I think a wonderful old ragtime number like "Steamboat Stomp" or "Fussy Mabel" or "Georgia Swing" would really fire up the crowd!! Those jaunty chords and lively rythyms get the feet tapping and the hands clapping!! Look out, batter!!

The smurfs theme would be hilarous and a little demeaning to other team.

the theme music from "the exorcist," which was titled "tubular bells" --- begone, ye devils, from the basepaths

Green Day's "When I Come Around"

"Knowing me Knowing You" by ABBA
or
"I Will Always Love You" sung by Whitney Houston

Really, though, "Life is Life" by Laibach.

What's Izzy's song right now (if he has one)?

Izzy's song is solid closer fare. Free/Zulu by VAST.

I always thought "Gratitude" by the Beastie Boys would fire everyone up. My cousin Mark recommends "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan, as in "I'm a fool to do your..." That would win over a lot of friends on the team.

I like the Steely Dan recommendation. That's great. I would have to say "Feels Good to be a Gangster" - that song from the movie "Office Space".

There's a song by The Walkmen called The Rat with some ferocious guitar that opens with these lyrics:

"you've got a nerve to be asking a favor
you've got a nerve to be calling my number
i'm sure
we've been through this before..."

I think it was about love or something, but isn't that how we all feel about closers and they about us?

While we're talking about Wu-Tang theme songs, how about "C.R.E.A.M" for Barry Bonds?

With a closer's theme, intimidation is key, that's why "Hell's Bells" works so well. I personally would pick one of the showdown themes from an old spaghetti western. Ennio Morricone "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" is probably my strongest idea. Another cool one to use would be the theme to "Terminator 2". Here are some other suggestions:

Metallica "Sad But True"

Europe "The Final Countdown"

Rage Against the Machine "Know Your Enemy" or their cover of "How I Could Just Kill a Man"

I've got the perfect song that's so badass with a classic toughguy flair.

"Jailbreak" by Thin Lizzy.
That opening riff is killer, with a great drive to whip the Sea of Red into a frenzy.

Just thinking about it gets me jacked up.

Orff's "Carmina Burana".

Good choices by all, but I really like a cut off William Shatner's album The Transform of Command called "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins......"Bilbo, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins only three feet tall....Bilbo, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins greatest little hobbit of them ALL!!!!!" I really think it would frighten the greatest batsmen in all of Middle Earth.

"Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"? Was that a Shatner piece? I know out on the 'net (if you look hard enough) you can find a film clip of Leonard Nimoy (and a number of very nice looking women) singing that one.

As long as I've been tempted to pollute the comments in this thread, my choice for a closer song would be either Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns and Money" or the Animals' "We've Got To Get Out Of This Place".

Holst's Mars, The Bringer of War, from the Planets is the obvious choice here.

Since Orff is already taken I'd have to go with Boston's "Long Time" intro.

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Closing Time by Supersonic

You have to pick a song that's overplayed and overpayed, like most closers.

How about, "Boom Boom, Out Go the Lights"; Pat Travers, I think...

Amen to "The Final Countdown." That still, in my book, is one of the best songs ever -- great for a ringtone for your cellular phone, too.