re: Greatest Announcers of All Time (Deceased)

More Skip Caray...

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"And like lambs to the slaughter, the Braves take the field."

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Troy Glaus hardly ever gets thrown out of a game, cause if he argues the umpire will just say, "dont gimme any more lip, glaus

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So joe, one cow was talking to another cow, and the first cow said "mooooooo" and the second cow said "thats funny, thats exactly what i was gonna say

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Delgado has more doubles than i used to drink

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--During a period where Turner prohibited CNN announcers from using the word “foreign,” mandating “international” instead, a batter called time out and stepped out of the batter’s box because, Caray explained, “he had an international object in his eye.”

--During a blowout loss: “This is as much fun as writing an alimony check.”

--Caray once interviewed the San Diego Chicken (which, like almost all mascots, is of course mute), asking him one question: “Why did you cross the road?”

--In one of the strangest games in baseball history, a 19-inning twice-rain-delayed game against the New York Mets on Independence Day 1985, a game that began at 7:40 p.m. and ended at 3:55 a.m. with, yes, the scheduled fireworks display, Caray (who always called extra-inning games “free baseball”) said it was the first time he had come home at 5 a.m. for a legitimate reason.

Don Poier


Former voice of NBA Live and the Grizzlies


RIP my friend