Hal says Nuxhall didn't make it

by justin0070000 on Feb 19, 2008 1:38 PM EST Comment 46 comments

Ridiculous - JD

It isn't official until 2:00PM but the Reds PR hasn't gotten a heads up. They received advanced notice when Marty was voted into the HoF. This is a little ridiculous. I realize that he wasn't the best announcer, but he was Cincinnati fans favorite announcer. Announcers are there for the fans, and it is obvious by the votes he received that he was incredibly popular. What criteria do announcers have to meet? It seems to me that the most important part of being an announcer is being popular amongst your listeners/viewers. Harry Caray wasn't a great announcer in his play by play or color abilities, but he was loved by the fans of every team he worked for. I am angry. It is official now. Dave Niehaus, a Seattle announcer won the Frick Award.

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not cool

As the old saying goes..."Bart Needs Dentures"

by chandrathan on Feb 19, 2008 1:44 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

HOF voting

Harry Caray was a drunk and prostituted himself to whatever team would take him. He was with the rival White Sox and Cardinals as an announcer and THEN went to the Cubs and acted is if THEY were his team and always had been. What a crock of shit.

by ctownboy on Feb 20, 2008 12:17 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The Cubs might have won a World Series

If only they'd gotten Carl Crawford to announce their games.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 20, 2008 7:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

wow

ive never known anyone to hate harry carey. he probably just couldnt announce to the opposite field away from wrigley, right?

is it April yet?

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 20, 2008 7:34 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

ever hear his colleages

he screwed a lot of people over. He had his first coleage at the Cubs run out of town. But I also have a Harry Caray story, also involving my mom.

My mother grew up in St. Louis, and when she was very young his sister died. A couple of days after that she went to a Cardinals game with her Dad. My grandfather and I share a passion for baseball. Well some how the Cardinals found out about what happened, and she was invited to sit up with Harry Caray for a while. He just talked to her between innings and asked her about the game, and who her favorite player was, and all that type of adult little kid dioluge. I think the difference between Rose and Caray, is Rose was an asshole to his fans. Caray may have sooner thrown his collages under a bus, but he could never say now to a fan. I have heard stories of Haray Caray sitting in parks and just singing autographs for hours on end. The whole part of him prostituting himself I think is unfair. I think he just loves baseball, and loves who he is working for. The only reason he left Chicago was he fucked the owners wife. He left the White Sox because the new ownership was overly involved in his work.

The Dusty path to the World Series!

by justin0070000 on Feb 20, 2008 10:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

"fucked the owner's wife"

What an incredible way to get fired. That's amazing.

by bobestes on Feb 20, 2008 5:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

correction

the reason he left St. Louis is he fucked the owners wife.

He left the White Sox becuase he felt ownership was too involved in his broadcasts.

The Dusty path to the World Series!

by justin0070000 on Feb 21, 2008 11:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

complete bull shit

by OURob on Feb 19, 2008 2:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

One would think the sheer number

of votes Nuxie crushed the prior record by would be held in some kind of regard with them.

by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Feb 19, 2008 2:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Nuxhal got more votes (82,000)

than were cast in 2007 (75000).

Fuck the Hall of Fame.

The Dusty path to the World Series!

by justin0070000 on Feb 19, 2008 3:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

One more reason

to never visit "The Hall of Subjective Virtue."

Where have you gone Alex Trevino?

by Pops Daniels on Feb 19, 2008 3:07 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

frick

I'm not superstitious...but I am a little stitious.

by Slyde on Feb 19, 2008 3:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

This news made me mad

but your comment made me chuckle.

As the old saying goes..."Bart Needs Dentures"

by chandrathan on Feb 19, 2008 4:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

assuming there is a god....

our missile defense system will fail as expected and that spy satellite will crash smack dab in the middle of cooperstown, ny and burn that shit-hole to the ground

by bobestes on Feb 19, 2008 3:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'm sad too

I'm sad for Nuxie, too, but the problem with everybody getting their panties in bunches is Niehaus is as beloved in Seattle as Nuxhall is in Cincinnati.

by Watubi on Feb 19, 2008 4:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

well

beloved for 60 years trumps beloved for 30 years

plus, the mariners are a weak expansion franchise that wasn't shit until Jr played there. so, I'd say 15 of those 30 years, he might as well have been calling midget races at eldora speedway.

