Congratulations, Dave
Dave · July 26, 2008 at 10:48 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Mr. Niehaus,
I could write thousands of words about how much you deserve this day, but it would still fall short of expressing how glad I am that you’re going into the Baseball Hall of Fame today. You are the reason I’m a baseball fan, and I can’t imagine growing up with anyone else welcoming me to a beautiful day out for baseball.
Enjoy Cooperstown. Enjoy the entire experience.
Congratulations, Dave. You’ve earned it.
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I grew up watching and listening to Dave call games and I still can remember word for word many of his calls, he by far is the best I have ever heard, in fact when I listen or watch other MLB games I can’t believe how unlucky other team’s fans are to have to have someone other than Dave call their games.
No one made me appreciate outdoor baseball more. Congratulations Dave!
Dave Niehaus is awesome; I wouldn’t have become a Mariners fan after I came here without his storytelling.
Congratulations!
No one, and I mean no one, can paint a picture with words like Dave Niehaus.
Congratulations, Dave.
Moved to the states in ’93 and have very fond memories of the ’95 season with Mr. [Niehaus] calling the games. Many great memories and very deserving of the induction into the Hall of Fame.
I’m glad the M’s have had such a wonderful announcer and hope he enjoys his moment on the national stage of which he’s so deserving.
Thank you Dave for such great memories.
I remember back in the late 80′s I would tape the highlights of each game during the post game shows, just to be able to replay Niehaus and listen to the highlights over and over. I still have those tapes to this day. Edgar hitting a game winning HR and Dave going crazy. Bombs by Alvin Davis, a ton by Griffey and even a grand slam by Harold Reynolds. I was 12 years old in 1988 which was about the time I started taping the highlights.
I agree with your post Dave…Dave Niehaus got me excited about baseball, about a team that had never won anything. I just loved hearing his passion for the M’s and for baseball.
This award is WELL earned!
Dave Niehaus has an amazing ability to make the game come alive. He’s a familiar voice who effortlessly conveys his passion and love for baseball. So many aspects of Mariner baseball change with the times; however, he is the one constant in Seattle baseball history. I still get chills listening to him call Edgar’s double. It’s a blessing to tune in and listen to him on a daily basis. Mr. Niehaus deserves his place among the game’s best. Congratulations, Dave.
Additional heavy-handed moderation note – is it too much to ask that people spell Niehaus correctly in at least this one thread?
Mr. Niehaus is what made it easy for me to become a Mariner’s fan when I moved here years ago. Never before did I find myself preferring radio to TV when listening to a broadcast. Never before did I bring a radio to the game. He is truly one of the great ones.
Congratulations on your well deserved award.
Oh, and to add my appreciation. Being from Seattle, I’m pretty much a fan of all the local sports teams. For most of them, though, if either I was to leave or they do (as the Sonics did), my fandom would not necessarily endure.
But for the Mariners, wherever they or I go, that will always be the baseball team I root for, and that is above all due to growing up listening to Dave Niehaus on the radio.
I’ve been a huge baseball fan since I watched the Carlton Fisk homer against the Red Sox as a little boy, but never loved the game more than the summer of 1995. My father had passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, and I took to spending a lot of time alone with just the radio for company. While I won’t be so melodramatic as to say I wouldn’t have made it without him, Dave’s eloquence and enthusiasm brought joy into a most difficult time. Without shame, I will admit to tears at times that season, and likely tomorrow as well. His call of Edgar’s hit and Junior’s slide bring back memories of my father to this day.
Hats off to you, Mr. Niehaus. Well done, indeed.
On the pregame show, Drayer played a bit of her talk with Dave; he spun the story of the evening he’d planned to take his girl to see Stan Musial’s last game, how at dinner he asked her to marry him, and that somehow they never did get to see Musial that night … “and here, 46 years later, there she’ll be, sitting down there looking up at me”
there was also a nice piece by Larry Stone this morning, with Larry walking around Cooperstown with Dave.
The Induction Ceremony will be live on ESPN Classic at 10:30am PT … it should be the Spink & Frick awardees up first
The great summer where Griffey hit 7 or 8 home runs in a row, I was without a television. I’d go sit in my Volkswagen Bug along the ocean in Long Beach and watch the sunset and listen to Dave make those amazing calls. Every time Griffey would come up, I’d find myself holding my breath waiting for him to make the call because I knew he was going to hit a home run.
The Mariners would not be the Mariners without Dave. Summer in Seattle would not be without Dave. It’ll be a sad day when he retires. Dave deserves the love of all baseball fans and accolades that he receives.
Thank you Dave, and congratulations for your long overdue entrance into the Hall.
I remember back as I kid in 1995, I was 11 at the time, I’d lie in my bed and fall asleep listening to the sounds of Niehaus and the M’s make their amazing run. That was what made me start following baseball, and honestly I can’t think of a better way to become a fan.
Congrats Dave.
Dave can breathe life into a game like few other broadcasters alive. I have so many fond childhood memories of listening to him, it’s impossible for me to pick out my favorite Niehaus moment.
Thank you, Dave.
I could have cared less about baseball then there was the unbelievable 95′ Season. As I listen and watched from Anchorage, AK it was your voice, your stories and your love for the game that made baseball come alive for me. Thank you Dave. Have a great day. You have given me many.
Greg
There were a few years where I didn’t have a TV or was able to go to many games. So I caught about 75% of all the games from the radio. I would turn the radio on and listen to the pre-game show all the way to the post-game show.
Today I have blogs, Game Day, TV and the radio to get my information and enjoy the games. However, I still look back fondly of those days where Niehaus told me everything I needed to know about the game. I became a baseball fan in those years as I never was growing up.
I will always find it strange to listen to anyone else call a baseball game.
Congratulations Dave Niehaus.
I’m a California transplant. It didn’t take long for me to ditch the A’s to become a Mariners fan.
A large part of that reason belongs to Dave. It helped that the year I moved here was 1995, but I also REALLY wanted to become a sports announcer. So, Dave’s storytelling and calls were just great to me.
The grand salami calls. The my oh my yells. And of course, to echo Dave Cameron, the fact that it was always a beautiful day out for baseball.
Thank you Dave for your part in making me addicted to this game, and this team. You deserve this day. Here’s to as many more years as you want to give us.
Dave (here) also wrote up a nice post about Dave Niehaus a while back, which I highly recommend if you didn’t catch it the first time around.
In 1977 when the Seattle Mariners began their first season I was in the United States Air Force stationed overseas in England. My only exposure to Mariners baseball was the box scores and the write-ups in the Stars and Stripes newspaper. When I returned to the states, and to Washington, in the spring of 1978, I happened to turn on the radio and caught a Mariners game in progress. I heard this baritonic voice booming through the radio, describing every aspect of this great game. I didn’t even know who the voice belonged too, I just knew that I liked it and felt he was talking only to me. I became an instant Dave Niehaus fan from that day forward. Every time my travels in the military would bring me back to Washington I would turn on a game and hearing Dave Niehaus on the radio was like comfort food for me. I knew I was truly home. There were times when AFN Radio would broadcast the game of the week overseas from the Kingdome. I would feel extremely fortunate, not only did I get to hear my favorite team, but hearing Mr. Niehaus gave me a bit of Washington while deployed in another part of the world. I will be foreever grateful and thankful for the many hours of enjoyment that Dave Niehaus has given me. He had to be the first Mariner to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. He is truly “Our Mariner.” Congratulations Dave Niehaus and thank-you for all you’ve meant to me and my family.
Dave Niehaus was one of the many soundtracks to my childhood. He made bad baseball sound good.
My family always liked baseball, but didn’t love baseball. For instance, I still remember in 1998 the Mets were playing the Braves. We lived in the country, no cable or satellite..but we could actually watch the game. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a flickering light…my mother had sealed rags soaked in linseed oil into bags, then put then into a trash can. Anyone who has done woodworking knows the abilities of linseed oil. It burned the truck, and melted the siding our landlord had put in the week before. Plus the damn Braves won the game (I still want burn Atlanta to the ground, they deserve it for the Tomahawk Chop alone).
My interest in baseball really dates to 97. I was 15, and driving grain trucks. I was lucky to have a working AM radio in July and August…so all I had was Dave passing the time (or Christian radio). In one of the trucks I could play a tape, so I played Pear Jam over and over on the 4 hour drive to the silo, but the rest were AM radio only. Dave will always be connectedto that year, when I first had my permit and was figuring out the world.
I really feel that I’ve been spoiled by Niehaus. I never thought he was anything special until I visited my grandmother in Chicago last year. Have you ever listened to a game that’s not announced by Dave Niehaus? It’s just awful. I don’t know who the White Sox announcer is, but he should really be fired and replaced with Dave Niehaus.
