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“Baseball Tonight”: Theme poll: Good Charlotte vs. Staind

It’s…it’s…it’s as if Crocus Behemoth never ####### existed!

ESPN enlisted the help of notable musicians to provide their distinctive interpretations of the “Baseball Tonight” theme song during the 2011 season. We’ve already featured these versions of the song on air and in the ESPN Music section, but now we want you to help us crown the best version of them all.

For the next 11 weeks, we’ll have two artists square off in a poll for you to vote on. The winner will then face the next artist on the schedule and so on until the final week, when we’ll see who is the last one standing. Starting it off is Good Charlotte vs. Staind, so vote in the upper right poll now through Aug. 4.

Week 1 (July 29-Aug. 4): Staind vs. Good Charlotte
Week 2 (Aug. 5-11): Staind-Good Charlotte winner vs. Da’ Zoo
Week 3 (Aug. 12-18): Week 2 winner vs. Travis Barker
Week 4 (Aug. 19-25): Week 3 winner vs. Seether
Week 5 (Aug. 26-Sept. 1): Week 4 winner vs. J. Cole
Week 6 (Sept. 2-8): Week 5 winner vs. Tom Morello
Week 7 (Sept. 9-15): Week 6 winner vs. Grupo Fantasma
Week 8 (Sept. 16-22): Week 7 winner vs. Steve Earle
Week 9 (Sept. 23-29): Week 8 winner vs. Zakk Wylde
Week 10 (Sept. 30-Oct. 6): Week 9 winner vs. John Pizzarelli
Week 11 (Oct. 7-13): Championship between Week 10 winner and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

Repoz Posted: July 29, 2011 at 07:23 PM | 43 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Infinite Yost (Voxter)

Posted: July 29, 2011 at 07:43 PM (#3888492)

Is the goal to pick the worst one? Because I'm not sure I can.

2. The District Attorney Posted: July 29, 2011 at 07:48 PM (#3888496)

Someone gets a 10-round bye straight to the championship?

3. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: July 29, 2011 at 07:57 PM (#3888501)

Not to be facetious, but isn't Travis Barker dead?

4. Avoid running at all times.-S. Paige Posted: July 29, 2011 at 07:59 PM (#3888504)

Staind vs. Good Charlotte
is analagous to
Kyle Davies vs. Bruce Chen

Does that work?

5. Avoid running at all times.-S. Paige Posted: July 29, 2011 at 08:00 PM (#3888505)

also, this poll is more offensive than anything Sam Hutcheson said in the Irabu suicide thread.

6. Lassus Posted: July 29, 2011 at 08:00 PM (#3888506)

I choose death by fire.

7. Dudefella Posted: July 29, 2011 at 08:01 PM (#3888507)

No. Bruce Chen had a couple of good years.

8. Guapo Posted: July 29, 2011 at 08:12 PM (#3888515)

Lyrics to the Tom Morello version (sung to the tune of MLB theme):

Concession workers unite and take up arms against Selig
Revolution against corporate pigs- burn the ####### stadiums down
Free Mumia and let him throw out the first pitch, you racist vultures
Move down to better seats- #### the usher, white devil can't stop me

9. flournoy Posted: July 29, 2011 at 08:18 PM (#3888519)

I maintain that Good Charlotte is the worst band in the world, so I guess I would pick Staind by default. How horrible.

10. Crispix Attacks Posted: July 29, 2011 at 08:44 PM (#3888540)

If you asked me "Is there a band on earth worse than Nickelback?", the first one to come to mind would probably be Hoobastank, and then Staind, and then Sum 41, and then Good Charlotte. Seriously, both of these bands are both horrible and boring. It would be better if they got the guy who wrote "Feel The Heat Rays" to do it, for God's sake.

11. MajorTom Posted: July 29, 2011 at 08:58 PM (#3888548)

Well, there ain't no Fiona Apple. And if there ain't no Fiona Apple, I don't give a rat's ass.

12. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:01 PM (#3888551)

This is why they hate America.

13. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:11 PM (#3888564)

Staind-Good Charlotte winner

In a conflict like that, there are no winners.

14. TVerik Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:14 PM (#3888568)

Steve Earle?

This is the great "cred sacrifice" of 2011.

15. Walt Davis Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:17 PM (#3888570)

Really, you'd think they'd have brackets.

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

At least she's a patriot (not too unsafe for work ... and that's the longest link I've ever seen, let's hope it works)

16. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:20 PM (#3888571)

Week 7 (Sept. 9-15): Week 6 winner vs. Grupo Fantasma

If death isn't an option, I probably take this one. They toured with Prince for a while.

17. Steve Sparks Flying Everywhere Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:24 PM (#3888578)

Steve Earle?

This is the great "cred sacrifice" of 2011.

Gotta keep the devil way down in the hole.

18. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:33 PM (#3888587)

I maintain that Good Charlotte is the worst band in the world

Good Charlotte isn't even the best band to include twins in it. I'll go:
1. The Bee Gees
2. Styx
3. The Breeders
4. The Kalin Twins
5. The Proclaimers
6. Doves
7. Nelson
8. Tegan and Sara
9. Gene Loves Jezebel
10. Elvis and the ghost of dead Jesse
100. Everybody Eng Chang tonight
1,000. Good Charlotte

19. Infinite Yost (Voxter)

Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:35 PM (#3888590)

Gotta keep the devil way down in the hole.

That's Tom Waits.

20. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:37 PM (#3888592)

Good Charlotte isn't even the best band to include twins in it.

What, no Prussian Blue?

