MLB Network Presents - Holy Cow! - The Story of Harry Caray (Post-World Series Championship edition)

Wrigley Field in Chicago it's always been the friendly confines but now it's safe to say it's one of the happiest places on earth the curse if that's what you want to call it over with after 108 years the three B's the Billy Goat the black cat at Shea Stadium and Bartman all distant memories and in the aftermath of the first World Series win since 1908 well a lot of people said this one was for Phil Cabarete oh well for Gabby Hartnett for Ernie Banks for Ron Santa well ryne sandberg you fill in the blank all true but you know who else it was for and who's to say that somewhere he wasn't watching it was for Harry Caray the longtime and inimitable voice of the Cubs the mayor of Rush Street oh how he would have enjoyed this autumn in Wrigleyville a while back we put together this look back at one of baseball's most memorable voices and given recent events it seems appropriate to revisit the story of Harry Caray holy cow here it is now its seventh-inning stretch time at Wrigley Field Perry take it away [Applause] [Music] [Applause] everybody loves singing with Harry [Music] that's joy instantaneous joy Harry Caray equals joy hello again everybody Harry Caray from Wrigley Field on a beautiful day for baseball when Harry came on the scene here was this force of nature that we had never seen anything like this before [Applause] baseball was Harry's life he loved it it was his old being he could pour coffee he couldn't do anything but he could sure broadcast the game it could be read I'd loves to do that I think it's good for the soul about you can't keep these big glasses on he had a love hair you just and then one of the great things about areas even the mention of his name makes those of us who knew him smile he was a representation of the good life he was the Pied Piper of all night life all the bars and restaurants voted him mayor of Rush Street and that's why he was the perfect beer pitchman five wives her front wives are budweis department I'm kidding even promised blood cheeseburger cheeseburger cheeseburger nobody sold beer or baseball or fun at the old ballpark better than Harry Caray he was a carnival barker he was a showman and he was leading his circus every single day at the corner of Clark and Edison when I'd be in Chicago sometimes after the game he'd invite me to go to dinner so naturally he's at Harry Caray's he has to accommodate every autograph every conversation every request for a memory of one kind or another and now we're sitting in the midst of this it's probably like our five and I can't keep up with him and I say to him Harry I can look around survey the scene of Harry what's it all about and he goes what's it all about kid what's it all about I'll tell you what it's all about booze broads baseball and book fair enough [Music] they say what does it take to be such a close friend of Harry's I said it's easy unlimited stamina a cast-iron stomach keep your bag packed and your divorce lawyer on retainer Harry Caray all these years later the name still conjures up stories memories and myths as irresistible as any figure in baseball history but sometimes myth can obscure the brilliance of the legend I think the caricature and the legend of Harry Carey even while he was around it seemed like was bigger than the actual person yes he had the big glasses yes he kind of had that unique delivery but it was nothing like what Will Ferrell portrays was just a really good baseball announcer and I think that kind of gets lost in the creation that's been this Harry Caray character [Music] [Applause] he worked for several different big league teams but Harry always felt like no matter who he was being paid by he always felt like he worked for the fans [Music] get there Harry said to me I want a sound like if you put a microphone around the neck of a fan in the bleachers [Applause] his voice would express excitement appreciation but also a disappointment disgusting how could you swing it up inside for he was a tough audience in the booth and if you didn't do your job he was there to get on yet ball that will retire the side [Applause] why does a brothel take the play himself the ball was gets sharply right school he broadcast games for four teams over 42 seasons but even today it's here where his legend endures the park where his essence still seems to capture the team perfect as much as he was a critic he was an optimist he always believed that they can bring a World Series to Wrigley Field sure as God made green apples someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series and maybe sooner than we think is he--oh one this is [Applause] traps [Applause] [Music] you never leave if you want someone to leave you alone you pretend like you're sleeping it's what you do if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to Geico it's what you did Adams coming report on this season's best bill prospect thick juicy and golden brown Papa John's dope and picture weather thick cheesy 