What Is The Best Walk Up Song? (The Bracket, Vol. 191)

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KenJac | The Bracket

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00:00:00All right, welcome to the bracket episode 191. Today we have obviously the start of postseason baseball. So I decided to do a little baseball version of the bracket. And before I get to the exact because even the guys here don't necessarily know totally what we're doing here.

00:00:14I brought a baseball crew on though. We have obviously White Sox Dave, Clem, Marty, and also Tommy. Before we get into the details of that, I'm just going to give a shout out to Clem. He let me over to his tailgate over to the Giants game this weekend versus the Chargers. And we got to watch the Giants beat the living piss out of Justin Herbert live.

00:00:34Yeah, shout out to the offensive line and Joe Walt for getting hurt early and then the rest of the offensive line just letting our defensive line finally fulfill their promise. Tailgate was a blast. And Ken Jack, I haven't told you this offline either. My daughter afterwards, she's like, is your friend coming back? I go, no, he's like going home. She goes, his wife is beautiful. So Miss Ken Jack got quite the compliment from Zieta.

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00:01:18But still like settling down eventually. You're 25, right? Yeah, 26. 26 now. In no rush.

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00:02:02Actually, you know what, Clem? That was my first time driving into MetLife.

00:02:04That was way easier getting out than I thought it would be.

00:02:07I thought that was going to be an absolute like four hours.

00:02:09Did you leave right? You left after the game?

00:02:11I left like a decent amount after the game.

00:02:13Like probably, how long did we wait? Because we had to film the ad after.

00:02:17So we probably waited after the final whistle, maybe 15 minutes.

00:02:21I thought we were going to be screwed, but no, it was pretty easy getting out.

00:02:24I always say, get your tailgate and we just kind of do like hot dogs and hamburgers after the game.

00:02:28Get like one little post-game meal in and then the traffic has subsided enough.

00:02:32Yeah, right after is brutal.

00:02:34Yeah, but way easier than I thought.

00:02:35And I actually, as much as I like hate that MetLife is in a swamp, like it is a, once you're in the stadium, it's great.

00:02:41Fantastic time.

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00:02:58Well, they'd probably want to look at game three, right?

00:03:00If this comes out Thursday.

00:03:02Yeah.

00:03:02I just went for this.

00:03:03I just didn't want to do the one that was today.

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00:03:41And thank you for sending me and Clem to that game.

00:03:43I just wish that our two most important non-quarterbacks weren't injured in front of our faces.

00:03:48That would have been very cool.

00:03:50Quarterback shit down his leg, too.

00:03:51Yeah, also, Jackson Dart got the crap beat out of him, too.

00:03:55He got concussed, and his hamstring got fucked up.

00:03:57He's got to learn to slot, or just not.

00:04:01We got to call less run plays right up the middle with Jackson Dart.

00:04:04First game, he's excited.

00:04:05He's excited.

00:04:06Yeah, he's hanging out with Scataboo too much.

00:04:08That guy, by the way, couldn't be worried.

00:04:09Yeah.

00:04:10He could keep getting hit.

00:04:11He wouldn't bother him.

00:04:12He has no neck.

00:04:13You can't hurt him.

00:04:14Yeah.

00:04:14He's like a fucking turtle running into people.

00:04:16Like, you can't injure his spine.

00:04:18But shout out to, again, GameTime.

00:04:20Okay, so today what we're going to be doing, again, baseball-themed bracket, what I asked you guys for, I was like, hey, give me four total songs.

00:04:28Three songs that you think would be fantastic walkout songs, and one song that you think would be a terrible walkout song.

00:04:35And what we're going to be doing here is imagine the scenario.

00:04:37You are a closer.

00:04:38It's Game 7 of the World Series.

00:04:40Tying run is on.

00:04:41Which batter are you the most afraid of?

00:04:44And what I did was I took just, like, the top 16 batters in the league, and I signed your guys' songs randomly to them using, like, a randomizer online.

00:04:53So you're going to get the batter, the song that they have, who picked them, and all that, and which batter are you the most afraid of as this closer?

00:05:00Just, like, you're going to do it this way.

00:05:02Okay, all right.

00:05:02I think it's going to be an interesting exercise.

00:05:05So the first matchup, who are you more afraid of?

00:05:08Are you more afraid of?

00:05:09And this is from Clem.

00:05:10Freddie Freeman's walkout music is La Bamba by Richie Valens, which is one of his songs.

00:05:19So you guys all know La Bamba, I'm assuming, right?

00:05:21Yeah.

00:05:22Remind me.

00:05:22La Bamba.

00:05:24La Bamba.

00:05:26Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:05:29And Freddie Freeman with La Bamba is going up against number five seed, which is Trevor Story, and I'm already petrified of this.

00:05:37How did Trevor Story make the top 16 hitters?

00:05:40One of the top, just home run hitters, for the most part, some OPS guys.

00:05:44And he has one of yours, Tommy, Heart of a Champion by Nelly.

00:05:49So the Yankees used to play that before they would take the field to Yankee Stadium.

00:05:53Because I'm back up at that Super Bowl, Julius Preppers.

00:05:56I got the can't stop, won't stop in my name.

00:05:59That's why they can't stop, won't stop.

00:06:01Screaming the name, Nelly.

00:06:02You want to play it?

00:06:02You're going to get us a...

00:06:05Yeah, it's too spot on.

00:06:07I'll play it real quick so you guys can hear, and then I'll cut it out.

00:06:11So, again, you have the player, and you have to factor in the walkout song, too.

00:06:14Again, you are the closer.

00:06:16Tying run is on.

00:06:17Game seven.

00:06:18Who are you more afraid of?

00:06:19Freddie Freeman with La Bamba or Trevor Story, Heart of a Champion by Nelly.

00:06:23Let's start with you, Marty.

00:06:25Freddie Freeman with La Bamba.

00:06:27Trevor, 100%.

00:06:28Because it's not a scary song, which means he's a sicko and loves that song.

00:06:34And it's like, you just know he's vibing out, and he's just going to fucking smash one off of you.

00:06:39You're not afraid of Story at all?

00:06:40This has been something that's bothering me the second I saw this pairing.

00:06:43No, I'm not.

00:06:44I think Trevor...

00:06:45I'm afraid to talk too much shit about him before this season.

00:06:48Keep going, keep going, guys.

00:06:49Tell me how about Trevor Story.

00:06:50Tommy just stopped because I was about to be me.

00:06:53Let's keep it in.

00:06:54I'll be honest.

00:06:54I think Trevor Story is a loser.

00:06:58Oh, God.

00:06:59How about you, Tommy?

00:07:01I mean, I love Heart of a Champion, so this is tough.

00:07:04But I also have vivid memories of Freddie Freeman's Grand Slam last year.

00:07:09So him coming up with any song, and there is something to it being La Bamba, like Marty said,

00:07:13where it's just like he doesn't even need to get really pumped up.

00:07:16He's just in the zone already.

00:07:18So I'll go with Freddie more because of him than the song.

00:07:22I think between these two, after...

00:07:24Because I didn't recognize the song when you submitted the song, Tommy.

00:07:26But obviously, I knew Trevor Story.

00:07:28And then when I heard the song together, it made me a little worried.

00:07:31So I'm going to say one for Trevor Story.

00:07:33How about you, Clem?

00:07:35I'm going to go with La Bamba because the reason I chose La Bamba is there's a few songs that if it starts,

00:07:43then the crowd might start singing.

00:07:45The Mets did that with My Girl and Francisco Indoor.

00:07:47Except, like, how much is the Dodger Stadium?

00:07:51Like, 30,000 people?

00:07:53Los Angelinos just singing La Bamba at the top of their lungs?

00:07:55Oh, yeah.

00:07:56That's fucking...

00:07:57They have, like, 60,000.

00:07:5860,000 there?

00:07:59Whatever that number is, it's kind of terrifying if you're the closer coming in.

00:08:03And Freddie's...

00:08:03As a Mets...

00:08:04Freddie Freeman is the most PTSD-inducing player, I think, shared between Mets and Yankees fans now.

00:08:11A thousand, yeah.

00:08:12He killed us for years, and then he killed you in, obviously, the biggest series.

00:08:15So I think Freddie Freeman's my answer.

00:08:17Also, I almost chose the NBA and NBA...

00:08:19NBA on NBC theme.

00:08:21Just...

00:08:21But then I was like, it's the basketball theme, so I'm thinking basketball when I hear it.

00:08:25So that's why I didn't actually submit it.

00:08:26It would have been almost a matchup of the same beat.

00:08:28I didn't even think about that.

00:08:29Like, the Latino community in Dodger Stadium is going fucking nuts.

00:08:33And also, just seeing Freddie Freeman with those giant fucking veneers coming up to the plate while that plays.

00:08:37Goddamn, that would be scary.

00:08:39It kind of changes his song.

00:08:40Mush kind of took the reasoning out of my mouth.

00:08:44But if I'm a closer, and it's game seven, bases chucked, you know, hitters walking up,

00:08:53I'm expecting, like, break stuff by Limp Bizkit or something.

00:08:57And if I heard La Bamba out of the corner of my ear, I'd be like, I'd be, like, confused.

00:09:02It would throw me off my game.

00:09:03So it wouldn't be as much as the fear factor as much as the confusion factor.

00:09:09I'd be, like, what the fuck is this?

00:09:10And then Freddie Freeman steps up, and he's just, like, Mushad, just a mutant up there.

00:09:15Just rakes.

00:09:17So I, too, am going La Bamba.

00:09:19You know what my two walk-up songs were in my senior year of college?

00:09:22I was going to ask you.

00:09:24Yeah.

00:09:24Mine, my first one was, because they always give you two, but it was Kirby Enthusiasm's theme song.

00:09:30That's awesome.

00:09:31And then that just makes me think you're grounding into a double play.

00:09:33First, at bat, guy was like, are you a freshman?

00:09:36Like, did they give that to you?

00:09:37I was like, no, I picked that.

