We showed this video to our church yesterday to promote our annual GCR Night at the Ballpark. Every June we hold a Wednesday picnic night at the RockHounds game, our Double-A team here in Midland, complete with all-you-can eat burgers and dogs, popcorn and chips, and soft drinks. Cory Legg and our GCR Worship Team sing the national anthem, one of our kids screams “Play Ball!” over the P.A., and one of our members throws out the ceremonial first pitch. Our RockHounds game this year is on June 10. And the below video is a creative take on the “walk up song,” the music that batters choose to be played as they walk from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box.

The Dougie reference is poking fun at me about something that happened the Sunday before. I was introducing our youth interns and mispronounced Dougie as “Doogie,” and I’ve been hearing about it ever since. I joked with our church yesterday that if I really did have walk up music as I approached the pulpit on Sundays, it would be either “Walkin’ on a Thin Line” by Huey Lewis and the News or Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Tightrope.”

If I were a major league baseball player, it would definitely be Van Halen’s “I’m the One.” No question. Hands down.

Peace,
Allan