Thread: "One thousand one..."
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Old Sun Nov 02, 2008, 11:04am
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Originally Posted by JJ View Post
Ya just gotta love announcers. How about tonight's game when Charlie Manual came out to talk to HP umpire Jeff Kellogg - the announcers speculated he was complaining the submariner wasn't pausing in his stretch. Then I heard it - "The pitcher has to stop for "one thousand one"...."

Now THAT'S entertainment!

I could be an announcer when I give up umping...no, I'm over qualified.

JJ
I paused the game, John, and wrote that McCarverism down into the book on McCarver I'm writing. Damn thing's up to 700 pages I think. I'm never gonna get this thing finished.
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