MLB 2015 Season

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Royals fans get chance to pick 6th-inning song

http://m.royals.mlb.com/news/article/11 ... 015-season


By Jeffrey Flanagan / MLB.com

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The image of Steve Perry, former lead singer of Journey, dancing and singing in the aisles of AT&T Park while rooting for his hometown San Francisco Giants, likely tainted last season's Royals' sixth-inning anthem forever.
Royals fans had chosen "Don't Stop Believin'" as the sixth-inning song played at Kauffman Stadium in 2014 -- that selection, of course, stopped once the Royals met the Giants in the World Series. The replacement song became KISS' "I Want to Rock and Roll All Night."



Now, the Royals are once again letting the fans vote for a new sixth-inning anthem through a Play it Forward contest.

The Royals have picked 16 songs that got the highest vote totals last year and those songs will square off in a bracket-style competition beginning Opening Day on April 6.

The two songs for each particular game, as well as instructions on how to vote, will be announced during pregame. The winning song for each game will be played in the middle of the sixth inning and will advance to the next round until the winning song is revealed on May 6.

Here are the matchups:

Monday, April 6 -- 3:10 p.m. CT vs. Chicago White Sox
Don't Stop Believin' by Journey vs. Minnie the Moocher by Cab Calloway

Wednesday, April 8 -- 7:10 p.m. vs. Chicago White Sox
I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas vs. I Want You to Want Me by Cheap Trick

Thursday, April 9 -- 1:10 p.m. vs. Chicago White Sox
Small Town by John Mellencamp vs. Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi

Friday, April 17 -- 7:10 p.m. vs. Oakland Athletics
Summer Of '69 by Bryan Adams vs. Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks

Saturday, April 18 -- 6:10 p.m. vs. Oakland Athletics
I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty vs. Get Down Tonight by KC & The Sunshine Band

Sunday, April 19 -- 1:10 p.m. vs. Oakland Athletics
Old Time Rock & Roll by Bob Seger vs. I Want to Rock and Roll All Night by KISS

Monday, April 20 - 7:10 p.m. vs. Minnesota Twins
Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash vs. Louie Louie by The Kingsmen

Tuesday, April 21 - 7:10 p.m. vs. Minnesota Twins
Twist and Shout by The Beatles vs. Centerfield by John Fogerty

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‏@ceciliamrod Just met Steve Perry! Awesome guy!! #DontStopBelieving
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Baseball Tonight - Don't Stop Believin'
April 13, 2015

Buster Olney talks to Steve Perry, former lead singer for Journey, about his Giants fandom. Plus, Jerry Crasnick on the surging Royals and MLB.com Tigers writer Jason Beck stops by.


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Steve Perry on how Journey has become a soundtrack for sports: ‘I gotta tell you – I got kind of emotional’

April 14, 2015

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2015/04 ... ey-lights/

He’s been a fixture at San Francisco Giants games since 2002, but Steve Perry says he had no idea before his first game that Journey had become part of the soundtrack of sports.

“I walked into to Pac-Bell Park, it was in June, it was about 7 o’clock,” Perry says of a facility now known as AT&T Park, in a new talk with Buster Olney. “The lights were on, and I saw that green field, and I saw the bay. That’s the first time I’d ever been in that park. I got bitten by that Field of Dreams kind of feeling — and I’ve kind of been there ever since.”

After all, Steve Perry adds, something magical happened.

“I did not know that they were playing ‘Lights’ around the middle of the eighth inning,” he says. “I found out they were actually doing ‘Lights’ [from Journey’s 1978 album Infinity] over at the Oakland A’s stadium, too. I didn’t know any of that, because I had not really been attending many sporting events. I was just into music, and all of that. When I first heard ‘Lights,’ I gotta tell you: I got kind of emotional about it. To hear people singing along, I didn’t know that there was this kinship between that music and sports.”

A few years later, Steve Perry took part in the Chicago White Sox’s 2005 World Series run as the team made Journey’s 1981 Escape-era hit “Don’t Stop Believin'” its anthem.

“They asked me to be their guest,” Steve Perry adds, “so I flew out to Chicago and that was such a thrill to hear that song become such a — I don’t know what you would call it. A rally song, for sure. But the thing about that song is, it seems to belong to everyone, which is a dream come true. It doesn’t belong to anybody. It really belongs to people who want to believe, and want to keep hoping and keep reaching, and not give up.”

“Don’t Stop Believin'” has since been used by a number of pro teams, including Major League Baseball’s Diamondbacks, Dodgers and, of course, the Giants.

[annie89509]

DSB also played at 49er football games in their great '80s years.

[perryfan61]

He used to be the commentator for the Journey games, maybe he could do that too!!