🎶 Baby Shark doo doo do doo do doo 🎶
Yup - that's what @Rangers [1] SS Elvis Andrus is going with for his walk-up song. #TogetherWe [2] | @Rangers [3] | @EmilyJonesMcCoy [4] pic.twitter.com/cVzJFIuEo1 [5]— FOX Sports Southwest (@FOXSportsSW) March 26, 2019 [6]
In baseball, the sacred walk-up song tradition has been pumping batters up for years now. But Elvis Andrus — a Rangers short stop and dad to a 20-month-old son Elvis Jr. — picked a song parents know allllll too well for his tune of choice. As soon as Elvis walked up to the plate on March 28, the "Baby Shark Song" [7] started blasting from the stadium's speakers. And while I totally thought the 30-year-old dad lost a bet in the clubhouse, apparently he picked the song on purpose.
"Baby Shark" is Elvis Jr.'s favourite song, [8] and believe it or not, the beloved toddler anthem might also be good luck: he hit a two-run home run in the third inning against the Cubs that day. "If you don't like it, you better get used to it, it's not going away, [9]" he said earlier this week. "Hopefully 'Baby Shark' can hit well . . . [If it can] at least get me one hit a day, it's going to stay."