"It seems like now hitters won't step into the box until their theme song has finished playing over the stadium speakers," says Sandy Alderson, M.L.B.'s executive vice president for baseball operations.

As Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" blared over the stadium speakers, Howe paid his respects to Oh, who hit 868 home runs, and to Japanese baseball.

An instrumental version was played through stadium speakers during the opening ceremonies, a move criticized by Canadian player Justin Morneau.

As I've said about a lot of acoustic performances, it's always interesting to see a rock band without the squall of the crowd and the boom of stadium speakers.

The canned organ music was muffled over the stadium speakers.

"Good afternoon," he said in a high-pitched voice that broke sharply through the stadium speakers and could be heard half a mile away.

The frenzy receives a steroid-like boost when rock music immediately gets blared through the stadium speakers.

The stadium speakers blared the rock song "We Are the Champions" before Matsui's at-bats and he took a curtain call after the game.

The White Sox won the game on a walk-off home run by AJ Pierzynski, and the song has blared over the stadium speakers ever since in rally situations.

He was chosen to be a judge for the German Dance Awards in Hamburg, and also became the stadium speaker of the 1.