Freddie Freeman loves it when Welcome to the Jungle blares over the Turner Field loudspeakers as Craig Kimbrel comes out from the bullpen to try for another save. He loves it when flames erupt all over the stadium scoreboards like some mad LED vision of hell.
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He loves the atmosphere that’s fostered by having crappy late-80s rock and cheesy video effects all around him. But those things were toned down for the Braves’ throwback day on Saturday, organ music replacing GnR and old-fashioned nothing replacing the video flames.
Freddie Freeman noticed and he was not happy. He wanted all the usual fanfare for Craig Kimbrel in the ninth. Instead he got some dude hammering Welcome to the Jungle out on a musical instrument left over from some century before electricity was even invented.
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
"“My issue is when, I don’t mind using the uniform, I love the throw-back uniform, but when the atmosphere is taken out of the game,” Freeman said. “Fans are coming here to have an experience and there is nothing on the Jumbotron, no music is playing. I’m looking in the stands and people’s heads are down. It kind of takes the energy out of the stadium, especially when the best closer in the game comes in and there are not flames (on the scoreboard), nothing like that. It’s kind of a weird experience, a weird game. Luckily we were able to come out on top, though.”"
Yes, the Braves managed to courageously soldier through that ninth inning despite the lack of atrocious hard rock music and fake fire.
Freddie Freeman and his guys, they are true warriors.
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