Which MLB players deserve their own personalized cheer songs?
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Last week, the MLB world learned that Eric Thames has an incredible personalized cheer song from his days in the KBO. Of course, this meant that Dakota Gardner, Gemma Kaneko and Eric Chesterton had to decide who else deserved a tune of their own.
Dakota: Who else do you think needs a song?
Gemma: Everyone who can have one should have one. Bryce obviously needs a song.
Dakota: Obviously.
Gemma:
Dakota: The Yankee fans do all right sometimes. I hate roll call, I think it's the stupidest thing. I think it's counterproductive, but I like that.
Gemma: It was fun. People are so excited about him, and his name is conducive to a bunch of jokes.
Dakota: Eric, what do you think? Are you in or out on personal theme songs?
Eric: I'm in.The best part of the World Baseball Classic was people showing up to the stadium with trumpets and drums and stuff. I want to see more of that. Fan-bands doing the songs.
Dakota: Fan bands.
Eric: It's fun to say.
Gemma: What about when, before he started walking up to the Lion King song,
Dakota: Oh yeah. I'm in on that. It's better if they even write it themselves.
Eric: Kinsler has that, sort of, right? With the Jack White thing?
Gemma: Did he write it himself, though?
Dakota: No.
Eric: But he was involved with it, wasn't he? Or there's a video for it that he's in.
Gemma: Yeah, because they are like, best friends now. For real, he and Jack White are friends.
Dakota: Everyone is friends with Jack White.
Gemma: That's not true.
Dakota: You're friends with him. You're from Detroit.
Gemma: I wish.
Eric: We should see which artists players can get to write songs for them. That would be great. If A-Rod -- and maybe this transitions to a later topic -- but A-Rod getting J-Lo to do a song for him if he were still playing. That would be kind of fun. Seeing who these guys are friends with and have relationships with outside of the baseball world, to write songs. That would be great.
To listen to Dakota, Gemma and Eric talk about music, MiLB promotions and their invention of the Mets Gala, listen to the rest of the podcast here.
