{"id":1740,"date":"2008-10-15T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:32:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T15:52:53","slug":"2008-nlcs-rate-a-record-torre-seeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/2008-nlcs-rate-a-record-torre-seeks\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 NLCS Rate-a-Record: Torre Seeks Killer B-Side to Ward Off the Last Dance!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no tomorrow, Dodgers fans. Until Shane Victorino<\/strong> unleashed his inner soldier and tied the game with a line-drive homer and then Phils manager Charlie Manuel dipped into his canvas lp bag and pulled out Matt Stairs, Professional Hitter<\/strong>, and his Stone-Cold Steve Austin theme song to dash the Dodgers’ hopes of claiming home-field advantage, Joe Torre was pumping up the jams just fine for the home crowd. <\/p>\n

Torre’s not been afraid to toy with his playlist. For Game 4, Torre inserted Juan Pierre<\/strong>, who from his Marlins days was a truly-despised-yet-appreciated thorn in the side of the Phils, in center field. Matt Kemp<\/strong> and his at-bat intro tune were not getting the job done, despite what Kemp had to say about his tune’s power:<\/p>\n

“Your walk-up music is everything to you. It’s your at-bat, man. It gets you ready. It gets you going, and they gotta play it loud so you can feel it and get hyped. Get hyped, boy … it is what it is. When a new song comes out, I usually think if that would be a good walk-up song. That is how I did it in the past: ‘That would be a tight walk-up song.’ It always changes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You be the judge: Matt Kemp’s at-bat intro music<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pierre not only brought his mad, pesky, small-ball skillz to the lineup but this bad azz<\/em> walk-up diddy: