Running 2011 Baseball Thread, Vol. I: Dedicated to spnited

Never heard the Astros radio guy until tonight. How does Milo Whatshisname get hired to announce T-ball in Lufkin, much less a major league game?

 

Milo Hamilton?

He's a Frick Award winner and has been with the Astros for years.

You'll recognize his call of Hank Aaron's record breaking home run from his time with the Braves.

 

Hamilton and Harry Caray hated each other. Caray supposedly got Hamilton fired by the Cubs in 1984, and Hamilton trashed Harry both after Caray's death and in his autobiography.

 

Must have been the Waste Management trashing of Harry, designed to be read while sitting on Gallery Furniture.

 

You can't blame him for that.

And, if there's a radio cast with more in game sponsor mentions/live reads than a Yankee' game I'd (not) like to hear it.

It's unbelievable how cluttered they are.

I should know this, but does anyone know when that started?

 

Pretty sure I met the man when I was doing the Astros spring training for AP

 

There is no team that can match the Cardinals in total douchebaggery. Enjoy your 10-game break, Yadi. Even Roberto Alomar stopped after one spitwad torward the umpire.

 

Tigers up three on Cleveland, soon to be six on White Sox. Niiiice.

 

Fun times in Seattle tonight as the M's and Oakland do battle for the AL West basement.

First inning, Brendan Ryan beats a throw to first on a one-out infield single. The shortstop dove deep into the hole, knocked it down, but his throw was late.

As he walked back to first base, Ryan sees no one covering second, and runs past the A's first baseman, who has no one to throw to at second.

The Oakland third baseman wanders toward second belatedly, leaving third base open, so Ryan popped up from his slide and motored over to third, too.

Great stuff ... officially scored as a single, reaching third on a fielder's choice. Also known as a "Little League triple."

 

I was listening to an Astros game on Sirius recently, and found it quite funny that they play "Deep in the Heart of Texas" on the radio during the 7th-inning stretch.

How long has that been a tradition?

 

IIRC from Curt Smith's book, Hamilton was going to take over for Jack Brickhouse after he retired, but in the offseason, Harry left the White Sox when Reinsdorf wanted to move most of the ChiSox games to a pay channel (a radical idea then) and the Cubs swooned.

 

That's brilliant. I've got to see that clip.