If you like baseball, you'll be hearing it frequently for at least 2 more games.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ationals-season-world-series-run/?arc404=true
The improbable tale — how an old campfire ditty that was reinvented by Korean children’s entertainment brand
Pinkfong in 2015 and
grew into a cultural phenomenon last year became the rallying song of D.C.'s first
World Series representative
in 86 years — begins on June 19.
Washington was 33-38 and 8½ games out of first place in the NL East. Parra, who was signed by the Nationals in May after he was released by the San Francisco Giants, was mired in an 0-for-22 slump and requested a new walk-up song before the first game of a doubleheader at home against the Philadelphia Phillies.
“I think God send to me,” Parra said recently of choosing “Baby Shark,” a nod to his 2-year-old daughter, Aaliyah, instead of another Reggaeton or hip-hop song like he has used throughout most of his 11-year major league career.
There couldn’t have been more than 5,000 people in the stands when Parra stepped to the plate to lead off the second inning that day. Neither the Nationals’ TV nor radio broadcasts mentioned the song, which preceded a routine groundout to first base.
“Baby Shark” might have been a forgotten, one-day experiment had Parra not doubled in his next at-bat and homered later in the game, a 6-2 Nationals win, to break out of his slump.