Favorite lines of homer game announcers

[Mattingly]

You know them. The Jerry "Remdawg" Remys, the John Sterlings, the Hawk Harrelsons. Home run calls, calls against other teams. The corny but funny ones that fans love but opposing fans can't stand.

From this thread (http://baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=50145), there were a few by the White Sox' Ed "Hawk" Harrelson:

"Way back, he looks up, you can put it on the board...YES!" is for dingers.

"He gone" is when they get an out.

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John Sterling and his infamous Yankees win. THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU YANKEES WIN!

Then his "It is fair, it is far, it is ... GONE, A HR!"

Then player HRs:

The GiamBINO
Georgie Juices one (for Posada)
The Melkman does it again
An A-Bomb from A-Rod
Robinson Cano, what do you know?
The Jeterian swing

Doesn't matter if it's a TV or radio announcer, they must be a regular during play-by-play. Let's hear 'em. Name the announcer and the team, the TV or radio station.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

The Jays radio announcer Jerry Howarth has a good one. Whenever the Jays score their first run he says

"And the Blue Jays are in flight here, with an x-0 lead in the xth inning".

And who can forget (among Jays fans) Tom Cheek's famous call in the '93 series:

"Here's the pitch on the way. A swing AND A BELT! DEEP LEFT FIELD! WAY BACK! BLUE JAYS WIN IT!!! The Blue Jays are World Series Champions, as Joe Carter hits a 3-run homerun in the ninth inning, and the Blue Jays have repeated as World Series Champions. Touch 'em all Joe, you'll never hit a bigger home run in your life."

This is it. It gives me shivers to listen to it. Tom Cheek's call of Joe Carter's 1993 World Series Home Run. (http://www.irun.com/users/6967/downloads/Jays%20Win%20Back-to-Back%20World%20Series.mp3)

[MyDogSparty]

I don't know if these are unique to Ernie Harwell formerly the Detroit Tigers' great announcer or if every hometown announcer would say something similar...

...but when a foul ball would go into the stands and be caught by a fan he used to say something like "and a guy from Hamtramck (or some other city in Michigan) caught that one". As a kid listening on the radio I used to wonder how he knew that but then I figured it was somehow on everyone's ticket where they came from and he had the list. I'd dreamed that I would one day be at the ballpark, catch a foul ball, and good'ole Ernie would announce my city to the world.

Either Ernie Harwell/Paul Carey on the radio or George Kell on TV (I can't remember which) used to say, after a player got caught looking at a third strike, "he stood there like the house on the side of the road and watched that one go by".

Ernie Harwell's signature homerun call was "...and it's lonnnnnnnng gone".

[VIBaseball]

Mattingly, do you really *like* John Sterling's calls? I have to agree with Phil Mushnick in the NY Post: they're tired, self-serving, and worst of all -- inaccurate ("it is high, it is far" -- on line-drive tracer homers).

Good ol' Bob Murphy had some that were used in the natural flow of the game. For example:

"Fasten your seatbelts, here we go!" (Mets go into the visitors' last turn at bat with a slim lead)

But even Sterling is nowhere nearly as hackneyed as Chris Berman.

[Jose Reyes]

I like Gary Cohen's "It's OUTTA here!" And he's not an every day guy, but I remember a few years ago (or maybe it was last year) Jerry Seinfeld was a guest in the booth and while he was there he called a Cliff Floyd homerun and I don't remember exactly what he said, but I remember it being pretty good :laugh

[soberdennis]

HOF announcer Jerry Coleman whenever a Padre made a great play-"You can hang a star on that one". On the wall at Petco Park there is a star honoring Jerry.
Even though most people seem to remember another announcer making it famous, I grew up remembering Phil Rizzuto saying "HOly Cow"

[Stumanji]

Despite being a Mariner fan, I just can't stand Dave Niehaus saying, "Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it is GRAND SALAMI TIME!"

And it really boils down to "Grandma"... what the heck does a Grandma have to do with a sandwich? Eh.