00:09:39And then the second one was, one was A Show Goes On, but the other one was Pocket Full of Sunshine.

00:09:46I submitted all three of my walk-up songs for college and high school to Ken Jack for this draft.

00:09:53Okay.

00:09:53So, yeah, hold on to him.

00:09:54Love that.

00:09:57Freddie Freeman with La Bamba is going to move on.

00:09:58Sorry, Dave.

00:09:58I was going to say, we'll talk about it when we get to the pick, because I got beef with Jeff D. Lowe because of one of those songs.

00:10:05I can't even imagine.

00:10:06It should be interesting.

00:10:07Literally couldn't even start to guess what that means.

00:10:10All right.

00:10:10Next up, we have the four seed versus the 13 seed.

00:10:13The four seed is Jose Ramirez, and he has, which just mentioned, or didn't mention anything, but the show goes on by Lupe Fiasco, which is a great song.

00:10:22You guys know this one?

00:10:23Oh, yeah.

00:10:24I think, for whatever reason, this makes me think of Kemba Walker's UConn run in 2011.

00:10:29I feel like this was always playing on ESPN or whatever, like before the game and in highlight reels, and it's a good song.

00:10:36It's an awesome song.

00:10:38Lupe's so underrated.

00:10:40Oh, I could sing it for everyone, for the audience.

00:10:43Already the show goes on all night.

00:10:46All right.

00:10:46You know.

00:10:46Yeah, we're going to get another copyright strike from that.

00:10:48So next, and he's the four seed.

00:10:50Jose Ramirez with, again, the show goes on by Lupe Fiasco.

00:10:53Going up against Mookie Betts with Your Love by the outfield.

00:10:57White Sox Dave, great pick.

00:10:58That's a fantastic one-hit wonder song right there.

00:11:01I just want to feel your love tonight.

00:11:04Oh.

00:11:04So a little background behind this song, Gordon Beckham.

00:11:07He was at University of Georgia, won the Golden Spikes Award his senior year, which, for those listening who don't know, is like the college baseball equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.

00:11:17Anyways, his legend at Georgia was that he would just go and fuck the hottest cougars in Athens, Georgia.

00:11:26And that was his walk-up song as a testament to that, and he used it when he was on the White Sox.

00:11:31And now he's their announcer and everything.

00:11:33He still kind of jokes about it.

00:11:35And he's like, yeah, rumors are rumors, ha-ha.

00:11:37But you can tell that rumors are not rumors.

00:11:40They're very real.

00:11:40So which one are you going with, Dave?

00:11:42Mookie Betts with Your Love or Jose Ramirez with The Show Goes On?

00:11:46Man, that's a tough one.

00:11:49In spite of the soliloquy I just gave, I'm going to go with Jose Ramirez and The Show Goes On.

00:11:54That's like legit a terrifying walk-up combo right there.

00:11:58That is.

00:11:58This is, I just want to use your love tonight.

00:12:02That one?

00:12:02Yeah.

00:12:03Yeah, okay.

00:12:03Yeah.

00:12:04Can you sing everyone?

00:12:05I'm making sure, yeah.

00:12:06No, actually, I want Tommy, because that gives us a good copyright-free way of listening.

00:12:09Yeah.

00:12:10So one for Jose Ramirez.

00:12:12Clem?

00:12:14I'm kind of torn here.

00:12:15I see both sides.

00:12:16I'm trying to think, like, if you're in the shoes of that.

00:12:18I'm going to listen to the, oh, the beginning of The Show Goes On is the,

00:12:23because it's like you're playing the beginning of the song, right?

00:12:27Yeah.

00:12:28Yeah, that gets me.

00:12:29I was actually going to go, I Don't Want to Lose Your Love,

00:12:32because it's one of those things that's probably another one that the fans have been glubbing all summer.

00:12:36Yeah, it was a huge thing for us.

00:12:38By the time October gets there, it's branded.

00:12:40Obviously, he plays the outfield, too, which is great as well.

00:12:43However, that beginning, those first couple chords, I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about this fake matchup that's never, ever going to happen.

00:12:51I think I'm more afraid if I was a closer of Mookie Betts, like, as long as he doesn't have, like, typhoid fever or whatever.

00:12:58But, like, he, I think the song with Ramirez, just chugging his way up to the plate, I agree with you.

00:13:04I'm going to go with Ramirez.

00:13:06The start of the outfield, it's pretty, it's good, too, though.

00:13:09Yeah.

00:13:10Well, it doesn't have to be the start of the song.

00:13:12They'll play, like, the chorus.

00:13:13Yeah.

00:13:13I would go with Mookie and your, like, listen, show goes on is good, but it's almost like, yeah, it's just like a classic walkout song.

00:13:22There's something about, and I hate to give the Mets any credit here, but something with, like, Lindor when the whole stadium sings, what is it, my girl or whatever?

00:13:32Like, I could see a whole stadium, like, getting pumped up, screaming, I just want it, like they did for Gordon Beckham or whatever, and that, to me, almost makes for a better walk-up song than just, like, a classic rap pop-up song.

00:13:47Imagine everyone going, all right, all ready, the show.

00:13:49Yeah, but they want it.

00:13:50They can't ride a flow like that.

00:13:53Here, this is how we did it.

00:13:55So, for your love, the start of the song is, Josie's on a vacation for a little thing.

00:14:01Turn around and talk it over.

00:14:04So many things that I want to say.

00:14:08Clem?

00:14:09I wish you were a little bit older, right?

00:14:12You know I like my girls a little bit older.

00:14:15So, they would cut the music and the entire stadium would sing.

00:14:19That's incredible.

00:14:20Yeah, that's good.

00:14:21Yeah, it was awesome.

00:14:22Just trust me, it was awesome.

00:14:23So, yeah, Mookie Betts, your love.

00:14:26How about you, Marty?

00:14:28Show goes on.

00:14:29That was one of my walk-up songs, and I loved it.

00:14:31Also, Jose Ramirez, still scared.

00:14:34Do you think he's going to get a statue for the Guardians?

00:14:37Oh, yeah, 100%.

00:14:38He is just so good.

00:14:41And he's little, he's like.

00:14:42He's got a shit ton of money on the table to stay home with them.

00:14:45Yeah, agreed.

00:14:46That doesn't happen in Cleveland.

00:14:47I was talking about it today.

00:14:48It's when he walks up, just like, he's a little fat, he's got chubby cheeks, but he's not fat,

00:14:52and he just, like, he just knows he's going to beat the shit out of you.

00:14:55So, I'm going with him.

00:14:57Mm-hmm.

00:14:58So, Jose Ramirez with Show Goes On is going to move on.

00:15:01Now, we have the 9th seed versus the 8th seed.

00:15:03The 9th seed is Fernando Tatis, healthy, with Call Me Maybe by Collier Jepsen, which is from Clampton.

00:15:12He might have used that as a song.

00:15:13He's crazy like that.

00:15:14It's another one, like, in that vein that we were saying that would get the crowd going.

00:15:18But let me tell you, if he goes 0 for 4, that is annoying.

00:15:21Yeah.

00:15:24And that's going up against Ellie De La Cruz with, from Mush, Big Papa by Big.

00:15:29That is terrifying.

00:15:31Oh, my God.

00:15:33Terrifying.

00:15:34Yeah.

00:15:34Oh, my God.

00:15:35The whole crowd going like this.

00:15:37I don't know when you call me Big Papa.

00:15:39Oh, my God.

00:15:40He's, like, 6'7 as it is.

00:15:42Yeah, dude.

00:15:42He's humongous.

00:15:43Yeah, that's, like, the perfect song for him.

00:15:45Yeah.

00:15:46Perfect.

00:15:47That song would have been ruined on Trevor's story.

00:15:48That would have been an absolute disaster if the randomizer had given that the sharpest

00:15:52story.

00:15:53It was very kind, Ellie here.

00:15:55So, Ellie or Tatis.

00:15:56I'm kind of visualizing it right now, just the whistle part in, like, the beginning of

00:16:00the song.

00:16:00Oh, yeah.

00:16:02Yeah.

00:16:03Yeah.

00:16:04Fuck, man.

00:16:04It'd be so scary.

00:16:05Okay.

00:16:05So, again, Tatis with Call Me Maybe or Ellie with Big Papa, starting with you, Mush.

00:16:10Yeah, not even close.

00:16:12It's Ellie.

00:16:13Yeah, I mean, especially if we're voting on what's scarier.

00:16:14Scarier, like, Ellie De La Cruz coming with that, that's not even a question.

00:16:20Am I just, like, intentionally walking?

00:16:22I'm just, like, walking the losing run, just like, don't put it on me.

00:16:25Tommy?

00:16:27Same.

00:16:27That's just too easy.

00:16:29Yeah, De La Cruz.

00:16:30I would go with De La Cruz as well.

00:16:31That's, again, just a horrifying prospect as a closer.

00:16:34How about you, Clem?

00:16:35That's like when Baylor sent Sean Oakman to do the coin flip, you know?

00:16:39Yeah.

00:16:39That's the fucking midriff, yeah.

00:16:41How about you, Clem?

00:16:43Yeah, it has to be Ellie.

00:16:45He's enormous in himself.

00:16:46I think it could have worked for Jose Ramirez, too, because he's, like you said, punching.

00:16:49Oh, yeah.

00:16:49But being this tall, lanky dude, and he's just, he's going to hit a triple, a double, a homer.

00:16:54It's all on the table.

00:16:55It's terrifying.

00:16:56Mm-hmm.

00:16:57How about you, Dave?

00:16:58Same thing?

00:16:58Yeah, same.

00:16:59Same.

00:17:00So, Ellie is going to move on.

00:17:01Now we have the one seed versus the 16th seed.

00:17:04The one seed, I'm not being a homer at all here, I promise.

00:17:07The one seed is Aaron Judge.

00:17:09And here's the thing, it's post-season, say whatever you want.

00:17:12But the song is from Dave, Like a Pimp, David Banner, which is, you do not, well, you guys

00:17:18want to rehear it?