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Louis he did not know his father he left the family shortly after he was born his mother died when he was very young I barely can remember my mother dying I remember the doctor taking him a mirror placing with the thing ago the things you remember it's a gift placing this mirror over a mouth and then turning around since she's gone after his mother passed away young Harry karabiner went to live with his aunt in a working-class neighborhood in st. Louis he grew up penniless in st. Louis went to parochial school at a time in our country where if you had a vowel at the end of your name that was a very very difficult time he couldn't afford the school uniform the kids teased him because of that and that I think was a driving force for him he said many times that someday I'll be successful enough that I can wear any damn pair of pants that I want to wear when you have to help yourself and take care of yourself when you're that young it's pretty hard and he was pretty bent on being successful eventually the game of baseball in sandlots at school and at the local ballpark was one of his few escapes baseball was one of the places where he felt like he was at home and he was around people that loved him and I think it was something that Harry needed very much like people need food and water he needed baseball and as Harry grew up he realized the game could be a path to a job he decided he'd be a broadcaster and after a few small-time gigs around the Midwest Harry went back home and made a bold and fearless move he wrote a letter to the owner of the Cardinals and said I can do the games better than the guy that's doing them now and he arranged the interview and he sat down with the owner and said what do you mean Harry I can very calmly read my newspaper and enjoy reading the newspaper while the game's on and Harry said that's exactly why you need to hire me you need to have somebody make it exciting and get people to want to come to the ballpark and he basically talked his way into becoming the broadcaster at the Cardinals in 1945 [Applause] Harry Caray was 31 years old the difficulties of his childhood were firmly in the past now he was set on making a name for himself behind the microphone for his hometown team they were the absolute definition of a regional franchise and the flagship radio station KMOX could be heard in more than 40 states the power of camel wax and the power of the Cardinals radio network really put him in a unique position of being not just the voice of major league baseball team but the soundtrack of so many summers people living and dying with wins and losses and Harry was the steward for that the wide reach of KMOX endeared Harry to fans across the Midwest and Beyond including one big fan who lived in Tennessee the king was a fan of Harry Caray's Harry did the basketball games of the st. Louis University Billikens so they're playing Memphis State and somehow Elvis is listening to the game and it's like wow Harry Caray voice of the Cardinals is in town so the phone rings at the hotel Harry Caray yes Elvis Presley I'm a fan of yours would you like to come out to Graceland the next thing you know Harry's in the car and he's having Budweiser's and talking baseball at Graceland with the King within a decade Harry's presence and the sheer force of his personality had made him as popular as many of the Cardinal players but the affable voice on the radio knew the strength of his popularity and Harry made sure his colleagues knew it too even his future Hall of Fame broadcasting partner Jack buck hello again everybody this is Harry Caray with Jack buck from the Cardinals baseball Network Harry Caray and my dad's relationship really evolved over time but I know from talking to my dad that whenever anything big was going on if my dad was on the microphone he got a tap on the shoulder and it was time for him to get up and Harry to sit down that was Harry's broadcast and it was that was not lost on my dad when I made the team in 1963 that was my first full year I became very aware of the perils of crossing Harry Caray I had heard the story about ken Boyer Harry had to do the pregame show in st. Louis one time and he said hey Kenny I've got five minutes to the pregame show and Kenny Boyer said not today Harry I don't want to do it Harry held the microphone up said you know I can make you a break you with this thing in fact I remember his call specifically of Ken boyars grand slam off al downing in Game four at Yankee Stadium [Applause] Harry's call which is tremendously exciting might be it could be it is and that as he rounds the bases honey boy he still had to stick the knife in even in the highlight of the guy's career he had to fight the scrape just to survive and he he wasn't worried about somebody having a problem with something he said because he'd go toe to toe and nose to nose if he had to and while Harry could no doubt hold his own in a dispute his broadcasting talent was undeniable never more so than in the biggest moments like the