What can you say about Bob Uecker? The broadcasting/entertainment/Milwaukee legend is in the midst of his 54th season as the voice of your Milwaukee Brewers. He’s 90 years old. He remains as sharp, witty, and listenable as ever. That time he encountered a furry convention in Pittsburgh remains an all-timer.
Anyway, if you’ve ever wanted to enjoy snippets of Uecker calls sprinkled into a seven-minute self-described “midtempo industrial mutant pop” song, now you can! Please enjoy the aptly titled “(Get Up Get Up) Get Out Of Here (Gone),” by Interbay—a.k.a. Wisconsin native and now-Seattle-based musician Peter Greyy. It’s pretty great!
Click HERE for the song.
On his Soundcloud page, Greyy shares some delightful Uecker/radio memories:
In my life, I’ve been lucky to live in places where truly amazing announcers have made the local sports teams meaningful, even to the less enthusiastic sports fans. Uecker in Milwaukee, Callabro with the Sonics (damn you David Stern…yes, still), Niehaus & Rizz (and Sims, really) for the Mariners…and I’ll throw Raible in there for the Seahawks.
One other great thing about having Uecker as the main radio voice for the Brewers was when I was working at a radio station that carried the Brewers games when they weren’t terribly good. Your job was to sit there and listen for certain key words in certain parts of the game which would be your clue to dump out of the game broadcast to play either local commercials or top of the hour station identification. It wasn’t the most exciting job in my radio career, certainly.
And then, there were rain delays…
You had to pay attention, because if the rain was too significant, the network would dump out of the game broadcast, and suddenly you were back in charge of normal programming–playing music, sharing the weather, etc.
On the other hand, if the rain wasn’t too heavy or if there were indications that it would clear up soon, they would stay with the broadcast…just with no game happening.
And being lucky enough to have Bob Uecker during a rain delay was something special. Sometimes, “Uke” would spin yards that were hilarious and mesmerizing…but occasionally, he’d get himself in the weeds and just ramble on–hoping just to fill time until the game could continue with something, anything…
Let me say that BOTH were entertaining as hell. It almost made me look forward to a bad forecast wherever the Brewers were playing when I was pulling a shift.
Almost.
Oh, and big props for including Uecker’s call of a Hank Aaron walk-off home run from 1976! [h/t Rick Katschke]
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