Could the Phillies bring back ‘Dancing On My Own’ once more? – Phillies Nation | Sports

September 25, 2024

Garrett Stubbs is the Phillies’ DJ. (Grace Del Pizzo/Phillies Nation)

Could the Phillies bring back 'Dancing On My Own' once more? - Phillies Nation | Sports 1 — Garrett Stubbs is the Phillies’ DJ. (Grace Del Pizzo/Phillies Nation)

NEW YORK — The subsequent Phillies win can be adopted by a champagne celebration.

It may occur as early as Sunday evening with a Phillies win over the Mets. Another loss will delay the celebration by at the very least in the future. The magic quantity to clinch the NL East is one.

A staple of the Phillies’ locker room celebrations is the music. The “Phils Win” playlist curated by Garrett Stubbs and Kyle Schwarber was found on Spotify after the Phillies’ wild card victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in 2022. One tune performed in the locker room went viral and have become the tune that outlined the final two Phillies postseason runs.

A canopy of Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own” by Calum Scott and Tiësto captivated the Phillies fanbase in 2022. The group started enjoying the tune instantly after postseason wins. Players sung alongside as they sprayed champagne and beer throughout one another at the finish of each playoff clincher and postseason sequence win. It turned an emblem of the Phillies’ enjoyable-loving, nothing to lose vibes that helped carry all of them the solution to an unlikely World Series look.

But the Phillies acquired away from each the tune and the playlist at the starting of 2023. Kyle Schwarber reportedly called it a “second-place song” in spring coaching. Then the Phillies entered the month of June 5 video games below .500 and determined it was time to bring back the tune and all the good vibes that got here with it. As the Phillies posed for a group photograph on the subject after the group clinched a postseason berth at Citizens Bank Park in 2023, “Dancing On My Own” started enjoying to the nice shock of each the followers and gamers. It was a factor for one more 12 months.

The public opinion shifted dramatically when the Phillies misplaced Games 6 and seven at dwelling to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2023 NLCS. Fans who already hated the tune hated it much more. Those who have been lukewarm turned on it out of disgust for a way the season ended. Many followers nonetheless like the tune. The Savannah Bananas sang it in entrance of a offered out Citizens Bank Park on Saturday evening.

But are the 2024 Phillies back on board with “Dancing On My Own” being the tune? It’s sophisticated.

Stubbs, the group’s DJ, stated the tune makes an look on the group’s new postgame remix playlist that has but to be publicly launched. Judging by the sounds coming from the Phillies clubhouse after wins, the new playlist, which the group started utilizing earlier in the 12 months, additionally contains acquainted songs from the Phils Win playlist, from “Love Tonight” by Shouse to “Dicked Down in Dallas” by Trey Lewis.

Do the Phillies wish to distance themselves from the tune that has been the soundtrack to their success — and arguably failures — over the final two years?

“It seems like most people do,” Stubbs stated, referring to these on the exterior.

Stubbs added that it’s been performed a pair occasions in the clubhouse this 12 months on particular events. The opinions on the tune are blended amongst gamers, however the determination to pivot to one thing a little bit completely different is rooted in the place the fanbase is at.

“I don’t think anybody [in the clubhouse] has any hard negative feelings about the song the way that some fans do.” Stubbs stated.

Maybe it catches on once more. Maybe it doesn’t. Either approach, the Phillies are able to embrace no matter captures the hearts of gamers and followers alike.

“We’re all good from moving on from it if that’s what people are into,” Stubbs stated. “At the end of the day, we’re gonna do whatever feels good because that’s how it got out there in the first place. It was just we genuinely enjoyed it and had fun with it.”