MLB: Mr Baseball Bob Uecker

i've always liked fishing i try to get out a couple times a week three four times a week sometimes every day i hope this whole thing turns out all right i mean we could have a problem this isn't even my boat i just took it johnny carson said to me you know euchre pretty well don't you and i said yeah he said do you think he's funny i said he's wildly funny he said in many ways i think he's the funniest man i've ever met here's a batting average here of one 147 well i was screwing around i didn't you know i have only met two people in my life who i could say their mouths would open up and all of a sudden there would be uproarious laughter one of the guys would be don rickles the other is bob euchre some of the things that i found out here today i i did not know i had a family he's a comedic genius i've never met anybody who can spontaneously come up with some of the bizarre things that bob euchre comes up with bing divine who was the cardinals general manager asked me if i would do him and the cardinals in general a favor and i said i would and he said we'd like to inject you with hepatitis everything that he did it was funny you know really to make people laugh is a good thing i used to get questions from my kids about why do you do that why do you talk about yourself the way you do is it because it's funny and it makes people laugh i love them uke is a very rare kind of celebrity in that his celebrity is largely predicated on futility my first manager ever in baseball bertie tevitz after my first game told me that i should think about becoming a broadcaster he had to take a batting average of 214 lifetime home runs that's what he came to the first casting director with here's my resume 200 six teams they all released me want me would you welcome mr baseball bob [Applause] i signed a very modest 3 000 bonus with the braves in milwaukee which i'm sure a lot of you know and my old man didn't have that kind of money to put out but the braves took it bob euchre's career had started numbers say that what followed was six major league seasons of almost unsurpassed mediocrity but statistics can often be misleading how good a player was euchre well really one of the most pathetic things i've ever seen in my now 50-year plus career you only hit 12 more home runs than i did you know spawn matthews myself we would start talking about hitting and everybody would tell said bob said this conversation you out of leave it alone you don't know anything about it hitting nope euchre didn't know anything about hitting so how do you explain this of his 14 lifetime home runs mr baseball hit three of them off of hall of famers and you can imagine the emotional toll that took on those great pitchers my most embarrassing moment in my baseball career bob euchre get a home run off of me he'll bring it up before i frank you remember that home run off you not really my teammates laughed at me for days gaylord perry said it's the worst day of his whole life not of his baseball life of his whole life gaylord and i have sat together in cooperstown and we've brought it up a couple of times he says what do you hit on you oh he could hang and slide her i was a fastball so i don't know he probably had a fastball at kofax too you heard right the third hall of famer euchre took deep was the great sandy koufax how he hit a home run off of sandy kofax is is beyond my comprehension i said how did you manage to even get your bat on the ball didn't get to go back well i just went up and closed my eyes and swung back every time i see him i apologize because you know i was always afraid that that was going to keep him out of the hall of fame the next day in the newspaper there was a headline that said colfax contemplates retirement after euchre home run you meet all these old-time baseball players all of whom knew him as a scrubini on the team but they talk about their time with him on those teams and he was the entertainment even back then i roomed with bob in st louis and from day one he came in and was screamingly funny if the ball club was going bad you know he could say something to make everybody laugh and relax in 1964 we traded for bob euchre that was the year we won the pennant on the last day of the season so to say that bob euchre was invaluable is really understating things euchre kept everybody loose how euchre did that took many creative and bizarre forms it was the time he invented his own card game and gave it a very eloquent name the ugly card game was a i had a couple of police friends in philadelphia and they gave me a deck well enough to make a deck of convicts and some of these folks were not the the most handsome or the prettiest uh people that you might imagine 52 pictures as opposed to 52 cards and i would deal the cards then you would throw your card down whoever was the ugliest won the trick and it was hilarious as a matter of fact i took out one of the ugliest cards that i had and it was a woman but i kept it i put in my wallet i remember one of our coaches in atlanta dixie walker i said dixie you never met my mom have you he said no i haven't so i take this picture out and i hand it to him and he he looked at it and he said she's rather attractive i said thank you after winning out in the national league race by a nose the st louis cardinals take on the yankees in the world series in 1964 the wanted yankees came into st louis for game one of the world series so bob is shagging in left field they had uh three dixieland bands on the field playing prior to the world series and roger craig was standing alongside of me and the band that was playing left field put their instruments down so there's a tuba laying up against near the bullpen so roger craig says you go put that on so bob went over got the tuba fitted around his shoulders and the whole bed and he is actually shagging with the tuba fly