final at-bat of a cardinal ledger Musial comes up to bat and he sets the stage the stance remember the swing won't see his like again again [Applause] in a few words he captured what Musial had meant to an entire generation maybe two generations of baseball fans in the Midwest by that afternoon in 1963 Harry Caray was well into his stardom as a broadcaster but away from the ballpark he was a father who hadn't quite found a place in his life for his family jerry was not a hang around family type guy you know he just he wasn't comfortable with that my dad told a story once when he was at the University of Missouri he came home and the Cardinals were playing that day and he was waiting patiently for his dad to finish the broadcast and Harry walked out and was very gregarious signing autographs and the like and it was hey Harry Harry Harry Harry and my dad said you know all I wanted him to be was dad and he really had trouble being dad but he didn't have trouble being Harry and in 1969 his relationship with his surrogate family the Cardinals owned by anheuser-busch also became strained and following the season after 25 years in the booth shockingly Harry's contract wasn't renewed legend which may have an element of fact connected to it says that Harry who was extraordinarily popular among Cardinal fans had a dalliance with the wife of August Busch the third I don't know who it is what it is what it is some of these rumors I hear so fantastic I've never wondered they would even recognize them you know when Harry Caray left st. Louis a good portion of the city was in mourning Harry himself had his own way of responding all the television stations came to his house because this was the lead story on the local news and he greeted all of them swinging a can of Schlitz I want to wish them well a certain one I wish the ballclub well I want to wish mr. long as they Bush jr. my mighty mighty well no just kind of sticking it to the brewery you know one icon Harry Caray butted heads with another anheuser-busch in this case Harry lost but by legend he still comes out ahead building a winner next season what does a BT need how will heavy division stack up find out on an MLB tonight special starting with the AL East tonight at 8:00 Eastern on MLB Network today we honor the craftsmen behind the finest beer with the finest beer cheese on a burger the beer cheese bacon burger with grass-fed beef at Hardee's and Carl's jr. viagra single packs so guys with IDI can take viagra when they need it ask your doctor if your heart is 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he wanted to go so after just one season in Oakland Perry returned to the Midwest taking a job with the Chicago White Sox and he wasted no time introducing the south side to his one-of-a-kind play-by-play style [Applause] I remember when I first heard Harry Caray I was probably ten years old it was when he was doing the white socks [Applause] and I remember my actual reaction was what is that really that guy actually talks that way he'd always been pretty controversial he'd always been a guy wasn't afraid to speak his mind in the booth but when he came to the White Sox he just let loose anything that came to mind Harry would say wow I could use a cold blood wiser right now first thing that you would say is how does he get away with it but because of his charisma because he was respected and really knew the game he almost had a license that no one else had and with the White Sox Harry had a kindred spirit who loved every bit of passion and enthusiasm that Harry brought to a broadcast the team's owner Bill Veck it was Bill who came up with the idea of Harry singing take me out to the ballgame [Applause] [Music] he was under the booth one day and he noticed that Harry was singing take me out to the ballgame pretty much by himself well vac apparently one night hit a microphone in the booth and Harry started a saying he turned the microphone up to ten Wow all of a sudden I hear my voice coming moving back at me along with about a thousand other the game is over I go up two vectors the bill I said what a world is that all about in fact said Harry when I heard you sing I knew you were the perfect guy to have singing along with the fans and the reason is you're so bad that nobody will be intimidated they'll all be singing along with you and that's how the seventh inning stretch came about and it all was because of the marketing genius of Bill Veck vet all so was behind the memorable pairing of Harry with Jimmy Pearson another personality with a penchant for unpredictability in the booth it was a match made in broadcast how he understood that Piersall was a loose cannon and so Harry would actually egg him on boy am I glad to be employed by your ex-wives they could see me now 46 states very alimonies growing up all those girlfriends why I think I died hello I am there was some crazy things said all those old girl friends of yours are over it was like opening up a cigarette lighter in the gas station you know but you're pumping gas you never knew where