A message from beyond the grave, from Bob Uecker, to the Milwaukee Brewers, upon their clinching of a playoff berth (MLB).
September 14, 2025
"Howdy boys, never a doubt you would get this invitation. You did it by believing. Really miss you guys..."
"... and I wish I was there. Things are good. The God Almighty picked me to be on this team up here, albeit [as] the third catcher. It’s a great league, no day games after night games. No shadows, but you got all the sticky you need to have up here. Told the big guy about you guys. Play hard every night. Not afraid to play for each other. He’s obviously very interested with the group with this uncommon goodness. I know you guys don’t really need me, but I’ll tell you guys … I’ll be on the headset every night watching. And don’t forget to take it all in, enjoy, and keep it light, believe in each other."
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See, even Bob Uecker is with God Almighty without a Beatification.
Champagne flutes in the clubhouse?!? If you dinnt earn the bye you’d be out first round…
Well-earned.
This Cub fan offers sincere congratulations. Hope to see you in the playoffs.
Writing presumes the absence of the writer. You don't even have to be dead, just somewhere else.
Uecker was a member of the 1964 World Series Champion Cardinals, but spent the whole Series on the bench.
I didn't realize that he was Wisconsin's messiah, so I don't have much to say.
"October 1964." Halberstam's book. It seems like you could get a book out of every World's Series in the postwar era, and when it came to the Sixties the racial angle was heavily played up. World's Series lately -- are there any well-regarded books about them? Larger than life characters? Lessons to be drawn? Are people even watching?
"I didn't realize that he was Wisconsin's messiah"
We could do worse.
Norm Macdonald, who btw died today in 2021, told the funniest Bob Uecker stories. Those two were American treasures.
Never really been a Brewers fan, however Uecker's voice was just a pure pleasure to hear - almost regardless of what he said. . . . which was always terrific anyway. Same can be said of Vin Scully for my Dodgers. Hard to imagine how they got that good.
As an aside; last night on the way home, I found a way to stream the (far away) local radio broadcast for the last part of my NCAA football team's game. First of all I was surprised that I could find it. Second I was surprised that I could actually stream it and get it into the car. And lastly, I was kind of surprised that it was as non-good sounding as it was.
Does anybody even listen to radio broadcasts of sports anymore? I used to do it all the time: while I was driving or to have on in the background after work or during the weekend days while I was outside doing stuff. Maybe radio sports are still a thing, but I'm thinking maybe not really. Open question-
"Does anybody even listen to radio broadcasts of sports anymore? "
I listen to the radio broadcasts of the Packers as well as Badgers football, basketball, and hockey teams, while watching the game on television. It requires an audio delay device, because the two are usually tens of seconds separated, with the TV always delayed (which isn't surprising considering modern day broadcast technology).
Nothing better than working on an engine in the garage while listening to a baseball game on a crackly AM radio.
‘Does anybody even listen to radio broadcasts of sports anymore?’
I listen to a random radio broadcast every week during the college football season. Some of the best entertainment available, especially from the smaller schools…
Re Scully: He was lyrical, I wish I had heard so much more of him. I listen to his call of Kirk Gibson’s Game 1 walkoff once in a while. While Gibson rounds the bases, Scully stays silent. Who would have the confidence and grace to do that? There’s nobody like him.
"Scully stays silent. Who would have the confidence and grace to do that? There’s nobody like him."
All of the great, and even the good. ones do. I remember Harry Caray on the Cardinal radio network, when an exciting play brought forth roars from the crowd, would bellow "Listen to the crowd!"
And then he would do just that.
@Jay Vogt, @ Jaq, I have very fond memories of my dad down in the basement, smoking his pipe in front of an old Ben Franklin stove, banging away at his typewriter for the alumni newsrag, with the Red Sox play-by-play crackling away in the background on the AM band. Good times.
I have been listening to the odd BlueJays game if it's on while I'm at work. It's a pretty good way to listen to the game and beats talking to my co-workers.
NHL Hockey has too much going on, too fast, for radio but baseball works very well.
…so I never had the privilege of listening to the radio call from Vin Scully on an odd Wednesday but for me one of the greatest calls in all of sport was Scully introducing Jack Nicklaus at the first Skins Game…I guess it is because golf is my sport but Vin casually introducing Jack and all his majors …a record six Masters, five PGA Championship, four US Opens, three British Opens…two US Amateurs…that will be the best call in all of sport ever..
Back in 2007 I remember listening to an NFL game on the radio, and it was impossible to follow the game. The announcers talked incessantly about everything but the game. Every now and then they'd mention the play that just happened then go right back to their gossip and gibberish. And I could hear the crowd noises, the whistles, the action at the scrimmage line, but the announcers were talking about food or somebody's college or something someone said...
Sports announcing today is terrible. They think people are watching to hear them talk, not see the sporting event.
i'm NOT sure that i can Imagine Uecker playing on GOD's team..
ANNOUNCING for GOD's team.. SURE
‘Does anybody even listen to radio broadcasts of sports anymore?’
Rural high school football is perfect for radio. No inane chatter. You know what the fields look like. You may even know some of the kids or their parents. Pleasantly retro.
so I never had the privilege of listening to the radio call from Vin Scully on an odd Wednesday
Back when I followed MLB (and the Dodgers were my team since 1974), I'd get the Extra Innings package through Comcast and then through MLB just to listen to Vin Scully.
There was nothing better than a Friday evening, puttering around in the yard and having the wireless headphones piping in Vin.
I'm grateful he's no longer around to witness what a woke shitshow the Dodger organization's become. Same goes for Tommy.
I was a huge Yankees fan as a kid, back in the late 70 and early 80s when the Brewers played in the American League. For some reason, I always liked the Brewers. Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Cecil Cooper, Ben Oglivie, Gorman Thomas...I haven't followed baseball since the player strikes, but it's amazing to me how much I remember from the old days.
Anyway, I spent a lot of time next to the radio, listening to the great NY Yankees announcing team of Bill White, Frank Messer, and Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto. They also did the TV play-by-play, rotating one-by-one between the booths during the games. They had such great on-air chemistry, and each is worth looking up on Wikipedia. Whenever I hear them on YouTube, I'm a 12 year old kid again.
Might be a bit improper to put out made-up communications from the other world when Charlie Kirk (pbuh) was just sent there involuntarily. I bet there is a large overlap on the Venn diagram of righties and baseball fans. CC, JSM
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