balls would come he would position himself boom the ball would hit the tuba din it roll around and bob would empty it out i'll never forget mickey mantle and roger maris laughing in front of the visiting dugout this is the world series this is baseball showcase and here's this guy in uniform shagging with a tuba we end up winning the series of course in seven games and our world series share was eighty 8 600 a person bob hausen the general manager of the cardinals deducted 265 from bob for tuba repair and bob to this day is mad about that it's a tough time for a manager for your family for the player to be told that you're never going to play the game again and i can remember walking in the clubhouse that day and lumen harris who was the braves manager came up to me and said there were no visitors allowed in 1967 bob euchre retired as a player three years later he returned to his hometown of milwaukee what would he do the owner of the brewers had a brainstorm in a 50-plus year career you do some things that you all sort of regret i made him a scout frank lane was our general manager for a year so i went in there one day and i said frankie you got to do me a favor i got bob you've a major league catcher he can help us out and he said all right and he sent him to the northern league so okay i go up to the northern league i have no stop watch i don't have anything but i'm pretending you know that's all i can do uh i'm watching these other scouts and they all got a stopwatch you know so they're all got their hand cupped all the time clicking it bam every time a guy run boom so i just started holding my hand like that and what did you get in that uh three five me too i got three six you know what i did with all these papers that i had all these uh scouting reports that i had i put on the bottom of every one of them f m l fringe major leaguer in case the guy made it i told you there it is there's my report one of the nights were in this club it was in aberdeen i dumped a bunch of gravy on on some of my reports and i didn't want to do them over again so i just wiped it off and i put them in the envelope and i sent them back here well when frank lane got him he goes and he blows it stack to bud and he said you're guy euchre and i said yeah well how's he doing and he throws i never forget if i live to be a thousand he throws a scouting report at me and he says what the hell am i supposed to do with this and i said what's the problem and i look at it oh my god it had mashed potatoes and gravy all over the report you couldn't read the damn report his scouting career mercifully came to an end but selig had another plan for bob euchre he made him the radio play-by-play voice of the milwaukee brewers oh what a finish here at county stadium 43 years later he's still at it how about that one folks brewers get five i sat right next to him for 12 years he's a great play-by-play man he's hit the air to left field long run can he get there yes with a sliding he gives a crisp play-by-play he has great pacing he has a great home run call big swing of the drive the left and deep get up get up get out of here for carlos where he really shines is when the game is 11 to 2 and it's the sixth inning because then you have to go to plan b and he starts telling stories that was my first stop as a professional player first time i ever got locked out of a house had a curfew and i missed it five and a half complete 11-3 brewers bob takes you on a journey he gives you the game but at the same time he makes you laugh he makes you feel that you've really heard some things you wouldn't hear anywhere else you may wonder how much of them were true but it's still been an experience our open coach would come down to the bullpen and he would always bring a radio and we would always listen to bob euchre i'm a bullpen and uh if you're getting beat 10 to nothing he can keep you entertained he was one of those guys that could take that 18 pack in that 64 mpd he can bang them all yeah he's good six complete nine nothing brewers i think that aspect differentiates him from any other play-by-play man maybe who's ever lived by the mid-1970s euchre was becoming known nationally and rue narlage hired him to do monday night baseball on abc he would eventually be teamed with al michaels and howard cosell howard could be especially later on toward the end of his career very ornery and he could put the whole crew into a foul mood because he was in a foul mood but when bob was there bob always had this way of making howard laugh now there's your waterfall that's beautiful you'll be deposited right upright that's where you'll spend the night in your 605 plane tomorrow yuca had a way of putting howard cosell into a better mood and all of us were very thankful for that believe me i had a very bad bone bruise on my hand one time and he talked me into putting a piece of beef steak in there that would really you know take away the paint after about two days i couldn't use my glove anymore that really wasn't one of your more purposeful stories you loved to tweak howard cosell i could do anything i wanted with howard i i got away with stuff with howard that other people you know there's no way there was one night in houston when cosell and euchre and i are working together and howard is calling for a bunt in a situation where if the manager had actually called for a bunt the owner may have come down from the stands and fired him before the ninth inning so [Music] euchre's trying to tell howard it's not really a good idea and he's mildly shining him and cosell says to euchre all right bob i get the point you know you don't have to be so truculent and cosell says you probably don't know what truculent means and euchre says well if you had a truck and i borrowed it it would be a truculent trumping cosell a hundred times over spontaneously right off the top of his head