
Let's play ball!
Why not just call Zumaya? I'm sure he'd bring along his G.H. axe and jam.
And something tells me they went to Stuart Scott and Gus Johnson for the song list.
"Let the Eagle Soar" by John Ashcroft.
Don't let the Yankees and Republicans (One in the same, I know) corner the market on patriotism.
Build me up Buttercup makes me feel like throwing myself off a bridge.
Pick that song!
@Lady Andrea: I feel used for having clicked that.
They should totally go with AIDSburger in Paradise.
@Jefferson Short Bus: Or Peaches' "Fuck the Pain Away."
Or this one:
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Or maybe they should just Rickroll the singalong.
@Secret Identity: Between you and the Pittsburgh Pony, it's "scroll down" day at Deadspin today.
"Too Drunk to Fuck"
anything by Anal Cunt will do.
Come on, people, this is the Mets we're talking about. Gotta be Mariachi music.
"Wake Me When September Ends"
How about "New York's Alright (If You like Saxaphones)" by The Fear. or how 'bout "Taking Retards to the Zoo" by the Meatmen? Oh wait, that would be better for the Bronx.
"Fake Empire" by the National
Anarchy In The UK.
@DennyCrane: Or "Beef and Bologna" by Fear.
You could have Piazza come out and do his rendition of Broken Social Scene's "I'm Still Your Fag"
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/just to prove it's a real song
Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones
They were from Queens
@UkraineNotWeak:
"We're a Happy Family" might be better: "Sitting here in Queens, eating re-fried beans, flipping through magazines, gulping down Thorazines ..."
Considering the events of fall 2007, I can't think of anything more appropriate than this:
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@spinachdip: Beautiful.
And how about "Choke" by A Perfect Circle? Or "Things Falling Apart" by Nine Inch Nails? And come September, let's have "Fell On Black Days" by Soundgarden.
Yeahhhh I could do this all day.
All Foghat, all the time.
I remember by once-good alt. metal band Mushroomhead with the chorus "What is the sign... for I'm choking to death".
They suck now, so the Mets can have them.
For the heart-warming memories, "Cocaine" by Clapton.
@Slothrop: Tesco Vee!!!!1!!!
Thought I was the only Meat Krew fan on the 'Spin... Glad I was wrong.
On the Meatmen tip, though, John Rocker would suggest "Camel Jockeys Suck", since it's Shea & the Seven Line. "Lesbian Death Dirge" might work, too -- but J.R. was pretty clear in singling out fags, not dykes.
@josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...:
I wouldn't say I'm a fan. I'm aware of their brilliance, but from a safe distance ;)
Much like I knew of GG Allin, but given his, shall we say, coprophillic stage acts and vows to kill himself and his audience at a show, I stayed away.
If we're going for drunken fan air guitar, why not go whole hog with Dragonforce's Through the Fire and Flames, and top it off by having the guitar hero scroll on the Jumbotron?
'Crazy Bitch' by Buckcherry!
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna...
/shows self out
If you really want to freak out the masses, you can't beat "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel.
'Turn It Out' by Death From Above 1979, or 'Ace of Spades'. A little Motörhead never hurt nobody. 'Cept for, maybe, The Cheat.
I'd like to hear "Sweet Caroline" in the 8th inning followed by Billy Wagner coming out to "Enter Sandman" in the 9th.
Wow the Mets are gay.
Savvy.