21. dirk

Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:49 PM (#3888601)

Good Charlotte isn't even the best band to include twins in it.

i just learned that there were no twins in the thompson twins.

22. zachtoma Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:55 PM (#3888606)

What, no Prussian Blue?

They seem to have had interesting post-white supremacist teenybopper lives

23. vortex of dissipation Posted: July 29, 2011 at 09:56 PM (#3888607)

This is why they hate America.

And Dan Peek died a few days ago. Suspicious...

24. Repoz

Posted: July 29, 2011 at 10:01 PM (#3888610)

And Dan Peek died a few days ago. Suspicious...

Vs. long career.

25. The elusive Robert Denby Posted: July 29, 2011 at 11:11 PM (#3888633)

Just die, e$pn.

26. Biff isn't really an apt handle anymore Posted: July 30, 2011 at 12:05 AM (#3888675)

27. gef the talking mongoose Posted: July 30, 2011 at 12:13 AM (#3888682)

just learned that there were no twins in the thompson twins.

Nor were there any Thompsons.

28. gef the talking mongoose Posted: July 30, 2011 at 12:24 AM (#3888688)

They seem to have had interesting post-white supremacist teenybopper lives

In the end, the Jews get everyone.

29. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: July 30, 2011 at 12:29 AM (#3888692)

Staind and Hoobastank both have some decent songs...

You are dead to me.

30. Biff isn't really an apt handle anymore Posted: July 30, 2011 at 12:44 AM (#3888704)

I can live with that.

31. Melo's Love Handles (NJ) Posted: July 30, 2011 at 01:41 AM (#3888749)

For the record, the J. Cole version is awesome and I really hope it wins.

32. Walt Davis Posted: July 30, 2011 at 01:58 AM (#3888773)

Shouldn't they have a Nancy Faust version or something? Or that indie cred baseball supergroup? Or Bronson Arroyo? Or Bernie Williams? Or Carmen Fanzone?

33. Fred Lynn Nolan Ryan Sweeney Agonistes Posted: July 30, 2011 at 04:07 AM (#3888851)

Gotta keep the devil way down in the hole.

That's Tom Waits.

"The Wire" - different people, including Earle, sing it over the opening credits, and Earle plays a character in the show.

34. dingo powered war machine (CoB) Posted: July 30, 2011 at 05:00 AM (#3888872)

Way Down in the Hole Steve Earle, The Wire, Season 5.

Although, if I'm picking Earle from The Wire, I've got to go with the montage to end Season 2, I Feel Alright.

One of my favorite sequences.

35. The DA Baracus Hypothesis Posted: July 30, 2011 at 06:00 AM (#3888890)

I'm half deaf and most of these bands make both my ears bleed.

36. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers Posted: July 30, 2011 at 08:57 AM (#3888914)

The Thompson Twins are named after characters from the Tintin series.

37. The Well-Tempered Javier Vasquez (loungehead) Posted: July 30, 2011 at 09:18 AM (#3888916)

The Thompson Twins are named after characters from the Tintin series.

Very cool. I don't think I've been in a theater since The Simpsons Movie, but I might have to break that streak this Christmas. (The IMDB message boards claim the trailer kinda sucks; haven't seen it myself, but I'm really just hoping they don't rip away my nostalgia and beat it to a bloody pulp in front of me.)

38. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: July 30, 2011 at 09:42 AM (#3888918)

Very cool. I don't think I've been in a theater since The Simpsons Movie, but I might have to break that streak this Christmas. (The IMDB message boards claim the trailer kinda sucks; haven't seen it myself, but I'm really just hoping they don't rip away my nostalgia and beat it to a bloody pulp in front of me.)

It's one of those horrifying blends of live action and motion capture animation.

39. Flynn Posted: July 30, 2011 at 09:43 AM (#3888919)

I need to get this off my chest, since I was flicking on the news section of MLB At Bat to find out that Sublime's corpse with their new tool lead singer visited the MLB Fan Cave. Is there any sport with worse taste in music than baseball? Whenever music's involved it seems to be one band after another that's 10 years past their prime or plays crappy rock influenced by Creed. Why not get interesting bands? There's enough decent bands out there who would kill for that sort of exposure.

40. Harvey Berkman Posted: July 30, 2011 at 02:53 PM (#3888969)

I need to get this off my chest, since I was flicking on the news section of MLB At Bat to find out that Sublime's corpse with their new tool lead singer visited the MLB Fan Cave. Is there any sport with worse taste in music than baseball? Whenever music's involved it seems to be one band after another that's 10 years past their prime or plays crappy rock influenced by Creed. Why not get interesting bands? There's enough decent bands out there who would kill for that sort of exposure.

I'd rather they focus on instant replay and then sweat out the details.

41. Benji Gil Gamesh is not being paid to be that guy Posted: July 30, 2011 at 03:58 PM (#3888992)

"The Wire" - different people, including Earle, sing it over the opening credits, and Earle plays a character in the show.

Waits did write the song though.

In terms of the versions i enjoy the most, gotta go with Season 1 (Blind Boys of Alabama) and Season 4 (DoMaJe).

42. Infinite Yost (Voxter)

Posted: July 30, 2011 at 05:00 PM (#3889027)

"The Wire" - different people, including Earle, sing it over the opening credits, and Earle plays a character in the show.

I've seen it. It's always a Tom Waits song to me.

43. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers Posted: August 02, 2011 at 03:23 PM (#3891114)

I hadn't heard about that Tintin movie, which must be based on "Red Rackham's Treasure"

One thing about the books (and it's been years since I read them) is that I cannot remember a single female character besides Bianca Castafiore.

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