{"id":12512,"date":"2012-03-06T23:21:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T04:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2012-03-06T23:21:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T04:21:59","slug":"help-jonathan-papelbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/help-jonathan-papelbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Jonathan Papelbon Select His New Walkout Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ST2Z-mqYTDo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em>Walkout anthem<\/em>. I just learned that term for a baseball closer&#8217;s theme music when he enters a game from the bullpen. Phillies new closer <strong>Jonathan Papelbon<\/strong> needs a new walkout anthem because the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/thelife\/music\/news\/story?page=120305-dropkick-murphys-papelbon\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dropkick Murphys<\/strong> won&#8217;t let him take &#8220;Shipping Up to Boston&#8221; out of Fenway<\/a>. Red Sox fans can have that song! They can have the entire Dropkick Murphy&#8217;s catalog, if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping I can warm up to Papelbon, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/d380otju09u5ho.cloudfront.net\/jonathan%20papelbon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><em>keee-raaay-zeee<\/em> eyes<\/a> routine and that stupid jig in a kilt to the Dropkick Murphys&#8217; song after the Sox won the 2007 World Series put me off. Clearly the guy is a top-notch closer. In 1979, when my Phillies acquired <strong>Pete Rose<\/strong>, I suddenly loved the guy for all the things I hated about him the day before. In the early &#8217;90s I even warmed up a bit to former Mets hero\u00a0<strong>Lenny Dykstra<\/strong>, but I still thought he was a juiced-up jerk.<\/p>\n<p>A cool walkout anthem might go a long way to helping me like this guy\u2014no yahoo rock for jocks or Riverdance music, please. I think my wife is right in her belief that that style of Irish folk dancing is the lamest dance style ever. Let&#8217;s pull together our sports-rock expertise and help Jonathan Papelbon select a new walkout anthem. This venture may help Papelbon, but most importantly it will help me. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walkout anthem. I just learned that term for a baseball closer&#8217;s theme music when he enters a game from the bullpen. Phillies new closer Jonathan Papelbon needs a new walkout anthem because the Dropkick Murphys won&#8217;t let him take &#8220;Shipping Up to Boston&#8221; out of Fenway. Red Sox fans can have that song! They can <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/help-jonathan-papelbon\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[57,122,178,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}