by bobestes on Feb 19, 2008 4:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

We don't care about Niehaus

When a person IS baseball for a franchise, esp. the oldest franchise...well Nuxhall should have been in prior to his death...should have sucks...the funny thing is that Joe would have taken the vote stoically and gone on about his business.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. Gerald R. Ford

by Madville on Feb 19, 2008 5:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Cooperstown sucks

Reds: WS Champs 2008... and every year after...

by crolfer on Feb 19, 2008 4:25 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

As much as this stings

I can't fully get behind the "Cooperstown sucks" crowd. I mean, we have had both Marty and Hal recently enshrined there, so it's not like the Hall hasn't been gracious to those who cover the Reds.

But Joe definitely deserves to be there with them.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 19, 2008 4:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

screw them

let me have my moment of pitchfork and torch wielding irrational exuberance :)

by bobestes on Feb 19, 2008 4:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm with you

I understand people being upset, but I kinda like the Hall of Fame. For all its flaws, it's still a cool place to visit. Plus, if Cooperstown was destroyed, where would the fans of the Farmers' Museum congregate?

I'm not superstitious...but I am a little stitious.

by Slyde on Feb 19, 2008 4:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Where would fans of the Farmer's Museum copulate?

on the internet

I'm not saying I wouldn't go fishing with the man; all I'm saying is, if he comes near me, I'll put him in the wall.

by Man Mountain on Feb 19, 2008 4:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I saw that

It knocked the Bubba Crosby signing from the lead spot in the Seattle Times Mariners blog.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Feb 19, 2008 4:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

You're not... you're not leaving us?

Are you?

I used to think fondly of the Mariners (when I would think of them at all), but if their broadcaster bumps Nuxy and Lookout Landing steals BubbaFan all in one day... let's just say that the next time I see Mariner Moose, his ass is grass.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 19, 2008 5:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh Yeah? You and what army?

Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter. I live here.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 19, 2008 5:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

LOL

I'm not becoming a Mariners fan just yet. For one thing, they're an AL team. A team the Yankees play fairly often. I tend to think of them as the enemy. For another...I'm not sure Bubba will stay there long. I suspect he's got an option that will let him sign with another team if the Mariners don't call him up in a certain amount of time.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Feb 19, 2008 5:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The first time I read...

..your post regarding Bubba's signing, I thought, "Wow, she's really calling Bubba exactly what he is":

...He's still only 31 and has some speed for a guy named "Bubba". But his .553 career on-base-plus-slugging percentage doesn't hold out much hope for him ever helping the big club. Just thought I'd mention him..."

And then I realized you had cut and pasted that from another blog.

Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter. I live here.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 19, 2008 5:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Bite me

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Feb 19, 2008 5:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The nerve!

But I know a little place you can go.

Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter. I live here.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 19, 2008 5:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I know nothing...

...about the nomination and voting processes involved but my guess is that for many voters the decision may have come down to:

Reds' recent inductees: Sparky, Marty and Hal
M's all-time inductess: zero?

Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter. I live here.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 19, 2008 4:59 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Mariners = too new - to get any one in the HOF

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. Gerald R. Ford

by Madville on Feb 19, 2008 5:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

CORRECTION...

The Mariners now too have someone in the Hall of Fame.

Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter. I live here.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 19, 2008 5:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

and it's a play-by-play guy

a proud moment for a proud franchise

I'm not saying I wouldn't go fishing with the man; all I'm saying is, if he comes near me, I'll put him in the wall.

by Man Mountain on Feb 19, 2008 5:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I remember when the Seahawks...

..retired their first jersey number.

Number 12. As in "the twelfth man."

Guh.

Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter. I live here.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 19, 2008 5:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

nuxie

has to get in sometime right? i mean, arent there veterans committees to rectify injustices like this?

is it April yet?

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 19, 2008 5:28 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Hard to get more "veteran" than Joe

Maybe a committee made up of people buried deeper than him?

by Brendanukkah on Feb 19, 2008 5:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well, first...

