Sawada interview in the Sun

10 Questions: Ray Sawada

One choice quote:
4. What’s your favorite Lynah Rink cheer?

Sawada: I would say the cheer they do when we come into the third period is my favorite. I’m not even sure what it is called.

Sun: Do you remember the words?

Sawada: No, I don’t.

Sun: You don’t even remember the words? OK, let me take this one step further: do you know the words to any Lynah cheer?

Sawada: ... This is bad isn’t it?

Sawada: Actually, I do remember one cheer. The one that goes, “Heyyy Bobby, I want to knowwww when you’re going to kill someone.” That one.

He's keeping his mind on the game.

Funny interview, though.

Sawada
Well I just think we have great team chemistry. We are 26 brothers out there who all have tremendous work ethic. And I’m not sure if you watched the games over the weekend but we had over 90 hits each game. So we’re going to be very physical each game and pretty much make the other team not want to be there.

Well, they certainly accomplished that. Everyone was finishing their checks. Looked like the days of old. If, as before, that can lead to goals, they will do alright.

ebilmes

Sawada: Actually, I do remember one cheer. The one that goes, “Heyyy Bobby, I want to knowwww when you’re going to kill someone.” That one.

To be fair to Sawada, given that this was a spoken interview, that could very well be an error on the Sun's part rather than his.

ftyuv

ebilmes

Sawada: Actually, I do remember one cheer. The one that goes, “Heyyy Bobby, I want to knowwww when you’re going to kill someone.” That one.

To be fair to Sawada, given that this was a spoken interview, that could very well be an error on the Sun's part rather than his.

Exactly. I'm sure Sawada knows to whom the song refers, but whoever typed up the interview didn't.

ebilmes
Exactly. I'm sure Sawada knows to whom the song refers, but whoever typed up the interview didn't.

Which raises the question...do the undergrads doing the singing even know? I mean, the current seniors were freshmen two years after Bâby graduated. It's sorta like chanting "We want Weder" 10 years after the fact.

Actually, Bâby graduated the year before last year's seniors were freshmen so it's even further removed from the current group of students.

RichH

ebilmes
Exactly. I'm sure Sawada knows to whom the song refers, but whoever typed up the interview didn't.

Which raises the question...do the undergrads doing the singing even know? I mean, the current seniors were freshmen two years after Bâby graduated. It's sorta like chanting "We want Weder" 10 years after the fact.

Some know, but most don't...for a while the pep band didn't play it very often, but I feel like it was resurrected last year.

nr53
Actually, Bâby graduated the year before last year's seniors were freshmen so it's even further removed from the current group of students.

OK, good point. I meant to say there was a full-year separation, but have stopped thinking in academic year terms. Bâby left in May '03, current seniors came in Aug. '04. While that's "the year after" in calendar time, it is 2 years of classes. I'll edit.

People in A and B mostly know it, but I doubt other student sections do.

RichH

ebilmes
Exactly. I'm sure Sawada knows to whom the song refers, but whoever typed up the interview didn't.

Which raises the question...do the undergrads doing the singing even know? I mean, the current seniors were freshmen two years after Bâby graduated. It's sorta like chanting "We want Weder" 10 years after the fact.

But then, who amongst us ever went to Zinck's?

Jim Hyla

RichH

ebilmes
Exactly. I'm sure Sawada knows to whom the song refers, but whoever typed up the interview didn't.

Which raises the question...do the undergrads doing the singing even know? I mean, the current seniors were freshmen two years after Bâby graduated. It's sorta like chanting "We want Weder" 10 years after the fact.

But then, who amongst us ever went to Zinck's?

Or called anyone a piker for that matter.

amerks127
People in A and B mostly know it, but I doubt other student sections do.

Do any of the students know about BU as anything other than a safety school they didn't have to go to?

Jim Hyla

RichH

ebilmes
Exactly. I'm sure Sawada knows to whom the song refers, but whoever typed up the interview didn't.