utterly unrehearsed he wanted to hit me i know he did he couldn't he couldn't believe that i said that by the early 80s uke's talent and appeal were in demand several big league teams wanted to hire bob away from the brewers including the boss of the yankees george called and he he loved euchre in fact there was a big sign that just fascinated george the sign read this is one of bob's fan cover they were called euchre's pukers and george thought that was the funniest thing that he had ever seen or heard he said i'd like to hire bob i had no idea of going anyplace else but i wanted to find out what kind of store they had in new york right so the phone rings and it's blood sealing al how you doing don't give me that al stuff let's say don't give me the nelson are you unhappy i said no i'm not unhappy what are you talking to the to the yankees about what what's what's going on i said it's a free country he said now we're your concern that's what he told me it's not a free country so i i'm not going to do anything i'm not going any place he could have been in a lot of places and done a lot of other things but he loved the brewers he loved the franchise he loved the city so great credit to bob [Music] [Applause] when you think a great baseball players a lot of names come to mind bob euchre is not one of them bob is a comedic genius and nobody would have seen this had he not gone on johnny carson and done what he did for so many shows would you welcome mr baseball bob i would go to the television as quickly as anybody else would they're watching i'm just so happy that johnny carson gave him the chance to be the bob yooka that we all know the bob euka can be i was paid a tremendous amount of money by i'm not going to name the sporting goods companies there were four of them never to be seen using their equipment [Applause] it was one of those things where he was on and nobody knew we'd ever see him again my name was there again and again bob was on johnny carson over 100 times that's about 99 more than i had in fact it was more than almost anyone had bob euchre was one of johnny carson's most frequent guests it all started in 1969 when euchre did stand up in jazz great al hurts nightclub i went up there and i did about a half an hour and after we got done we were sitting there having a beer and uh he said you know you're wasting your time doing this for what you're doing he said i'm gonna get you on a tonight show i said oh yeah really well about two weeks later they called my last time at bat uh i'd look in the visitors dug out and see all the guys sitting there with their street clothes on [Laughter] i remember after the first show i did i heard johnny asked ed mcmahon did that guy really play baseball ends and i think so so and then i went back like two weeks later and did another show and i did maybe four shows in the first couple of months after after i'd done the first one and then you know just became you know kind of like a semi-regular uh he's given a lot to the sport um something will occur to me in a moment uh he is not in cooperstown he has been asked not to even visit cooperstown uh at all would you welcome mr baseball mr baseball mr baseball mr baseball he was not on because johnny liked him and he had a good time when he didn't show that was not why he was there he was there because he was a a bona fide character and he backed it up every time how about the world series were you disappointed were you surprised no i picked the reds johnny i actually picked the reds i picked the a's last year come on you pick them in the four games i picked the reds in four after the series was over sometimes somebody just gets you and johnny just got you you ever catch a no-hitter i was in two no hitters two no hitters and uh unfortunately they were pitched against us but well you were there i did my part that's the main thing you wear that did my part if you had anything in you at all johnny would get it out and with euger they just press the button and they're both having a ball what was the share among the players well i didn't get one i uh i heard they got 8 600 a piece i thought all the players shared in the well you're supposed to but [Music] when johnny carson disappeared below his desk then you knew you got him because he would laugh he would give it one of those shots and then he would go down and you wouldn't see him for a second with euchre he did that all the time one night bob showed an 8 by 10 photo of him pouring champagne over my head with several other teammates around obviously it's a locker room celebration no this is actually a picture of me getting ready for a game [Laughter] johnny disappeared behind the desk and he got him johnny built a theater the university of nebraska so they asked me to come out there and do a show they sell the place out i mean it's sold out with students after we're all over one of johnny's people came up to me i think it's johnny's nephew who's one of his uh writers and everything and he said bob did you ever know why johnny liked you i said no you know i never did because we always well just got along you know he said he liked you because he didn't care that's what he told me he didn't say care he said because you don't give up that is a large part of euger's personality he just doesn't give a when i broadcast yeah a lot of times i work naked in the booth i didn't know that for somebody to be on as many times as euchre was and to score a home run every single time that is unheard of well we'll be right back our last game uh in the major leagues uh you know you think uh you know it would be a day that you'd want to remember uh sure i can remember you know a couple of bottles came flying at me and a couple of cans nuts and bolts and you know that was when i left my house for somebody to be on a tonight show as many times as euchre was it gave him a chance to market who