"Swung on...belted!" Well, baseball fans, you thankfully won't hear that call anymore. Yesterday, after a really bad postseason, Chip Caray won't be calling any more MLB games on TBS Sports. According to the New York Times, Chip parted company with TBS following a series of botched calls during the network's postseason broadcasts, starting with the embarrassing call he made during the Tigers/Twins' A.L. Central play-in game. You know the one.
"Line drive. Base hit. Caught out there. The runner tags. Throw to the plate. On target. And in time! A double play!" 
Turner Sports' President David Levy didn't necessarily name a replacement for Chip, who was TBS' lead PBP each of the last 2 seasons on the network's national Sunday afternoon & playoff broadcasts.
Chip was also one of the voices of the Atlanta Braves on Peachtree TV, a regional cable network down South and had time left on his contract there. Levy said that Turner was looking at a
"number of candidates" to replace Chip with both the Braves regionally and TBS nationally. After calling Cubs' games on WGN in the late '90s and early 2000s, Chip left Chicago completely to join his father Skip on TBS' national coverage of the Braves. Skip had called Braves' games for some 3 decades before his death, and of course, Chip's grandfather Harry called Cardinals, Cubs & White Sox games before he died a decade ago.
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