Tulo and Bieber?

Paying attention to the music baseball players are introduced to is always an interesting part of being at the ballpark. At Coors Field in Denver on Tuesday night, Troy Tulowitzki’s music made me stop mid-hot dog bite.

It’s like baby, baby baby ohhhhhhh.

Justin freaking Bieber.

When Tulo made out in the first inning, I knew it was something I’d make fun of him about for a while.

When the Bieber-inspired shortstop cranked a 430-foot home run in his next at-bat, he definitely shut me up. Tulo hit another homer the next night and though I wasn’t there, I’m sure Bieber was.

Lots of players take their warm-up music very seriously. The frame of mind a song can create is something that’s hard to reproduce. But maybe for players like Tulo, it doesn’t matter. Maybe he is so dialed-in that you could play Bieber, Michael Jackson, or Povarotti and it wouldn’t make a difference.

Now if we could only find the right music for the boys in blue….