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  • petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    RIP Harry the K...you ARE the man
    Shows:
    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • wilfmisswilfmiss Posts: 196
    I heard his voice more growing up than my own father's.
    3-29-94-FL/9-24-96-MD/9-18-98-MD/9-05-00-PA/4-26-03-PA/5-03-03-PA/7-12-03-PA/10-1-04-PA/9-19-05-ON/9-28-05-PA/5-09-06-ON/5-10-06-ON/6-23-06-PA/6-19-08-NJ/10-28-09-PA/5-20-10-NY/5-21-10-NY/9-11-11-ON/9-12-11-ON/9-2-12-PA/9-22-12-GA/10-11-13-PA/10-18-13-NY/10-19-13-NY/10-16-14-MI/9-26-15-NY/4-9-16-FL/4-11-16-FL/8-8-18-WA/8-10-18-WA
  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    Sad day for EVERY one ...

    Kalas was a VERY familiar voice to all those that watched NFL Films ...

    and example so you know who he is ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofL-0BYALS8

    and for non-sports/non Superbowl folks ... he also narated the Puppy Bowls ....

    http://animal.discovery.com/videos/pupp ... oment.html
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  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    One of the all time greats. R.I.P.
  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    dam! thats so sad... he was one of my favs. sad day in baseball. god dam.. i just watched the phillies yesterday.

    RIP Harry
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


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  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,811
    Well if you believe in these things, he and Whitey are together again.

    I was devastated when Whitey died, now Harry. So sad.

    Very sad day in Phils history for sure.
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  • Blind3Blind3 Posts: 1,149
    6,000 plus games called for the Phillies . Since 1971. He was like a member of the family for over thirty seven years. He and Whitey together again...Gotta smile at that thought. After the disappointment of not being able to call the 1980 series, I'm really glad he finally got to call the 08 championship ! RIP HARRY !!!!!!!!!!
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  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    What a freaking day. With this and finding out my grandpa just slipped into a coma - I just want to be drinking heavily right now.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • RPR77RPR77 Posts: 112
    RIP Harry. Listening to the Phils will never be the same again.
    6-19-08 Camden I 8-17-08 EV DC II 10-27-09 Philly Night I row 5 10-28-09 Philly Night II row 6 Dead center,10-30-09 Philly Night III section 202, 10-31-09 Philly Night IV section 310, 10-21-13 Philly I PIT, 10-22-13 Philly II PIT
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  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    i hate to be dramatic, this really feels kind of devestating right now. my oldest memories are listening to harry kalas on the radio outside on warm summer nights.

    it's true that phils games will never be the same. :(
  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,811
    it totally blows. It truly will not be the same. I just want to sit down and cry.

    Joe I will keep your grandfather in my prayers
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    PureandEasy wrote:
    it totally blows. It truly will not be the same. I just want to sit down and cry.

    Joe I will keep your grandfather in my prayers

    Same here Joe...hang in there
    Shows:
    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    very sad day for the baseball world. My thoughts are with the kalas family. Nfanel its not being overdramtic at all you grew up listening to him. I felt like this when bob murphy died. mets radio games still aren't the same for me. Again deepest thoughts to the kalas family and to philly fans
    Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    "Struck him out! the Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world series champions of baseball" I cried then and I cried today hearing that moment again...God Bless you Harry
    Shows:
    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • Phantom PainPhantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    petrocs wrote:
    "Struck him out! the Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world series champions of baseball" I cried then and I cried today hearing that moment again...God Bless you Harry

    Ugh....I have it on my phone I played it after I heard the news

    I will say I was able to attend the last home game with Harry where he threw out the first pitch at the Ring ceremony

    What a sad day :cry::cry:

    I will miss you Harry
    My drinking team has a hockey problem

    The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill



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  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    petrocs wrote:
    "Struck him out! the Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world series champions of baseball" I cried then and I cried today hearing that moment again...God Bless you Harry
    gives me chills every time!

    they keep playing soundbites on mmr between commercials.

    i'm at work, not watching the game, but they said victorino pointed up to the broadcasting booth when he hit the homer.
  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    This was a nice read:

    I imagine I have been to a baseball game where I cared less but, sitting here in Nationals Park less than 2 hours after Harry Kalas died here, I cannot remember one.

    I am sure I have seen more heartbroken people, but I will never forget Larry Andersen, standing there, crying, recalling the time in 1993 when Kalas stood in the Phillies' victorious clubhouse and sang "High Hopes," and how Andersen said he wasn't sure he ever wants to hear the song again.

    I know I have seen people deal with grim public duty before, but the ashen face of Phillies president David Montgomery -- when he told a knot of reporters in a Nationals Park hallway that Kalas had died -- was indelible. And when Montgomery said, simply, "We lost our voice," the rest was superfluous.