I spent several years in Southern California and got used to Vin Scully calling Dodger games. People would carry radios to the game just to hear him call it while they watched. When I left I spent a few months back home in WA before heading overseas and quickly became just as addicted to Dave. I could have watched on TV but I preferred to grab some hot dogs, buns, mustard, beer and matches and build a small fire next to the river, turn on the radio in my Jeep and enjoy the game. I didn’t miss Vin Scully at all!
From the moment I moved to Seattle in the early 90s I’ve loved Niehaus. 1995 was about the incredible performances of the Mariners players, but it was also about Dave Niehaus and his passion for the game and for the Seattle Mariners. I’ll never forget his famous call at the end of the one-game playoff against the Angels — “19 Long Years of Frustration is Over!” It was as much about his frustration of watching that many years of bad baseball as about the franchise turning things around and finally getting somewhere…
I’m fortunate enough to be in Cooperstown this weekend to share in Dave’s big moment and couldn’t be happier. At the media session yesteday, I asked him of the Hall of Famers he’d never met before this weekend, which he had found the most interesting. He didn’t hesitate long before replying that he’d spoken with Phil Niekro and mentioned to Niekro that the M’s had a knuckleballer on the team this year and he related that Niekro immediately said, “Of course you do, RA Dickey. If you give me his number I’d be happy to call him with advice on the knuckleball.”
From today’s Seattle Times: What others are saying about Niehaus and Larry Stone’s My, Oh My, Forever.
From today’s Seattle PI: Niehaus Gets The Royal Treatment.
From a blog entry on the PI’s website: Two Cents Worth of Appreciation
From today’s Kitsap Sun: ‘Voice’ of Mariners Gets Into the Hall.
Niehaus is truly great. So many Mariner memories are so much greater just because of him. Almost like watching a game on mute vs with sound. Very sad to me he only gets this award now when people can not hear his peak performances, 5 years ago would have been better.
Long-overdue indeed — long overdue. It’s been frustrating watching lesser announcers inducted ahead of Dave Niehaus just because he’s up in “south Alaska.” Even among that company, he’s still one of the very best there is, or ever has been; in all seriousness, I wonder whether, without him calling the games and winning fans for a series of putrid M’s teams, there would have been enough fan support to keep the Mariners in Seattle. I miss listening to him.
“Now here’s the lefthander’s pitch on the way… SWING and a miss and it’s over! High fastball, Randy Johnson being mobbed by Scott Bradley!!”
Been an M’s fan since day 1. I can’t imagine a game without him.
I remember sitting in my grandfather’s back yard as a kid in the mid-60s, listening to Lon Simmons and Russ Hodges call Giants games on the radio. I moved not long after, and would lie there in bed in southern Oregon at night, listening to a distant signal fading in and out, the Giants slipping slowly out of my grasp. I fell out of fandom until I was rescued by the estimable Mr. Niehaus.
I remember a few years back, driving somewhere on a nice night, listening to the game, and Dave called it a “warm, narcotic summer evening.” That sums up baseball for me, really.
Thanks, Dave. Congratulations.
The only M’s autograph I ever wanted other than Edgar’s was Dave Niehaus. I got it the summer of ’98 before an A’s game, and the ball he signed is in a place of honor tucked snugly between my Edgar ball and Moose bobblehead. One of the few remnants I have of my late childhood.
Dave will always be the voice of the Mariners, and this honor is well deserved and past due. I can’t imagine all of those great M’s moments without the syncopation and crescendo of Dave’s voice.
I’ll never forget the ’95 season, in large part to Dave’s calls. They are burned into my brain.
One of my favorite moments though was a game televised nationally by Fox in 2001. Dave had the “day off” as the national announcers *shudder* worked the game, but Dave was a guest for a couple of innings in the booth. Ichiro hit a homerun and Dave took the call away from McCarver. Dave started screaming something loosely in Japanese/English as the ball cleared the fence, not letting the other announcers get a word in edgewise while Ichiro circled the bases. Freaking hilarious. Thinking about that moment always makes me chuckle. Classic Dave Niehaus.
Niehaus is a legend, and deserves his place in Cooperstown. It would be great to listen to some of his historic calls if anyone has a link to such a depository.
