Skip Caray died today

#26
#26
I will really miss his voice. I can remember him back to the Dale Murphy days in the mid 80's on TBS
 
#27
#27
RIP, Skip!

I will think of him at every game I ever attend. His voice was synonymous with the game for me.

"swing and a drive!..."
 
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#29
Skip Caray has been doing Braves games for longer than I have been alive. Simply put, to me, Skip Caray is Braves baseball.

He was the main influence from my childhood that made me get into sports broadcasting. It is a very sad day.
 
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#30
He will be missed...I still remember a quote from him during a game once after He quit drinking, Long extra inning game and He said, The bases are loaded and I wish I was...Hahaha!!.. Rest in peace
 
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#31
I remember when he called the Hawks game night after losing night. Great quote from him in a 30 point spread at end of third period, something along the lines of, "Well folks, if you promise to watch tomorrow night and patronize our sponsors, it's Ok with me if you go walk the dog, this one is over." I liked all the Carey's. GO VOLS
 
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#33
The line everybody keeps bringing up down here is once in the 1980s when the Braves came out of the dugout at the beginning of a game and Caray said, " . . . and like lambs being led to slaughter, the Braves take the field."

He also liked to refer to the "crowds" at old Fulton County Stadium as "partial sellouts".
 
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#34
#34
I don't know that he was a "great" announcer, whatever that is, but he was the voice of a franchise. Skip and Pete were the continuity, the one thing that linked this team back through all the division titles to the losing teams of the 80s: McCann to Chipper to Andruw in CF to the Big Three to Sid Bream to Dale Murphy to Rafael Ramirez and Bruce Benedict. The players are all different, the owners are different, the uniforms are different, the stadium is different; only Skip and Pete were the same. And now the more visible half of that pair is gone.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I don't know that he was a "great" announcer, whatever that is, but he was the voice of a franchise. Skip and Pete were the continuity, the one thing that linked this team back through all the division titles to the losing teams of the 80s: McCann to Chipper to Andruw in CF to the Big Three to Sid Bream to Dale Murphy to Rafael Ramirez and Bruce Benedict. The players are all different, the owners are different, the uniforms are different, the stadium is different; only Skip and Pete were the same. And now the more visible half of that pair is gone.
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Very well stated V.
 
#36
#36
They just showed Skip's speech at his Braves Hall of Fame induction which he began in classic form, "As Kathy Lee Gifford once said to Ellen DeGeneres . . . may I be Frank with you?"
 
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#37
I saw that. Good stuff. I've mostly been listening to the radio show tonight, trying to catch the more interesting things they showed on the TV pregame.

I was trying to explain to a friend today that it's not even really the baseball aspect of it. To me, Skip and Pete are literally what summer sounds like. Driving in the car. Standing out by the grill. Fixing a toilet with a radio on the counter. Baseball announcers are with you for a little slice of time almost every day for six freaking months a year. The whole summer will sound different with him gone.
 
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#38
The sad thing is, there is a whole generation who never got to hear him do what he did best: NBA basketball. He and Rick Barry were as honest and entertaining as any duo ever to call games in the Association.
 
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hatvol96 said:
The sad thing is, there is a whole generation who never got to hear him do what he did best: NBA basketball. He and Rick Barry were as honest and entertaining as any duo ever to call games in the Association.
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I liked those guys together well enough that I would watch almost any game they broadcast regardless of what teams were playing.
 
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