Walk Up Songs

I don't know what it is, but baseball has this tradition of playing a special song every time a player walks up to the plate before their at bat. It is a weird tradition and I don't know who came up with it, but baseball players have loved the idea ever since. Some songs are special to the player and some songs are made by the players. Either way the goal of the song is to make your entrance known. When the crowd hears that song they know exactly who is coming to the plate; especially mine. I don't mean to brag, but I have had many people tell me that my walk up song is the best in the league. I even found that umpires were singing it before I stepped into the box. that has never happened before in my career. I have had many walk up songs and I have never had an umpire sing along to the song.

When the PA first played it I think they turned the volume up all the way so it would ring out all over Fargo. The song is Hall & Oates-You Make My Dreams Come True. Some people can't wait for it to be played and then they start clapping and they feel good about the whole atmosphere of the game. The difference between my song and Mike Coles's (who hits right in front of me) song is drastic, but I hear many people getting into his song as well. He has two rap songs and both of them get many people in the crowd to sing along. I don't know what it is, but these songs are what get the crowd ready for that player to step in the box. Whether they like it or not, the crowd knows who is stepping to the plate.

The reaction I have gotten to my song this year by players, fans and even my own teammates is no credit to me. I did not come up with the idea of Hall & Oates. The idea came when I was coaching first base for my college team and we played Dallas Baptist University. I forgot exactly who the player was, but when I heard him walk up to it, I knew that I was going to use it for my song. I loved the way it made me feel and it still makes me feel that way every time I walk up to the plate. I am not writing this to brag about having one of the best songs in the league, but rather to share with you the phenomenon that is the walk up song. It really is something special to the player and to fans as well. As long as there is baseball there will be new walk up songs all the time, and the search to find the one that gets everybody's blood flowing will go on.