I think The Ancient Mariner has it right. Without Dave Niehaus, the Mariner’s wouldn’t have survived. He’s as much the reason there’s still baseball in Seattle as Junior, Edgar, 1995, etc. Dave is so much better than most of his peers, able to strike the right balance between homerism and cynicism, able to inject the right amount of excitement without over-hyping. You can hear the love of the game in his voice.
He is the voice of summer.
If you can hear (even in your head), “The Mariners are going to play for the American League championship!” without choking up, you’re not a Mariner fan.
there are links at the Times and the TNT– but, really, the highlight calls don’t reflect what Dave has always done best– those low-key, baritone ruminations on baseball, the weather, the rythym of baseball that fall in-between the excited tenor ‘big moment’ calls
Seconded. Dave is the person who got me excited for baseball. In the dark ages before the Mariners had any sort of significant tv coverage, Dave Niehaus was baseball to me. I’m so happy that he’s the first Mariner to go into the Hall of Fame.
Registered for the site today, to post here for the first time, to say this.
I don’t have the stirring diehard fan stories that others do; I came to baseball in general late, around ’99. Edgar brought me to baseball; Dave helped me stay. Listening to him call the games was and is like listening to stories from a favorite uncle.
Anyone who has XM Radio, try listening to other teams’ broadcasts some time. Hell, just try following the Ms on a road trip, when XM gives you only the away broadcasts. The difference in personality, warmth and storytelling is night and day. Other games’ announcers sound like they’re waiting for a bus. Or announcing the arrival of a bus.
Dave always sounds like he’s telling you about a game he remembered, making even the blowouts and near-misses sound like a part of baseball history, all just as valid as ’95, ’01, Ichiro’s hits record. He even puts emphasis in the little local moments, that wouldn’t mean anything except to the diehard Ms fan. (After a home run to left field by Edgar, on one of the first pitches he sees the day after he announced his retirement: “Edgar! …will you please reconsider?! My, oh my!”)
It makes the 08 season that much more of a bitter pill to swallow. On the year of his induction into the hall of fame, Dave deserved better. I’d say I can only hope he gets to call a postseason game one more time, but even better would be to hear him call a regular season game that clinches a playoff spot, one more time.
Not going to the Dave Niehaus day on the 3rd b/c I’m not a fan of crying in public.
“I don’t believe it! My oh my!”
Congratulations, Dave. This is definitely well deserved, and long overdue.
Virtually every other announcer I’ve heard simply pales in comparison to Dave. And that’s not just because I’m a Mariners fan. He has a passion for the game like no other, and an unmatched ability to paint beautiful pictures with his words and tones. I’m one of the thousands who used to watch the tv on mute, while listening to Dave on the radio. I’m down in San Diego now, but thanks to mlb.com, his voice is still one of my biggest ties to home.
As Mariners fans, we have been extremely blessed through the years to watch greats like Edgar, Junior, Randy, and Arod, but we have been even more blessed to have Dave Niehaus bringing them alive to us on each and every beautiful day out for baseball.
Oh, and I think someone needs to make sure that Mr. Niehaus finds and reads this blog entry, so he can be properly thanked by all of his most hardcore fans.
I became a Mariner fan in 2001 after 10-15 year hiatus of not giving a darn about baseball. While it was a certain Japanese outfielder that brought me back to the game, I quickly recognized how awesome Dave was.
He actually makes me regret not having been a Mariner fan years earlier.
Listening to Dave softens the blow of losses and bad teams and allows me to enjoy a game simply for the sake of the game. I particularly love listening him on radio.
God bless you, Dave Niehaus!
When I was growing up, I got to listen to a future hall of fame announcer, Herb Carneal.
I got to enjoy baseball on radio as a kid, almost every summer day or evening, as I was going about doing summer stuff — camping, fishing, hiking, playing outdoors. I sort of took the quality announcing for granted, not knowing any better.
When I moved to Washington, I was doubly lucky to get to listen to yet another future hall of famer call the daily games all summer long.
Everyone should be so lucky!
“You like to think it will happen again, but sometimes it never does.” Dave Niehaus, as the Mariners won a post season series.
There’s nothing better than the first nice day in March, puttering around in the yard and listening to Dave call a meaningless exhibition game on the radio. Truly, it’s the promise of spring.