he was and what he could do and rest assured they wouldn't have come to him with any of the other things if he hadn't been on the tonight show doc was right by the early to mid 80s they were coming to bob euchre with lots of opportunities he hosted saturday night live i was producing saturday night live in the mid-80s and i had these baseball lovers who were among the stars of our cast particularly billy crystal i love the piece that he does with uh billy where the rules are reversed and billy is playing young bob i can't believe this i can't believe this i i'm a good son also i gotta keep my room clean yeah and i get good grades yeah great grades don't mean anything to me you know catch the damn ball huh huh look your mother and i think it's best and for the team too if you leave the house where do i go what do i do well you're going to be with the martin family we've optioned you euchre also starred in his own sitcom mr belvedere which ran for six seasons but what uke is probably best known for is a series of beer commercials all right maybe i wasn't the greatest player of all time but fans they forgive and forget when i go in here they'll be buying me my favorite beer light beer familiar you bought the eucharist why you don't have these fans i love them they know us x big leaguers drink light because it's less filling and it tastes great well can't keep the gang waiting some ex-athletes are pretty good actors most are barely passable yuke was a natural give me two cases you can have this baby dream on one case nope a six-pack half a can the big league light beer miller life where less filling tastes great okay i'll give you two cases and you don't have to take the car but that's my final offer must have a couple of mine already he knew just what was necessary for these commercials you know one of the best things about being the next big leaguer is getting freebies to the game call the front office bingo and once these fans recognize me i probably won't even have to pay for my light pier for miller i love them that front row spot it's a catchphrase now good seats huh you're in the wrong shape buddy come on oh i must be in the front row i don't care where i go if i i mean even on airplanes um oh i must be in the front row and then to wind up in that bad seat where i was way up the top of dodger stadium good seat say buddy he missed the tag he missed the tag he missed the tag he missed the tag all that front row stuff or he missed the tag all those things have become part of americana they really have ladies and gentlemen the newest addition to the great monuments at a great ballpark the real bob euker front row statue [Applause] that commercial got lots of attention including from a well-regarded director in hollywood who was about to cast his latest movie i had seen him in the miller light commercials and i thought he was incredibly funny i knew that he had that just there was something about his whole persona that suggested harry doyle to me uh harry doyle was a combination of somebody i imagined and and just thinking about bob euger i was doing a game at comiskey park and david came in the booth and told me they wanted to talk to me they thought they had this role in this movie if i hadn't gotten euchre it would have been it would have been strange i don't know quite what i would have done hello again everybody harry doyle here welcoming all you friends of the feather major league is one of those movies that it's not going to win any academy awards but you can watch it a hundred times if i'm flipping channels and uh i get the major league i don't care what's on i'm gonna watch it that's one of those movies where you know you're sitting at home and it's on and you might come into the middle of it but you know you remember it you can't wait for certain scenes to pop up again and euchre without euchre the movie isn't half as good post game show is brought to you by christ i can't find it the hell with it bob is so brilliant with extemporaneous thought and humor that i'm sure that a lot of the lines were never written by anyone except by bob david gave me that you know he whatever you want to say you know use it every once in a while he'd say something and i go that's fantastic it's not the script it's great fawn into the wind-up in his first offering just a bit outside he tried the corner and missed when i saw him throw that ball that's the first thing that came to my mind i knew it was funny i didn't know it would become you know part of the lexicon of of sports talk every ball player and the ball player could have been born after the movie came out doesn't make any difference ball player walks out to him just a bit outside just a bit outside just a bit outside just keep it outside usually when an actor gets a day off they take the day off but the days we were shooting with you a lot of the actors would show up and just stand behind the camera and watch them they just they were so entertained by it low and vaughn has walked the bases loaded on 12 straight pitches boy how can these guys lay off pitches that close movies the tonight show commercials bob euchre was everywhere everywhere we went around the country they knew who bob was most the time they didn't know who we were but we were with him and then they knew well we must be somebody because we were with bob euchre bob was so famous and still is that a lot of people would come to seek out him and they would come to visit us in our milwaukee radio booth richard nixon mickey mantle joe dimaggio tom hanks i was in a restaurant with him in los angeles uh these popular restaurants with a lot of celebrities and whatnot i went in there one night with you to have dinner and i'm telling we came in this restaurant and like the entire restaurant at some point came over to say hello or introduce themselves to him because people either knew him or wanted to