I love the organist @ the Ted. First - I'm just happy that they have a real organist still who actually plays (instead of just canned music) and second - I really appreciate the thought that goes into each and every song he picks to play for the opposing teams hitters.
Case in point - this week when the Phillies were in Atlanta the following songs were played for our guys:
Holiday Road for "Chevy Chase" Utley
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (also for Utley)
Jesus is just alright with me - for Werth
RAUUUUUUUULLLLL werewolves of London
The theme from The Office for Ryan "the intern" Howard
Doobie Brothers songs for Greg Dobbs
When I'm 64 for Old Man Moyer
What's even more awesome is that he is on Twitter and actively is asking for thoughts and suggestions from the fans. I don't think he was prepared for the onslaught of Phillies fans with active musical imaginations.
Last night people started asking about some kind of ice cream songs for our favorite cone loving catcher, and he was confused, and offered to maybe play a Van Halen song about ice cream.
I thought "holy crap - no he needs to play the mr. softee truck song!!!" and i promptly found the sheet music online and tweeted it to him:
I didn't hear anything back from him. I thought to myself - maybe he needs more proof that Chooch loves Ice Cream (last night he didn't even know that Carlos Ruiz = Chooch, so how in the world would he know about his love for Ice Cream) so I sent him this link to the wonderful site Tug from The Fightins made last year:
I still didn't hear anything from @bravesorganist all day, but kept my hopes up. I wondered if he even knew what Mr. Softee was. Do they have that in Atlanta? (I just looked, no - they don't - it's a company started in Philly and now based in Runnemede NJ - though they do have a few trucks down in Tampa/St. Pete - which makes a ton of sense now).
Well - he did it - he played the Mr. Softee song!! For Chooch!! Literally ICE CREAM FOR CHOOCH!!! Did he play it from my prodding - I have no idea, but I'm going to think he did :)
Very Very awesome.
Thank you @bravesorganist!!
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