Vernon Wells Angels Walkup Music (in a perfect world)

by Rev Halofan on Feb 7, 2012 9:20 PM PST in Team Lore

Basically, most athletes have terrible taste in music as revealed in their lousy walkup music... The Angels would do well to have a sophisticated musicologist curate songs to match the strengths of the team's players at their moment of stepping up. This is the first in a series.

Imagine Vernon Wells stepping to the plate to Love, Love, Love Drags Me Down off the Barbarella Soundtrack with the Bob Crewe Generation reminding every fan not to get their hopes up...

INDEED... Vernon, you drag us down and the sound of the feigned excitement as you pop one up a mile high but right into the catcher's glove. Every awesome facet of the 1960s music scene is either missing or pandered to in this terrible imitation of superstar. Come to think of it, what an exact parallel to your career and the desperate circumstances of a trigger happy general manager who buried whatever meager legacy he may have had when he traded for you.

In the end the whole recorded performance is weirdly pleasant enough, much like the observation that you, Vern Dog, are quite the inoffensively magnanimous twittering teammate, but can you rock harder than this brassy paean to impressing one's self at the expense of turning everyone off? If not, I say curate this as the Vernon Wells Walkup music for each and every 2012 At Bat.

Poll

In 2012, Vernon Wells will bat...

Over his weight (.220)

385 votes

Under his weight

38 votes

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He has to do better then Mathis

that must be his goal

this one

Forget Tebow
Andy Lee is the second coming of Jesus
-ME

by DAD OF VLAD on Feb 7, 2012 9:44 PM PST reply actions

If anyone deserves buttercup as a walk up song...

It’s V-dub.

by Darth Duane on Feb 7, 2012 9:46 PM PST reply actions 3 recs

Preach, My Brother!!!!

The lyrics would finally make sense in context of the subject they are attached to.

"Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter, once said 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.'
Well, Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I am concerned." - Gene Autry

by Angelsfan015 on Feb 8, 2012 12:59 AM PST up reply actions

Why do you pop me up, Buttercup?!

Winning doesn't matter. –Lyle

by 5thStarter on Feb 9, 2012 11:17 AM PST up reply actions

Oops I did it again

If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?

by red floyd on Feb 7, 2012 9:52 PM PST reply actions

The fool on the hill

We're still gonna fly flags

by Sorbo182 on Feb 7, 2012 10:07 PM PST reply actions

"I Don't Care About You" -- FEAR

"Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, ‘It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.’" ~Babe Ruth

by PieceOfAase on Feb 7, 2012 10:26 PM PST reply actions

Tough poll question.

.220 is probably right around where VW will be.

The only thing VW did differently last year than the year before, besides inflate his stats by playing half his games in Toronto, is buy into the Scioscia/Hatcher philosophy that a walk is as good as an out. 2011: .218/.248/.412. 2010(road stats): .224/.299/.400.

by snowhor on Feb 7, 2012 10:28 PM PST reply actions

A couple of possibilities...

Thought about these three:

High Hopes — Pink Floyd
In the Air Tonight — Phil Collins
Centerfield — John Fogerty

But finally settled on:

Somewhere over the Rainbow — The IZ Version.

"Yoy! And double Yoy!"

by Captain Thailand on Feb 7, 2012 11:28 PM PST reply actions

ballin' - jim jones

me and the wonder dog got high!

by YOUknowulovetheIE on Feb 8, 2012 12:04 AM PST via mobile reply actions

Based on his last season's performance and his response to the comments about it,

I submit the following: These Peoples Try to Fade me by Coach Z (from the homestarrunner site). Link

And yes, I am being slightly ironic, but only only very slightly ironic.

"Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter, once said 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.'
Well, Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I am concerned." - Gene Autry

by Angelsfan015 on Feb 8, 2012 1:07 AM PST reply actions

This is easy: Buttercup

Willits? Check. Reagins? Check. Mathis? Check

by hauldog on Feb 8, 2012 9:27 AM PST reply actions

I hear Barbarella

and think of this song

"Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The rest is covered by Peter Bourjos" ~ markinca

by blast21dave on Feb 8, 2012 11:40 AM PST reply actions

I feel like Vernon Wells deserves a Pat Benetar song

Just not Shadows of the Night….. that one is too bad ass

When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs

by ItCouldHappen on Feb 8, 2012 11:50 AM PST reply actions

Someone has to have written a song entitled "Pop Up Blues"...

"When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had adsorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby."

by mustard_man on Feb 8, 2012 2:00 PM PST reply actions