meet him i don't think celebrity means anything to him to the extent that he appreciates it he enjoys it but he doesn't need it he certainly doesn't court it it's not important to him the thing that makes bob so likable to people is that he's genuine whether it's movies tv shows doing ball games that's the guy he's just being himself whether you know him on a national level or you know him on a local level he's the same guy he doesn't change he's exactly what he is and exactly he's exactly what he is on the air the way he is off the air and i think that's why people love him and why he's lasted so long [Music] in the 1980s bob euchre did the television show mr belvedere and one of the taping schedules had him in hollywood during september when we milwaukee was in a pennant race and i remember calling him on the phone and telling him what happened in the ballgame and he said gosh i really wish i was there you know this it's it's a great gig that i've got this tv show but i really miss the ball games i really do and i knew i knew he meant it too all the tonight shows and everything all that stuff that i did mr belvedere and i always had to get back to baseball and not that i didn't like all the stuff that i did but baseball was baseball was always the bottom line and for bob euchre that bottom line has lasted 43 years in addition to his time at abc he also worked postseason games at nbc in the 90s you guys ready for this absolutely let's go baby world series let's go but with that and all the exposure and fame that has come from television movies and commercials you can never stop doing brewers games and he is now in his fifth decade in the milwaukee booth swinging a soft liner [Applause] he's a very good baseball announcer and if you listen to bob for five or six minutes you want to say something that's going to make you laugh as driscoll makes the proper call defensive indifference or as we call it and score it who cares bob has had this wonderful ability to give you the game and then bang you know that's where major league three was filmed is that right yes i haven't seen it don't that thing was so bad it was on airplanes the day we finished it he's very funny on the air but he is just an exceptionally good broadcaster swinging a looping ladder base it to right center one run is in they're gonna try to score luke roy here's the throw he's in there you really feel the game through him and while certainly he's a brewer broadcaster so in that sense he's a homer he's not a mindless homer he'll give you a fair call of the game you'll understand when the brewers are not doing well but when they are doing well then you feel the excitement through him morgan a smash up the middle base hit the center here comes around third a throw in the brewers win the brewers [Applause] i would certainly throw his uh his name in the hat of the mel allen bob costas jack buck ernie harwell ben scully because he's up there you know he knows the game and he knows how to broadcast he's knocked in the hall of fame as an announcer because he's funny he calls a game as good as anybody it is indeed an honor for me personally to present to my friend bob euchre the 4c frick award they told me that i was going to go in and they asked me about doing something right to get up there and do my thing right i said how long do i have you know tell me tell me how long i have oh maybe six seven minutes i said i can't can't work like that i can't do that he said what do you need i said 15 minutes i can you know i'll do something in 15 minutes my first sport was 8th grade basketball and my dad didn't want to buy me the uh the supporter johnny to you know to do the job so my mother made me one out of a flower sack he went in with no script he did not have a single sheet of paper in front of him the guy guarding you knows exactly where you're going because little specks of flour keep dropping out so to muke you have to have at least a few notes you know put down your five or six best anecdotes then i'll say whatever occurs and he did i remember gene walk doing things to me at philadelphia i'd be sitting there and he'd say uh grab a bat and stop this rally send me up there without a bat and tell me to try for a walk look down at the third base coach for a sign and have him turn his back on you you know all those guys are sitting behind me and they're telling me to keep going all the players yogi was behind me laughing i can hear those guys really laughing my kids used to do things to aggravate me too i'd take them to a game and they'd want to come home with a different player it was about 18 minutes of wall-to-wall comedy laugh after laugh after laugh in 1967 i set a major league record for pass balls and i did that without playing every game there was a game as a matter of fact during that year when phil necro's brother and he were pitching against each other in atlanta their parents were sitting right behind home plate i saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend they still play that speech that i did in in cooperstown you know at the hall so it's a humbling thing i don't care who you are you anytime i don't care how you go in to the hall of fame to be able to do that and be amongst the guys that are in there the broadcasters that are in there i mean that's pretty good this has always been number one baseball the commercials the uh the films the television series i could never wait for everything to get over to get back to baseball i still and this is not sour grapes by any means still think i should have gone in as a player [Music] thank you very much ladies and gentlemen let's welcome the hall of fame voice of the milwaukee brewers milwaukee's very own mr baseball bob euchre let's face it bob's bigger than any player uh that's ever played here you could easily make a case that bob euchre is the most famous sports personality in the