The only thing that can compare is when you’re facing a long, boring drive home from somewhere and suddenly on the radio, unexpectedly, you come across the first inning of a Mariner broadcast. It’s like having a good friend with you in the car to share the ride.
Thanks.
I started listening to Dave from Day 1, in 1977, when I was 17. It wasn’t until I traveled to other cities when I was older, and listened to other announcers on the radio, that I really realized just how great Dave is. Other announcers, with a few exceptions (e.g., Scully, Buck Sr.), just absolutely pale in comparison. He lets you “watch” the game on the radio. Dave announces in technicolor with Dolby sound, while other announcers provide dull black & white in monotone.
You are the best, Dave.
I second most of what people have said about Dave, but I still remember his early times with the M’s, complaining about how long the games were and having to cross the bridge after the game. I don’t know why I am affected by this today, I know everything that he has done, but I am still rubbed the wrong way by that.
Congratulations Mr. Niehaus it is well deserved. But most of all THANK YOU for allowing us to enjoy your special talents and enthusiasm for the game. WIthout you a lot of us feel that there would be no Mariners and we know that there would be alot fewer Mariners fans. Be know that from the bottom of our hearts you are the Heart of the Seattle Mariners.
I’m 43 years old and grew up on Bainbridge Island. My summer soundtracks were KJR-AM rock radio by day and KVI-AM Mariner baseball broadcasts by night. I got into the habit of taking the radio up onto the roof of my house with a six-pack of Shasta root beer and getting lost in the summer stars with Dave Niehaus (and Ken Wilson; what a jarring shock it was to hear him on this morning’s broadcast).
When I was 14, I went away to boarding school (Auburn Adventist Academy). Radios were forbidden in our dorm rooms, but that was a rule I routinely violated because I couldn’t imagine going without Mariners broadcasts. So, on spring and early fall nights, I would crawl into bed after lights-out — they turned off our lights in the dorm at 9:30 p.m. each night — and press a cheap transistor radio between my ear and my pillow so I could drift off with Dave. (And “drift off” was accurate — as great as Dave is, it was a pretty severe stretch of his skills to get me too worked up with excitement over Mike Parrott and Ted Cox and Jim Maler and Rob Dressler and Danny “The Human Bobblehead” Meyer. And yet, he managed. Even Bud Bulling and Gary Gray and Dave Edler produced their share of late-inning thrills.)
The older I get, the more I find I crave a calm center of continuity in my life. I have a few family members. A few longtime friends. And I have Dave Niehaus’ rich, burring baritone welcoming me 162 days a year, reassuring me that no matter how much in my life changes — and not always for the better — some things stay blessedly and blissfully the same. With Dave, I will always know how many outs there are. How many runners on base. How many balls and strikes. I’ll know the score within two minutes. I’ll know the hometown of the pitcher. I’ll know that I’m in the embrace of something as warm and familiar as one of my mom’s quilted afghans.
The day I no longer have that will be one in which I will feel so profoundly knocked off-center that it’ll feel like a death in my own family.
(My all-time Niehaus moment: In 1984, Mark Langston struck out eight batters in a row to tie an American League record. And I remember, somewhere around strikeout number five, Niehaus seemed to sense that something special was happening, and his strike-three calls for each subsequent batter took the awestruck excitement in his voice up one precisely calibrated notch until he was nearly apoplectic with the thrill of it all by the historic eighth K. I’d give anything to have a tape of those few innings … the way he carefully took us up a mile higher at a time into the stratosphere was the broadcaster’s equivalent of a perfectly conducted classical symphony or a race-car driver calmly sliding into a hot turn at 212 mph. It was a symphony of pure perfection of its own, with perfectly orchestrated movements and perfect pitch.)
Thanks for making a lonely kid happier growing up in the 80′s, Mr. Niehaus. Baseball to me is Dave’s voice over the low, very low murmer of a Kingdome crowd.
We should all be thankful for him. Listening the d-bags here in Denver doing Rockies games I’m acutely aware of what I’m missing. He’s the best in the biz.
As a third grader living on the Idaho/Oregon border (Ontario, OR) there weren’t many people, let alone kids my age, who wanted to follow The M’s like I did. It was 1980 and I overheard my dad listening to the M’s on the radio and literally was hooked soon after. I didn’t realize until a few years later that all announcers weren’t exciting and interesting like Neihaus.
