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What's Your Home Run Call?

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The Benetti thread got me thinking about my home run call...you know, if I was a baseball announcer.  Around age 15 it became clear that announcing baseball was the closest I could ever hope to get to professional baseball.  That hasn't panned out yet, but hey, you never know.

Anyway, I've known for about two decades what my home run call would be if I could ever get into the booth.  Simple, straightforward, tasteful, and easily repeatable:

"Ladies and gentlemen, that ball is deep. and. GONE!"

If you ever hear it, I've either made it or somebody's ripped me off.  What's your home run call?

2022: "Holy shit they actually hit the ball in the air, and its gone"

"That ball is hit deep, it's got a chance, SURVEY SAYS....GONE!"

Feel free to ride my call to the top, kid.

Edited by KrankinSox

A thread for hypothetical home run calls in text form…incase you didn’t know the season is going poorly 

Hard to top Harry Caray & Jimmy Piersall at the 1:17 mark.

 

“Wellllll stuff me like a sausage and shoot me with a gun, Trudy, cuz THAT ding dong is a Loooong Dong Silver!  (Vigorous cowbell).  A-OOOO-ga!”

That's a Ring Ding Dinger, Folks.  If you can envision a Milo Hamilton voice, all the better. 

Edited by wegner
folks sounded more Milo-esque

26 minutes ago, 35thstreetswarm said:

“Wellllll stuff me like a sausage and shoot me with a gun, Trudy, cuz THAT ding dong is a Loooong Dong Silver!  (Vigorous cowbell).  A-OOOO-ga!”

You need to be in the booth.

I would do play by play of the runner(s) going around the bases and get fired the same day I started.

Hard to beat Hawk in this regard, IMO. 

"And McGuire really CRANKED that DONG!"

20 minutes ago, almagest said:

"And McGuire really CRANKED that DONG!"

Funny, though that's one guy you really don't need a HR call for.

Just now, CentralChamps21 said:

Funny, though that's one guy you really don't need a HR call for.

Wishful thinking - I want to be able to stretch my creativity on masturbation jokes for McGuire homers.

“Get fucking out of here”

On 7/29/2022 at 6:17 AM, TheFutureIsNear said:

A thread for hypothetical home run calls in text form…incase you didn’t know the season is going poorly 

Post of the week.

Most of our homerun calls are usually Oh (insert your choice of profane words) because the other team is doing it.

On 7/29/2022 at 8:56 AM, South Side Hit Men said:

Hard to top Harry Caray & Jimmy Piersall at the 1:17 mark.

 

Harry Caray : "It might be...it could be...it is! A home run! Holy cow!" . Yea, I still do that every time . I could never get it our of my head all of these years.

That's a White Owl Wallop and a box of White Owl cigars for Leury Garcia.

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"Slow to a trot and watch it hit the seats! Hey partner remember before 2022 when Sox fans came to games?"

“Swing and a drive deep left center field and it’s a goner! Ordonez has teed off!”

”Thomas unloads on one, deep right field, back goes Dye and it’s a goner!!”

“Swing and a long one to left! It’s gonna go! It’s a slam! Sox lead 6-4! Light it up!”

- Ed Farmer on the Konerko grand slam

”A swing and a high fly ball, deep left center field, this is way back in the gap, and it’s a goner!! And the White Sox win on a Podsednik home run!”

- John Rooney on the Pods walk off.

”White Soxxxx winnnn!”

- Intro to the ESPN broadcast by Len Kasper

“Swing and an actual line drive instead of a pop up! I’m glad one of these bums still can hit! That ball is gone! Finally!”

- Inning where they tie it on a Harrison bomb

”Oh no! They blew it again! Why can’t we throw a pitch somewhere that makes a better work than serving one up on a silver platter!?!? Sox are down again and it’s looking ugly folks.

- Where a team makes a home run look like it hit effortlessly while the Sox struggle to hit anything that isn’t a pop up or routine grounder.

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