Evan doesn't see how new Clay Holmes entrance song gets fans hyped

Clay Holmes has been given his own flair and theatre to his entrance from the bullpen at Yankee Stadium, as there are now flashing lights, scoreboard graphics, and the song “White Horse” by Chris Stapleton blaring through the speakers in the Bronx.

Evan, familiar with theatrical arrivals from a closer thanks to Edwin Diaz’s trumpets craze in 2022, says that the song choice for Holmes is peculiar, to say the least.

“This is pumping you up for the ninth inning?? This makes me want to reflect on my life and drink a beer,” Evan said. “This isn’t pumping you up for the ninth inning. This isn’t intimidating Gunnar Henderson when he hears this and Clay Holmes walks in.”

The Yankees were one of the teams to make bullpen entrances famous, thanks to Mariano Rivera and “Enter Sandman.” It has caught on everywhere now, as Felix Bautista of the Orioles had the lights flashing at Camden Yards while the whistles of Omar from the popular Baltimore-based show “The Wire” played through the speakers. Diaz and the trumpets are forever synonymous in Queens. Evan has no problem with giving Holmes (who hadn’t allowed an earned run all season until blowing a three-run lead on Monday night) his own added flair, but he would have picked a different song.

“I can’t say they’re ripping off the Mets,” Evan said. “I think they’re just playing off of what everyone else in the league is doing.”