It wasn't until today that I realized the Orioles stopped playing the Orioles Magic song when taking the field after Opening Day. And they haven't lost since eliminating it.
Players hated it because they didn't think it fired up the crowd or the team - they were making fun of it in spring training - but the song was blaring in the clubhouse today after the Orioles scored three runs in the ninth to win, 3-2. Kevin Millar cranked it up on an iPod while eating his post-game meal. He waited until the media was allowed inside. And then the fun really began.
Millar began clapping his hands to it, keeping the beat to a song that used to be ridiculed, and teammates joined it. At one point, Millar, Jeremy Guthrie, George Sherrill and Brian Burres were slamming their hands on the table in unison. They enjoyed it so much, they played it twice.
If you hadn't noticed, they now take the field to Saliva's "Click Click Boom."
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Scott Christ
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and for the record
"Click Click Boom" is some kind of overused for things like taking the field and getting PUUUUMPED
Saliva ain't Birdland.
Click Click Boom
Nowhere near as overused as "Ladies and Gentlemen," even though the latter is the newer song.
this kills me
Dan Connolly had a whole column on it. i won't link to it. but i will link to my personal blog with my opinion of the matter.
http://bottomfeederbaseball.blogspot.com/2008/04/and-now-word-about-os.html
does it bother me that somone decided they didn't need to play it anymore? yes. does it bother me more that the players are now playing it mockingly because they coincidentally have won 4 in a row since they stopped playing it? fuck yes.
just when you (meaning ME) want to try to feel good about this team, these dick-wads go and fuck it up again. swear to god. i want Millar and Huff off my team.
THIS is Birdland?!?
by Dave at Bottomfeeder Baseball on Apr 6, 2008 9:05 PM EDT reply actions
wow....really?
We could not disagree more about this. I get the importance of Oriole Magic the song, but actual Oriole Magic died a long time ago. I love that song, but maybe it doesn't have a place being played every single time the Orioles take the field. Just because the current players don't give the song whatever version of respect you think it deserves doesn't mean they're mocking it, at least not to me. I don't think anything in Dan Connolly or Roch's articles make it seem like they were mocking it.
I know you hate Huff and Millar based on their off season antics, but do you also hate George Sherrill and Jeremy Guthrie and Brian Burres because of this gross disrespect of Orioles tradition?
Sheesh.
Formerly known as Javylicious.
are you serious?
Let's be honest. It's a terrible song. And as much as I love it and you love it and lots of fans love it, it isn't going to get normal people in 2008 excited to see baseball.
Plus, this whole season about letting go of the past. If they keep winning I'm gonna listen to fuckin' "Click Click Boom."
Saliva is BIRDLAND
They'll still bring Oriole Magic out, I'm guessing, but it's time had come as the opening song.
Click Click Boom sucks. It's not going to get anyone excited to see baseball.
I grew up with Oriole's Magic. To me, it goes hand-in-hand with the cartoon bird. Both are relics of a great franchise that's vanished. Break it out once in a while.
I'm on board with coming up with something new. First the franchise has to win so that people will give a damn. Then the tune will follow. It should be something catchy for everyone from Gramps and Granny, Uncle Ted, me, and the kids. That pretty much guarantees it will be somewhat campy. That's how Oriole's Magic was born. I'd love to see it again.
by drj on Apr 6, 2008 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Click Click Boom sucks. It's not going to get anyone excited to see baseball.
You really under(over?)estimate people.
Actually, it's got a few good lines
What the hell is wrong with me?
My mom and dad weren't perfect,
but still you don't hear no cryin ass bitchin from me,
like there seems to be on everybody's CD
so just sit back and relax and let me have your head for a minute,
I can show you something in it,
that has yet to be presented,
oh yeah!
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major Leauge
It WILL get people excited...
if they shoot off a bunch of fireworks and play it loud and people are drinking.
Drowning Pool's "Bodies" (I think that's what it's called) is also totally cliche, but when the Hershey Bears used to use it as their intro music, with the arena darkened and their cheesy indoor laser show, it got the crowd pretty dang pumped for minor league hockey.
I feel the same way though about "Orioles Magic" and the Cartoon Bird. In '89, when the team changed hats, I couldn't wait to get my new logo O's hat. Now, after a decade of losing, the cartoon bird symbolizes a better time for Orioles baseball, and a simpler time in my own life.
They could be playing Copacabana
and I'd buy Barry f'ing Manilow's Greatest Hits as long as they keep winning.
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major Leauge
You're KILLING me, SC!
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major League
I just don't even know where to start
at analyzing the sheer awesomeness of your ability to find good characteristics in music I find abhorrent. It's truly a talent you have.
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major League
mocking who
the implication to me was not that they were mocking the song, but instead mocking themselves and the Mariners, just like Millar guaranteeing the World Series. These guys know they are not a good team, but they have gotten up and mostly played with hustle this past week. They were exhilirated at making an incredible 9th inning comeback, off of a LUIS HERNANDEZ RBI no less.
Singing the song together, and playing it on Millar's ipod (note that he had it on his ipod, therefore clearly at one point in time decided he wanted to listen to it) was their way of laughing off and celebrating an unlikely win. I don't think they were disrespecting the song at all, quite the contrary, singing it to celebrate a magical win is QUITE appropriate use of the song.
I support your conclusion
Guys are happy they're winning, and they're goofing around. No big deal here, and I am actually old enough to remember the '79 and '83 WS.
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major Leauge
Ya gotta lighten up
And let the boys have some fun. It's John "Denver's Country Boy" that makes my skin crawl. GET RID OF IT!
John Denver
Is distinctively NOT Birdland. I hate this forced "tradition" of playing a song about how awesome the South is, in a northern state. Let it die.
It's not about the south. Not all country boys are from the south, dude.
by Scott Christ on Apr 7, 2008 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions
Fair enough
But whether it's about the South and played in the North, or about the country and played in downtown Baltimore, it still doesn't work.
eh
It's an easy song to tap your feet to. Or clap along with.
by Scott Christ on Apr 7, 2008 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions
Also, some of us grew up with it. So, the tradition isn't forced. It's just tradition.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
"Relic of a great franchise that's vanished"
It would be an improvement to lose that crappy hick song for something a bit cooler. I'm no Neil Diamond fan, but even "Sweet Caroline" is cooler than "Country Boy". It's embarassing.
I'm deliberately comparing the Fenway thing, by the way
Just to show that good taste in music is not required for a crowd rowsing song. Seriously, I hear more groans than cheers at the stretch because of that song.
The groaners can suck it.
That song makes me happy.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
Not to mention
What would that guy dressed like a farmer do if they got rid of Thank God I'm a Country boy? He's at EVERY game!
Formerly known as Javylicious.
more importantly...
what would the BIRD do?
thank god i'm a country boy is gold, dudes. i dunno, outside of b'more, annapolis and the immediate dc burbs, maryland is pretty country. duck, you want to represent on behalf of slower, lower?
by j.q. higgins on Apr 7, 2008 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions
gold
Yep, I don't see the point of singing about Earl Weaver (Oriole Magic) every game. But Country Boy is not really rooted in one particular era. It's also campy enough so all ages can jump in. It's like yelling "O" during the anthem.
Bottom line is, when the team consistently wins, they'll be able to create their traditions. The fact that they've lost for years, means they are beholden to times past. People would rather think about the golden years as opposed to the current ineptness. Until the team has earned the right to change, it's Country Boy.
by drj on Apr 7, 2008 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Didn't see this
before I posted my well-thought logical response.
:)
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major Leauge
MARYLAND IS NOT A FUCKING NORTHERN STATE
We live BELOW the Mason-Dixon, son. Get outside B'more and the DC beltway and you'll see a lot more of the South than the North in Baltimore. It's just Northern where all the damn people live.....
:)
Son, I'll go to war on this one. Wait, bad metaphor... :)
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major Leauge
Well it's a refreshing change
most people rewrite history to glom on to a WINNER
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
by sluggo 2.0 on Apr 7, 2008 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I never said I supported the Confederacy
and I don't own a Confederate flag, nor would I.
But I sure as hell ain't no YANKEE in any form of the word!
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major League
No dog (bird, whatever) in this fight
being originally from Canada, I'm just an appaled observer.
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
So why aren't you on STRIKE
for some of that internet money, eh?
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major League
No need at the present time
with the rate of exchange being what it is.
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
so what part of this sounds sincere...
from Connolly's article
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"I don't care if it is in the clubhouse, just not when we take the field," Huff said. "I think we are ... 0-1 when we came out to it Opening Day, and we haven't lost since we quit playing it. So let's just keep that off the field."
As he said, "It was great for the '80s."
This isn't the "O" in the anthem or John Denver crooning in the seventh inning. This is a song written for a particular time and preserved because there have been few highlights since.
It had its purpose, but it no longer fires anyone up. So it's time to pull the plug, or at least let it be a mocking, team-unifying guffaw after big wins.
THIS is Birdland?!?
by Dave at Bottomfeeder Baseball on Apr 7, 2008 10:17 AM EDT reply actions
they sincerely enjoy what they do with it
by Scott Christ on Apr 7, 2008 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions
Here's a way to look at it
They mocked the Orioles Magic because they couldn't understand the Orioles Magic. But after yesterday, they finally understood the Orioles Magic. So they embraced the Orioles Magic where it had been previously shunned. Our boys had a life changing moment, like Saul on the road to Damascus.
Formerly known as Javylicious.
well put
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
Leave it to the Orioles...
....to insert a black mark into something that should be 100% awesome like a 4 game winning streak.
Saliva's "Click Click Boom"? Ugh....
Who cares WHAT song
like I said upthread, it could be something by Barry Manilow and I'd be cool with it as long as the O's win.
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major Leauge
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