Track 7

2001 Covington Catholic Baseball Unofficial Theme Song:

2002 Covington Catholic Baseball Unofficial Theme Song:

Here's a picture of people dancing to the Cha Cha Slide

Here's a picture from the Awnaw music video:

Here's how the 2001 baseball season ended:

Here's how the 2002 baseball season ended:

I know correlation does not imply causation, but I choose to believe there is a clear relationship here. Nappy Roots became the music of choice because, aside from them becoming popular in aught-two, they were a hip-hop group based out of Bowling Green, where we happened to have our spring break tournament that year.

Now, I was a scrub and didn't play much. I also was on the Speech and Drama team. The state competition was at WKU each year, so by my senior year I was well versed with the drive. The fact that my I was half of an improv duo that had a legitimate shot at getting to the finals of the state competition (Community inside joke aside: "What are regionals?" Well, let me tell you, I've been to regionals...) was, in fact, part of the reason for why I was a scrub and not a starting in right field. That, and I lacked an innate ability to read a fly ball coming off a bat as I had been used playing infield prior to high school.

All of which is to say that what I remember most about the going to Bowling Green was during the drive down I-65, there was a very tall sign that said "ADULT". Being a collection of horny school kids, the other guys titter, "Hey, poe-no!" Which was their oh-so-clever way of saying "porno" in all-guy-high-school-ese. 

Having made the drive for speech and drama competitions, I didn't even look up or take off the headphones through which I was listening to Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys. I just announced, "It's a gas station." (Paul's Boutique was released in 1989 and it's 2002. I know.)

"What?" They were mostly nonplussed as the sign was visible from miles away from the actual business associated with it, so once we actually passed the exit with the sign and they saw that it was, in fact, a gas station advertising Adult Videos and "literature", they all burst out laughing. For a fleeting moment, I was a legend. How did I have this knowledge and they did not? Was I somehow intimately connected to the Kentucky pornography industry? (And by the industry I mean the business.) I played it cool, (What else was there to do?)

So these are the memories I have from my senior year of high school. None of which apropos of anything except that: Awnaw > Cha Cha Slide. Of course, most anything > Cha Cha Slide, but Awnaw is pretty damn good and provides a little slice of life from my high school experience. And I just like the way they say vert-i-CAL.