they were gonna go they were explosive Springs dead goo Homer a little unstable cuz they're you don't know where the broadcast is gonna go the two of them are in the movie I never walked up to the plate thinking homerun what do you only finish six hundred and thirty-five behind Babe Ruth they would just play off each other and sometimes they would go off on tangents that had nothing to do with the game ideas the ashes look better to me than their ball club it was the kind of thing that you can't create that kind of chemistry that has played off each other beautifully and while the duo of Kerry and Pearce all was a perfect match Harry also found a new partner away from the ballpark I had been divorced for oh I would say maybe three or four years when I first met Harry and I was real busy trying to raise my children by myself that she definitely did not want to get married again but Harry kept on pursuing her relentlessly probably offered many marriage proposal before she finally said yes I kept saying no no no but he kept feeling sistent and finally you just finally give in so in the spring of 1975 Harry and dutchy finally tied the knot and soon his new life had Harry reconnecting with a past that had turned some of the people closest to him into complete strangers Dutch he had a big part of waking Harry up on this later years to really reach back into his family and because chip Caray wasn't that close to Harry growing up because Harry was out doing baseball games and traveling the world I grew up in st. Louis I didn't really know him sad story I've never told it before but I was playing Little League baseball and his stepson was playing baseball at the same league and someone said hey your grandfather's here I walked by and waved didn't know who I was so obviously I was really sad I'm over in the corner 12 years old cry my eyes out my coach comes up and says come here he said mr. Kerry there's somebody here I think you need to be oh hey young man what what you what do you do you know what do you do I play for his base with the Manchester bluebirds whatever it was he said what's your name my coach said he's your grandson chip and he shift my hand I shook his hand and walked away loved him forgiving him forgotten about it all that but still really really hard to remember that moment where someone for whom you're a named after didn't know you were today we're gonna be comparing these two truck beds let's start over here with this aluminum bed that's a big hole let's check out the role form steel bed of the Silverado same spot same empty toolbox took it way better to steel held up you don't have to wait until Black Friday to make a strong decision find your tagging get 20% cash back or get 0% financing for 72 months on select remaining 2016 Silverado double cabs in stock find new roads at your local Chevy dealer this Justin Wendy's announces a new Swiss junior 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beginning Monday on MLB Network by 1981 Harry Caray had been a white sox fixture for a decade but when Bill Veck sold the franchise harry clashed with the new ownership in his days on the south side were clearly numbered I certainly want to thank you wonderful wonderful people for your friendship and kindness and affection down through these years but he wasn't going far immediately the Cubs made Harry an offer to come to the north side a move that surprised just about everyone in town when he was hired by the Chicago Cubs I mean the White Sox fans couldn't believe it the Cubs fans couldn't believe it even more because we're hiring the White Sox announcer to come do our games how's this gonna work it would work fine thank you with Harry immediately becoming the voice of an unlikely franchise on the rise Harry switches fortuitously just about the time that the Cubs get good [Applause] [Music] they hadn't been in postseason place since 1945 in the 1984 they won the division [Applause] I remember going into the clubhouse and all the champagne and Harry Caray came up and he grabbed me and he said hey Rick grab the guys come outside and on the big screen there in Pittsburgh they piped in what was going on at Wrigley Field was this tidal wave of interest in the Cubs in this tidal wave of interest in Harry Caray that all came to this wonderful crescendo in 1984 not surprisingly the Cubs didn't go all the way but as Harry approached his fifth decade in broadcasting it was clear he'd found the perfect home at Wrigley Field I think there are a lot of guys that spent a lot of years trying to connect with fans and they can't do it I think Harry Caray was a guy that after a week fans would think he's one of us [Applause] I have never seen a non-player received the adulation that Harry Caray received all the time he was adored at Wrigley Field everybody wanted to go up into the booth everybody wanted to meet Harry and the thing about it was Harry was as excited to meet them and get to know them as they were the other way around this is the man of Chicago he's history I'm not now you are not gonna