00:17:19Yeah, you've got to play this one.

00:17:21This is one of my walk-up songs.

00:17:24That's why I'm laughing.

00:17:25It's just now I can't think of Aaron Judge.

00:17:27I'm just thinking about fucking, what sucks Dave doing that?

00:17:29I almost think it's too fast to be a good pump-up song.

00:17:34Oh, my God, you're so wrong.

00:17:36I think a good walk-up song has to almost have, like, a little bit of a slow build-up, kind

00:17:41of, like, I like that song, but it's almost, like, too right away, and you're, like, I don't

00:17:47know if that's scaring the pitcher, he's almost, like, getting into the groove.

00:17:50Yeah, you have to be really cool to pump-up.

00:17:51Like, Big Papa's, like, kind of slow.

00:17:53Are you saying I'm not cool?

00:17:55Yeah, no, you definitely shouldn't pull it off.

00:17:57You probably were in college, but it says my name in the beginning of the song.

00:18:01No, it got me fucking pumped, and then I go roll over into a five-foot-out bush.

00:18:09Nice roll over.

00:18:12So, Aaron Judge, with Like a Pimp, David Banner, is going up against the number 16 seed, which

00:18:18is who is Juan Soto, and I'll tell you why.

00:18:22Oh, just a coincidence that he's the 16th seed, too.

00:18:24Fucking right.

00:18:25The reason is, he got Marty's worst song, which Marty, so when I originally asked you

00:18:30for it, you had, like, a gap in time in between when you gave me the last one, so I just looked

00:18:34up in your Twitter what you said the worst song was, and...

00:18:38My Twitter?

00:18:39Yeah, I looked on your Twitter to see, like, just see if you ever said worst song.

00:18:42Did I?

00:18:43This is the worst song.

00:18:43You did.

00:18:44You picked this song.

00:18:46So you...

00:18:47I hate to admit, that's kind of a good walk-out song.

00:18:50That's some twisted shit, man.

00:18:51I don't know what Juan's doing.

00:18:53I don't like that song.

00:18:55What was my tweet?

00:18:56That's No Handlebars.

00:18:57He said, I hate the song Handlebars, because it makes you think you can ride your bike with

00:19:03No Handlebars, and you can't.

00:19:06Brilliant.

00:19:07That's a Marty Mush tweet.

00:19:08That's definitely Marty's tweet.

00:19:10That's definitely mine, yeah.

00:19:12And it's true.

00:19:13They made kids think they could do No Handlebars.

00:19:15Yeah.

00:19:16I hate that song.

00:19:16That is true.

00:19:17That kind of scared me, though.

00:19:20I mean, there's no way I'm going to let Juan Soto beat Aaron Judge in this.

00:19:25I don't care what the song matchup is, but that wasn't that bad of a walk-out song.

00:19:29So No Handlebars by Flowbots with Juan Soto, or Like a Pimp for Aaron Judge.

00:19:35Let's start with you this time, Dave.

00:19:38Like a Pimp, duh.

00:19:41One vote for Aaron Judge.

00:19:42How about you, Clum?

00:19:44I'm probably going to be unanimous against my boys, so fuck you guys.

00:19:46I'm going Soto.

00:19:48It's a tough song.

00:19:49I mean...

00:19:5016th seed?

00:19:51Get the fuck out of here, 16th seed.

00:19:53Trevor's story above him?

00:19:55Listen, everyone else is in the playoffs this year.

00:19:58It's sort of make-believe Fantasyland.

00:20:00He's even on this bracket.

00:20:03If he came up playing this song, it would be...

00:20:05I wouldn't be like, what's wrong?

00:20:07Someone played the wrong thing.

00:20:08It would make no sense.

00:20:09There's no matchup there.

00:20:11So one-to-one right now, I'm going for Aaron Judge, no question.

00:20:14Tommy?

00:20:16Yeah, Aaron Judge.

00:20:17I mean, again, I don't think that's the worst walk-up song, because it is kind of slow and

00:20:22confusing, but I'm not picking Juan Soto over Aaron Judge in anything ever.

00:20:25Don't even ask me.

00:20:26Don't even ask me.

00:20:28You hate those fucking handlebars.

00:20:30I hate it.

00:20:30But I'm not going to blindly vote through Aaron Judge the whole time, because I don't love

00:20:34that as a walk-up song.

00:20:36No, no, no.

00:20:36I'm not.

00:20:37That was just an easy one.

00:20:38And I would have voted for Judge if it wasn't completely rigged.

00:20:42I could definitely see that.

00:20:44And by the way, when I came on this, and Ken Jack told me it was about baseball, and the

00:20:48first two faces I see are these two fucking Mets slurping fucking and just talking.

00:20:53We should have done Mets' worst moments.

00:20:55Oh, that would have been fun.

00:20:57It would have been a good one.

00:20:58I texted Ken Jack.

00:20:59I go, is it about Mets' worst collapse?

00:21:01Because if so, I'm not on.

00:21:02I felt like Joe Pesci at the end of fucking Goodfellas just getting blasted.

00:21:06Did you want to lose your mind, like, obviously you're already sad, like, seeing me do videos

00:21:11and Tommy, where you just, like, want to lose it, or you're already sad?

00:21:14If you think I was on Twitter refreshing, looking for people's content, you were in the wrong

00:21:18place, man.

00:21:18I was actually watching Jackson Dart become our fucking savior.

00:21:22All right.

00:21:23Hey, we should all agree on that.

00:21:25Yeah.

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00:22:38All right.

00:22:38Other side of the bracket.

00:22:40This is an interesting one because I didn't know the name of the person that sings, saying

00:22:44this, and it's kind of funny.

00:22:45Uh, so Kyle Schwarber is our 11th seed, and he's the 11th seed for a reason.

00:22:51He's obviously incredible.

00:22:52You'd never want to face him.

00:22:53Uh, but he has Dominic the Donkey as his song from Clem.

00:22:57Do you know who sings Dominic the Donkey, who wrote and made that, Clem?

00:23:01His name is Ray Allen.

00:23:03Oh, yeah.

00:23:03That'd be awesome if it was the Ray Allen.

00:23:05Unfortunately.

00:23:05Not even in Italian, by the way.

00:23:07It doesn't line up.

00:23:07Yeah.

00:23:08Ray Allen, the non-Italian maid, Dominic the Donkey, which do you guys know?

00:23:13Most of us are Italian here.

00:23:14I feel like I've heard it, but I can't think of it.

00:23:17Keep going.

00:23:17I thought everyone knows that song.

00:23:19Dominic the Donkey.

00:23:21Yeah.

00:23:24Yeah.

00:23:24It's like an Italian Christmas donkey song.

00:23:26I didn't even know.

00:23:27Oh, yeah.

00:23:27Absolutely not, then.

00:23:28Never mind.

00:23:29Was this as one of your good ones or bad ones?

00:23:32This was the worst song I could ever think.

00:23:33He said, name the worst song you could ever have.

00:23:35I think.

00:23:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:23:37So this.

00:23:38I guess this is a bad one.

00:23:39It would work if he was a town.

00:23:40Well, I don't want to spoil one of my picks, but this would work if he was a

00:23:43dally.

00:23:44Yes.

00:23:45But also, it's like a Christmas song, which doesn't totally make sense.

00:23:49And that is going up against motherfucking big dumper or succeed who has

00:23:54unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield from Tommy.

00:23:57Yeah.

00:23:57Again, I like when the first of all, I just love the song.

00:24:00I'm right.

00:24:00There's no better song to get people going.

00:24:03And I just feel like the state.

00:24:05Oh, man, that the Mariners fans singing that.

00:24:07That in Seattle, when he stepped up, steps up to the plate, that would go pretty hard.

00:24:11Staring at the blank page.

00:24:13I mean, it would hit.

00:24:15Well, you just like when people could sing along.

00:24:17Yeah.

00:24:18Yeah.

00:24:18That's a big part of a walk up song to me.

00:24:20So, Marty, you're going to be up first.

00:24:22Schwerber with Dominic the donkey or Big Dumper with Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield.

00:24:27Crazy.

00:24:28I think it's Schwerber in my head.

00:24:29Like, I think it's such an outrageous song.

00:24:32And he kind of is like, he plays like kind of like a donkey.

00:24:35Like, he's just like.

00:24:36He's also spiritually Italian.

00:24:37I want to add that.

00:24:38Like, he looks Italian.

00:24:39Yeah.

00:24:39I'll claim him.

00:24:40I'll claim him.

00:24:41Yeah.

00:24:42Yeah.

00:24:42He's just kind of like scruffy, too.

00:24:44And just like, I don't know.

00:24:46It relates to me for some reason.

00:24:48I'm going with Dominic the donkey.

00:24:50One vote for Dominic the donkey.

00:24:51How about you, Tommy?

00:24:52I agree with what Marty's saying.

00:24:54That Schwerber is probably one of the few people who could pull that off.

00:24:58But I really just want someone to do Unwritten as their walk up song.

00:25:01I think even Cal Raleigh, the nickname Big Dumper, like something about it just would work.

00:25:07So, I'm going to go with him.

00:25:08One to one right now.

00:25:09I think between these two, I'd be more.

00:25:11I'm more scared.

00:25:13Actually, no.

00:25:14I think I'm more scared of Schwerber because he's been done more in the postseason, too.

00:25:17And if you're in game seven, I think like right now, I'm like basically neck and neck.

00:25:20And I'd be more scared of Schwerber with Dominic the donkey.

00:25:24Because I agree with you.

00:25:24It is kind of outrageous.

00:25:26And I just looked it up.

00:25:27He is actually Italian on his dad's side.

00:25:30So, that does count.

00:25:31So, two for Kyle Schwerber.

00:25:32How about you, Clem?

00:25:35So, I feel like we're going to keep coming back to this.

00:25:39But I do feel like the dumper who's kind of become like this guy out of nowhere.

00:25:44I know he's been good the last few years.

00:25:45But the catcher, switch hitter, the home runs, everything.

