NLDS Walk-up Music: Rockies Try to Stave Off Last Dance of 2009

It’s not looking good for the Rockies, not with the impotence of Clint Barmes‘ Rage Against the Machine selection, “Fistfull of Steel”; not with Dexter Fowler‘s Jay Z & Rihanna cross-marketing effort, “Run This Town”; not with benched All-Star Brad Hawpe‘s Nickleback number, “Rockstar,” hoping to make a heroic return from Tracy’s doghouse. The walk-up music of the Rockies’ everyday players is not fit for postseason play.

I should note here that Tracy, who strikes me as a skittish manager masquerading as a “hot hand” player, dropped All-Star pitcher Jason Marquis and his outstanding walk-up tune, Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower,” from the rotation. Instead of the veteran (if journeyman) Marquis starting Game 4, the weight of the 2009 Rockies’ season rests on the broad shoulders of young, talented Ubaldo Jimenez, who was last seen sitting in front of the heater in the Rockies’ dugout, wrapped in a Snuggli, and shivering like a stranded survivor of an airplane crash in the Andes. The young man tries to buck up his courage with the aid of something called “Crank That,” by Soulja Boy.

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Are you kidding me? To date I’ve been unable to determine what tune Phils’ Game 4 starter Cliff Lee uses, but it’s got to be better than the one Jimenez employs.

As I said, most of the Phils’ regulars have carried over their same tunes from last year. I’ll get into the walk-up music of 2009 new addition and Phillies Pholk Hero, Raul Ibanzez, when – I’m sorry, if – the Phils progress to the NLCS. Meanwhile, the most significant Phillies’ intro music news surrounds 2008 hero-to-2009 possible goat reliever Brad Lidge switch from his his longtime intro music, Drowning Pool’s “Soldiers” for Linkin Park’s equally apocalpytic “No More Sorrow.”