Bob Brenly during a spring training, Cubs vs. Giants, him and Thom Brenneman.
THOM: Some man in the crowd just yelled out "I love you!" to Will Clark.
BOB: Well, the Giants are in San Francisco.
lengthy pause
THOM: Popped it up.
Harry Caray during a Cubs-Dodgers game. Nomo on the hill.
HARRY: There are a lot of people with slanty eyes in the crowd today.
leeeeeengthy pause
STEVE: (awkward change of subject)
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)
Yankee telecast, circa mid 80s, as Rickey Henderson slides into second with a double (Bill White, if you don't know, is black):
PHIL RIZZUTO: Boy, that Rickey is so graceful... He's like Fred Astaire! Or Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
BILL WHITE: Now, is he more like Fred Astaire, or Bojangles?
(pause)
RIZZUTO: Awww White, you huckleberry! (both laugh heartily)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)
I posted some of the great Mike Shannon one liners before from the Redbird Nation blog. Most are both awkward and funny. Generally, Jack Buck would completely ignore them. Here's the list:
"In St. Louis we call these “Shannonisms,” and over the years he’s given us some doozies:
Well, folks, this game began as a tiny worm and is blossoming into a large cobra.
Hideo Nomo is the biggest thing to hit Japan since they dropped that bomb on Nagashima!
He's madder than a pig caught under a barnyard gate.
I just want to tell everyone Happy Easter and Happy Hanukkah.
Things are not always as they appear to be as.
Well, he did everything right to get ready for the throw, but if ya ain't got the hose, the water just won't come out.
Gilkey was originally born in University City.
Like Spring makes the rains come, so does the edge of the plate grow.
The Dodgers are ahead by 5 runs or 3 runs or in between there somewhere.
He ran to second faster than a cat in Chinatown.
We'd like to say hello to all those folks listening in Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky.
And my favorite all-time Shannonism, in regard to an official scorer’s questionable ruling:
Well, no one’s perfect. Only one guy was ever perfect, Jack, and they nailed him to a tree!
For my money that line beats Yogi’s “it aint’ over ‘til it’s over” as the ultimate in cock-eyed wisdom."
― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)
nine years pass...
ten years pass...