The job requires not only announcing batters as the come to home plate, but to try and add an element of entertainment for the spectators with appropriate musical selections - even if it's at the expense of the opposing team.  Hell, ESPECIALLY if it's at their expense!

I'll play Linda Ronstadt's "You're No Good" when announcing the visitor's line-up.  I LOVE to play Rita Coolidge's "Don't Cry Out Loud" when the out-of-town team's manager comes to argue a call.  When the enemy team has to pull their pitcher from the game, I will cue up Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More."

Even the umpires are not immune.  I still get a kick out of spinning the theme to TV's "Odd Couple" or "Devil With A Blue Dress" when the umps (they wear blue clothing and work in pairs in the N.W.L.) come out onto the field.

Maybe I should re-think that.

A stadium D.J. (for lack of a better term) in Florida was literally thrown out of the game by an umpire for a song he played over the public address system the other day at a game in Daytona!

Listen and watch the "offensive" music after the jump.

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