00:25:47And, like, the plucky Mariners who are kind of the Western Mets where they get their hearts ripped out and all the bad shit happens to them.

00:25:55I could see that fan base just getting behind this.

00:25:57I'm kind of pissed it's not his song.

00:25:58And I just looked it up.

00:26:00I don't know who this guy, Eager Demmon, is.

00:26:02He's someone who got drafted last year.

00:26:04By the Nets?

00:26:04By the Nets.

00:26:05He said that would be his walk-up song, was Natasha Bettefield, which I think is hilarious in itself.

00:26:09So, I'm going to go with that.

00:26:12Yeah.

00:26:12So, I guess Raleigh's is Dire Straits' Money for Nothing, which is cool.

00:26:17Good.

00:26:17It's kind of cool.

00:26:18That guitar is good for a walk-up song.

00:26:21Yeah.

00:26:23Okay.

00:26:24So, you're going to go with Natasha Bettefield, Clem?

00:26:25Yep.

00:26:26That means you're tied up and you're going to break it, Dave.

00:26:29I am also going to go with Natasha Bettefield, but not because I think it's a particularly good walk-up song.

00:26:35Though, I do love the song itself.

00:26:38It is just an absolute banger.

00:26:40Tommy was right that, like, a lot of this, a lot of what makes a good walk-up song is how much it gets the crowd into it.

00:26:49I don't think unwritten.

00:26:51You need a, like, shorter 15-second snippet where it's awesome.

00:26:55The whole song's just awesome.

00:26:56You couldn't find that.

00:26:57So, it's like, what part do you play, really?

00:26:59I don't know.

00:27:00I don't know.

00:27:01I'm talking myself out of it, but it's still better than whatever the fuck else we were talking about.

00:27:05I actually had that same thought where I was like, I don't know what snippet you would play.

00:27:09I think it would have to be, release the rain on your skin.

00:27:12It rains a lot in Seattle.

00:27:14Yeah.

00:27:16That might be the best point you've ever made.

00:27:19Yeah.

00:27:20That was quick.

00:27:21Goddamn.

00:27:22That was smart.

00:27:23So, I'm written by Natasha Bettefield.

00:27:25It's going to make it through.

00:27:26Next up, we have the three-seed versus the 14-seed.

00:27:29The three-seed here is not even necessarily because it's of who he is, but I do think this is a scary song for the situation.

00:27:35It's George Springer, and the song is Duality by Slipknot.

00:27:40Dave, that was a phenomenal pick.

00:27:41Do we all know this?

00:27:42I got to hear this.

00:27:44Okay.

00:27:44This is my favorite pump-up song ever, and I love this band.

00:27:48I mean, it's a great song.

00:27:49Is he a UFC fighter?

00:27:51This is, I don't know if this is a baseball walk-up.

00:27:54You are such a vagina.

00:27:57That's a shit out of somebody.

00:27:59I almost think it's more of a closer walk-out.

00:28:04Yeah.

00:28:04Okay.

00:28:05Like, because you get some more time.

00:28:06That's true.

00:28:07That's adding three to five to anybody's fastball and an extra 15 feet of juice on a home run.

00:28:15Again, I see it as a closer.

00:28:17I see it as a closer.

00:28:19I don't know as a hitter.

00:28:20I don't think Tommy Smokes has ever been pumped up one time in his entire life.

00:28:24Oh, yeah.

00:28:25Like, I haven't listened to Unwritten before, Dave.

00:28:27Have you ever wanted to break everything in sight?

00:28:33No chance.

00:28:34No, I mean, I guess, like, only the Yankees losing would make me angry.

00:28:38Yeah, that's it.

00:28:38That's not messed up.

00:28:39I've ever seen him.

00:28:40He doesn't have mean bone in him.

00:28:41Yeah.

00:28:42No, he doesn't.

00:28:43To almost play, like, devil's advocate against myself, I'm not even sure if this totally

00:28:46fits George Springer.

00:28:47Like, it might have been better with someone else.

00:28:48But, like, it is just a really scary.

00:28:51It is.

00:28:51Well, I thought they were random.

00:28:53It was.

00:28:53No, I'm saying it was randomized.

00:28:55I'm saying it might hit.

00:28:55George Springer does not fit that song.

00:28:57Yeah.

00:28:58Maybe it doesn't totally fit him.

00:28:59But he is obviously a good hitter.

00:29:00And that song is scary.

00:29:01Oh.

00:29:02And he's going up against a good friend of the program's, Kristen Yellich, who has

00:29:06Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

00:29:09I submitted that for the worst possible one.

00:29:11Multiple Christmas songs.

00:29:12From Tommy, like, Elmo and Patsy, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

00:29:16I mean, it is almost so outrageous where people might get into it.

00:29:20But, God, that is such a bad song.

00:29:22I'm trying to think of, like, the same thing, like a Seattle rain thing, connection for

00:29:26Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

00:29:27But I'm not finding anything Milwaukee.

00:29:30So, we'll start with you this time, Mush.

00:29:33George Springer with Duality by Slipknot.

00:29:35Or Chris Yellich with Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

00:29:38I have to go with Springer.

00:29:40Grandma Run Over by a Reindeer is brutal.

00:29:44That is so bad.

00:29:45I like the song, too.

00:29:47I enjoy it.

00:29:47But as a walkout song, I couldn't do it.

00:29:50So, I'll go Springer.

00:29:51How about you, Tommy?

00:29:52Yeah, same.

00:29:52I can't think of a word.

00:29:54And I thought for a while, like, what could the worst possible walkout song be?

00:29:57And I landed on Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

00:29:59Sorry, Christian Yellich, but go with Springer and Slipknot.

00:30:03What about, like, Christmas shoes?

00:30:05Would that be worse?

00:30:06Which one's that?

00:30:07The one where the guy's, like, singing about it.

00:30:09That sounds pretty sad, right?

00:30:09The little kid singing about how he wants shoes for his mom who has cancer or something

00:30:13like that.

00:30:13Yeah, that sounds worse.

00:30:15That'd be pretty bad.

00:30:18Between these two, again, I'm not totally sure it's a great fit, but it's a better fit

00:30:22than Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

00:30:23So, I'd also go with Springer.

00:30:24How about you, Clem?

00:30:26I'm going to go Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, and I'll tell you why.

00:30:29I feel like Springer comes up.

00:30:31It's like, this guy's a poser.

00:30:32He didn't choose his song.

00:30:34And it's like, you know, and now kind of like, at least Yellich is true.

00:30:37He's like, he's a big Christmas guy.

00:30:39We all know Christmas people in our lives who just really love Christmas.

00:30:42Maybe Yellich is a Christmas guy.

00:30:43His name's Christian, right?

00:30:44Fuck.

00:30:45He is.

00:30:45True.

00:30:46What's happening?

00:30:47Dave, I see you reacting.

00:30:48What's happening in this game?

00:30:49But Jose Ramirez just fucked up very badly.

00:30:52It was on third base, nobody out.

00:30:56Tigers got a strikeout.

00:30:58Little dribbler back to the pitcher, next pitch, and he ran into an out at home.

00:31:01What do you know?

00:31:02Statue's gone.

00:31:03That will affect this voting going forward.

00:31:06I want to make that clear.

00:31:07Yeah, it was Ramirez.

00:31:08Yeah.

00:31:08How about you, Dave?

00:31:11Slipknot.

00:31:12It's the fucking greatest walkout pump-up song of all time in the history of music.

00:31:17So next up, we have the 10 seed.

00:31:19It makes me want to go and smack my dog around over there.

00:31:23Fucking what the fuck, dude.

00:31:25So George Springer's going to move on.

00:31:27Now we have the 10 seed versus the 7 seed.

00:31:29The 10 seed is Bryce Harper.

00:31:31Man, it sucks.

00:31:32This is a different team.

00:31:33Again, you just mentioned it earlier, Tommy.

00:31:35Mambo Italiano, Dean Martin.

00:31:37Yeah, so I had this or, so everyone knows Mambo Italiano, but play this, play the, did you

00:31:42see the remix I sent?

00:31:44Who was it by again?

00:31:46Trap Killis.

00:31:47Marty, we listened to it one time when we picked that Asian kid Noah to Borelli's on

00:31:51Long Island.

00:31:53Like, this is a trap.

00:31:54I always thought that when the Yankees got Anthony Rizzo and Joey Gallo in 2021 summer

00:32:00and, like, they were doing the whole Italian stuff, like, they should have played this

00:32:03either as a walk-up song or, like, wait, play this, and then there's a specific part,

00:32:08maybe about 30 seconds in, where it's like, imagine the lights of Yankee Stadium flashing

00:32:13on and off as they run around the bases after a home run.

00:32:16I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

00:32:18Okay, let's see if this works.

00:32:19It's on Spotify.

00:32:21Okay.

00:32:21Flashing on and off.

00:32:22Bronx going crazy.

00:32:24I love it.

00:32:24So, good song, bad person, horrible person.

00:32:30Horrible.

00:32:30I don't know.

00:32:31Philly, like, Bryce Harper could be another honorary Italian.

00:32:34Philly is like an honorary Italian city, I feel like.

00:32:38Correct.

00:32:38That song does fit Schwarber, though, oddly enough.

00:32:40It fits Schwarber off the wall.

00:32:41It would be unbelievable.

00:32:43He's a meatball.

00:32:45Yeah.

00:32:47So, again, Bryce Harper with the, let's say that Mambo Italiano mix from Tommy is going

00:32:52up against the seventh seed, which is Pete Alonso.

00:32:55Gave you another Met, Clem.

00:32:56A higher-ranked one.

00:32:57Deservedly so.

00:32:58No longer going to be with the Mets.

00:33:00Possibly even with the Yankees, maybe after this year.

00:33:03And he has PIMP 50 Cent, baby.

00:33:07How do you feel about that?

00:33:09Pete probably has his fucking asses song at some point.

00:33:11Like, this would be such a Pete Alonso song.

00:33:13It would be.

00:33:14What the fuck is this guy?

