There's nothing I love better than when a friend calls up and says that he's got tickets to a Giants game and wants to know if I want to go. Even if the Giants still somehow blow a 6-1 lead. While there, I asked him the big question- that being, of course, what would his at-bat song be (the at-bat song being the song a baseball player asks the PA to play when he goes up to bat). All of this led to a lengthy discussion of just what the ultimate at-bat song would be.

The following is a list of songs that would make awesome at-bat songs so if any baseball players need suggestions as to what their at-bat song should be, we suggest these….

(To make this work, you have to picture the scene- the crowd is rocking, the game is tight, and the batter comes up to the plate too…..)

"Girlfriend in a Coma" the Smiths
"Dancing Queen" Abba
"Express Yourself" (you know the crowd will go nuts the moment these words come over the loudspeaker-"Come on girls/Do you believe in love? cause I got something to say about it")
"Lovecats" the Cure
" Chains of Love" Erasure
"Pretty Vacant" Sex Pistols
"Lively Up Yourself" Marley (and actually I like this one)
"Personal Jesus" Depeche Mode
"Wouldn't it be Nice" the Beach Boys
"Cocaine" Clapton
"Unchained" Van Halen (okay, not funny, but the opening riff frickin' rocks)

And if you want to make some sort of statement-

As poet guy:
"Like a Rolling Stone" Dylan (duh)

As inspirational, "can't everybody get along?" guy-
"One" U2
"One Heart" Marley
"Imagine" (nothing says baseball like "Imagine")

As "political statement" guy-
"Fight the Power" PE
"Killing in the Name Of" Rage Against the Machine (nothing works better after a hearty round of "God Bless America" like a chorus of "They rally round tha family! With a pocket full of shells")
"I'm so bored of the U.S.A." the Clash

As "ladies, I'll see you after the game guy"-
O.P.P
Sex Machine- James Brown
Whole Lotta Love- Zep

As "my uniform is made out of natural hemp" guy-
"Truckin"-the Dead
"Three Little Birds"-Marley
"Tomorrow Never Knows"-the Beatles

And finally, what we deemed as the best, greatest possible at bat song
Hall & Oates "Maneater"

(picture it in your head. Trust me, it's funny)

Hmmm…maybe I could start a whole bloggie meme here and have everyone come up with their suggestions. Of course, that would mean somebody actually reads this thing. Traffic's gone way done ever since Christina gave up the ho look.