history of wisconsin lombardi wasn't there that long and then he left brett favre had a nice run aaron rodgers is having a nice run right now al mcguire was there for a number of years but not nearly as long as bob i mean bob has had a several decade career so he's connected with the great grandfather the grandfather the father and now the son my association with the brewers and the state of wisconsin and you fans in particular has been nothing short of marvelous when a man has two statues of himself one outside the stadium and one inside the stadium that gives you an idea of just how much bob euchre has meant to the city of milwaukee i can think of no place else that i would rather be as a player as a broadcaster or as a citizen than right here in milwaukee or the state of wisconsin [Applause] this guy could have worked in new york he could have worked in los angeles he could have quit baseball and been been an actor that he always chose to stay in milwaukee and to broadcast brewers baseball and people you know don't forget that for bob it's been almost the perfect melding of celebrity and yet he's able to still be the announcer for the milwaukee brewers and here he comes struck him out swinging i live here this is where i grew up that's where i was raised born and raised the other stuff is all pluses you know i love baseball i mean bottom line i love baseball you don't do this for as long as he's done it coming up on 80 and having endured health problems along the way you don't do it unless you love it some of those health issues were quite serious in 2009 there was surgery to remove tumors from his pancreas then in april of 2010 you've noticed something wasn't right i was doing a game in chicago and uh right i'll never forget ryan tara was a hitter and all of a sudden i went blank i couldn't see all right here we go with chicago sending ryan terrio to leave things off [Music] then all of a sudden maybe 15-20 seconds everything came back so i went out to the hospital here they found out i had a leaky valve i did the surgery they replaced all the stuff i feel really good real good otherwise i uh i wouldn't have come back and worked but uh the doctors kind of said okay and they knew i was coming back anyway so there's nothing they could do six months later as the baseball season's ending they tell him that there's a leak still mind-boggling so they had to do the open-heart surgery again i've never talked to anybody who died how do you know how it is to die nobody knows nobody knows and when you have that kind of surgery you don't know what's going on you're in the blackest place you could ever be there's nothing and then all of a sudden you're awake since that scare there have been other health issues but now at 79 years old bob euchre is feeling fine thank you and you can find him as always in the milwaukee brewers broadcast booth the sign and here is the first offering in tonight's game and it is off the outside and we are underway i don't know anybody 80 years old i don't i might most of my life's been spent around sports i don't know anyone including great athletes who are in the shape he's even in today howdy boys everybody good all right right on the head okay hello everybody and most of all what you have to see to see how ever youthful he is the contemporary players they revere him and then when they find out how approachable he is and how much fun he is he goes way beyond reference they fall in love with them hello romney how you doing robin how are you good good good good how you doing okay the relationship he builds with the players happens in a hurry we get new players over and and in a couple of days everybody's for life nice real nice the players still accept me as one of them not as a broadcaster they don't they don't they don't accept me as a broadcaster they accept me as one of them they do and that's the one thing that you know really is is neat for me he enjoys very much the camaraderie being around the guys and even though he's considerably older he's been through three or four generations now of ball players i think that's a real comfortable world for bob ugrad when i first bought the team i couldn't believe that he was doing every spring training game like you what are you what are you doing you're announcing spring training games well yeah it's my job well yeah it's your job but you know you don't have to be down here announcing everybody no that's what he wanted to do baseball is his life and milwaukee is his life that's a tough combination to give up i love talking to people you know i love doing what i do on the air i really do i don't know what else i would do i fish i play golf i do the games i don't know what else i would do i don't here it is swinging a smash face this one is over from seven o'clock to 10 30 during baseball season you flip on your radio and you're gonna be listening to bob euchre and the brewers when you've done something for as long as i have it just become at a certain time every day i'm supposed to be here and since that's your family knows it your wife knows it everybody knows you're gonna be here so long everybody you are listening to the brewers radio network it's a little like alfred hitchcock here birds they're catching more fish than we did i know that fitting into the show yeah this is nice come on in gang

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[u/Magnum_44]

Watch that entire series. For anyone old enough, Bob Uecker is the funniest man in Baseball bar none. He had a sitcom and could have been in Hollywood much longer. The fact he just wanted to call baseball is just pure legend.

[u/Maken66]

Bob Uecker is a legend. One of the best play-by-play guys ever. His HOF induction speech is classic.

[u/shmatty52]

huh. i literally only know bob uecker from that one futurama episode

[u/60YearBlonde]

He called Mr. Baseball for a reason!