Which raises the question...do the undergrads doing the singing even know? I mean, the current seniors were freshmen two years after Bâby graduated. It's sorta like chanting "We want Weder" 10 years after the fact.

But then, who amongst us ever went to Zinck's?

Says you. My times at Zinck's were real corkers, they were. Quite the hootenanny! That Tee Fee Crane was quite the rag-a-muffin, a stinkeroo.

RichH

Jim Hyla
But then, who amongst us ever went to Zinck's?

Says you. My times at Zinck's were real corkers, they were. Quite the hootenanny! That Tee Fee Crane was quite the rag-a-muffin, a stinkeroo.

What are you talking about? We all liked good old Tee Fee. It's Davy we couldn't stand.

Trotsky

amerks127
People in A and B mostly know it, but I doubt other student sections do.

Do any of the students know about BU as anything other than a safety school they didn't have to go to?

this one does, and so do the people I stand with. As for the rest of them, my guess that those fans that read this board do, I don't see why the rest would know much about BU or the history of the ECAC

Perhaps due to the absense of Bâby, they should change the lyrics for Ray himself:

Rayyyy, Ray baby....

KeithK

RichH

Jim Hyla
But then, who amongst us ever went to Zinck's?

Says you. My times at Zinck's were real corkers, they were. Quite the hootenanny! That Tee Fee Crane was quite the rag-a-muffin, a stinkeroo.

What are you talking about? We all liked good old Tee Fee. It's Davy we couldn't stand.

That's what I remember hearing also, but I could never figure out why we call Tee Fee Crane a bitch if it was Davy we didn't like.

Josh '99
That's what I remember hearing also, but I could never figure out why we call Tee Fee Crane a bitch if it was Davy we didn't like.

Hmmm, you think maybe it has something to do with the phrasing of Mr. Cohan's music?

KeithK

Josh '99
That's what I remember hearing also, but I could never figure out why we call Tee Fee Crane a bitch if it was Davy we didn't like.

Hmmm, you think maybe it has something to do with the phrasing of Mr. Cohan's music?

I thought Tee Fee was a snitch. Didn't he rat out the druken piker to Davy leading to the expulsion?

I don't understand why we can't just go "Hey....hey, Ray Ray!"

He'd appreciate it. We'd like it. He does kill people. It makes PERFECT sense.

Besides, who's Bâby?

PS Yes, I'm a current senior. From reading the forum I know who he is, but no reason not to update the cheer.

I still want to know who this Auger guy is...

Though I found the interview entertaining, I disagree with the premise of the first question. What is so unusual about Raymond Sawada having a Japanese middle name and surname? After Devin Setoguchi's two-goal NHL debut last night (Is there a better way to have a successful debut than to play on Joe Thornton's line?), four Japanese Canadians have played in the NHL in the last few years: Paul Kariya, Steve Kariya, Setoguchi, and Jamie Storr. In addition, David Tanabe is Japanese American.

cbuckser
Though I found the interview entertaining, I disagree with the premise of the first question. What is so unusual about Raymond Sawada having a Japanese middle name and surname? After Devin Setoguchi's two-goal NHL debut last night (Is there a better way to have a successful debut than to play on Joe Thornton's line?), four Japanese Canadians have played in the NHL in the last few years: Paul Kariya, Steve Kariya, Setoguchi, and Jamie Storr. In addition, David Tanabe is Japanese American.

So that's 4 out of maybe a thousand people who have played in the NHL in the last few years. If that's not "unusual," then what's your working definition? Seems unusual to me. Not Jackie-Robinson groundbreaking, of course, but unusual nonetheless.

ebilmes

ftyuv

ebilmes

Sawada: Actually, I do remember one cheer. The one that goes, “Heyyy Bobby, I want to knowwww when you’re going to kill someone.” That one.

To be fair to Sawada, given that this was a spoken interview, that could very well be an error on the Sun's part rather than his.

Exactly. I'm sure Sawada knows to whom the song refers, but whoever typed up the interview didn't.

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