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ernie harwell

xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Posts: 9,241
edited May 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
I'm not as familiar as him as others but he still is one of the legends of baseball broadcasting.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100504/S ... dies-at-92
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    a detroit institution...rip ernie :(
  • CAVSTARR313CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    As a baseball fan and a life long Tigers fan, this is truly a sad day.. He is a legend around here and he will be missed..
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  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 27,814
    yea just heard. r.i.p
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  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    :(
    81 is now off the air

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  • letsongsprotestletsongsprotest Posts: 552
    RIP Ernie. Us here in Detroit will miss you
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  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    I took this last season when Ernie made his farewell speech.
    Seems appropriate today-
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneUm5_PrU0

    God bless Ernie Harwell.
    "The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
  • CAVSTARR313CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    milarso wrote:
    I took this last season when Ernie made his farewell speech.
    Seems appropriate today-
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneUm5_PrU0

    God bless Ernie Harwell.
    That is great man!! good job!! Those seats helped, I gotta roll to a game with you!!
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
    Abrn Hlls '98 - Clarkston 2 '03 - Grd Rpds '06 - Abrn Hlls '06 - Clvd '10 - PJ20 - Berlin 1+2 '12 - Wrigley '13 - Pitt '13- buff '13- Philly 1+2 '13 - Seattle '13
  • watsonj1982watsonj1982 Posts: 84
    RIP Ernie.
  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,618
    been through this last year when harry the k passed.

    rip ernie.


    they really dont make announcers like they used to...
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  • Heatherj43Heatherj43 Posts: 1,254
    A voice that will go down in history! RIP Ernie.
    Save room for dessert!
  • Phantom PainPhantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    The Jeagler wrote:
    been through this last year when harry the k passed.

    rip ernie.


    they really dont make announcers like they used to...

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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,618
    Phantom Pain wrote:
    The Jeagler wrote:
    been through this last year when harry the k passed.

    rip ernie.


    they really dont make announcers like they used to...

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    "alright thank you wheels!"

    i miss that 7th inning hand off
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  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    RIP Ernie Harwell. A true broadcast legend.
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  • The FixerThe Fixer Posts: 12,837
    The Jeagler wrote:
    been through this last year when harry the k passed.

    rip ernie.


    they really dont make announcers like they used to...

    beat me to it with kalas...RIP Ernie

    and vin scully is out after this year. baseball is losing some legends.

    dick enberg has been nice to hear during pads games
  • letsongsprotestletsongsprotest Posts: 552
    I just returned from Comerica Park where they are having a public viewing for any fan that wants to pay respects. Very classy. Dave Dombrowski (Tigers GM) was there shaking every fans hand and thanking them for coming out.

    Any Michiganders that can make it should try and do so if Ernie and the Tigers mean alot to you. Gates will be open until at least midnight they are saying. :o
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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Posts: 4,154
    Growing up in Flint, I remember listening to him on the radio. An amazing man with a great voice. He will always be synonymous with the Tigers for me.

    The only thing similar to me is when Jack Buck passed a few years ago.

    RIP Ernie.

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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    as a baseball fan it is sad that he passed. he made the game even more enjoyable
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  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    letsongsprotest wrote:
    I just returned from Comerica Park where they are having a public viewing for any fan that wants to pay respects. Very classy. Dave Dombrowski (Tigers GM) was there shaking every fans hand and thanking them for coming out.

    Any Michiganders that can make it should try and do so if Ernie and the Tigers mean alot to you. Gates will be open until at least midnight they are saying. :o

    I was down there around 12:30-1 p.m. and there was a line in front of the stadium that wrapped around the side. I was working (I'm a journalist) and I talked with one of the guys working there, and he said that he has never seen people lined up like that. It was a really classy move by the Tigers- it's obvious there were a lot of people who wanted to pay their respects.
    I talked to a guy who came from Bay City, and one who came all the way from Sault St. Marie.
    "The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Very classy mood by the Tigers, I was listening to Valente and Foster on the Ticket and Valente was just ripping people. People were taking pictures of him in the casket. Whats the fuck the matter with those people, whoever did that are sick fucks and are swimming at the shallow end of the gene pool.
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  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    lukin2006 wrote:
    Very classy mood by the Tigers, I was listening to Valente and Foster on the Ticket and Valente was just ripping people. People were taking pictures of him in the casket. Whats the fuck the matter with those people, whoever did that are sick fucks and are swimming at the shallow end of the gene pool.

    Yeah- it made no sense to me either. I'm not a huge fan of the whole open casket thing in any capacity- I understand it can give closure to some, but to me it's just creepy and morbid. But to pose in front of a dead person's casket as if it were some kind of Disney character is just sickening.
    "The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    milarso wrote:
    lukin2006 wrote:
    Very classy mood by the Tigers, I was listening to Valente and Foster on the Ticket and Valente was just ripping people. People were taking pictures of him in the casket. Whats the fuck the matter with those people, whoever did that are sick fucks and are swimming at the shallow end of the gene pool.

    Yeah- it made no sense to me either. I'm not a huge fan of the whole open casket thing in any capacity- I understand it can give closure to some, but to me it's just creepy and morbid. But to pose in front of a dead person's casket as if it were some kind of Disney character is just sickening.

    I couldn't agree with you more, I'm just so glad Valente addressed it the way he did with such disgust. When I hear stuff like that it just convinces me even more that where regressing as a society.
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

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  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Posts: 9,241
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vGEcx4RSZU
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Scully remembers 'gentle' Harwell

    LOS ANGELES -- Vin Scully didn't succeed Ernie Harwell as the Brooklyn Dodgers' play-by-play man in 1950, the Dodgers Hall of Fame announcer said Tuesday, he just happened to sit in Harwell's chair.

    Harwell, a Hall of Famer who spent 42 seasons with the Tigers, passed away Tuesday at 92. Harwell was with the Dodgers 1948-49, before Scully came into the job he still holds today.

    "He was so gracious and kind. Probably the best word: He was gentle," Scully said. "And it came across. He just cared for people. He loved baseball."

    Scully told the bizarre story of Harwell's arrival in Brooklyn. Red Barber had become ill with an ulcer during the 1948 season, so Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey called the independent Atlanta Crackers, where Rickey's friend, Arthur Mann, was an executive.

    "He said, 'Arthur, I need your announcer," Scully said. "And Arthur Mann said, I need a catcher. So the Dodgers sent Cliff Dapper to Atlanta, and Atlanta sent Ernie Harwell to Brooklyn. Ernie's the only announcer who's ever been involved in a trade. And it was a trade."

    http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd ... rId=rss_la
  • letsongsprotestletsongsprotest Posts: 552
    lukin2006 wrote:
    Very classy mood by the Tigers, I was listening to Valente and Foster on the Ticket and Valente was just ripping people. People were taking pictures of him in the casket. Whats the fuck the matter with those people, whoever did that are sick fucks and are swimming at the shallow end of the gene pool.
    I totally agree about not taking pics of a casket, but Valenti and his negativity about anything and everything has gotten tired.

    I remember when that show was worth listening to instead of the same old schtick they roll out everyday now
    There's a trapdoor in the sun.
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