I do love it when Niehaus gets excited with, "That one is BELTED to centerfield! It will... fly away! MY-OH-MY!"

For all it's worth, Niehaus and Rick Rizz are great announcers. We M's fans are lucky to have'em. They're both excited baseball fans, not just M's fans. They go crazy for other plays and other players as well. It's really cool.

Of course... we do have to put up with Dave Henderson, Ron Fairly, and Dave Valle. :hp

[starkeeper]

We get some Yankee radio coverage up here from Buffalo. I can't stand the guy that does the Yankees. He is a legend in his own mind. Self serving was the best way I heard him described.

[Mariano_Rivera]

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John Sterling and his infamous Yankees win. THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU YANKEES WIN!

Then his "It is fair, it is far, it is ... GONE, A HR!"

Then player HRs:

The GiamBINO
Georgie Juices one (for Posada)
The Melkman does it again
An A-Bomb from A-Rod
Robinson Cano, what do you know?
The Jeterian swing

Doesn't matter if it's a TV or radio announcer, they must be a regular during play-by-play. Let's hear 'em. Name the announcer and the team, the TV or radio station.
I like the first one best and you have it incomplete. :D It's more like: Ballgame Over!!!! Yankees Win!!! THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU YANKEES WIN! :clapping :clapping :clapping

I actually like Sterling though sometimes in an 8-1 game a player will hit a homer for the Yankees to make it 9-1 and he`ll go through the whole routine and that can be annoying. He can also overeact in blowouts a lot.

Did he make the play? YES HE DID!!!! Melky Cabrera with the play of the year!!!!

How about "Bernie goes Boom!!!"

[bluezebra]

"He gone" is when they get an out.

Harrelson sounds like a braying jackass when he makes this call. He's my most unfavorite announcer since Harry Caray died.

Bob

[Williamsburg2599]

Not one of those "everytime" calls that an announcer makes everytime an event happens, but IMO the greatest call ever:

"Bobby Thomson, up there swingin'.
He's had two outta three — a single and a double —
and Billy Cox is playing him right on the third-base line.

One out, last of the ninth.
(Ralph) Branca pitches.
Bobby Thomson takes a STRIKE called on the inside corner.

Bobby hitting at two-ninety-two.

He's had a single and a double,
and he drove in the Giants' first run with a long fly to center.
Brooklyn leads it, four to two.

Hartung down the line at third, not taking any chances.
Lockman without too big of a lead at second,
but he'll be runnin' like the wind if Thomson hits one.

Branca throws.

THERE'S A LONG DRIVE!
THAT'S GONNA BE IT, I BELIEVE!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!!

BOBBY THOMSON HITS INTO THE LOWER DECK OF THE LEFT-FIELD STANDS!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT,
AND THEY'RE GOING CRAZY!
THEY'RE GOING CRAZY!
HEY, HO!!

[crowd hysteria]

I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I do not believe it!
Bobby Thomson hit a line drive into the lower deck of the left-field stands,
and the great place is going crazy.

The Giants — Horace Stoneham has got a winner.
The Giants won it by a score of five to four,
and they're pickin' Bobby Thomson up and carryin' him off the field.." - Russ Hodges
Source:Baseball-Almanac.com



Possibly the greatest moment in Baseball history, and I'm in no way a giants fan. My face gets all tingely everytime I see/hear it.:D

[SoxSon]

I realize this is on a national level, but when Chris Berman spouts his "back, back, back, back" nonsense, I want to cry.

[Williamsburg2599]

I realize this is on a national level, but when Chris Berman spouts his "back, back, back, back" nonsense, I want to cry.
:laugh During the derby its ok, but in a game :mad:

[SoxSon]

:laughing During the derby its ok, but in a game :mad:

You know, even during the derby this year, it was like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[soberdennis]

Not one of those "everytime" calls that an announcer makes everytime an event happens, but IMO the greatest call ever:




Possibly the greatest moment in Baseball history, and I'm in no way a giants fan. My face gets all tingely everytime I see/hear it.:D
Russ Hodges was going the craziest of all.
But you're right that will never be topped.

