Five Musical Observations from Mets/Cards, NLCS Game 6
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by user DNL
I was lucky enough to attend last night's thrilling battle between the New York Mets and the evil St. Louis Cardinals. If the topic interests you, you've probably seen the game and a metric ton of analysis. So, I'll analyze something that really had nothing to do with the game: the music.
#1: Shawn Green Needs To Remember Where He Is
I'm Jewish, and I'm in New York. That makes me one of eleventy-billion. Of the 55,000 people there not named Donald Trump, you gotta believe that 15,000 at the game were, like Green and myself, tribesmen.
At one point during the game, Paul Lo Duca was up, and the Shea loudspeaker system started playing some song in Italian. Probably because he's Italian, he's in New York, and that makes him one of eleventy-billion, and you gotta believe that 15,000 at the game were, like Lo Duca, Italian.
Before Green came to bat in the 4th (or whenever his one-run single occured), I was standing up singing Hava Negila with some friends. Green should make that his song. It'd rock.
#2: Neil is My Hero
Neil Diamond rules. Really. And I know that singing Sweet Caroline is a Yankee Stadium thing, but just because something originated in the inner-depths of Hell doesn't mean it's a bad idea. Yeah, yeah, it's the playoffs, it's the middle of the 8th, and it's a somewhat-close and certainly tense game. But 55k going "oh! oh! oh!" in a non-orgyish manner is pretty freakin' cool. (It's a Red Sox song actually...not Yankees)
#3: I'd Rather Meet You at a Gay Bar
As my friend pointed out, the Mets choice of music -- not the players' choices, but the generic pumped in stuff -- is the stuff that you'd expect to hear at a gay bar. That one song, where they go "dance! dance! dance!" -- I think it's called "Strike it Up", was on twice. Neil Diamond (see above) was featured. The Mets close wins with "Taking Care of Business." I was totally expecting the PA guy to pump "Dancing Queen" -- we are in Queens, after all.
Even if you don't have a lick of confidence in Billy Wagner, he's worth having just to ensure a Metallica riff.
#4: At Least It's Not "The Right Stuff"
For some awful reason, David Wright enters to the Beastie Boys' "Brass Monkey." It's not a bad song, and I like the Beastie Boys, but stoned-out second-generation Beastie stuff isn't really the right tone.
What would be better? I suggest "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC. Imagine 55k strong yelling "Na na na na, na na na... THUN-DAH!" as he comes up to bat. And when he homers? "You've been.... THUNDAHSTRUCK!"
Brass Monkey? Eh.
#5: Reyes Supreme
I feel sorry for Paul Lo Duca. His entrance song might as well be the "Jose, Jose Jose Jose, Jose, Jose" song, because when Reyes comes up to bat, the whole stadium starts singing it, and keeps singing it into Paulie's.
I also feel sorry for Jose Valentin. There was a brief, failed attempt to start up the "Jose" song for him, coming from somewhere in the Mezz, down the left-field line. It didn't really fit. Even if his name is "Jose."
