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Speaker 1 (00:03):
We learned this morning that legendary broadcaster, actor, and self
deprecating Hall of Famer Bob Buker passed away at the
age of ninety. He lived a very good and long life,
and a lot of us would take ninety I'm sure,
but I think that the legacy that he leaves is
one of humor. And while he was good enough to
(00:24):
play in the majors for a while and get a championship,
he always let everybody know he was definitely the twenty
fifth man on the field.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I think he was a better player than he gave
himself credit for. He would have never been on a roster,
but it's still just it's you know, the Hall of
Fame speech that he did is about twenty minutes long,
and if you ever get a chance to google that
and listen, that's twenty minutes of pure joy and entertainment.
I think that you're going to have now, if you
are under the age of I'm gonna go, I'm gonna say
(00:58):
forty five, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about.
I might as well be speaking a foreign language. But
I grew up in an era where every game was
not on television. Now today everything is on a streaming service.
Everything is on TV. So if you're in that twenty
five to forty five age, you may kind of cross
the line a little bit. But if you're thirty or
(01:19):
twenty five or younger, you've never seen a life where
all of your team's games weren't on TV. And if
you're certainly in that age, you don't know a life
without ESPN. I was fifteen, almost sixteen years old before
ESPN went on the air, and I didn't even get
it because we could not even get cable where we
(01:41):
lived until nineteen eighty five. There was something with the
way our lot in our house was constricted constructed that
they couldn't even get the cabling in there until a
certain era, and that was eighty and I got it
when I went to college in eighty three, but the
house I grew up in was not eligible for a
(02:01):
cable until eighty five, eighty six, somewhere around and there.
So I never saw ESPN except on places that had it.
But I had friends that had it, and we'd go watch,
you know, Georgetown and Syracuse play basketball, or go to
their house to watch things on ESPN. When ESPN had
the NBA and it's fledgling era, and so a lot
(02:22):
of people have grown up with TV broadcasters, and they
relate to Jim Nantz, and they relate to Al Michaels,
and they relate to Joe Buck who have made their.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Fame through television.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I listened and grew up listening to games on the radio,
and from the time I knew what sports was at
about six or seven years old, and still to this day,
I find the hometown call of a broadcast to be
very therapeutic and incredibly fun to listen to. I know
I'm in the minority on that, but I still think
it's Even if you are, you still check in with
(02:58):
your team, and you may not listen to every minute
of the game like I will. If I'm if I'm
driving from here to Houston or here to Dallas and
there's a baseball game on, I'm listening to the whole thing.
And I don't a lot of you want to listen
to music, or listen to a podcast, or listen to
a talk show. That's all great, but I'm listening to
the game and I can see the game usually through
(03:19):
what the announcer says. And for Milwaukee fans, Bob Uker
did that for fifty three years, and that's a pretty
amazing run. And my childhood was the game the OU games.
At the time, Oh you had seventy four and five
was on probation for playing an ineligible player in two
games and it didn't matter, and the NCAA through the
(03:41):
book Adam and ban them from TV for two years.
You'll never see anybody ever get banned from TV because
it's cost too much money for some teams not to
be on TV. Everybody's going to be on either ESPN
Plus or their games are going to be on a
linear television. So I listened to the OU announcers. I
listened to Jack Buck called Cardinals games. Later in life,
(04:03):
John Sterling called Yankee games. The Astros have had announcers
and the Rangers have had Eric day Deell forever. And
those are the people that I think are the voices
of summer that really allow you to become a huge
fan of your team because you can't go to every game.