[jays632]

The Jays radio announcer Jerry Howarth has a good one. Whenever the Jays score their first run he says

"And the Blue Jays are in flight here, with an x-0 lead in the xth inning".


Jerry's home run call gets old fast when you hear it about 40 times in highlights on the big screen at the dome.

"...and there she goes!"
"...and there she goes!"
"...and there she goes!"
[repeat ad nauseum]

[Sliding Billy]

Does anyone have to listen to the Red Sox on radio and hear Jerry Trubiani? "A swing and a DRIVE, back, BACK, WAY BACK!and Wells moves a few steps to his left and makes the catch"

[SoxSon]

Does anyone have to listen to the Red Sox on radio and hear Jerry Trubiani? "A swing and a DRIVE, back, BACK, WAY BACK!and Wells moves a few steps to his left and makes the catch"


It's the anticlimatic ending that gets me, too. You're sure it's way out of the ballpark, but it's just an easy catch.

[EvanAparra]

You know them. The Jerry "Remdawg" Remys, the John Sterlings, the Hawk Harrelsons. Home run calls, calls against other teams. The corny but funny ones that fans love but opposing fans can't stand.


Remy is the color guy..

[JimAbbott]

The Jays radio announcer Jerry Howarth has a good one. Whenever the Jays score their first run he says

"And the Blue Jays are in flight here, with an x-0 lead in the xth inning".

And who can forget (among Jays fans) Tom Cheek's famous call in the '93 series:

"Here's the pitch on the way. A swing AND A BELT! DEEP LEFT FIELD! WAY BACK! BLUE JAYS WIN IT!!! The Blue Jays are World Series Champions, as Joe Carter hits a 3-run homerun in the ninth inning, and the Blue Jays have repeated as World Series Champions. Touch 'em all Joe, you'll never hit a bigger home run in your life."

This is it. It gives me shivers to listen to it. Tom Cheek's call of Joe Carter's 1993 World Series Home Run. (http://www.irun.com/users/6967/downloads/Jays%20Win%20Back-to-Back%20World%20Series.mp3)


Sweet dude, that's a classic

[RuthMayBond]

"Open the window, Aunt Minnie, here it comes

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quohomer.shtml

[Dravecky43]

I realize this is on a national level, but when Chris Berman spouts his "back, back, back, back" nonsense, I want to cry.
Yeah, I HATE that. For that reason alone I will never conciously watch a Home Run Derby with Berman calling it.

Some lines constantly used by Giants' announcer Duane Kuiper are:

"Got 'em." That is typically used on a strikeout, and when it gets later and the Ks pile up and the situation gets bigger it turns into, "GOT 'EM!!"

And when a Giant hits a home run, he says, "He hits it hiiiiigh, he hits it DEEEEEP, OUTTA HERE!"

Don't know how opposing fans feel about those, but I love them.

[JimAbbott]

My favorite call hands down was Jack Buck's call of the infamous Gibson HR

[jwkfs]

Not usually a big fan of "signature" HR calls, but the one I do like is Drew Goodman -- "Take a good look, you won't seeit for long!"

You can find a pretty decent list here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_home_run_calls_in_baseball#List_of_home_ru n_calls_by_broadcaster

[sandlot]

Sterling drives me nuts at times. He's never met a cliche he didn't embrace, but once in awhile he'll apologize for using a "terrible" cliche and it's usually a moment when he could probably be forgiven for using it. Weird. There's not much one can say about the "thuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh" thing. It's a little like the Latin American soccer announcer who used to scream "GOOOOOOOAAAAAAL!" for about two minutes. It gets to be such a love-hate trademark that dumping it becomes impossible. I certainly wouldn't advise watching Gameday and looking at the ball & strike placement while listening to Sterling call the game. The discrepancies are, shall we say, noticeable. That said, his voice is pleasant and he's easier on the ear than many other announcers are. Suzyn Waldman has a feel for the game, and usually has a couple of good observations along the way. One thing that really drives me around the bend, though, is faulty production values. The WCBS sound levels are all over the place; the ads are mind-bustingly idiotic and pitched at least 10 decibels higher than the play-by-play; at times, they forget to turn Waldman's mike back on and she sounds like she's down in the grandstand mumbling into a beer cup.

