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BRING OUT YOUR DEAD (Part Whatever)

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Old Pio said:
Baseball has lost some class. I've never seen a game in Yankee Stadium but his delivery was well known. He played himself in "Anger Management" and his voice was part of the narrative in "61*" His voice was heard in numerous other films, too. Where does baseball find these guys?
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Sheppard was definitely "old school."

In an era of blaring stadium music, of public-address announcers styling themselves as entertainers and cheerleaders, Sheppard, a man with a passion for poetry and Shakespeare, shunned hyperbole.

“A public-address announcer should be clear, concise, correct,” he said. “He should not be colorful, cute or comic.”
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Particularly timely given the "let's get ready to rumble" infantilization of PA, both the people and the music. Whoever first piped junior high school metal into hockey arenas shall be hung from his balls in Hades for all eternity.
 
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Kepler said:
Particularly timely given the "let's get ready to rumble" infantilization of PA, both the people and the music. Whoever first piped junior high school metal into hockey arenas shall be hung from his balls in Hades for all eternity.
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Truth.

Don't forget the constant loop of "Cotton Eyed Joe".
 
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DrDemento said:
O.P.-I grew up in NYC and had the pleasure of listening to the great old time announcers for the Giants , Dodgers, Yankees and later on the Mets. Although I loved Mel Allen and Red Barber-my favorite was Ralph Kiner-he just could not get through a sentence without making a ridiculous mistake. He made more malapropisms in one inning than most announcers did in a lifetime. In the early years of the NY Mets(when they were just horrendous) he was the most entertaining thing they had!:)
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The great Lou Boudreau (hall of famer, player-manager for Cleveland at age 24) was for many years the color guy on Cubs radio broadcasts. In college, I'd flash my DU campus radio station business card and occasionally visit the WGN broadcast booth.

On one occasion it was raining and Lou got the attention of the crew chief, who was working third, and made a hand gesture of rain falling. The guy nodded yes. Lou then informed his audience that the umpire just told him they'd be suspending play after the half inning was over.

In Chicago baseball lore there was a famous incident involving a bra commercial. Lou and the great Jack Quinlan were to read copy about "shadow panel bras," and cracked themselves up for about 5 minutes. They were laughing so hard they couldn't talk. Finally Quinlan says: "that's the last one of those we get"
 
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Kepler said:
Particularly timely given the "let's get ready to rumble" infantilization of PA, both the people and the music. Whoever first piped junior high school metal into hockey arenas shall be hung from his balls in Hades for all eternity.
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As opposed to junior high band rejects butchering "Smoke on the Water" with their tubas. :p
 
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George Steinbrenner is in real trouble now, per MLB radio and WABC TV out of New York.
 
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The guy sure did great things for the U.S. Olympic movement. Thanks George.
 
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Bob Gray said:
The guy sure did great things for the U.S. Olympic movement. Thanks George.
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Indeed -- everyone, including this Blue Jays fan, thinks of him as the scourge of baseball for his spending.

Little attention was given to how he turned the Olympic program around after a disastrous showing in Calgary.

(I)t was Steinbrenner and his blustery vision that started it, who forced many Americans to believe that the Winter Games were just as essential to American athletic pride as the Summer Games. The strides were slow at first: 11 medals in 1992 at Albertville, France; 13 apiece in Lillehammer in '94 and Nagano in '98 to an all-time high of 34 in Salt Lake City in 2002.
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SteveP said:
Indeed -- everyone, including this Blue Jays fan, thinks of him as the scourge of baseball for his spending.

Little attention was given to how he turned the Olympic program around after a disastrous showing in Calgary.
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I avoided saying anything on his baseball activities out of respect, preferring to focus on his positive contributions to the Olympic movement.
 
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