cut this short Harry always considered himself to be more than just an announcement there was much more around Harry the showman the exuberance [Music] the seventh-inning stretch with Harry there was a real punctuation mark to the game that whole scene became a part of what the Cubs were [Applause] I didn't really spend a lot of time with my grandfather or my dad for that matter and growing up in these suburbs in st. Louis I'd rush home from school try to catch the seventh-inning stretch see who this crazy old man was with the glasses [Applause] so yeah watching the games on TV was really the way that I kept up with my family [Applause] Harry's popularity was also boosted in another ironic way when he got a call from an old employer Miller Lite was killing anheuser-busch in sales in downtown Chicago so Mike Rory who was the right-hand man of Gussie Busch at the brewery had an idea so walked into mr. Bush's office apparently as the story goes and said I've got an idea to help us with Bud Light in Chicago and mr. Bush says what and he says Harry Caray and he waits for the volcano to explode and mr. Bush apparently sat there and pondered and thought for a moment and looked at Rory and said can Harry sell beer and Rory Ceph Gussie you know Harry Caray can sell beer [Music] he's [Music] there were posters t-shirts if you saw a teacher that's a Cub fan Budman you thought of Harry before you thought of Budweiser you could have only shown Harry Caray commercials during breaks [Music] that's a testament to Harry Caray that even in those situations where he's being shoved down our throat we're like yeah bring more bring more and even as he entered his 70s the mayor of rush Street was happy to give it to them long after the final out of any volume you go to Rush Street you see Harry you go to his restaurant you see Harry you go to other places around a lot of nightclubs and bars you see Harry he just had to be out there he had to see what was going on and the later it got the more he wanted to stay we called it the Harry Caray flu I mean if you went out with him the night before you knew the next day you were gonna wake up feeling like crap it was very much from what I heard about Frank Sinatra that if you were with him you weren't going home until he said you could go home so one night we decided we're gonna go out meet Harry and Frank Sinatra so we drank all of it up up and down Rush Street and around 4:45 5 o'clock in the morning Harry said you win Frank I gotta get to bed a larger-than-life personality like that and a passionate fan base in a loud city like Chicago each just couldn't get enough of the other Harry's restaurant became one of the institutions in town and one of the reasons why it became that at first was it Harry was there most all the time Harry would go after the game and he had greet people he wanted to meet people it wasn't part of business he liked people he would often tell people hey come see me after you know the game I'll be a Harry's and he would make us keep the bar open really late 1 or 2 in the morning if he needs me that's one of the reasons why he became so loved in Chicago was because he became part of Chicago but if Harry never seemed like he wanted to slow down in 1987 a month before his 73rd birthday came a frightening sign that all those late nights might be taking a doll Harry was kind of stumbling a little bit and he couldn't talk and so we took him to the bedroom and then this man told me that they had called the ambulance to come get out that he was having a stroke [Music] thanks for the ride around Norfolk and I just wanted to say Geico is proud to observe the military for over 75 years Roger that Kath is waiting to give you a tour that Wisconsin now good apart a little bit closer it's gonna be dark by the time I get there Geico proudly serving the military for over 75 years Papa John's coming report on this season's best bill prospect thick juicy and golden brown Papa John's dope and picture with a thick cheesy golden brown crust try a three topping for ten dollars Papa John the official pizza sponsor 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didn't die and then my wife thought she began bringing him box after box after box and I had nothing to do but read this man oh my god the mail the mail was unbelievable we stopped at the counting of 75,000 pieces of mail and we must have had 50 more boxes from all over the country people I didn't realize every heard me hey Harry I'm glad we have you get well soon and get back to work and I began to realize if I did mean something to people the people did give in järva for what I did the people did love what I stood for the 87 season began without Harry but the show at wrigley had to go on even if the best way to fill the booth was to call upon a village I think that the idea came from the Tribune Broadcasting people that we were going to have celebrities fill in for him and they were proud to say that they stepped in for this guy for a period of time it was an honor to sit in that chair just filling in for our