Get well Bob Uecker (1 Viewer)

[Pipes]

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/92205884.html

Thoughts and prayers for a successful surgery and a speedy recover to one of the best in the business. You're missing out if you've never heard one of his radio broadcasts...guy is amazing.

 

[FDAS]

In case you haven't noticed, and judging by the attendance you haven't, the Indians have managed to win a few here and there, and are threatening to climb out of the cellar.

 

[The Kerminator]

Brewer games on the radio won't be the same for the next couple of months. Get healthy soon Mr. Baseball!!!

 

[Softballguy]

Gonna be tough working outside this summer without listening to Uecker call the games. The guy has slipped a bit on his play-by-play ability, but he's still most enjoyable storyteller in the business.

Davey Nelson is going to be a trainwreck, mark my words. He seems like a nice guy, but he's more suited for TV and he's horrible at that.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

he's still most enjoyable storyteller in the business.

Always one of the best guests on talk shows going all the way back to Johnny Carson.

 

[Smack Tripper]

One of the best parts of getting the XM baseball package is tuning the Ueck or a Vin Scully and taking a drive at night listening to some living history. Get well Ueck!

 

[Eephus]

Uecker is one of those guys who's better in a blowout game than a close one.

 

[whoknew]

Artie Lange and Norm MacDonald tell some great Uecker stories. He's a funny guy.

 

[LadyBeBop]

Wishing you well, Ueck.

I have many fond memories of going to and listening to Brewer games while in college. In fact, for about 20 years, I had two favorite baseball teams, the Reds and the Brewers. After all, one was in the National League, and one was in the American League.

I hated reallignment...watching the Brewers move into the same division as the Reds.

 

[The Kerminator]

Uecker is one of those guys who's better in a blowout game than a close one.

Uecker's at his best when the game is lopsided.

 

[crewmember]

Artie Lange and Norm MacDonald tell some great Uecker stories. He's a funny guy.

Letterman - Norm MacDonald's Bob Uecker Story

Letterman - Artie Lange and the Cough Button

Howard Stern- Norm MacDonald Interviewed May 2009 Pt.2

starts in part 1 at 6:00 but pretty much just first two links rehashed, not cleaned up for letterman. too bad the frank sinatra/don dysdrale story is left out. if i remember correctly bob got drysdale locked up in trunk of a car thinking he was going to die from the mob. then they opened up the trunk out on a desert highway and bob came out and laughed and said "the bag is on you."

warning- all stories not of a "family nature"

 

[Mr.Pack]

Gonna be tough working outside this summer without listening to Uecker call the games. The guy has slipped a bit on his play-by-play ability, but he's still most enjoyable storyteller in the business.

Davey Nelson is going to be a trainwreck, mark my words. He seems like a nice guy, but he's more suited for TV and he's horrible at that.

Agreed, but Corey Provis should assume Uke's role I would think, so Nelson should only have a few innings a game.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Not one Mr. Belvedere reference?

There was a recent picture of him in "Sports Illustrated" standing by a pool watching two Brewers play ping-pong while wearing nothing but a Speedo.

That image is scorched onto my retina (though I have to say he is in excellent shape).

 

[Smack Tripper]

Artie Lange and Norm MacDonald tell some great Uecker stories. He's a funny guy.

Letterman - Norm MacDonald's Bob Uecker Story

Letterman - Artie Lange and the Cough Button

Howard Stern- Norm MacDonald Interviewed May 2009 Pt.2

starts in part 1 at 6:00 but pretty much just first two links rehashed, not cleaned up for letterman. too bad the frank sinatra/don dysdrale story is left out. if i remember correctly bob got drysdale locked up in trunk of a car thinking he was going to die from the mob. then they opened up the trunk out on a desert highway and bob came out and laughed and said "the bag is on you."

warning- all stories not of a "family nature"

POTD, These are amazing and hilarious! Oh man, made me re-love the Ueck all the more, hilarious!

 

[Softballguy]

Gonna be tough working outside this summer without listening to Uecker call the games. The guy has slipped a bit on his play-by-play ability, but he's still most enjoyable storyteller in the business.

Davey Nelson is going to be a trainwreck, mark my words. He seems like a nice guy, but he's more suited for TV and he's horrible at that.

Agreed, but Corey Provis should assume Uke's role I would think, so Nelson should only have a few innings a game.

They're announcing together, with Provus doing the play-by-play and Nelson as the color commentator. I was busy last night and only caught about 2 minutes of the radio broadcast, but Nelson sounded exactly like how I expected him to sound - stammering and unfocused, constantly talking about who he played with. I heard he did color in the past and was OK, but I'd have to hear it to believe it. I'll be listening on the drive back from the Bucks game tonight... I'm actually looking forward to it.