The Phillies also dress in red.
Posted on 03/06/2012 8:25:16 AM PST by raccoonradio
BOSTON (CBS) — Granted, it wouldn’t make much sense for Jonathan Papelbon to use “Shipping Up To Boston” as his entrance music, now that he’ll be pitching in the City of Brotherly Love, but the Dropkick Murphys are taking a proactive approach to the 2012 season. They won’t let Papelbon use their song anymore.
“He can’t use ‘Shipping Up To Boston,’” lead singer Ken Casey told ESPN Music. “That’s a Boston song.”
Casey told ESPN that he’s already moved on to the Andrew Bailey era in Boston.
“And I have to get with the new Sox closer to let him know he can use ‘Shipping Up To Boston,’” Casey told ESPN. “That’s not Pap’s song. That’s the closer’s song.”
Papelbon served as the Red Sox’ closer from 2006-11, recording 219 saves and winning a World Series along the way. He began using “Shipping Up To Boston” beginning in the 2007 season and he rode along with the band during the rolling rally through Boston.
Ooh. Got to hurt Pap's feelings. He lost his song! I'm shipping up to Philly...way-oh.
Philadelphia Freedom anyone?
huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-64CaD8GXw
Bagpipe rock n roll, from The Departed. Climbin the topsail, I LOST MY LEG!
Howie Carr list ping.
When Pap was with the Red Sox there was some kind of sponsor deal on Red Sox radio...when he came out to pitch they’d play it on the broadcast (also heard at the park when they’d play at Fenway) and do the “spot”.
Considering his major choke against a last place team last year, the song is the least of his worries.
I wonder if Pap is going to continue to rely on high heat with the Phillies . . . or is he going to rediscover his splitter?
Elton John singing about Bobbi Jean King as a walkup song? I dunno...
Elton John did Philadelphia Freedom as a tribute to Billy Jean King and her Phila. based tennis team. I don’t know,
other Philly songs?
Papelbon was associated with the song in World Series victory parade (etc) as he danced barefoot on the float, or on the field, etc. The bagpipe rock and roll song (by a Boston band),
used in the movie The Departed,
became associated with Boston (as did the Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ rendition of the century-old Red Sox rally song ‘Tessie’—”Boston, you are the only, only, only...)
Pap’s a real character and now he pitches in cheesesteak
town. He’s orig. from Louisiana I think...btw speaking of a Boston-Philly connection, don’t forget Ben Franklin who
orig. was from Bos then became more associated with “The City That Loves You Back”
TSOP.
Geez...what a crummy song. Written by a faggot for his dyke friend. No thanks.
Yup and he threw the final pitch. Literally moments later the Rays beat the Yankees despite a huge NY lead, thus
eliminating the Red Sox.
This year there will be one more wildcard team though.
One game playoff then a series vs. a division winner.
oh. I had no idea what Dropkick Murphys and Papelbon are,... now I kind of know one is a pitcher.
The Phillies also dress in red.
Best one is MO on the Yankees - w Sandman from Metallica
yes and I think the band was named after a bar.
Oops I may have said above that the Mighty Mighty Bosstones did Tessie. I think Dropkicks did it.
>>Dropkick Murphys are an Celtic-American punk rock band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996.[1] The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records, releasing five albums for the label, and making a name for themselves locally through constant touring and yearly St. Patrick’s Day week shows, held in and around Boston. The band’s final Hellcat release, 2005’s The Warrior’s Code, features two charting singles, “Tessie”, which was recorded for the Boston Red Sox to be played after home game wins, and “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”, which was featured in the Academy Award-winning movie The Departed.
In 2007 the band signed with Warner Bros. Records, and have seen each of their subsequent albums, The Meanest of Times and Going Out In Style, chart in the Billboard top 20 with The Meanest of Times debuting at No. 20 while Going Out In Style made its debut at No. 6, the band’s highest ever charting album.[2][3]
In 2006, “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”, a song from The Warrior’s Code, with lyrics from a Woody Guthrie poem the band found in his archives was featured in the 2006 Academy Award winning film The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs. Two videos, one with and one without footage from The Departed, were made due to overwhelming response to the song, which became one of the band’s biggest hits to date and helped introduce Dropkick Murphys to an even bigger mainstream audience thanks to the film and soundtrack. The song was also featured in The Simpsons episode “The Debarted”.[8] “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” became the walk-up song of Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon, who danced an Irish jig to the song several times throughout the 2007 Boston Red Sox Championship season. During the team’s victory parade, Papelbon did the jig while the Murphys played the song on the same float.
We’ll find out. I wonder if Sox play Phillies in interleague play this yr. Whatever pitch he uses, we’ll see if he can
help “The Fightin’ Phils”
The song was also the theme for talk host Michele McPhee at WTKK Boston and I think she used it later at WRKO Boston (she is now a reporter for Ch 5 in that same city so gave up the radio show)
I did, when they were on tour with the Amazing Royal Crowns, Bim Skala Bim, and the Bosstones. It was an experience.
And, one of the highest energy live shows that I've ever attended.
The Sawks will also continue using “Sweet Caroline”. A song about a man’s desire for a 11 year old girl. Stay classy Boston.
Written and performed by a (shudder) Brooklyn Dodger fan! I think the Sox need to get something by James Taylor in there. Yeah, he's a loony leftist, but he's as die-hard a Sox and Fenway fan as Steven King or Ben Affleck, so gotta give him SOME props.
And thumbs up to the Murphys for telling Pap Smear that loyalty still goes both ways, and the song is "I'm Shippin' Up to BOSTON".
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