RIP Bob Uecker

[dixiehack]

Baseball just got less fun.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Hope he is able to get a seat in the front row up in heaven now ...

 

[Gutter]

In tears as I type this. I just had a bad feeling listening to him sign off from the Game 3 heartbreaker that he might not see Opening Day and he just called his last game. You could tell it in his voice.

I have more to say about what Bob meant to my childhood. I'll post it later.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Sixteen days in and I already hate 2025.

I read his book Catcher in the Wry as a junior high kid and always wanted to visit Craters of the Moon, Idaho.

RIP to an authentically funny guy.

 

[dixiehack]

I turn 50 this year and it was a long time, like a really long time before I ever knew he did games on the radio. It may not have been until I got an XM radio, started scanning through games one night and … huh, that's Bob Uecker! And he's good at this! And it isn't a full-time comedy routine.

 

[Scout]

Juuuuuust a bit outside.

RIP

 

[jr/shotglass]

Aw, Uke.

It's hard to add anything to what's already been said. RIP.

 

[garrow]

An inspiring person. RIP.

Here he is with Tip O'Neill.

 

[Liut]

He loved his hometown and state, and the people loved him back.
May he and Jim Irwin toast a brandy in Heaven.
RIP Mr. Baseball

 

[hondo]

The hell with it.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Forever in the front row.

Rest now, sir.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Cross him off then.