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This is more of an issue I think at Minor League games. After every inning there's people running on the field, shirts being thrown around, sponsors being named, mascots dancing ect. It is absolutely ridiculous. I pity the players. These are young guys trying to make it through the Minor League ranks and they have to sit in the dugout and watch this nonsense between innings.
We need to find a way to influence the players and clubs to move away from rock music so that what gets played at the stadiums is replaced by more tranquil tunes. A batter coming to the plate to the sounds of a Muzak version of "Strangers in the Night" isn't going to disturb socialization. Nor will conversation be disrupted if between innings they play the best of Perry Como or perhaps Brahms's Lullaby.
Really? I looked at the walk-up music for my favorite team and only one player (the backup catcher) walks up to rock music. (The closer also enters to rock, but most pitchers do not enter to it either.) Most of them enter to rap or Latin music.
Really? I looked at the walk-up music for my favorite team and only one player (the backup catcher) walks up to rock music. (The closer also enters to rock, but most pitchers do not enter to it either.) Most of them enter to rap or Latin music.
Well, the point was replacing the loud, distracting music in whatever form it manifests itself, it doesn't have to be rock.
I don't find it too bad at Yankee Stadium. The walk-up music is never extremely loud and between innings, they usually play videos on the huge screen (once again, not overly loud). Maybe the experience is different depending on the stadium.
Yes. Ballparks are getting noisier and now every batter has his own walk-up music. It's all part of the entertainment value that stadiums are trying to provide. In Anaheim when the Rally Monkey is put on the screen the stadium goes absolutely crazy. Perhaps if the Angels had better pitching then the Rally Monkey wouldn't make his appearance so often. I get annoyed by the long lines at the concessions at Angels' Stadium more than the noise.
No noise at any venue compares to the noise that the fans at Arco Arena in Sacramento used to make. Everyone had a cowbell and screamed at the same time. The cowbells are not allowed anymore but the Kings fans are still very loud.
I've even heard Michael Kay, the Yankees PbP announcer, complaining about the noise level during the games at Yankee Stadium. It's getting really bad when a team's designated cheer-leader publicly complains about the home-team's conduct at the ball park -- I bet he got a serious memo about that.. You'd think even a 12-year-old would eventually get tired of repeating the infantile Day-Oh over and over again 50-times a game.
By the way, judging by the way it sounds on TV, the noise pitch at NHL hockey arenas must be at a level that would qualify as an atrocity if it occurred in wartime.
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I get annoyed by the long lines at the concessions at Angels' Stadium more than the noise. 
Everyone had a cowbell and screamed at the same time. The cowbells are not allowed anymore but the Kings fans are still very loud. 
