{"id":1754,"date":"2008-10-22T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-08T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T09:46:14","slug":"2008-world-series-rate-a-record-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/2008-world-series-rate-a-record-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 World Series Rate-a-Record: Preview of Rays vs Phils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FI8SUc2SV4k?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nDuring the NLCS we gave great attention to the musical &#8220;walk-up&#8221; match-ups between the Phillies and the Dodgers. I&#8217;m not going to rehash the key theme songs for players on the Phils. If you&#8217;re interested in a recap check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/15\/2008-nlcs-rate-a-record-torre-seeks\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/14\/all-star-jam-sour-grapes-edition\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/14\/title-7\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/13\/2008-nlcs-rate-a-record-going-around-the-4\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/10\/2008-nlcs-rate-a-record-going-around-the-3\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/09\/2008-nlcs-rate-a-record-determine-the-wi\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Considering I have no RTH counterpoint based in the Tampa area who would care to monitor any fair-balanced analysis I&#8217;d give to the Rays, I won&#8217;t get into much depth. I do think it&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows that a key battle will be between the Phils&#8217; <strong>Chase Utley<\/strong>&#8216;s walk-up theme, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/LedZep_Kashmir.mp3\">Led Zeppelin&#8217;s &#8220;Kashmir&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>, and Rays&#8217; Game 1 starter, <strong>Scott Kashmir<\/strong>. Whoever <em>owns<\/em> the song in the players&#8217; head-to-head confrontations may own the series.<\/p>\n<p>Rays&#8217; outfielder <strong>Rocco Baldelli<\/strong> was always an easy guy to root for during the team&#8217;s sad-sack formative years. Along with leftfielder Carl Crawford, Baldelli was long a rare shining Ray of Hope. Plus he&#8217;s got a cool name and now he&#8217;s coming back from a rare, career-threatening disease. I&#8217;d never paid any attention to Baldelli&#8217;s walk-up music before this series. His rotation of <strong>Cream<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Sunshine of Your Love&#8221;, <strong>The James Gang<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Funk #49&#8221;, and <strong>Black Sabbath<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;War Pigs&#8221; should be pitched to very carefully.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor baseball reasons alone I&#8217;m hoping that the Phils don&#8217;t have to see much of <strong>Cliff Floyd<\/strong>. During his long, injury-plagued NL career, he was a surefire Phillies Killer, sure to come up with a big hit or snare a ball headed over the leftfield wall. His intro music is <strong>Jeezy<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Put On&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/07\/16\/body_count_young_jeezy_nas_and_ghostface\">KingEd played me some of that stuff last year.<\/a> Yuck! We can pitch to this guy.<\/p>\n<p>ALCS MVP <strong>Matt Garza<\/strong> seems like a cool enough guy, despite the lasting image my wife has embedded in my head, when she walked by the tv and said, &#8220;Eww! How much can he spit? Look at his tongue. He looks like a llama!&#8221; In his postgame interview after beating the Red Sox he made mention of listening to lots of hip-hop on his <strong>iPod<\/strong>. I like the title of his intro theme, &#8220;Hip-Hop Police&#8221;, by <strong>Chamillionaire<\/strong>. Watch it, Moms and Dads, <em>Garza&#8217;s working blue!<\/em><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-VyUCvOreE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2008\/oct\/15\/tampa-bay-rays-playlist\/sports-rays\/\" target=\"_blank\">The rest of the team&#8217;s key players have typically lame walk-up themes.<\/a> To be honest, I&#8217;m not real familiar with some of the deep reserves on the Rays&#8217; bench and bullpen. Some outfielder named <strong>Justin Ruggiano<\/strong> uses <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Fire&#8221; and a pitcher named <strong>Jason Hammel<\/strong> uses The Rolling Stones&#8217; &#8220;Paint It Black&#8221;. I don&#8217;t recall these guys having much of an impact during the ALCS. I hope I&#8217;m not overlooking manager <strong>Joe Maddon<\/strong>&#8216;s bench. Maddon may be the type to sit on these key walk-up themes until just the right moment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got some research to do on Maddon. He likes to play up his <em>Renaissance Man\/Cool, Hip, and 45<\/em> persona. It&#8217;s highly engaging, but the grooves don&#8217;t lie! I heard him talking rock music after beating the BoSox the other night. He made mention of a cool band or two before settling on <strong>The Boss<\/strong>. That may tell me something. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the NLCS we gave great attention to the musical &#8220;walk-up&#8221; match-ups between the Phillies and the Dodgers. I&#8217;m not going to rehash the key theme songs for players on the Phils. If you&#8217;re interested in a recap check out here, here, here, here, here, and here. Considering I have no RTH counterpoint based in <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/2008-world-series-rate-a-record-preview\/' 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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754"}],"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=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}