For those of you who have not been to a Seattle sports game you would not know nor appreciate the wonderful tunes of the Tuba man. This man; Ed better known as the Tuba man was at ever Mariners game I have ever been to always playing songs, and dancing.
He was attacked this week by a gang of young men who beat him and he later died due to injuries from the attack.
He has a special place in all Seattle sports fans hearts.
I wanted to share a few stories from my (and Eric’s) personal encounters with the Tuba man and how he’ll be remembered by us.
When Liz was out here for our wedding we went to a Mariners game the Tuesday she got here. We were walking outside the stadium when I said, “Let’s go meet the Tuba Man”. Liz and I walked up to Ed and talked to him and took pictures with him and then he played our request which was “Take me out to the ball game”. After he played our request he said that we were too beautiful not to have two songs, so he also played “My Sharona”.
He was attacked this week by a gang of young men who beat him and he later died due to injuries from the attack.
He has a special place in all Seattle sports fans hearts.
I wanted to share a few stories from my (and Eric’s) personal encounters with the Tuba man and how he’ll be remembered by us.
When Liz was out here for our wedding we went to a Mariners game the Tuesday she got here. We were walking outside the stadium when I said, “Let’s go meet the Tuba Man”. Liz and I walked up to Ed and talked to him and took pictures with him and then he played our request which was “Take me out to the ball game”. After he played our request he said that we were too beautiful not to have two songs, so he also played “My Sharona”.
Eric has had many visits with the Tuba Man, the one that stands out in my mind is the day Eric had extra tickets to the game and gave one for the Tuba man to come inside and watch the game with him. Eric will never forget and always repeats his famous “Yunieski … Get a hit” every time Betancourt was up at the plate. Tuba man spent the evening marching back and forth in their row - dancing and encouraging Eric to join him... to which Eric would say "nope, I think there's only room for one big goofy guy dancing in the aisle" and Tubaman would laugh and keep at it. and. I know it was a night that was treasured by both of them.
To this I say fair thee well to the Tuba man. It really saddens me that someone would hurt him the way they did. We all expected Tuba man to eventually stop coming to games because of old age or lack of transportation to the stadiums, to go this way hurts more than we can express.
Next time you’re at a Seattle Sports event … Do a little dance for the Tuba man.
♥ Abby
For more information on what Tuba man means to Seattle & how he passed... click on the link below.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattle911/archives/153358.asp
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/386267_robert04xx.html?source=rss
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/341229_robert27.html
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