00:33:15And I love Pete, but he is another fucking meatball.

00:33:18But he's not as cool as Schwarber, that's for sure.

00:33:20So, what do you think, Dave?

00:33:22You're starting out first.

00:33:23Pete Alonso with PIMP versus Bryce Harper with Mambo Italiano.

00:33:28Were you more afraid of?

00:33:3050 Cent PIMP, right?

00:33:31Yeah, 50 Cent.

00:33:31Um, I had never heard that remix of Mambo Italiano, and I was, like, getting into it.

00:33:37It was kind of fucking sick, so I'm going to go with that one.

00:33:40Bryce Harper with Mambo Italiano.

00:33:42How about you, Clem?

00:33:44I'll, the only reason I would go, I like the song, actually.

00:33:47I really do.

00:33:48If it was with Schwarber, I think he could win the whole thing, oddly enough.

00:33:52But I think Pete, having PIMP and being an awesome home run hitter, actually, and this

00:33:58song being something he would have used, it's very realistic that Pete might come out to

00:34:01this song.

00:34:02Pete had Layla this year, which was an awesome song.

00:34:04I've never thought of that as a batting song before.

00:34:06So, I think that would actually fit us in, so I'll go Pete on that alone.

00:34:09One to one right now.

00:34:11I think between these two, uh, I like both.

00:34:13I think I'd be more afraid of Pete Alonso coming out to, like, literally pimp a home run

00:34:17in your face.

00:34:18That would be horrifying.

00:34:20Uh, so two to one right now in favor of Pete Alonso.

00:34:23How about you, Tommy?

00:34:24Uh, I'm going Bryce on the song.

00:34:26I mean, I just think Pete Alonso, Pete Alonso is such a cornball that, like, him picking

00:34:31PIMP, it's, oh, cute, Pete Alonso.

00:34:33That's cute.

00:34:34You picked the PIMP song, you fucking loser.

00:34:38Crazy.

00:34:38Let's relax.

00:34:39He might be on our team.

00:34:40Yeah, he might be on our team.

00:34:41I still would dislike him.

00:34:44You wouldn't.

00:34:45He's awesome.

00:34:45Uh, so I'm going, and I just love that Mambo Italiano remix.

00:34:49And I think Bryce Harper's just cool enough to pull it off, even if he's not Italian.

00:34:52Two to two.

00:34:53You're going to break it, Marty.

00:34:54Uh, PIMP for Pete.

00:34:57I think that anything 50 Cent is, like, the coolest walkout song.

00:35:01So I think he's, his song.

00:35:03Many Men would be really good.

00:35:04Many Men hits.

00:35:05Even, like, uh, what?

00:35:07Candy Shop would even be, like, a cool.

00:35:09Ryan Robinson coming out of the tunnel to many men is still the coolest thing.

00:35:12Still so cool.

00:35:13So we're on PIMP.

00:35:14Which is funny, too, because he has arguably, not even arguably, really, the worst first pitch

00:35:18of all time.

00:35:19Yeah.

00:35:20True.

00:35:21Uh, so, yeah, I totally agree.

00:35:23Like, 50 Cent, like, immediately, that gets the whole crowd going.

00:35:25That gets him going.

00:35:26That gets, it's good.

00:35:27So, now, as Pete Alonzo moves on with PIMP, uh, we have two versus the 15 seed.

00:35:33Two seed is Shohei Ohtani, and he got, from Clem, crank that, Soulja Boy.

00:35:39I can't even picture it.

00:35:41That, honestly, would be it.

00:35:42What player?

00:35:43Shohei.

00:35:46Shohei Ohtani.

00:35:47Crank that, Soulja Boy.

00:35:49Honestly, if I just saw Ohtani start going like this, I'd be.

00:35:53I feel like that's almost, like, a cheat code.

00:35:56Like, I feel like it's when we happened in the past where, like, Japanese players

00:35:58pick, like, an American rap song, and people are, like, just the, like, dichotomy of it

00:36:04is funny, that, like, that would, and it's, like, 20 years old, too.

00:36:08And that is going up against our 15 seed, Bobby Witt Jr., with, from Dave, I think this

00:36:14was your worst song, right?

00:36:16Poker Face by Lady Gaga, which I don't think that's necessarily.

00:36:19Ooh, isn't that a fantastic test?

00:36:20I have to preface this.

00:36:21I just, I don't think it's necessarily the worst walkout song.

00:36:25Obviously, we've picked some more.

00:36:26I think it's the worst popular song in the history of music.

00:36:29That song makes my ears bleed.

00:36:33It might be because you heard it too many times.

00:36:34You know what mine is?

00:36:35Is Uptown Funk.

00:36:37Oh, that one's also.

00:36:38I like Bruno Mars, but I've just heard that too many.

00:36:41I think it's too many.

00:36:41Yeah.

00:36:41Poker Face was on the radio when you were even, like, younger, like, so many times.

00:36:46Dude.

00:36:46I love Lady Gaga, though.

00:36:48So I can't.

00:36:48I like her, too.

00:36:49It's just that specific song, I detest.

00:36:53So you're going to start us off, Marty.

00:36:55Joey Otani cranking that soldier boy, doing the full dance, by the way, all the way up

00:36:59to the dugout.

00:37:00Imagine him whacking one and hits home plate, and he's just like this.

00:37:05The whole team's going like this.

00:37:07I'm so in.

00:37:08They're doing that.

00:37:09The whole stands.

00:37:10And Otani has no idea what's going on, but he's just like this.

00:37:14Yamamoto comes out with him.

00:37:15That's unbelievable.

00:37:17It's a shame he doesn't have an Asian name with, like, a U in it, like, U Darvish.

00:37:21Because if you had U, that would go insane.

00:37:26I'd be shocked if Darvish didn't have that as his walkout music at one point.

00:37:32And he had to.

00:37:32Or like Shinsu Chu, and you just go, Chu.

00:37:36It probably might be.

00:37:37One of those, like, bumper clips, like, when you would, like, get a strikeout, they would

00:37:41do that.

00:37:41Just the U.

00:37:42I can't imagine.

00:37:43Hideki Arabu.

00:37:45Oh, man.

00:37:45Yeah.

00:37:47This weirdly fate has made the perfect song now for Shohei.

00:37:50How about you, Tommy?

00:37:51Yeah.

00:37:52It's Shohei and Crank That.

00:37:54Shohei and Crank That.

00:37:55I'm going Shohei and Crank That as well.

00:37:56It's just, again, a terrifying prospect as a pitcher in Game 7.

00:38:00Clem?

00:38:01Yeah.

00:38:01I think it's a layup.

00:38:02Yeah.

00:38:03Dave?

00:38:05Shohei.

00:38:05That might be a runaway.

00:38:08Yeah.

00:38:08So Shohei is going to move on.

00:38:10Now we can run through our playoffs.

00:38:11First up, we have, I completely forgot about half these ones that we ended up getting through.

00:38:16Freddie Freeman with La Bamba.

00:38:18That's still a good one.

00:38:19Going up against Jose Ramirez with Show Goes On by Lupe Fiasco.

00:38:23This is actually a pretty tough matchup.

00:38:24Let's start with you, Dave.

00:38:27Oh, man.

00:38:28This is a tough one.

00:38:30It's, who's the first one again?

00:38:33The first one, it's Jose Ramirez with Show Goes On by Lupe Fiasco versus Freddie Freeman

00:38:36with La Bamba.

00:38:37Freddie Freeman and La Bamba.

00:38:40I'm going to go with The Show Goes On.

00:38:42I just think that's such a perfect fit, like, in, like, actually.

00:38:46Like, if he were to walk up with a full-ass Jacobs field or whatever the fuck it's called

00:38:50these days, I think that'd be intimidating as fuck.

00:38:54One vote for Freddie Freeman in the big-ass teeth.

00:38:57Clem?

00:38:57Hold on.

00:38:59I got Fortnite playing here.

00:39:00We're going to have to turn that on mute, buddy.

00:39:03Does AJ want to squad up later?

00:39:05Yeah, we'll squad up.

00:39:07Dropping it, whatever Tilted Towers is now.

00:39:11So, oddly enough, I was thinking about it.

00:39:13The Show Goes On feels like something you play after a loss or something, right?

00:39:16It's like you lost.

00:39:17Yeah, true.

00:39:20So, I'm going to go Freddie.

00:39:22Again, the Dodgers fan, like, LA fans are low-key savages.

00:39:25We see all the fights in the stands and everything.

00:39:28So, them all seeing La Bamba would be such, like, a nice mood breaker.

00:39:31I'll just go on that, and I'm going to go figure out this TV.

00:39:33Sorry.

00:39:34Did they kill a Giants fan a couple years ago or the other way around?

00:39:38I think they killed the Giants fan.

00:39:43The Dodgers fans, right?

00:39:45That was definitely a big fight.

00:39:47Yeah, like, killed a Padres fan, you said?

00:39:49No, Giants.

00:39:50San Francisco.

00:39:52Oh, yeah.

00:39:53Oh, Jesus.

00:39:54Anyway, two for Freddie Freeman and La Bamba.

00:39:57I would go for that as well.

00:39:59I think that the fuck-up that Dave just described at third base really has influenced my decision-making here.

00:40:05But I'm going to go with Freddie Freeman and La Bamba.

00:40:09Again, he's terrorized both of our Yankees and Mets fan bases now.

00:40:13And lost, too.

00:40:13It's crazy.

00:40:14By the way, Ramirez was the hitter.

00:40:19I thought he fucked up as the fielder.

00:40:21I got to suppose he's time right now.

00:40:23He was on third, right?

00:40:26Yeah.

00:40:26It looks like somebody else was on third.

00:40:27No, I think Ramirez hit triple.

00:40:29No, it was an error.

00:40:30It was an error, yeah.

00:40:31It was like a ground ball to second, and he got to third.

00:40:34But then I'm saying, and then he fucked up going home.

00:40:37Yeah.

00:40:38So it's all La Bamba right now.