And I often use this when I talk about announcers
either receiving awards or getting accolades of some kind, or
(04:27):
in this case, passing, And it goes to a speech
that Jack Buck made in nineteen eighty seven when he
was inducted into the Hall of Fame, and he said,
the radio announcer for a hometown team, for a local broadcast,
is the conduit between the team or between the fan
and are the team and the fan who has exiled
from the game. And he gave lot a list of
(04:49):
things as to why you may not be able to
go there. And this is one of the things that
I think sometimes team owners and leagues forget, because I
still think that fortunately they've they've corrected this. But Toronto
a couple of years ago got rid of it it's
radio broadcast and started simulcasting it's TV broadcast and that
(05:09):
lasted about a year maybe less, and they realized this
is two different mediums here.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
We got to go back to doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I think the Magic did that with TV and that
didn't work, and I believe they fixed that. And and
the uh, the conduit between your team. You get in
the car, you got it, you're watching the game on
TV and you need something at the store. You're gonna
jump in the car, turn it on and you're gonna
go and listen to your team. And then if you're
(05:37):
the game is on Saturday, but the family wants you
to go to the park. Now you can dial up
your app on your phone and listen to the game,
and so you can you can be more mobile than
you've ever been before, and no matter where you're at
in the world, you can keep up with your team.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Through your team's radio broadcaster.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And to me, that's the really cool thing about the business,
and it's one of the reasons I wanted to do
it when I started forty years ago, and and enjoy
that part of it. But when you have guys like
Bob Buker that have been are now in the Hall
of Fame in three and have been broadcasting for a
specific team for fifty three years, the next guy will
(06:13):
be Okay, the next guy will you'll get comfortable with
in three or four years, but you probably have as
long as you're around. If you ever heard Bob Buker
do a game, or you were a Brewers fan, just
like if you were a Dodgers fan with Vin Scully
or a Cowboys fan with Brad Sham or a Texans
fan with Mart Van de Meer right on down the line,
it becomes a little bit different when the next guy
(06:35):
steps in. But what a career for him. I love
the movie Major League. There's tons of lines from that movie,
a lot of them from him, always like the line
when you have a team whose attendance is down, And
the line in Major League was in case you haven't noticed,
and judging by the attendance, you haven't.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Stuff like that was pretty cool in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The way that they scripted it, but even better in
the way he delivered it. And I've heard you do
baseball games and still did a great job at the
latter parts of his life. But certainly somebody that the
sports world and the Brewer organization of Major League Baseball
is going to.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Miss see What's What's kind of funny and ironic for
me is I didn't even realize that that particular guy,
Bob Yuker was actually a baseball player. And like you
mentioned a you know a broadcaster jumps.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, I know him from the movie Major League and
from mister Belvidere if you watch that.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I was a little young. I was a little too
young for mister Belvedere. I know of it, but I
didn't really watch it. But yeah, so I grew up
with him, and he is more iconic to me as
an actor and then you know, when I found out,
I was like, oh, he's actually, you know, a baseball
guy and actually does this for a living.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And played for ten years in the majors. Yeah. So,
and like how you were saying, it's I kind of
put it.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
As like you you grow with these individuals like Brad
Sham you mentioned John Sterling, uh, and you know Bob Buker.
It's almost when you hear their voices when you're when
you're you know, following your team and you hear their voice,
it's a sense of comfort and a sense of like
(08:19):
almost family to a certain extent. Definitely, it's it's an
extra you know, like you mentioned, it's them trying to
paint the picture for for the fans that cannot be there.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well and the and I think in their history the
Spurs have had four announcers, uh, Terry Stambridge, Sam Smith,
Jay Howard and Bill Shooning. And I remember Bill telling
when we have Bill on and we talked stories. He
grew up in Philadelphia, so I think he was young
enough to hear by Sam who was the one of
(08:54):
the legendary voices of the Phillies. And after he left,
Harry Callis, who was not only a legendary voice of
the Phillies, but did a lot of NFL stuff as well.
So there's they all got of got that for a
lot of us that are forty five plus listening to
those guys on the radio was I knew at a
really young age I was not going to play this,
(09:16):
any of these games for a living. And if somebody
wanted Jimmy Butler me and give me fifty three million dollars,
I'm all in. But I was never going to be
good enough to do that. And this was the way
I could get connected to the game. And I know
Bill's that way and a lot of the other announcers.
And then you take somebody like Bob Bucker, who was
good enough to have a couple of cups of coffee
in the majors but then partlaid that into a fifty
(09:38):
year broadcasting career. It's pretty cool, all right. Live Golf
has a TV deal. My first reaction is is who cares?
But I don't think it's going to make a big difference,
because I really don't care about their tournaments to begin with.
