{"id":2362,"date":"2009-10-12T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-12T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T12:02:21","slug":"nlds-walk-up-music-rockies-try-to-stave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/nlds-walk-up-music-rockies-try-to-stave\/","title":{"rendered":"NLDS Walk-up Music: Rockies Try to Stave Off Last Dance of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dance the night away<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I’m getting a late start on my series-by-series analyses of the walk-up music used by teams in the 2009 playoffs. My apologies to fans of the St. Louis Cardinals<\/strong>, the Boston Red Sox<\/strong>, and the Minnesota Twins<\/strong> for not being able to prepare you for your teams’ getting swept out of their Division series battles owing to inferior playlists. Red Sox fans, however, must have had a clue once it was announce that Rocco Baldelli<\/strong> and one of the coolest playlists in baseball was being left off the team’s postseason roster.<\/p>\n

This evening the Philadelphia Phillies<\/strong> have a chance to eliminate the wildcard Colorado Rockies<\/strong> in frigid Colorado. The Phillies starting eight is not that different than last year’s World F’in’ Champions<\/em>‘s lineup, so much of our focus will be on what noise the Rockies are bringing. We’ll dig into the Phillies’ playlist in more detail when – I’m sorry, make that if<\/em> – the Phils continue to the NLCS.<\/p>\n

Both skippers in this series, the Rockies’ Jim Tracy<\/strong> and the Phils’ Charlie Manuel<\/strong>, have made it clear that they’re managing with all hands on deck. We’ve already seen Manuel use three starting pitchers out of the bullpen\/off the bench in Game 2, and in last night’s game, both Tracy and Manuel had their starters on a short leash. The walk-up music of the expanded, fluid bullpens will be key in this series, and the Rockies prepared for just this situation by acquiring former Dodgers’ lefthanded situational reliever Joe Beimel<\/strong> prior to the trade deadline. We know what Beimel brought to last year’s NLCS<\/strong>, and this year he’s back with a new, hip walk-up tune.
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\nJoe Beimel’s situational walk-up music:<\/strong>