RIP Skip Caray

[Moderator1]

A good guy

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/braves/stories/2008/08/03/skip_caray_dies.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

 

[forever_town]

Here's the link.

 

[forever_town]

Re: RIP Skip Carey

Beat me by a few seconds.

Please delete my thread. Thanks.

And RIP Skip Caray.

 

[zeke12]

Re: RIP Skip Carey

Anyone know how old he was? Story doesn't say.

 

[deskslave]

Re: RIP Skip Carey

Anyone know how old he was? Story doesn't say.

I wanna say something like 67? In that range, anyway.

 

[forever_town]

Re: RIP Skip Carey

Anyone know how old he was? Story doesn't say.

68, according to Wikipedia.

 

[Moderator1]

Re: RIP Skip Carey

I just merged them. And I agree - RIP. He had no reason to remember anything about me but every time he saw me he acted like we were old friends.

 

[forever_town]

Re: RIP Skip Carey

Isn't it Caray?

Indeed it is.

 

[Moderator1]

Yes, it is, which is why I fixed it.

 

[Lamar Mundane]

He was a wonderful friend I welcomed into my home most summer days during high school.

God Bless.

 

[mike311gd]

I don't think I've ever done anyone's voice as much as his. I'll never think of Greg McMichael without thinking of Skip Caray.

 

[PeteyPirate]

I think there was one summer I watched every single Braves game on TBS.

Swung, line drive left field ... one run is in ... here comes Bream ... here's the throw to the plate ... and he iiiiiiiiiiis, SAFE! BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN!

 

[BYH]

I don't think I've ever done anyone's voice as much as his. I'll never think of Greg McMichael without thinking of Skip Caray.

I agree. I can't say the words "Chipper Jones" without doing a Skip imitation.

RIP.

 

[micropolitan guy]

In the 1970s his humor was the only reason to watch the Braves. I watched WTBS all the time.

As he used to say in the ninth when the Braves had a (rare) lead in those days, "It's not coctail time, but you can put the ice in the glass."

 

[Songbird]

this latchkey kid spent many lonely days hunkered in front of the tv watching caray-called braves games.

 

[Boomer7]

Wow -- I'd heard him for the first time in years the other day on XM. Didn't even know he was still calling games after TBS switched from the Braves to the national package. RIP.

 

[deskslave]

Obit from the Braves' site. Apparently he missed the weekend series with bronchitis. This afternoon, he lay down for a nap and just never got up. There are, I suppose, worse ways to go.

http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080803&content_id=3250339&vkey=news_atl&fext=.jsp&c_id=atl

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I grew up watching the Braves on TBS.

You may not have liked his style but he was good people.

:'(

 

[buckweaver]

Oh man oh man. Terrible, terrible news. A huge part of my childhood, nay my life, is gone. Thoughts and prayers to Chip and the family. RIP Skip. Oh, man, this sucks.

 

[BigRed]

RIP, Skip. I'm a Cubs fan and was a huge fan of Harry Caray, but after moving to the South about a decade ago, I learned to enjoy Skip's subtle charms on radio while driving wherever I was going from April-October (I already enjoyed him when I watched the Bravos on TBS).
It was obvious that he wasn't feeling well - the link mentioned he had a brush with death last October - and I was struck by how thin his voice sounded this season.
Still, I didn't expect this.
I guess he's promised to patronize all of his sponsors, and now he's free to go walk the dog inside the pearly gates (Braves fans know what I'm talking about).