On December 30, 1985—roughly five weeks after yours truly made his post-womb debut—Hulk Hogan walked out of the dressing room and towards the wrestling ring at Madison Square Garden while Rick Derringer’s “Real American” blasted through the speakers. It wasn’t the first time music had accompanied wrestlers down the aisle, but because of Hogan’s impact on the business it became the first time that a theme really “stuck” to an athlete…
Entrance music quickly seeped into non-scripted sports. Since roughly 2010, every baseball batsman has a pre-selected tune to announce his strides towards home plate. But nowhere is it more prevalent than closers.
A few years ago, New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz raised the bar in this arena…
(I’ll pause here to allow for tear-wiping)
The Twins have now had four closers with really fun entrance music, so this afternoon we’re going to put it to a vote (this may or may not be “Zach learning how to do polls on WordPress”)…
(Zach gets to the end of this post specifically created to try out the poll function—and realizes he can’t make new polls in WordPress like he could in Chorus. Good—great—grand—wonderful. Apparently, polls must be embedded as HTML from another site, FYI)
Of course, the current Twins would need a reliever you actually recognize to have entrance music associated with him, so that won’t really be a thing for the rest of this season. Well, unless everyone just exits the bullpen to Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.
I’ll be commissioner-ing the annual family fantasy football draft this afternoon, so Ben or an appointed minion will be taking you home with the recap.