4/1/2023 0 Comments Warren zevon bill lee![]() ![]() Greg Ladanyi - Producer, Engineer, Mixing Waddy Wachtel - Guitar Solo (2), Guitar (4) ![]() Rick Marotta - Drums (1 - 12), Harmony Vocals (2, 3), Bells (7) Jorge Calderon - Guitar (2), Harmony Vocals (3)ĭavid Lindley - Guitar (12), Steel Guitar (1, 6) Jackson Browne - Guitar (10), Harmony Vocals (2, 6, 10), Slide Guitar (10) The Bronx kings give it up to the Negro League days, with Kool Keith, Moe Love and Ced G doing a typically strange hip-hop tribute to the old-school giants of black baseball: Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Leon Day and Cool Papa Bell.Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School 1980ġ. Ultramagnetic MCs, “The Saga of Dandy, The Devil, And Day” (1993) The new Dropkick Murphys album is great, but from the looks of Papelbon in spring training, they might have to find a new closer to soundtrack. With its big, melodramatic Irish intro and lyrics written by Woody Guthrie, this Celt-punk rave made perfect intro music for Red Sox reliever Jonathan Papelbon – until he lost his fastball last season. The Dropkick Murphys, “I’m Shipping Up To Boston” (2006) Maybe someday Clemens will convince everybody he wasn’t on the steroids – but I think it’s gonna be a long, long time. It never happened, and in the wake of the Mitchell Report, it looks like Clemens was shooting up enough dope to make Elton look like a teetotaler. At this point it’s impossible not to hear that long-building Kirk Hammet guitar intro without picturing Mariano Rivera walking to the mound – and he’s the Yankee that even Yankee-haters can’t hate.Ītlanta Braves fan Elton used to dedicate his song to Roger Clemens in concert, saying he was rooting for a Braves-Red Sox World Series. No matter how much you despise the Yankees, you have to admit this is the greatest relief-pitcher entrance theme of all time. John Darnielle vows that he’s never going to love you again, not until the Chicago Cubs win the World Series and “Bill Gates will single-handedly spearhead the Heaven 17 revival.” The Heaven 17 revival actually happened, but the Cubs in the Series – that one might still take a while.īaseball fans always snicker at this one, just because Springsteen talks about the high school pitcher who would “throw that speedball by you / Make you look like a fool, boy.” There is, in fact, no such pitch as the “speedball.” But he gets points for trying, right? And it’s still a great song about getting older and telling boring stories of how awesome you used to be, which is in a long baseball-fan tradition. ![]() The Mountain Goats, “Cubs in Five” (1995) Mets fans were outraged when they discovered that Straw had called in sick and taken the day off to record his hip-hop debut, but surely the results were more entertaining than a Mets game, right? Lots of jocks have tried rapping over the years, from Shaq to the Chicago Bears, but nobody has sucked at it with the unique touch of the Mets’ Darryl Strawberry, who boasts, “Everyone in the stadium screams for me / Strike one, strike two, but no strike three!” He also boasts about his slick baserunning skills (“Looking for third base? Yo, I stole it”) which is especially funny if you ever saw the man play. This was a hit from the tragically strike-shortened summer of 1994: “I got moreĪction than my man John Woo / And I got mad hits like I was Rod Carew!” Rod Carew was one of the great singles hitters of the Seventies, but he was also a Panamanian black guy who converted to Judaism – which might have had a special resonance for the Beasties.ĭarryl Strawberry with UTFO, “Chocolate Strawberry” (1986) But it just added a little windowpane to his fastball, because he not only made it through the game, he made history. On that fateful day in 1970, Ellis had stayed up all night with a groupie, doing drugs and listening to Jimi Hendrix records, when he realized he was scheduled to pitch. A psychedelic rock tribute to the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher, the only man ever to throw a no-hitter while tripping on acid. ![]()
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