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 Post subject: Ernie Harwell
PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:25 pm 
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Looooong time voice of the Tigers passed today. He was 92.
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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
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Great baseball voice. He knew the game like few still broadcasting. RIP Ernie.

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We're down to Scully. The legends are replaced by cookie-cutter vanilla guys. Len and Bob are good, but damn there's a lot of big-voiced crap with mikes in front of them.
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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 9:26 pm 
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Hawk is nearing legendary status if he can put together another 10 years.

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newper wrote:
Hawk is nearing legendary status if he can put together another 10 years.

STRETCH...

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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
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Mr. Reason wrote:
newper wrote:
Hawk is nearing legendary status if he can put together another 10 years.

STRETCH...

Well, he's certainly no cookie-cutter vanilla guy.

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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
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newper wrote:
Mr. Reason wrote:
newper wrote:
Hawk is nearing legendary status if he can put together another 10 years.

STRETCH...

Well, he's certainly no cookie-cutter vanilla guy.

Well then, since he isn't one of those, in turn that makes him legendary?

I reiterate...STRETCH...

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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
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Well then, since he isn't one of those, in turn that makes him legendary?

I reiterate...STRETCH...

Yeah, if the guy broadcasts for 30 years and has three or four very well known catch phrases, that's pretty decent. I'll talk to you in 2050 and we can debate this then. I do not wish to disrespect Mr. Harwell here. This is his thread. This isn't two for the price of one.

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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
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newper wrote:
Mr. Reason wrote:
Well then, since he isn't one of those, in turn that makes him legendary?

I reiterate...STRETCH...

Yeah, if the guy broadcasts for 30 years and has three or four very well known catch phrases, that's pretty decent. I'll talk to you in 2050 and we can debate this then. I do not wish to disrespect Mr. Harwell here. This is his thread. This isn't two for the price of one.

Okay, in newper's book, pretty decent=legendary, gotcha. Mark Grace was a legendary first baseman, then.

I hope I will be able to talk to you about this in 2050.

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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
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People will say he was legendary, just because he was around a long time. That sounds about right.

You old people put us young people at a disadvantage, because you build up everything that existed during your youth, regardless of how mediocre it was (not to say Harwell was mediocre, I have no idea).

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That is true for anybody. Maybe because of the emotional attachment.
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I don't like having 3 sixes in my post count so I'm making this one.
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I don't like having 3 sixes in my post count so I'm making this one.


Good stuff.
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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
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Peoria Matt wrote:
We're down to Scully.


Don't forget Marty Brenneman.
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Peoria Matt wrote:
We're down to Scully. The legends are replaced by cookie-cutter vanilla guys. Len and Bob are good, but damn there's a lot of big-voiced crap with mikes in front of them.


You beat me to it. Well said.

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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2010 8:03 am 
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you guys may have a point- maybe it's just nostalgia.

i didn't hear a lot of Ernie Harwell but i did hear some- a few highlights being when he broadcast when Clemens was going for 300 at Tiger Stadium, and i saw the game they honored him too.

but baseball IS a game of nostalgia, and to hear a comforting voice from yore in this day and age is well, comforting. and obviously i don't know anything about the man personally but from everything i saw he seemed to be a very loving, caring, loyal and humble man. i think he will be missed dearly even outside of Detroit.
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 Post subject: Re: Ernie Harwell
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I didn't grow up in Detriot. I didn't grow up in California either, but I live there now. And if I didn't live there during baseball season, I would listen to Vin Scully. Ernie Harwell, we will all miss him dearly. He is a legend thats for sure. Or was a legend. He is one of the few legends that are left. One of them sits right next to me. No, not you Darrin, he's on the other side of this wall here. There isn't many left, thats for sure. I saw my friend Jim Lovell the other day, he is one of the few legendary astronauts left from the Apollo days. He was here doing something at the Planetarium. At least I think thats where he was, I wouldn't think he would be here for the Art Museum. Did you ever see Apollo 13, Darrin? Its about a mission to the moon that failed. Hard to believe we had a man walk on the moon. And its hard to believe that Ernie Harwell isn't with us anymore.

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rogers park bryan wrote:
Ed Farmer wrote:
I saw my friend Jim Lovell the other day,

:lol: :lol: :lol:


You want Commander Lovell? Take the Metra Milwaukee North to Lake Forest. Restaurant across the street is owned by Lovell's son. Jim does meet-n-greet there. Except on his days off, when Tom Hanks fills in.

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Ed Farmer wrote:
I didn't grow up in Detriot. I didn't grow up in California either, but I live there now. And if I didn't live there during baseball season, I would listen to Vin Scully. Ernie Harwell, we will all miss him dearly. He is a legend thats for sure. Or was a legend. He is one of the few legends that are left. One of them sits right next to me. No, not you Darrin, he's on the other side of this wall here. There isn't many left, thats for sure. I saw my friend Jim Lovell the other day, he is one of the few legendary astronauts left from the Apollo days. He was here doing something at the Planetarium. At least I think thats where he was, I wouldn't think he would be here for the Art Museum. Did you ever see Apollo 13, Darrin? Its about a mission to the moon that failed. Hard to believe we had a man walk on the moon. And its hard to believe that Ernie Harwell isn't with us anymore.



Just now seeing this. Ed Farmer mult moving up the list, big time...

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