00:40:40How about you, Tommy?

00:40:41I'm going to go Jose and show goes on, actually.

00:40:44I don't know.

00:40:44La Bamba's just not doing it for me as a walk-up song, and Jose's just an intimidating guy.

00:40:50I'm picturing Freddie Freeman in a giant sombrero, and I kind of love it.

00:40:53I don't know if he's ever worn it before.

00:40:55It just feels like it fits him.

00:40:56It feels like something he would have done.

00:40:58Yeah.

00:40:58How about you, Marty?

00:41:00Show goes on.

00:41:01I like that for Ramirez.

00:41:03Who did you pick, Dave?

00:41:05Show goes on.

00:41:06Oh.

00:41:06Oh, so it did win.

00:41:07Yeah.

00:41:08I think.

00:41:09Oh, you picked show goes on.

00:41:10Show goes on.

00:41:11Yeah, I reversed that.

00:41:12Sorry.

00:41:13Yeah.

00:41:13So Jose Ramirez, despite the fuck-up, is going to move on.

00:41:16So now we have Aaron Judge with Like a Pimp, David Banner versus Ellie De La Cruz with Big

00:41:22Papa.

00:41:22This is actually, either one of these would be horrifying.

00:41:25Let's start with you, Mush.

00:41:26It would take a lot for me to go against my guy, but I can't.

00:41:31Ellie De La Cruz is, that is so sick.

00:41:34He's so cool, too.

00:41:35It's just, it's 100% him.

00:41:37Have to be him.

00:41:38One for him.

00:41:39I mean, if Aaron Judge had Big Papa, if the songs were flipped, obviously Aaron Judge

00:41:43fits with Big Papa, but.

00:41:45No reason for the show.

00:41:46Yeah.

00:41:47Again, I don't want to blindly put him through.

00:41:49So Ellie De La Cruz with Big Papa is just an incredible fate.

00:41:51I'll go with that.

00:41:53Yeah.

00:41:53I'm going with, rolling with you guys on that one as well.

00:41:55I think that is just, again, terrifying prospect, especially just for the situation.

00:41:58How about you, Clem?

00:42:00Yeah.

00:42:01Again, the thought of Aaron Judge, has he thought about changing the Big?

00:42:05I feel like that could solve these.

00:42:07He's got a good one now where it's like, I'm the king of New York.

00:42:09Hello.

00:42:10His are fine.

00:42:11Yeah.

00:42:11Like, it should be, it should be Big Papa.

00:42:14Yeah.

00:42:15So Ellie De La Cruz.

00:42:17Sorry, Dave, I'm assuming you're going Ellie De La Cruz as well.

00:42:20Yeah.

00:42:20Totally.

00:42:21Yeah.

00:42:21So De La Cruz with Big Papa versus Jose Ramirez.

00:42:25The show goes on Lupe Fiasco.

00:42:26Start with you, Dave, to go into the finals.

00:42:31I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with Ellie.

00:42:34It's Ellie, Ellie versus Ramirez, right?

00:42:38Yeah.

00:42:39Ellie.

00:42:40One for Ellie.

00:42:41Clem?

00:42:42Yep.

00:42:43Yep.

00:42:43That's, I think it has to be.

00:42:45And then even the younger generation, Big Papa had its comeback.

00:42:48That was a hardball, right?

00:42:49They had that going.

00:42:50Oh, yeah.

00:42:50There's a lot of younger kids now.

00:42:51No, they're in there.

00:42:52Headphones on while he's pitching.

00:42:54Yeah.

00:42:54The kids are down.

00:42:55That's the thing.

00:42:56That alone.

00:42:58I know.

00:42:58Everybody's seen from hardball, you know?

00:43:00That alone wins.

00:43:01That alone, like, makes it awesome.

00:43:04They do the wave or whatever.

00:43:05Yeah.

00:43:06I'm going Ellie as well, Tommy.

00:43:08Ellie.

00:43:09Yeah.

00:43:09Ellie.

00:43:09Ellie's through.

00:43:10Ellie's through into the finals.

00:43:12On the other side, we have, first up, George Springer with Duality by Slipknot versus

00:43:17Big Dumper and Unwritten.

00:43:18How about you, Marty?

00:43:20I'm going Big Dumper with Unwritten.

00:43:22Definitely.

00:43:23Now I can see it in the rain.

00:43:25The rain got me.

00:43:26The rain part is a great point.

00:43:27The rain was big.

00:43:28Yeah.

00:43:29The rain was big.

00:43:30Like, why are you saying that?

00:43:31It rains here.

00:43:32And even, like, I feel like the Seattle, like, something about that stadium, like, it

00:43:36just, it fits for, like, a good walk-up song.

00:43:39You know what I saw?

00:43:40No hitter there.

00:43:41Really?

00:43:42Yeah.

00:43:42In Seattle?

00:43:43It was the Orioles no hit.

00:43:46Combined?

00:43:47No.

00:43:48Oh.

00:43:48How are you at an Orioles-Mariners game?

00:43:52I don't know why I was there, honestly.

00:43:54It sounds, I don't know why I was in Seattle.

00:43:56It looks like a sick stadium.

00:43:58It was pretty cool.

00:44:00I got my head shaved by the Mariner moose there.

00:44:02Oh, I don't know why I was there, but remember Justin Dunn?

00:44:07Yeah.

00:44:07He was in the Mets for a little bit, too, I think.

00:44:09I grew up with him, and I was going to see him.

00:44:11I don't know why I was in Seattle, though.

00:44:13Okay, so we have now two, or one vote for Unwritten.

00:44:17Tommy?

00:44:17I'm also going Unwritten.

00:44:19I'm really visualizing it, and I'm not, you know, I don't have anything against Cal

00:44:24Riley and the Mariners.

00:44:25I'm not their Yankees rivals right now, sort of.

00:44:27But, yeah, that scene is getting me going.

00:44:30Also, Judge wrapped it up, by the way.

00:44:31MVP.

00:44:32He's, like, my...

00:44:33Close.

00:44:34So, I would have gone with duality, like I talked about, Dave, but you actually talked

00:44:39me out of your pick with the Seattle reigning thing, and now the more I think about it,

00:44:43like you guys are saying, like the scrappy fan base, kind of underdogs, like shit on,

00:44:48and then, like, they see their lord and savior come up and just smash a home run after Natasha

00:44:52Bedingfield and getting the crowd going.

00:44:54Like, I can see that scene.

00:44:55So, I'm going to go with Cal Raleigh as well.

00:44:58How about you, Clem?

00:44:59George Springer's a poser for putting that song.

00:45:02Like I said, UFC, got fighter, closer, anything but George Springer, essentially.

00:45:08His name is George!

00:45:10Yeah, you can't have that.

00:45:11Yeah, you can't have duality if your name is George.

00:45:14How about you, Dave?

00:45:16Ah, man.

00:45:19You guys talked me into...

00:45:21And I sold myself, but you guys used my points to sell it to me, which I don't even know if

00:45:27that made sense, but it did in my head.

00:45:29That's like Marty McFly, like you went from the past to the future to then convince yourself.

00:45:33Yeah.

00:45:33That's amazing.

00:45:35So, Big Dumper's going to move on.

00:45:36On the next, we have Shoei Otani with Crank That, which I still love.

00:45:40That was fantastic.

00:45:41Versus Pete Alonzo and P-I-N-P.

00:45:44Here again, think about it situationally.

00:45:46You're closer.

00:45:46It's game seven.

00:45:47Who are you more afraid of after that walk-up song?

00:45:50Finish his plane, then get up to the plate.

00:45:51Start with you, Dave.

00:45:54Where's it going?

00:45:57I'm going with Ellie.

00:45:58Well, we're all together.

00:46:01All right.

00:46:01Sorry, you caught me.

00:46:02I was trying to...

00:46:03I was watching the Cuff Game.

00:46:04I was watching the Cuff Game.

00:46:05I was watching the Cuff Game.

00:46:05Pete Alonzo has P-I-N-P.

00:46:08I think this song kind of sucks.

00:46:12And it's still mega overplayed and kind of over at stadiums especially.

00:46:17But Shoei specifically using Crank That, it just fits and it'd work and it'd be sweet.

00:46:23And he's a fucking gigantic monster of an athlete.

00:46:28It'd be awesome.

00:46:29So one for Shoei, Clem.

00:46:32So the reason I chose this song was it was at my draft and we just had music playing.

00:46:37And as I got up to make my pick, Crank That came on on Shuffle.

00:46:41And I was like, that's the greatest entrance song.

00:46:44And I believe I picked George Pickens.

00:46:46Looking back, it was an awesome pick.

00:46:48And I was like, this is one of the greatest entrance songs you could ever have.

00:46:51And I said, it would be hilarious telling my kids like 20 years ago.

00:46:54I'm like, kids, this was the biggest song in the world for like, I don't know, a couple months, whatever it was.

00:47:00And Soulja Boy took over the planet.

00:47:02And everyone, daddy won his league because of George Pickens.

00:47:04George Pickens did it for his kids.

00:47:06So yeah, I think it has to be Soulja.

00:47:08And again, Pete is such a cornball.

00:47:11He would have P-I-N-P.

00:47:12But as someone that has Pete on his favorite team and went up against Shohei, I feared Shohei a lot more than I'm sure the Dodgers fans feared Pete.

00:47:20Remember when Soulja Boy came to our office and like gave us signed pictures of himself?

00:47:25Yes.

00:47:25Oh, yeah.

00:47:26That was, he walked off that elevator at the old office.

00:47:30Yep.

00:47:30And he just was yelling, Soulja Boy.

00:47:32Yeah.

00:47:32It was awesome.

00:47:33It's all you wanted.

00:47:34It's all you wanted from Soulja Boy.

00:47:35Yeah.

00:47:36He was promoting his own video game system.

00:47:37Yeah, let's say he was selling his video game system and like cell phones or something.

00:47:41It was a really weird time for Soulja Boy.

00:47:44So we're two for Soulja Boy right now.