But since they got a TV deal and it's with
a legitimate broadcaster, I'll tell you what I think about it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Next, it's the Andy Everett Show. On the ticket
We learned this morning that legendary broadcaster, actor, and self
deprecating Hall of Famer Bob Buker passed away at the
age of ninety. He lived a very good and long life,
and a lot of us would take ninety I'm sure,
but I think that the legacy that he leaves is
one of humor. And while he was good enough to
(00:24):
play in the majors for a while and get a championship,
he always let everybody know he was definitely the twenty
fifth man on the field.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I think he was a better player than he gave
himself credit for. He would have never been on a roster,
but it's still just it's you know, the Hall of
Fame speech that he did is about twenty minutes long,
and if you ever get a chance to google that
and listen, that's twenty minutes of pure joy and entertainment.
I think that you're going to have now, if you
are under the age of I'm gonna go, I'm gonna say
(00:58):
forty five, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about.
I might as well be speaking a foreign language. But
I grew up in an era where every game was
not on television. Now today everything is on a streaming service.
Everything is on TV. So if you're in that twenty
five to forty five age, you may kind of cross
the line a little bit. But if you're thirty or
(01:19):
twenty five or younger, you've never seen a life where
all of your team's games weren't on TV. And if
you're certainly in that age, you don't know a life
without ESPN. I was fifteen, almost sixteen years old before
ESPN went on the air, and I didn't even get
it because we could not even get cable where we
(01:41):
lived until nineteen eighty five. There was something with the
way our lot in our house was constricted constructed that
they couldn't even get the cabling in there until a
certain era, and that was eighty and I got it
when I went to college in eighty three, but the
house I grew up in was not eligible for a
(02:01):
cable until eighty five, eighty six, somewhere around and there.
So I never saw ESPN except on places that had it.
But I had friends that had it, and we'd go watch,
you know, Georgetown and Syracuse play basketball, or go to
their house to watch things on ESPN. When ESPN had
the NBA and it's fledgling era, and so a lot
(02:22):
of people have grown up with TV broadcasters, and they
relate to Jim Nantz, and they relate to Al Michaels,
and they relate to Joe Buck who have made their.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Fame through television.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I listened and grew up listening to games on the radio,
and from the time I knew what sports was at
about six or seven years old, and still to this day,
I find the hometown call of a broadcast to be
very therapeutic and incredibly fun to listen to. I know
I'm in the minority on that, but I still think
it's Even if you are, you still check in with
(02:58):
your team, and you may not listen to every minute
of the game like I will. If I'm if I'm
driving from here to Houston or here to Dallas and
there's a baseball game on, I'm listening to the whole thing.
And I don't a lot of you want to listen
to music, or listen to a podcast, or listen to
a talk show. That's all great, but I'm listening to
the game and I can see the game usually through
(03:19):
what the announcer says. And for Milwaukee fans, Bob Uker
did that for fifty three years, and that's a pretty
amazing run. And my childhood was the game the OU games.
At the time, Oh you had seventy four and five
was on probation for playing an ineligible player in two
games and it didn't matter, and the NCAA through the
(03:41):
book Adam and ban them from TV for two years.
You'll never see anybody ever get banned from TV because
it's cost too much money for some teams not to
be on TV. Everybody's going to be on either ESPN
Plus or their games are going to be on a
linear television. So I listened to the OU announcers. I
listened to Jack Buck called Cardinals games. Later in life,
(04:03):
John Sterling called Yankee games. The Astros have had announcers
and the Rangers have had Eric day Deell forever. And
those are the people that I think are the voices
of summer that really allow you to become a huge
fan of your team because you can't go to every game.