old friend Harry Caray today Harry hurry back this ain't easy and at that time I didn't know what his recovery was going to be like we didn't know if Harry was gonna be able to come back so it was kind of bittersweet some of you know him from stage and screen but a lot of them don't know the fact that you can hit the baseball pretty well we've got some pictures of you before the game one of my favorites was Bill Murray and I liked Bill's story where he was so happy to to fill in for Harry and he kind of looked underneath the broadcast table and found a little refrigerator he opens up and he said oh my gosh there is a Santa Claus and there is a Harry Caray as he opens the door and finds it filled with Budweiser as the cast of characters in the booth rotated back in California Harry was doing everything he could to work his way back baseball was Harry's life if there was anything he was gonna fight for it was he was gonna fight for the opportunity to come back and be Harry Caray again the voice of the Chicago Cubs will be back announcer Harry Caray will be back behind the microphone for the first time in three months I feel marvelous I feel great I can't wait to see this team see if they actually look as good as they do on TV he came back he looked fantastic he sounded great looked great but I think it was an eye-opener for him that the old mayor of Rush Street days had to come to an end to a certain degree what they said about my way of life is you enjoy yourself but remember moderation and that's Mike du gold moderation when he came back we were going to have a day for him the ballpark was jammed and it was a huge tribute to him today may 19th Harry Caray day in Illinois tell him what you think of it Thank You mr. governor thank you very much let's play ball we in the booth that they said Harry there's a phone call for you mr. president well what a pleasant surprise well listen I'm just joining all your other fans across the country and welcoming you back on the air today well that's awfully ball played Ricky I'm really I don't know what to say I certainly appreciate it yeah for Harry Caray and the Cubs fans him coming back to the booth was like slipping on a very comfortable pair of shoes and blue jeans and and heading outside for a beautiful day they needed that and more than anything else I think he needed the fans to fully come back from the stroke he suffered [Applause] the reaction to Harry's return left little doubt about how Cubs fans felt about it but there was another group that Harry figured would never quite appreciate him in the same way so many my contemporaries and great friends of mine all have been voted into a Hall of Fame but I never once thought about from my own standpoint Harry didn't think he would get in because he didn't think that a lot of guys who had preceded him in there really liked him very much because he was so different than they were and in fact he said to me if they don't put me in when I'm alive he says I don't want to go in if I'm dead he said don't do it and I don't you know I don't know I probably would have done it anyway but he got it okay [Music] as an indication of everything that he had ever done and it put him in the category that he belonged here he was a Hall of Fame broadcaster you cannot possibly stand here and not feel the presence of the legendary figures who've been here before and the more I think of all the history which surrounds me the morning adequate I feel I hope that that day gave him closure a word I use an awful lot with our family I hope that he finally felt a member of something a family that he never had the baseball family finally warmly embraced him and hugged him and said you're one of us there was another big family day a few years later back home and Wrigley hi I'm chip Caray major league baseball announcer and I'm skip Carey major league baseball announcer Harry Caray major league baseball announcer that was a fun day my grandfather who started 1945 my dad who started 1976 and then me who starts in 1991 almost 25 years apart all doing the same game in the same town at the same time there's the buck run our heads for third he doesn't even look there goes to first he might have had a play at third base but boskie he gets a sacrifice out of it let's see if boskie slipped when he made this play here he was very happy that skip became a broadcaster completely different personality than Harry I mean very funny very dry skip has he ever apologized for his habit earlier on of saying goodnight Skippy has never apologized to anybody for anything of all the things that have happened to me in 50 years of broadcast see this is the thing I've promised South because this is my family and when the Cubs hire chip to join Harry in the Cubs booth for the 98 season the grandfather was overjoyed Harry realized a while ago that he wasn't the best like grandfather and stuff and really wanted to make up for that and was so excited to be a woodchip [Music] fellow professional scout for the California Angels it's the best 