That is, until Crimson coach Joe Walsh pulled the plug as the season began to wind down—an action Mann deemed an “annual tradition.”

“I like them, but others don’t,” Mann reported, “and that’s the way it goes.”

Apparently, when Princeton visited O’Donnell Field on the April 10 weekend, the only music to be heard was the rumble of controversy. It seems that Matt Vance, the team’s freshman centerfielder and leader in stolen bases (with 12), danced an Irish jig in the on-deck circle to the violin theme from “Boondock Saints,” which serenaded Drew Casey, the batter at the time. Harvard’s coaching staff didn’t take kindly to the gesture.

“I didn’t mean to offend anyone or get the songs taken away,” Vance solemnly professed, adding, “my bad.”

Junior shortstop Morgan Brown remembered that walk-up songs “didn’t make it all the way through freshman year either.”

“Some people got a little too into them and they became distracting rather than helpful,” reported Brown, a fan of the Hans Zimmer theme from the Jerry Bruckheimer movie “Crimson Tide,” adding, “it’s fun to have them while they last.”

Now forgive me, Harvard coaches, but as I understand it, baseball is supposed to be fun.

This assault on music in our schools has got to stop anyway, and a good place to show we mean business is across the River.

And so it is with this column space that I call for the return of walk-up music to O’Donnell Field.

If I don’t hear “Burn, Baby, Burn”—sophomore Brendan Byrne’s walk-up piece—at least once during Sunday’s critical Ivy League season-ending doubleheader against Dartmouth, I’ll have no choice but to do something about it.

What exactly I mean by that statement, I have no idea.

One thing is for certain, at least (cue Bubba Sparxxx). One way or another, I will have deliverance.

—Staff writer Alex McPhillips can be reached at rmcphill@fas.harvard.edu. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays.