I'm led to believe the reason we're all here sharing a laugh and voicing our opinions is the communal love for Arizona-based athletics. We gather on our corner of the internet to shoot the shit despite physical limitations (we're a diaspora of sorts). Anyhow, I thought I'd share recent news concerning a love the majority of us have shared: the man, the myth, the legend...
Ooh Ahh Man
Joe Cavaleri, Ooh Ahh Man's secret identity, has yet to make his debut performance for this years season of The Days of Our Lives: McKale due to Parkinsons Disease. "I'm so afraid I'm going to fall down and embarrass myself" says Ooh Ahh Man, "I fall down at least five times a day. You don't know how hard it is to sit in my seat and not be able to be the Ooh Aah Man like it used to be."
I thought I'd share a status update on those of you not fortunate enough to make it to a Cats game this year out at McKale. It'd truly be disheartening to see my final season in Tucson without the best fan in the joint pumping up bluehairs, students and players alike.
If you'd like to help out Joe in any way, you can contact his family at: mannjo2004@msn.com
Credit Greg Hansen for interviewing Cavaleri and his family: http://bit.ly/gonSLz
P.S. I've recently started live tweeting my thoughts during the games Bill Simmons style on both my personal Twitter account (twitter.com/glennmusa) and on ZonaZoo's (twitter.com/zonazooofficial). Feel free to chime in if you'd like. I hear you get 10,000 cool points.
Merry Christmas! What a downer Glenn...I think there is only one solution. You become the new Ohh Ahh man.
ReplyDeleteI'm shameless enough, I'd even be down to take it to another level. "Ooh Eww Man" perhaps?
ReplyDeleteOn a semi-related note, my fondest memory in McKale has nothing to do with the play on the court. During a media timeout the "Kiss Cam" made its way through the crowd. Feeling the constant urge to bless the public with my presence I decided, "Who better to snog with then myself?" Needless to say I made it to second base on myself before the Cat Vision crew cut away, only moments from getting completely shirtless. Rousing applause and cheer ensued.
God I hope this arizona team creates some on-court memories for you. I would hate for you to leave the hallowed grounds of McKale thinking your greatest experience was molesting yourself.
ReplyDeleteOkay okay...Kyle Fogg's three FT's with 0.1 on the clock to send it in to OT and allow Nic Wise's final shot in McKale be a buzzer beating game winner was pretty awesome. You got me!
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