Here’s something fun that Townsman Hrrundivbakshi put together last fall and is worth bringing back to The Main Stage today. (For future reference, most baseball-related pieces should be tagged “baseball,” as this one was. Those of you reveling in the start of the greatest season of all sports may want to click on the tag at the bottom of this post to see other baseball-themed pieces from the past.)

Now that’s what I call walk-up music!

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Or The Pitcher Has Two Songs!

Because this year’s National League Championship Series is a repeat of the 2008 contenders, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies, and because the core of each team returns relatively intact, we won’t rehash every detail of the walk-up music for each team’s returning participants. Key match-ups will be revisited, when necessary, but for background reading I suggest you click here, here, here, here, and here.

Not all returning Dodgers and Phillies have stuck with their 2008 walk-up tunes, but let’s start with the turnover on each roster. Most significant for the Dodgers may be what tunes they’ve deleted from their playlist, both for the better and the worse. Dodgers fans may be a little queasy with the thought of 21-year-old Clayton Kershaw starting Game 1 in LA, but at least he packs a better theme song than last year’s Game 1 starter, now enjoying tee time with his Braves teammates, Derek Lowe and the lamest intro song in the history of the game, “Everytime We Touch,” by Cascada. Instead, Kershaw brings the sing-songy Red Hot Chili Peppers single “Snow.”

Upgrade over Lowe’s candy-ass dance tune? Sure, but that’s not saying much.

Meanwhile Phillies’ Game 1 starter, “Hollywood” Hamels will crank up his trusty mp3 of AC/DC‘s “Thunderstruck.”

Advantage: Phillies.