00:47:46Most times have been weird times for Soulja Boy since Cranked Out released.

00:47:50And I'd say Soulja Boy carried himself like the biggest celebrity out of everyone who came to that office.

00:47:54And there were A-plus listeners coming to that office.

00:47:57But he did bring a buzz that very few of those A-listers brought with them.

00:48:00That's true.

00:48:01He also had the biggest entourage, I think.

00:48:03He had like eight.

00:48:03No.

00:48:03You know who had the biggest entourage at the old office is Terry Rozier.

00:48:06Do you remember?

00:48:06He came in with like 18 people.

00:48:08And he was still not.

00:48:09He didn't even sign the contract with Charlotte or whatever yet.

00:48:12Like Rozier had like, I think like legit almost 20 people.

00:48:15It was crazy.

00:48:16That's awesome.

00:48:17So Shohei, two votes.

00:48:19I mean, I got to go Shohei here.

00:48:20Again, like you were just saying, Clem, like this matchup has happened.

00:48:24And if I were to actually watch, as long as he's still a contracted employee of the Mets,

00:48:28if NPI and P started playing, I'd be like, you're a cornball.

00:48:31The second he starts doing it with us, it's going to be great.

00:48:33But like when Otani did it, if Otani started playing Crank That, I'd be terrified.

00:48:36So I'm going to go with Otani.

00:48:38How about you, Tommy?

00:48:39I'm going with Otani, too.

00:48:40I mean, it's also just the fact that I'd be way more afraid of Otani.

00:48:44And also, I think Crank That weirdly just does fit him.

00:48:48Yeah.

00:48:48I agree.

00:48:49Same with Otani.

00:48:50I can already hear the excuses you guys are going to make when you don't delete your Pete Alonzo tweets.

00:48:55When other people are quote tweeting, you're like, it's just something about the pinstripes, the magic.

00:48:59It brought out the magic of Pete.

00:49:00Now he's cool.

00:49:01Fuck you guys.

00:49:02Still, I think it's my favorite tweet ever.

00:49:05You remember the Pete Alonzo 9-11 ones?

00:49:07The Padres fans were crazy with those.

00:49:11The Padres fans were like, I got to find it.

00:49:14I don't know what they were saying.

00:49:15They were saying Pete Alonzo did 9-11 or something, jokingly.

00:49:19And Pete Alonzo was like, this is actually super disrespectful.

00:49:23And then the Padres fans just made a Photoshop of Pete Alonzo knocking down the Twin Towers with a bat.

00:49:29And was like, is this real?

00:49:32You can't engage.

00:49:34You can never engage with these people.

00:49:35No.

00:49:36It's all they want.

00:49:37I got to find this.

00:49:39It is.

00:49:40I remember that vividly.

00:49:41Oh, so Tani with Crank That versus Raleigh with Unwritten.

00:49:45Start with you.

00:49:47It's a tough one.

00:49:49Start with you, Marty.

00:49:50Oh, that's so tough.

00:49:54I'm going with Shohei.

00:49:56I can't get the picture of him doing the Soulja Boy after.

00:50:00I can't stop thinking about it.

00:50:02And I could see him getting really excited about it, too.

00:50:05Like, loving it.

00:50:06I'm almost Mandela affecting myself to think he has done it.

00:50:10Because I have such a vivid.

00:50:12The way he has his arms, he does something that's like it.

00:50:14Because I have it in my brain.

00:50:16He's done it many times.

00:50:16He does.

00:50:17Yes, he does.

00:50:17Even when he, like, he almost does, like, I feel like he does the Ichiro sometimes.

00:50:21Like, something like that.

00:50:23Where it's like his hands are like this already.

00:50:24And his stance already has it up.

00:50:26Yeah.

00:50:26He's already a full extension.

00:50:28Yeah.

00:50:28That's a good point.

00:50:30I looked up Shohei Otani, Crank That.

00:50:33And it was just him celebrating a stolen base by, like, looking like he was jerking his dick.

00:50:36I do remember that.

00:50:37I do, too.

00:50:40Yeah, nothing from.

00:50:41I can't find anything about that.

00:50:43Crank.

00:50:43But anyway.

00:50:44So, one vote for Shohei Otani and Crank That.

00:50:46Tommy?

00:50:48I'm sorry.

00:50:49I'm still trying to find the Pete Alonso 9-11 Photoshop.

00:50:51I can't find it.

00:50:52I can find the tweets, but not the picture.

00:50:53What is Shohei up against?

00:50:55Shohei Otani versus Raleigh with Unwritten.

00:50:58I think I gotta go Cal Raleigh with Unwritten.

00:51:00Ever since they've brought up the point about the rain.

00:51:04Again, I don't know if it's, like, scarier, but, like, that's a better moment.

00:51:08Like, that's a better moment where I think it's gonna bring the crowd more alive and then, hence, scare the pitcher and make them more frazzled.

00:51:15So, I'll go Raleigh and Unwritten.

00:51:17They've never won a playoff series, right?

00:51:19No, they, I'm pretty sure the Yankees played them in the ALCS one year back in the day.

00:51:23So, they must have won a series.

00:51:24They beat the Yankees in 95, when Griffey slid home.

00:51:27I know they've never won a World Series.

00:51:29I wasn't sure if it was a playoff game or not, though.

00:51:31But, I mean, it kind of fits with their style.

00:51:35I know it's not my turn.

00:51:36Should I just go?

00:51:37Yeah, go ahead.

00:51:38Like, the rest is still unwritten.

00:51:40It kind of fits with the team, you know?

00:51:43So, yeah.

00:51:45That's what you're trying to make all these good points.

00:51:48But, I don't think it's a good walk-up song.

00:51:51I found the picture, by the way.

00:51:54It was, uh, it was tweet last, uh, the, what do you call it?

00:51:57The Photoshop of Pete Alonzo's by...

00:51:59You found it?

00:52:00Yeah.

00:52:00Send it to us in a chat.

00:52:02Ken Jack made it, probably.

00:52:03Yeah, he probably did.

00:52:04Those San Diego people are all crazy, and Ken Jack has that in them from the Chargers fan.

00:52:09You guys are sick.

00:52:10But, I'm telling you, like, out of all the fan bases, us Mets fans fighting, trust me, we fight everybody, including the Phillies.

00:52:15The San Diego ones are by far the most sad.

00:52:17Yeah, they're fucking nuts.

00:52:18They even had the thing where it's like, they paid cameo for Pete to say, like, congratulations, you, like, the Padres won or something.

00:52:25And, he said it, and then all the Padres fans would tweet it at him after they beat us.

00:52:29And, I'm like, god damn, these Padres fans.

00:52:31Like, San Diego, I don't think they're even watching the game.

00:52:33It's just on the beach.

00:52:33No.

00:52:34They are savage.

00:52:36Dude, this picture is so funny.

00:52:37It is, sending this in response, by the way, specifically to Adam Schefter is kind of more fucked up.

00:52:43This definitely was, like, it was in response to Pete Alonso.

00:52:46Obviously, this guy repurposed it, but I think it got deleted.

00:52:49Yeah, the original might be gone by now.

00:52:51But, yeah, so right now we are 2-1 in favor of Big Dumper and Unwritten.

00:52:55How about you?

00:52:56How about you?

00:52:57You go first, Clem.

00:52:58And then I'll go.

00:52:58So, I'm going Shohei, because at the end of the day, I think these, I think the, all the, the, um, all the stuff, like the story that this song is, as we're learning, is the perfect song for Mariners fans.

00:53:12It's there.

00:53:13However, Cal Rally does feel like the guy who is crushing the regular season, and then the postseason goes 2 for 18, and you forget he had the season he had.

00:53:23And it kind of just whimpers along, where Shohei has won the World Series, is absolutely terrifying whenever he comes up to the plate.

00:53:29They're doing countdowns till the time he comes up to the plate, right?

00:53:32So, based on all that, you're basically counting down to hearing Soulja Boy go, you, you know, four batters till Soulja Boy, two batters till Soulja Boy.

00:53:39Then Soulja Boy comes, Shohei comes up, boom.

00:53:42But, guys, I can't believe this is true.

00:53:45A new point.

00:53:46Natasha Bedingfield is from Washington State.

00:53:49No way!

00:53:50No.

00:53:51I made that up.

00:53:52She's from the UK.

00:53:53She's from Australia or something.

00:53:55She's from the UK.

00:53:56But she's got a Seattle vibe to her.

00:53:59All in unison went back.

00:54:02I should have not told you guys it was fake, so we just had that moment.

00:54:06I got something crazier to tell you.

00:54:08Guess where Soulja Boy's from?

00:54:09Japan.

00:54:13So, we're two to two.

00:54:15Shohei Otani's from Atlanta.

00:54:17Shohei's from, yeah.

00:54:19So, Shohei Otani, I gotta go.

00:54:22I gotta go, Shohei.

00:54:22It just comes down to, like, we're probably neck and neck here.

00:54:24I love the saga that we've built, or, like, the legacy we've built up for this fake walk-up for Cal Raleigh.

00:54:29But, like, I think that Otani's better and I'm more scared of him.

00:54:32And then that's just, like, the sort of tiebreaker here.

00:54:34So, we actually have a pretty great matchup here for our finals.

00:54:37And you'll go first on this one, Dave.

00:54:39We have Ellie De La Cruz.

00:54:42Big Papa.

00:54:44Going up against Shohei Otani.

00:54:45Crank that.

00:54:46A little preview of the wild card series.

00:54:48Reds versus Dodgers.

00:54:49Exactly.

00:54:49Yeah.

00:54:50Serendipity.

00:54:52Horrifying.

00:54:52Again, stick to the situation.

00:54:53It's game seven.

00:54:55Tying runs on.

00:54:55You're coming up against one of these guys.

00:54:57It's either Shohei Otani cranking that.

00:54:58And I'm imagining he's hitting the backflip and just pointing at you when he hits the home run and saying, you.

00:55:04And that's going up against Ellie De La Cruz.

00:55:06Big Papa.