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the 1998 season were an exciting time for the Carey family chip had been hired to join Harry in the booth the coming spring I was going to work with Harry in 98 we were very excited about it I called my dad and told him he was fired up because we knew there was gonna be some family closure from a family standpoint or on cloud nine Harry was so happy oh man he was ecstatic we went out and bought him all new clothes he wanted to just to be the epitome of a of a grandfather and he just was so happy about going to be with chip this whole thing this holding that plan but this whole faith thing is starting to come together and then it's shattered and gone forever Chicago Cubs and their many fans are in mourning today their team's eloquent voice has fallen silent Cubs announcer Harry Caray is dead we had been out for dinner that night I had started out of the building Harry you know he lingers and everybody wants to talk and I hear you and all this somebody came to me and said Duchy Harry went down I go what do you mean area and I turned around he looked and he's on the floor they're giving him mouth-to-mouth Fuson and I'm like oh my god what what happened tonight there is no joy in Wrigleyville it was surprising it was surprising because I thought he was immortal my dad never really got over it I never really got over it I would have given anything to go to spring training with him just never never got a chance Harry's always said funerals are not to be sad it's just a celebration of your life I am the friend of Harry's for 48 years today he put me to the supreme test of our friendship because and I have to give this little eulogy his longtime friend Pete van Aachen gets up and delivers one of the most remarkable eulogies you will ever hear I heard father Smith say the mass of the resurrection please father don't resurrect him we couldn't go through this again Pete had you laughing while you were crying with stories about Harriet he used to laugh and he says boy and I die I hope they don't cremate me I'll burn forever someone yell get the hook out and Pete said you know I'm having fun up here and I'm not leaving I'm running a little over father Bob but they're liking them so only at Harry Caray's funeral can anybody even think the yell I get the hook out when you're doing that clamping I thought stop he's gonna jump out of there if you could ever say as you walked out of a church dam that was the most entertaining funeral I've ever attended that sure as hell was it the world will go on without Harry Caray but I guarantee you it won't be as much fun I love you and I will forever miss you my friend thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] nearly two decades later you could say the celebration of Harry Caray and his life is still going on at Wrigley especially when the game reaches the middle of the seventh quite a few times and the truth is every time I sing it's about honoring Harry Caray Harry set the precedent in florists you don't have to be a good singer my singing oh my god that was horrible Harry would have wanted I think somebody to go up there and be as bad as he was [Applause] they kept asking my dad would you like to sing and he said no and I said why said it's too hard for me it's really really hard to come to Wrigley Field and know he's not there I finally convinced him he wouldn't do it by himself he and I sang take me out to the ball game together which I think for him was a was a really happy moment I think he was able to finally let go and understand that in some ways a torch had been passed I think that was the last way that my dad got to pay his respects to his dad and it was a great great family moment a great moment of closure for him and really a great moment of closure for me too baseball is entertainment why not make it as spectacular as you possibly can how would I describe Harry Carey to someone you can't describe Harry Carey to someone that's impossible those bugs for me Harry's legacies that we don't have to be perfect to be perfect Harry was perfect for Chicago because he wasn't perfect Harry was always a bombastic bigger-than-life figured how come you never give me a kiss he was always Buber colorful but I sure but he was a master of the crowd [Applause] [Music] he understood that the game has to be fun you take it too seriously it's only a game he threw it out there he threw out a big bowl of Harry Caray and everybody wanted to have some this man is history this is the man of Chicago nobody's immortal but doing what Harry did and how the fans in Chicago around the game have treated him as I guess his courses it's ever gonna get a little bouncer slowly toward Brian he would lemon throw to Rizzo [Applause] here's the world champion Chicago Cubs [Music] I'm Robert Flores with this 120 sports update according to ESPN the Blue Jays and Mets discussing a trade for Jay Bruce Toronto is looking for a left-handed bat to flah tune with Melvin up to junior Bruce hit 250 33 homers in 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