And I often use this when I talk about announcers
either receiving awards or getting accolades of some kind, or
(04:27):
in this case, passing, And it goes to a speech
that Jack Buck made in nineteen eighty seven when he
was inducted into the Hall of Fame, and he said,
the radio announcer for a hometown team, for a local broadcast,
is the conduit between the team or between the fan
and are the team and the fan who has exiled
from the game. And he gave lot a list of
(04:49):
things as to why you may not be able to
go there. And this is one of the things that
I think sometimes team owners and leagues forget, because I
still think that fortunately they've they've corrected this. But Toronto
a couple of years ago got rid of it it's
radio broadcast and started simulcasting it's TV broadcast and that
(05:09):
lasted about a year maybe less, and they realized this
is two different mediums here.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
We got to go back to doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I think the Magic did that with TV and that
didn't work, and I believe they fixed that. And and
the uh, the conduit between your team. You get in
the car, you got it, you're watching the game on
TV and you need something at the store. You're gonna
jump in the car, turn it on and you're gonna
go and listen to your team. And then if you're
(05:37):
the game is on Saturday, but the family wants you
to go to the park. Now you can dial up
your app on your phone and listen to the game,
and so you can you can be more mobile than
you've ever been before, and no matter where you're at
in the world, you can keep up with your team.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Through your team's radio broadcaster.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And to me, that's the really cool thing about the business,
and it's one of the reasons I wanted to do
it when I started forty years ago, and and enjoy
that part of it. But when you have guys like
Bob Buker that have been are now in the Hall
of Fame in three and have been broadcasting for a
specific team for fifty three years, the next guy will
(06:13):
be Okay, the next guy will you'll get comfortable with
in three or four years, but you probably have as
long as you're around. If you ever heard Bob Buker
do a game, or you were a Brewers fan, just
like if you were a Dodgers fan with Vin Scully
or a Cowboys fan with Brad Sham or a Texans
fan with Mart Van de Meer right on down the line,
it becomes a little bit different when the next guy
(06:35):
steps in. But what a career for him. I love
the movie Major League. There's tons of lines from that movie,
a lot of them from him, always like the line
when you have a team whose attendance is down, And
the line in Major League was in case you haven't noticed,
and judging by the attendance, you haven't.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Stuff like that was pretty cool in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The way that they scripted it, but even better in
the way he delivered it. And I've heard you do
baseball games and still did a great job at the
latter parts of his life. But certainly somebody that the
sports world and the Brewer organization of Major League Baseball
is going to.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Miss see What's What's kind of funny and ironic for
me is I didn't even realize that that particular guy,
Bob Yuker was actually a baseball player. And like you
mentioned a you know a broadcaster jumps.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, I know him from the movie Major League and
from mister Belvidere if you watch that.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I was a little young. I was a little too
young for mister Belvedere. I know of it, but I
didn't really watch it. But yeah, so I grew up
with him, and he is more iconic to me as
an actor and then you know, when I found out,
I was like, oh, he's actually, you know, a baseball
guy and actually does this for a living.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And played for ten years in the majors. Yeah. So,
and like how you were saying, it's I kind of
put it.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
As like you you grow with these individuals like Brad
Sham you mentioned John Sterling, uh, and you know Bob Buker.
It's almost when you hear their voices when you're when
you're you know, following your team and you hear their voice,
it's a sense of comfort and a sense of like
(08:19):
almost family to a certain extent. Definitely, it's it's an
extra you know, like you mentioned, it's them trying to
paint the picture for for the fans that cannot be there.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well and the and I think in their history the
Spurs have had four announcers, uh, Terry Stambridge, Sam Smith,
Jay Howard and Bill Shooning. And I remember Bill telling
when we have Bill on and we talked stories. He
grew up in Philadelphia, so I think he was young
enough to hear by Sam who was the one of
(08:54):
the legendary voices of the Phillies. And after he left,
Harry Callis, who was not only a legendary voice of
the Phillies, but did a lot of NFL stuff as well.
So there's they all got of got that for a
lot of us that are forty five plus listening to
those guys on the radio was I knew at a
really young age I was not going to play this,
(09:16):
any of these games for a living. And if somebody
wanted Jimmy Butler me and give me fifty three million dollars,
I'm all in. But I was never going to be
good enough to do that. And this was the way
I could get connected to the game. And I know
Bill's that way and a lot of the other announcers.
And then you take somebody like Bob Bucker, who was
good enough to have a couple of cups of coffee
in the majors but then partlaid that into a fifty
(09:38):
year broadcasting career. It's pretty cool, all right. Live Golf
has a TV deal. My first reaction is is who cares?
But I don't think it's going to make a big difference,
because I really don't care about their tournaments to begin with.
But since they got a TV deal and it's with
a legitimate broadcaster, I'll tell you what I think about it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Next, it's the Andy Everett Show. On the ticket
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