00:55:07Just, again, both horrifying situations.

00:55:09Start with you, Dave.

00:55:10Dude, this is, like, this is the hardest bracket.

00:55:14We did a good job.

00:55:15Yeah.

00:55:18Man, like, I want to take, like, what they've actually done in their careers into account, too, up to this point.

00:55:23Obviously, you or Shohei would have the advantage there.

00:55:28Hey, he sucked in the world.

00:55:29I was going to say, the unfortunate thing is that Ellie De La Cruz isn't actually that good.

00:55:35He's, like, pretty good.

00:55:36He's pretty good.

00:55:37But, like, his, like, aura and, like, what he does on the base pass and stuff, like, outweighs, like, just his actual, like, ability as a hitter.

00:55:46But to have any of that on the Cincinnati Reds?

00:55:49No.

00:55:50Yeah.

00:55:52Yeah.

00:55:52He's also on a much better team.

00:55:53The Reds have a lot of those kind of weird guys.

00:55:55Like, their bullpen is just a bunch of, like, 6'8 Dominican dudes who throw 100 with, like.

00:56:01Yeah, they have Chapman back in the day.

00:56:02Amir Garrett.

00:56:03Yeah.

00:56:04They get those weirdos that just are freak athletes.

00:56:08Yeah.

00:56:08I think gun to head I have to go with Shohei just because he's, like, he's a more terrifying hitter.

00:56:18You know what?

00:56:19Like, you can get Ellie out.

00:56:21But before I get you going, it's just saying to the bracket, it is the bracket about walk-up songs is more important than the player.

00:56:29But I'm just saying.

00:56:30I'm saying, I'm putting my brain in the brain of someone on the mound facing these guys in Game 7.

00:56:36So, if Shohei's walking up, I'm like, holy fuck, that's, you know, one of the best hitters in the history of the game.

00:56:44And then you add, crank that, and, like, with the whole stadium getting into it, that's like.

00:56:49And then you, Ellie De La Cruz, awesome walk-up.

00:56:52You're like, ah, I know I can get him out still.

00:56:55So, because of that, or he can get him out, himself out still, you know.

00:57:00So, because of that, I'm going to go with Shohei.

00:57:04One for Shohei.

00:57:05How about you, Clem?

00:57:05You're throwing it right in that lefty blind spot.

00:57:08You know, just laying inside and just hoping.

00:57:10Low, back hip, spider or something.

00:57:12He's not touching it.

00:57:14The name Ellie De La Cruz is also a huge reason.

00:57:16It's a huge part of it.

00:57:17You know, if it was just, you know, Ellie Cruz.

00:57:20Even the De La does so much of that lifting on its own.

00:57:23Talking about the home field advantage here.

00:57:26By the way, Soldier Boy's from Chicago.

00:57:27I mustn't.

00:57:28I think I knew that at some point.

00:57:29Didn't know that now.

00:57:30Wow.

00:57:30It's crazy that I don't really think the Dodgers fans would embrace this, you know.

00:57:34I don't really know how much they would.

00:57:36This is something we're overlooking, though.

00:57:37I don't think the people at Cincinnati would really do a good job owning Big Papa.

00:57:41They would be able to do their little wave from hardball.

00:57:44Like, the only guy I know from Cincinnati is Riggs.

00:57:46So, you've got a bunch of Riggs singing Big Papa.

00:57:48But, I don't think that translates as well as Dodgers fans.

00:57:51A bunch of lost, what are they, Los Angeles, or whatever I was calling them.

00:57:54Them doing Soldier Boy.

00:57:56And, at the end of the day, like you said, I can get Ellie De La Cruz probably out on three strikes.

00:58:00Shohei, it's an absolute battle.

00:58:02You're biting your nails.

00:58:03The only reason I'm happy the Mets gagged away in the playoffs is I don't have to, like, have a heart attack every single night 55 times.

00:58:11So, I'm going Shohei because of that.

00:58:13It's a cool name, too.

00:58:14He is a cool name, too.

00:58:15Shohei O' Time.

00:58:16Shohei O' Time.

00:58:18Shohei O' Time.

00:58:18That's just a cool name.

00:58:19He would work with Show Goes On.

00:58:21He would.

00:58:22Damn.

00:58:23Shit, didn't think about that.

00:58:24What's his batting song?

00:58:25Does he have a good batting song?

00:58:27Yeah.

00:58:28I don't know.

00:58:28The Kill Bill song?

00:58:29Wait, no.

00:58:30Did Matsui have the Kill Bill song?

00:58:32I feel like there was a Japanese player that had the Kill Bill song.

00:58:34Dude, it says Otani's walk-up song is The Show Goes On.

00:58:38Oh.

00:58:39Are you serious?

00:58:40I'm not fucking around.

00:58:40That's what the MLB says.

00:58:42That makes sense.

00:58:43Awesome.

00:58:44Makes total sense.

00:58:45That's crazy.

00:58:46Anyway, so let's skip me and go to you, Tommy.

00:58:48What do you think?

00:58:49Oh, I'm going to go Ellie De La Cruz here, to be honest.

00:58:51I know Otani is infinitely much of a better hitter, but again, we're not just debating

00:58:57who's the better hitter.

00:58:58I'm really trying to factor in the walk-up song, more importantly, in the moment.

00:59:02And I do think, like, even like, I don't know if it's intimidating, Soulja Boy, to get the

00:59:08crowd going, but Ellie De La Cruz, Big Papa, he's obviously, even though you could get him

00:59:14out with a slider in the dirt on his back foot, like, hearing Big Papa play behind him, it's

00:59:18a slower song, more of a pop-up song.

00:59:21I'm going to go with Ellie and Big Papa.

00:59:23Ellie and Big Papa, right now it is two to one in favor of Shohei.

00:59:26How about you, Morty?

00:59:27I'm going Big Papa as well.

00:59:28Clem almost had me, because a bunch of Cincinnati, like, eating Skyline chili, obviously they're

00:59:36overweight, like, barely wanting to get up to go.

00:59:38They're, like, sitting in their chair, going like this.

00:59:40Like, eh, Big Papa, like this.

00:59:43But to be fair, like, they'll be more into it than Ellie.

00:59:46Like, Dodgers fans.

00:59:46They'll care more.

00:59:47Right?

00:59:48Like, they'll care more.

00:59:49But I'm going Big Papa, yeah, because just because...

00:59:51The Dodgers fans are like, oh, I'm here for the Soulja Boy concert.

00:59:54Yeah, we all know that.

00:59:57Otani's way better hitter.

00:59:58It's just, like, with the song and everything, I'm going Big Papa.

01:00:02So I have to tiebreak between the two of them.

01:00:04Ken Jack, just letting you know, I know I want you to tiebreak it, but our tiebreaker

01:00:09is here.

01:00:11Who is it?

01:00:12Come on.

01:00:12You don't remember who our tiebreaker is?

01:00:13Oh, our security.

01:00:14Security Pat's here?

01:00:16Get his ass in here.

01:00:17No, it's not me.

01:00:18It's a great question for him to ask him to.

01:00:20Oh, my God.

01:00:21And he always answers quickly and with confidence, as if it was a dumb question.

01:00:26It's like, it's always like, Pat, we're in the sunrise today.

01:00:29Just playing on the east.

01:00:31He's definitely heard Big Papa.

01:00:32I wonder if he's heard Crank That, though.

01:00:35I bet he has.

01:00:36If not, I can always play it if we need to.

01:00:38I doubt we need to.

01:00:41If, like, the second he hears Crank That, he's going to say no.

01:00:45Oh, I think we might have a different Pat.

01:00:47Well, I said Pat, and Pat was like, what do you need?

01:00:49And then it was...

01:00:50Oh, we got...

01:00:51Right there.

01:00:52Oh, we can't see him on the camera.

01:00:54It's going to be your seat, Barry.

01:00:55So, Pat, we're debating what the best walk-up songs, most intimidating walk-up songs in

01:01:03baseball are, paired with a player.

01:01:06So, what do you think would be more intimidating for a closer Game 7 of the World Series, step

01:01:11into the plate?

01:01:11Is it Shohei Ohtani with Crank That by Soulja Boy?

01:01:15You know that one?

01:01:16I know.

01:01:17Now you...

01:01:18Or Ellie De La Cruz with Big Papa by Notorious B.I.G.

01:01:23I'm going number one.

01:01:24With Shohei Ohtani?

01:01:25Shohei Ohtani.

01:01:26All right.

01:01:26Any explanation, or...

01:01:28I just think it's more dangerous.

01:01:30That song.

01:01:31All right.

01:01:32There you go.

01:01:33He's just pulling it up.

01:01:34No.

01:01:35Yeah, that's what I said.

01:01:36Thank you, Pat.

01:01:36That means...

01:01:39That the big winner...

01:01:40I'm shocked by that, by the way.

01:01:41I would have thought that the second he heard B.I.G., it would have been like, that's Ellie.

01:01:44But he might...

01:01:45Maybe he just doesn't know Ellie De La Cruz as much as he knows Shohei Ohtani.

01:01:48But that means that the big winner...

01:01:49Scary.

01:01:50That's what he said.

01:01:51He said it with confidence.

01:01:52I told you.

01:01:52He's going to sit down and he's going to answer like it was a dumb question.

01:01:55Yes, exactly.

01:01:56So, Shohei Ohtani with Crank That Soulja Boy is the big winner.

01:02:00Clem's submission, by the way.

01:02:01Again, Crank That Soulja Boy.

01:02:02And weirdly enough, we found out that Shohei Ohtani's song is...

01:02:06That's wild.

01:02:07And we found out Cal Raleigh should do Unwritten.

01:02:09He should do.

01:02:10Of all these ones, these pairings, I think other than Ellie De La Cruz doing Big Papa,

01:02:14that should be the big dumper written by Natasha Bedingfield.

01:02:19So, thank you boys for joining.

01:02:21And we will see you guys next time.

01:02:39We'll see you next time.

01:02:53We'll see you next time.

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