"Gone" and "outta here" are such parts of the baseball lexicon that I don't think anyone could be criticized for using them. BTW, just a question: What makes the great calls so great? IMHO, it's not just the emotion or drama, important as that is, but because all the way along the announcer -- Hodges, Gowdy -- is giving the listener factual information. They aren't just announcing the result, but calling the game, painting it with words on the canvas of the listers' imaginations. If a homer does that and does it well, I figure he or she can be forgiven just about anything else.

[Food]

Despite being a Mariner fan, I just can't stand Dave Niehaus saying, "Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it is GRAND SALAMI TIME!"

And it really boils down to "Grandma"... what the heck does a Grandma have to do with a sandwich? Eh.

I do love it when Niehaus gets excited with, "That one is BELTED to centerfield! It will... fly away! MY-OH-MY!"

For all it's worth, Niehaus and Rick Rizz are great announcers. We M's fans are lucky to have'em. They're both excited baseball fans, not just M's fans. They go crazy for other plays and other players as well. It's really cool.

Of course... we do have to put up with Dave Henderson, Ron Fairly, and Dave Valle. :hp

I love Dave Neihaus, he's awesome. FLY AWAY!!! I understand the guy is/was a pack-a-day smoker, and he can still do all that yelling he does. I always felt Rizzs was adequate (I love listening to non-M's fans try to pronounce his name), but my father thinks he's godawful.

I knew that Hendu and Valle were there now and that M's fans find them irritating, but I haven't heard them, so I don't know what makes them irritating.

[Food]

Yeah, I HATE that. For that reason alone I will never conciously watch a Home Run Derby with Berman calling it.

Some lines constantly used by Giants' announcer Duane Kuiper are:

"Got 'em." That is typically used on a strikeout, and when it gets later and the Ks pile up and the situation gets bigger it turns into, "GOT 'EM!!"

And when a Giant hits a home run, he says, "He hits it hiiiiigh, he hits it DEEEEEP, OUTTA HERE!"

Don't know how opposing fans feel about those, but I love them.

I'm no Giants fan, but I love 'em, too, especially "Hiiiigh, DEEEEEP, OUTTA HERE!!!

I also dig Krukow's throaty "Gone!" when he's eliminating folks.

Those two are great. They have a blast, and it's a blast for the audience, too. Fosse and Glen Kuiper for the A's are good, but Kruk and Kuip are great.

[Mattingly]

Mattingly, do you really *like* John Sterling's calls? I have to agree with Phil Mushnick in the NY Post: they're tired, self-serving, and worst of all -- inaccurate ("it is high, it is far" -- on line-drive tracer homers).

Good ol' Bob Murphy had some that were used in the natural flow of the game. For example:

"Fasten your seatbelts, here we go!" (Mets go into the visitors' last turn at bat with a slim lead)

But even Sterling is nowhere nearly as hackneyed as Chris Berman.
Since I decided to drop my cable account this season, radio is what I listen to. He and Suzyn are tolerable. Sterling will sometimes mistake the ball/strike count, but he and Suzyn do provide a lot of background info during the game, such as what the Yanks did in prior games vs the opposing pitcher, who's had a cortizone shot and stuff. It's like a news article rolled into a ballgame, so I can deal with this.

As to the "THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" thing itself, I'd say it's not so bad. However, it's been almost 6 long seasons since this homer Yankee fan hasn't heard the following:

Ballgame over. World *SERIES* over. Yankees win. THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Yankees WINNNNNNNNNN!

