During the NLCS we gave great attention to the musical “walk-up” match-ups between the Phillies and the Dodgers. I’m not going to rehash the key theme songs for players on the Phils. If you’re interested in a recap check out here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Considering I have no RTH counterpoint based in the Tampa area who would care to monitor any fair-balanced analysis I’d give to the Rays, I won’t get into much depth. I do think it’s important, however, that we preview some of the key musical offerings in this series and provide a place for a little baseball chatter. Here goes!
Everyone knows that a key battle will be between the Phils’ Chase Utley‘s walk-up theme, Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”, and Rays’ Game 1 starter, Scott Kashmir. Whoever owns the song in the players’ head-to-head confrontations may own the series.
Rays’ outfielder Rocco Baldelli was always an easy guy to root for during the team’s sad-sack formative years. Along with leftfielder Carl Crawford, Baldelli was long a rare shining Ray of Hope. Plus he’s got a cool name and now he’s coming back from a rare, career-threatening disease. I’d never paid any attention to Baldelli’s walk-up music before this series. His rotation of Cream‘s “Sunshine of Your Love”, The James Gang‘s “Funk #49”, and Black Sabbath‘s “War Pigs” should be pitched to very carefully.
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