The Top Five Worst Songs for a Relief Pitcher

One of the great moments in baseball is when the 9th inning rolls around and the Closer for your team comes running on the field to a cool/intimidating song blaring over the stadiums speakers. Its a great feeling.  You start singing along with the rest of the crowd. You know the game is in good hands. Fear was instilled in the enemy. Like a war call from from some ancient tribal warrior army… of one.

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I can still remember going to Dodgers games when Eric Gagne was the closer. It was such a cool feeling being in the stands when Eric was about to enter a game. There was a buzz among the crowd. The PA system would start playing “Welcome To The Jungle” and the scoreboard would flash “Game Over”. It was awesome. A party within the game. Definitely something every Dodger fan looked forward to.

This article has nothing to do with that. This article is about what songs you wouldn’t want to come out to. A song that wouldn’t instill fear but laughter. Or maybe pity. Even just a “what the heck?” response.

So here are those songs. In all their glory. If I have missed any, please let me know below.

1. Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley – There’s something about this song that is just not tough. I can picture the pitcher not running out to the mound during this song but dancing out to the mound. Not a good thing when your trying to win a game.
2. I Wish, Skee-Lo – “I wish I was a little bit taller…I wish I was a baller…” You shouldn’t be ‘wishing’ for anything when entering the 9th with the game on the line.
3. All I Need Is A Miracle, Mike And The Mechanics – This song makes it on title alone. Ok and the fact that the song itself is not the manliest song out there.
4. Loser, Beck – With a chorus that says “I’m a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?” and a lyric that says “And my time is a piece of wax fallin on a termite That’s chokin on the splinters” you might be asking why isn’t this song number one? That’s a fair enough question. But I don’t think you can argue with the answer:
5.  It’s Raining Men, Weather Girls – I really can’t think of a worse song to come out to than the Weather Girls classic “It’s Raining Men”. Who in their right minds would take you seriously? How could you take yourself seriously? Now if your goal was to paralyze your opponent with laughter then I could see this song having some merit. But other then that this is hands down the worst song that any pitcher, or player for that manner, could ever have played as their theme song.

Disagree? Let me know