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You can help choose Collin McHugh's walkout song for 2016

Houston Astros starting pitcher Collin McHugh smiles during a news conference at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The Astros face the Kansas City Royals in Game 1 of the ALDS Thursday in Kansas City. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) (Orlin Wagner/AP)
By Ben Cosman

On this most Super of Tuesdays, when Americans in states across the country head to the polls and caucus locations, Astros pitcher Collin McHugh is doing his own part to embrace democracy: He's letting his fans help decide his walkout song for the 2016 season.

There are already quite a few suggestions added to McHugh's playlist and, as with any exercise of mass public opinion, it's quite a mix. You have the stadium music standbys -- Drake, Kendrick Lamar and AC/DC are well represented -- and, naturally, John Fogerty's "Centerfield." There's also this particularly inspired stretch of songs which, if we had to guess, will probably end up as McHugh's final four:

Whichever song McHugh ends up choosing -- he used "Do or Die" by Flux Pavilion last season, for reference -- one thing is sure: The people will have played a part. And that's what this country is all about. 
He just has one request:

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