    I know that life goes on, and that Harry would be the first on to tell you that, but they would not have played this game under the same circumstances if we had been in Philadelphia -- not because it is disrespectful, because it isn't, but because, well, I cannot imagine the public grief in Citizens Bank Park.

    I imagine I have been to a baseball game where I cared less but, sitting here in Nationals Park less than 2 hours after Harry Kalas died, I cannot remember one.

    - Rich Hoffman of the Daily News
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    that's sad.....rip
    Happiness is only real when shared
  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    to those in the Philly area.. Harry's final broadcast (Sunday's game vs Colorado) is on Comcast Sportsnet now (7:30PM EST on Monday)... enjoy...
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  • SnaggletoothSnaggletooth Posts: 63
    I am devastated, terrible day, terrible week, terrible month. RIP Harry.
  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    Fitting tribute from Jason Stark of ESPN.com

    http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/s ... id=4066189
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  • Phantom PainPhantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    chromiam wrote:
    Fitting tribute from Jason Stark of ESPN.com

    http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/s ... id=4066189

    Wow..he summed it up very well for how the fans feel

    How fitting its going to rain here for 2 straight days
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  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    Phantom Pain wrote:
    chromiam wrote:
    Fitting tribute from Jason Stark of ESPN.com

    http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/s ... id=4066189

    Wow..he summed it up very well for how the fans feel

    How fitting its going to rain here for 2 straight days

    As someone said, even God has to cry alittle over the passing of Harry.
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  • Jearlpam0925Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,161
    I don't come around here much anymore...but thought I'd just say hello to the Philly peoples...It's fitting it's raining out. I think we all can feel for each other and what we're experiencing together. The guy was pretty much a part of our families. From the time I was a baby until this past summer, being on the beach down the shore will never be the same - let alone listening/watching any game for that matter. There was nothing better than listening to the Phils on the beach of North Wildwood with a mini cooler packed with High Life bottles resting next to my chair and a radio on the other side. Just shooting the shit with my buddies until we ran out of shit to talk about and then letting Harry take over, which inevitably ended with his somber tone usually rocking me to sleep in my chair looking at the ocean. Good times.

    Today's been exponentially worse than I thought it would have been. Going to sleep to Comcast running non-stop reels and waking up to Mike & Mike coming on my clock radio talking for a good 45 minutes about the man. It's good to notice the appreciation he's getting the entire country over. David Montgomery was dead on by saying "we lost our voice."
  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    Anyone catch the special Channel 12 ran last night at 7:30 about Harry. I didn't get to post it because I only had time to set my dvr before going bowling but it was great.

    It was crazy to learn during the special that the only reason that Kalas was hired was because the Phils got a new sponsor at the Vet - Schmidt's beer and demanded that the pitchman for the prior beer (Ballantine's) that sponsored the Phillies - Bill Campbell - be replaced.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,811
    No I didn't see that Channel 12 Special but I remember years ago seeing a biography of Harry on something. It might have been something associated with the Tim McCarver show, I can't remember, but that's basically where I learned Harry's history of staring in Hawaii, going to Houston and coming here to Philly.

    This is just so hard to fatham, Harry not calling games anymore.

    And the fact that he called every single home run hit by Mike Schmidt is a feat in itself. That's fucking amazing.

    It is fitting that it is a rainy dreary day here in Philly as the entire city is in mourning. It's unbeliveable how much one game can bring so much joy in October and then just blow you away wtih sadness 6 short months later.
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  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    Another article about what Harry meant to this city...

    http://www.comcast.net/sports/russakoff ... outtahere/

    And if you have a chance check out Bill Conlin's article on philly.com.... a great recollection of what made Harry so memorable and loved in Philly.
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  • Jearlpam0925Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,161
    Oh, and "High Hopes" should be played at the 7th inning stretch at every Phils home game for now on...
  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,811
    chromiam wrote:
    Another article about what Harry meant to this city...

    http://www.comcast.net/sports/russakoff ... outtahere/

    And if you have a chance check out Bill Conlin's article on philly.com.... a great recollection of what made Harry so memorable and loved in Philly.

    I think Bill Conlin is an excellent writer but I can't stand the mofo. I grew up with his family and was once very close to both his daughter and his oldest son.

    But I did enjoy his article about Harry today.
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  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    PureandEasy wrote:
    chromiam wrote:
    Another article about what Harry meant to this city...

    http://www.comcast.net/sports/russakoff ... outtahere/

    And if you have a chance check out Bill Conlin's article on philly.com.... a great recollection of what made Harry so memorable and loved in Philly.

    I think Bill Conlin is an excellent writer but I can't stand the mofo. I grew up with his family and was once very close to both his daughter and his oldest son.

    But I did enjoy his article about Harry today.

    Yeah Conlin is usually hit and miss (more misses over his later years), but he always seems to shine during times like these...
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