He was the real reason a generation of us pre-1995 M’s fans stuck w/ it for soooooo long. He made every game seem important and any potentially significant play was exciting. Throughout the 80′s they were VERY rarely on tv, so he was our link to the team. During the 80′s and into the 90′s, in the house or the car or wherever else, his voice was a nightly ritual as I grew up.
I even got to meet him once. My dad drove us 500 miles for our first game in person, way back in 1983. (Mike Moore pitched a complete game vs the Twins and lost of course allowing all seven of the runs in one early inning). About an hour before the game my dad asked a guy working the elevator if his son could meet the announcers. To my surprise, he came back and led us up to where they were. Dave and Rick both greeted us right away and talked for a good ten minutes w/ me. They were extremely nice and probably amazed anyone wanted to follow the team this closely due to the constant futility.
Dave and Rick asked if I’d like a picture of them, so you know I said yes to that. I ended up w/ an autographed glossy from each which they signed right there in front of me along w/ a nice note. Neihaus even signed a baseball for me. Also, finally getting to see what the infamous Kevin Cremon (sp?) looked like was interesting too, lol.
So even 25 years later, I can remember Neihaus being as genuinly nice in person as he always sounded over the airwaves.
Congrats Mr. Neihaus, the Hall is truly lucky to have you.
Like some others here, I, too, am a Midwest transplant who was privileged to have grown up with another Hall Of Famer, the great Ernie Harwell, as my first “voice of summer”. Through days spent at the beach, cookouts, swatting mosquitoes at twilight on the back porch, or staying up late on those muggy nights to catch a game from the west coast, you always had Ernie to call the Tigers on the radio for you.
Admittedly, though my love of baseball had never completely gone away, it had waned somewhat by the time I moved to the region in 1994. But it was this team’s emergence in 1995 — narrated, in its entirety, by a man with that rare and unique gift of being able to paint pictures with words — which once more rekindled my passion for the game.
I have been blessed to have enjoyed many a summer with two of the game’s very best. One, though, is still keeping the light on for us here on the airwaves as he has — through good or bad — for the past 32 years.
“My, oh my!” indeed, Mr. Niehaus!
Congratulations, Dave, and best wishes to you always!
Being a fan since 1988, when I turn eight and my parents took me on my first trip to the Kingdome, I have many fond memories of the Seattle Mariners. The Dave Niehaus Experience is and always will be one of those fond memories. Through the bad times, like now, you can always enjoy a game that has Dave as its voice.
Congrats, Dave.
I still remember back in 1995, the day of the tiebreaker game. I was on the schoolbus going home while the game was on, and the driver had the game cranked. It was the first time I sat in the front row (I was usually a third row guy, not sure why), just so I could make sure not to miss anything. Right before we got to my stop, Sojo hit that ball that just wouldn’t find a glove, and I still to this day remember that call and the pure excitement in Dave’s voice.
And watching the end later, with Randy pointing up to the skies, and that mix of joy, relief, and sheer ecstasy in Dave’s voice… it still sends chills up my spine.
Congratulations Dave. This honor is far, far overdue.
Dave has almost a sixth sense of the tenor of a game sometimes. It will be 5-1 in the sixth and sometimes when the other team gets a guy on base, he’ll make it sound like nothing, and sometimes like the start of a flood. And he’s almost invariably right.
One thing we should have is a list of the people he’s given the title of “That Man” to. The real Mariner killers like Pudge Rodriguez, Vlad Guerrero and a few others. On this day, they should wear the badge of distinction given to them by an opposing team’s announcer like diamonds. The kind made of carbon, not grass.
Congratulations Dave-
You are the greatest thing that has ever happenned to the Seattle Mariners franchise.
Right now the Mariners looking for the tie. They would take a fly ball. They would love a base hit into the gap and they could win it with Junior’s speed. The stretch and the 0-1 pitch to Edgar Martinez, swung on and lined down the left field line for a base hit. Here comes Joey. Here is Junior to third base, they’re gonna wave him in. The throw to the plate will beeee late the Mariners are going to play for the American League Championship. I dont believe it. It just continues, My Oh My!
–Dave [Niehaus], October 8, 1995
Seriously, i before e in Niehaus. That can’t be that hard.
The Mariners need to produce a DVD of Dave’s best calls… They produced one for Edgar (You Gotta Love That Guy) and 2001′s 116 win season. I’d pay anything for that.
They could easily get a sell out based on that as a giveaway…