[CandlestickBum]

Of course... we do have to put up with Dave Henderson, Ron Fairly, and Dave Valle. :hp

Oh, THAT'S where Ron ended up is it? He's not missed around here, that's for sure, one of those guys people loved to hate in SF.

[trosmok]

He always thought the Thompson homerun was idiotic, and I agree. Screaming the same drivel over and over doesn't heighten anything for me except nausea. In sharp contrast, you should hear the ol' Redhead's call of the same event. I believe he was also the one that said "He watched that one go by like a house on the side of the road." on called third strikes. I know he called swinging third strikes "He swung at that like a rusty gate in a gale." When he was calling Brooklyn Dodger games and they had a comfortable lead, they "were sittin' in the catbird seat."

Jack Buck was on the radio in '88 and uttered that immortal "I don't believe what I just saw." call on Gibson's homer. Now that is a timeless masterpiece, just the right level of calm disbelief, but I was listening to Vin Scully and Joe Garagedooropener on the tube. With his voice barely able to contain his excitement, he managed to say "In this improbable season, the impossible has happened." and then he remained silent for nearly a minute. On televsion, that is what more professional announcers should do, but they mostly sound like amatuer cheerleaders. "Grab some bench." Makes me puke.

[Erik Bedard]

Joe Angel: Wave it bye-bye, (insert Oriole player here)!

Jim Hunter: Here's the pitch.... swing and a high fly ball, deep to left field, and that ball is outta here! (He puts the emphasis on "that" and says the "high fly ball, deep to left field" like he's holding his breath)

Chuck Thompson: "Ain't the beer cold" and "Go to war, Miss Agnes"

[Mattingly]

I love Dave Neihaus, he's awesome. FLY AWAY!!! I understand the guy is/was a pack-a-day smoker, and he can still do all that yelling he does. I always felt Rizzs was adequate (I love listening to non-M's fans try to pronounce his name), but my father thinks he's godawful.
Anybody ever asked him why he included the "Grandma" thing? Perhaps he knew his Grandma and she served him these.

I remember that Michael Kay, who used to be Sterling's alto-voiced radio partner before YES separated the duo, says "SEE YAAAAAAAAA" for a HR. He'd explained once that he had a girlfriend, and when they'd part ways, that was their catch phrase.

Kay now sometimes does Yankee games on TV, but never on radio. He also has an ESPN Radio show in the afternoons.

[trosmok]

I think it was Bob Costas trying to tell the players as well as the fans that tempers were about to boil over during a Dodger-Giant dust up and he managed to say "Uh-oh. Here it comes.... he charges the mound..... and it's Katie bar the door!":laugh

[VIBaseball]

However, it's been almost 6 long seasons since this homer Yankee fan hasn't heard the following:

Ballgame over. World *SERIES* over. Yankees win.

Sorry for your troubles...you've led a life of deprivation. :)

[Mattingly]

Sorry for your troubles...you've led a life of deprivation. :)
Would that be for being a Yankee fan or for enjoying Sterling's homer ways? :D ;) :p :laugh

[EvanAparra]

As to the "THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" thing itself, I'd say it's not so bad. However, it's been almost 6 long seasons since this homer Yankee fan hasn't heard the following:

Ballgame over. World *SERIES* over. Yankees win. THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Yankees WINNNNNNNNNN!


Oh Matt, im tearing up over here... :rolleyes:

[Stumanji]

I knew that Hendu and Valle were there now and that M's fans find them irritating, but I haven't heard them, so I don't know what makes them irritating.

Valle is one of those slow talkers, and even though you know he knows what he's talking about, you really get this feeling that he has no idea what he's talking about.

Hendu, on the other hand, just can't seem to talk about himself enough. "When I was playing..." "Back when I was on the field..." "When I was with the Athletics..." "Y'know, I never did that sort of thing when I was playing..." "My old skipper on the Red Sox..."

Blah, blah, blah... He's actually not on the radio all that much any more, thankfully.