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Old 02-28-2007, 02:45 AM   #12
Mormon Red Death
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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute View Post
Chick certainly was great. Hot Rod got so much of his on-air vocabulary from him.

What I liked best about him is that he wasn't Laker homer. His call was the same for both teams - enthusiastic as well as critical when needed. (Hot Rod is a Jazz homer, but I like what Frank Layden once said about that -"He better be a homer because the Jazz are paying him.")

There won't be another like Chick.
the guy you are all forgetting is Ernie Harwell...you probably dont know him because he was the tigers play by play guys for 50 years... He was vin sculley before vin sculley....

"That ball is Lonnnng goooone!"
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