{"id":2357,"date":"2009-10-08T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T13:54:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-08T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T09:54:39","slug":"talkin-baseball-walk-up-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/talkin-baseball-walk-up-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Talkin&#8217; Baseball Walk-Up Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NJA6JZ_TKaw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThose of you who frequented the Halls of Rock during last year&#8217;s baseball playoff season will recall some groundbreaking analyses of the role of players&#8217; walk-up music in determining the outcome of a playoff series. The 2008 <strong>Phillies<\/strong> collective playlist was accurately predicted to contribute to wins of both the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/15\/2008-nlcs-rate-a-record-torre-seeks\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a><\/strong> and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/22\/2008-world-series-rate-a-record-preview\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a><\/strong>. Looking back, who can&#8217;t recall the damage inflicted on the Dodgers&#8217; playoff hopes by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/09\/2008-nlcs-rate-a-record-determine-the-wi\">Derek Lowe<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s choice of intro music? Remember how we identified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/10\/23\/2008-world-series-rate-a-record-joe-madd\">the flaws in master baseball DJ <strong>Joe Maddon<\/strong>&#8216;s management of his team&#8217;s playlist<\/a>? Rock Town Hall&#8217;s tracking of this stuff is probably the next wave of baseball analysis, now that SABRmetrics is becoming established.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming weeks, Rock Town Hall will resume its analysis of the role of walk-up music in the playoffs. We encourage you to begin taking notes on this subject and preparing your own analyses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who frequented the Halls of Rock during last year&#8217;s baseball playoff season will recall some groundbreaking analyses of the role of players&#8217; walk-up music in determining the outcome of a playoff series. The 2008 Phillies collective playlist was accurately predicted to contribute to wins of both the Los Angeles Dodgers and the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/talkin-baseball-walk-up-music\/' 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\/2357"}],"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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}