..the committee is going to have to listen to Marty bitch and moan about this decision and then for a few years they'll have to continue to deny Joe his spot just to spite Marty but when they realize, "Man, this guy just will not shut up about certain things, will he?".. then Joe will get his due.

Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter. I live here.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 19, 2008 5:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Do we really need

the Baseball Hall of Fame to tell us that Joe Nuxhall was a great guy? Really?

There, on the side of GABP: "Rounding third and heading for home..."
I musta heard him say that at least a thousand times, literally. Joe's our guy, and always will be, as long as we remember him. We don't need no stinkin' Hall of Fame to remind us of what a great guy he was to the Reds and Reds' fans.

Who talks about Howard Cosell anymore? Now that he's dead, nobody gives a rat's ass about him. But those of us who heard Joe and enjoyed him as a broadcaster (and valued him as a human being) will remember him for a long time.

So there. Foo.

"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day" - Harry S. Truman

by Lonesome George on Feb 19, 2008 5:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

he was just a wonderful man

my mom, who was a nursing home administrator for a period of time said Joe Would always come out when asked. There wasn't the bullshit of talking to his agent or anything else. Unlike Pete Rose. There was a kid who was in the nursing home, paralyzed as the result of a car accident, he wanted to meet Pete Rose more than anything. My mom called Rose, and his response was "I don't have time to see every goddamn crippled kid in Cincinnati."

The Dusty path to the World Series!

by justin0070000 on Feb 19, 2008 5:46 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Wow

THAT was Pete.

Will never understand why so many fawn over him.

by bobestes on Feb 19, 2008 6:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I consider myself lucky

I met Joe a couple of times, and what struck me most was the second time I met/saw him (three months after the first time), the first words out of his mouth were, "he's back! What did they screw up now?" or something to that effect. It stunned me that with all the people he met or saw on a daily basis and his age, he remembered my face. I'm not usually impressed by "famous" folks, but you could tell within .0015 seconds of meeting Mr. Nuxhall that he was a truly special human being, baseball be damned.

by jch24 on Feb 19, 2008 9:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Pete Rose

I liked Pete and what he did on the baseball field. I do not like what he did off of it though. Oh, well not what I wanted to really say.

A Pete Rose story.

A guy I used to work with (I will call him Al) was originally from Chicago. One time Al went to a baseball card show where Rose was signing. Al got to the show late, paid for Rose to sign a couple of items and was near the end of the line.

Time dragged on and Al moved closer to the table where Rose was signing. Finally Al got to Rose and presented the two items he wanted Pete to sign. However, because of how late in the day it was, Rose only signed one thing.

Al was upset by this and complained to Rose and the people (security?) guys around him but Rose did not give in and told Al, "It is better to be pissed off than pissed on". Al left the show with only one autographed item and VERY upset with Rose.

End of the story? No.

Later that night, Al went to a bar with some of his friends and Rose was there with a lot of people gathered around him at the bar. After some time, Rose wanted to sit down and the people dispersed while Rose walked around looking for a place to sit.

He came by the table that Al and his friends were sitting at and the guys (except Al) gave a big roar and were REALLY brown nosing Pete. So, since ther was room, Pete sat down and talked with the guys for awhile.

After a short time, Pete noticed Al wasn't saying much and asked if Al was a baseball fan or not. Al responded he was. Then Pete wanted to know why he was so quiet. Al recounted what had happened earlier that day and Pete said it must have been a misunderstanding (it wasn't) and that he would cover the amount of the bar tab for the guys that Al had spent to get his second item autographed.

Al said he felt somewhat better but would have MUCH rather had a second autographed item than the money to cover the bar tab.

by ctownboy on Feb 20, 2008 12:35 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ah, the Solomonic wisdom of Peter Edward.

Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter. I live here.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 20, 2008 5:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

any way you call me

you can call me Al.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOiVaE-pKqM

is it April yet?

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 20, 2008 6:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

With no disrepect to Mr Niehaus

this just plain sucks. But as someone earlier pointed out we do not need the HOF to tell us how much Joe meant to the Reds, to Cincinnati and all of us. His contributions are legendary. 60 years with one organization. Not just baseball but with one team. You are hard pressed to find anyone who matches that. What a sad day for Reds fans.

Hope Springs Eternal! Go Reds

by Caleb on Feb 20, 2008 6:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs