Click here for an explanation of what this is all about and to see the entries from part one. And now, without further ado, here’s the exciting conclusion:
#26.
Edes covers the Red Sox for ESPN Boston and is a great supporter of my song selections.
#27.
I’m filing these under “Give ’em an inch and they’ll ask for a mile.”
#28.
I don’t remember playing this one, but when you’re in a band with Eddie Muñoz, you hear a lot of these kinds of songs in the tour van, and then they get stuck in your head and the only way to get them out is to play them at a baseball stadium.
#29.
Seems a little harsh and judgmental, but I appreciate the praise.
#30.
I chose to take this as a compliment.
#31.
Getting large groups of people to whistle together is a terrible sin. It’s also an opportunity that’s difficult to pass up.
#32.
I am available for your press conference background music needs; you don’t even have to be a big league manager.
#33.
Got an unexpected RT from They Might Be Giants for this choice.
#34.
Rev. Hank is Boston’s punk-rock minister. I asked whether he wanted the liturgical “Come Sing A Song With Me” or something more traditional like “Street Fightin’ Man,” and he expressed a preference for the latter.
#35.
The second biggest summer jam of 2013 got a good amount of multi-lingual love on this particular night. “Blurred Lines” was the song that was more ubiquitous on the airwaves, which gave me a good incentive to bring Marvin Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up (Part 1)” back into the rotation.
#36.
It’s hard to overestimate the greatness and reach of the music from the original Muppets series and the first movie (not to mention “Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas”).
#37.
Three jobs, actually, but the Fenway one is probably my favorite.
#38.
Why would one kid about such things?
#39.
I asked which he liked better; he said he preferred the “awesomely wack” choices.
#40.
Technically, it doesn’t have any pipes, though a friend literally asked me a few weeks ago if I could play this song on a church pipe organ at her wedding in the fall. Not sure how I can say no to that.
#41.
This is one of my favorite pop songs, and it fits well with a sport like baseball, where even the best teams have plenty of bad days.
#42.
This was the result of a wager. I’m not at liberty to divulge whether I won or lost the bet.
#43.
Holy moly … people went bananas for the new Superchunk single. I wasn’t expecting that.
#44.
It’s always gratifying when the music has bipartisan appeal. I usually play all Motown songs for one Detroit game each year, but when the Sox faced the Tigers in an incredibly tough playoff series, I eschewed all songs by Detroit recording artists for the entire series; that was a significant sacrifice for me.
#45.
This is as unanswerable as the “if a tree falls in a forest and no one’s there to hear it” question.
#46.
If Britpop bands are going to keep naming themselves after common baseball terms, I’m going to keep playing them.
#47.
I can only assume that my arrangement was how Dee Dee wanted it.
#48.
I believe this is what the Taoists call “yin and yang” (note the identical time stamp of these two tweets).
#49.
Matthew’s exaggerated claims aside, when your team clinches the World Series championship at home for the first time in 95 years, you’re allowed to play this song.
#50.
These are from just more tan an hour after the World Series ended. Nice way to close out the season.
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