# Music to bat by **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 13, 2001, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860 "2001-03-13T21:45:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2001, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/1 "2001-03-13T21:45:53Z")
Sorry if this has been done - I did a search, but didn’t look through the whole thing. At major league baseball games, each home team player has music that plays while he walks from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box. I’ve heard more hitters use “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osborne than I like to think about, but that’s neither here nor there. The question: If you were a major league ballplayer, what ONE song (no either/or choices here!) would you choose as your “at bat” music? Mine is _I’m All Right_ by Kenny Loggins. It just makes me happy. ---
**Author:** ![BarnStormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@BarnStormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnStormer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/2 "2001-03-14T05:36:21Z")
It’s corny, but I’d go with “Lady of Spain”. It sounds good on loudspeakers. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/3 "2001-03-14T05:44:45Z")
No question here, “Hair of the Dog” by Nazareth. ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/4 "2001-03-14T05:46:22Z")
Oh wow this is one that has me thinking… it’d have to be… Green Day When I Come Around ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/5 "2001-03-14T16:35:33Z")
“Carry On, Wayward Son” (don’t know if this is the _correct_ title) by **Kansas** ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/6 "2001-03-14T16:46:26Z")
I’d use the little bit of music played whenever the gopher on Caddyshack dances. ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/7 "2001-03-14T17:11:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Connor \* > \*\*I’d use the little bit of music played whenever the gopher on Caddyshack dances. \*\* Umm. Isn’t that what I chose? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/8 "2001-03-14T18:02:07Z")
“I’ll Slice Yer Fucking Throat” By GG Allin. What? ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/9 "2001-03-15T00:21:06Z")
“Humans Being” by Van Halen ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/10 "2001-03-15T10:34:56Z")
**Limelight** by Rush. It sound so cool when the drums kick in over the loudspeakers, it really gets me going. ---
**Author:** ![Survey1215](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-bat-by/57860/11 "2001-03-15T20:14:26Z")
Wow, my friends and I talk about this all the time. In fact, in an annual WiffleBall tourney, the title game features intro music for each batter, usually pretty lame and/or pretty wacky stuff. I have four choices that I would probably rotate: “Gotta Get Up” by the BottleRockets, the original intro music for Steve Blackmon of the WWF, the original intro music for Marvelous Marc Mero of the WWF, and “My Mama Said” by Lenny Kravitz (but only on Disco Night, and only if I got to wear an Oscar Gamble 1977 model wig).