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  1. Crap. 2025 already sucks. RIP Harry Doyle, the announcing GOAT who was always, "Juusssst a bit outside..."

    ✅ Bob Uecker, beloved baseball announcer and ‘Major League’ actor, dies at 90 - Yahoo Sports
    today.com/news/sports/bob-ueck
    #bobuecker #baseball

  2. I was going to post this #BobUecker quote on #MLB opening day, but since he’s got his opening day in The League Upstairs, here is some wisdom from the American philosopher, Bob Uecker:

    “Opening Day. All you have to do is say the two words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.”

    There are a million Bob Uecker quotes, some from real life, some as the Harry Doyle character in the Major League films.

    This is my favourite:

    "Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit." Source: Catcher in the Wry (Bob Uecker, 1982)

    With a career spanning six seasons his stats certainly don’t give the picture of someone who would last that long in the bigs. Yet he did.

    His negative WAR* is a bit misleading. Five of his six seasons were not negative: one zero and four positives fractions that didn’t even reach a whole number. Not a tonne of power but an average of 8 HR over a 162-game season.

    WAR AB H HR BA
    -1.0 731 146 14 .200

    WAR = wins above replacement, how many more wins he would bring to his team compared to what the team would have with a player who was ordinary.

    Stats as per baseball-reference dot com.

  3. #BobUecker and #DavidLynch? I'm taking this as a targeted attack on me personally, Death.

  4. I'm gonna miss this guy. His voice on the radio, and his self-deprecating sense of humor - was the best reason to follow the #Brewers. Without #BobUecker, I have no reason to listen to ball games any more.
    chippewa.com/sports/profession

  5. RIP Bob Uecker. The world is less interesting now. #BobUecker

  6. I was in the stadium for the filming of Major League 2. That's it. That's all I've got.
    #RIP #BobUecker