February 23, 200917 yr Airing right now (started at 8pm) on the MLB Network is Opening Day 1981 against Boston. It is Carlton Fisk's first game as a White Sox in which he hits a game winning home run.
February 23, 200917 yr Wow, that's a hell of a broadcasting duo. Man, Chicago baseball fans were absolutely spoiled with great announcers for a long time.
February 23, 200917 yr QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Feb 22, 2009 -> 09:07 PM) Damn those are some ugly uniforms. No, these were: soxinshorts1 more
February 23, 200917 yr QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Feb 22, 2009 -> 10:49 PM) And Ed Farmer picks up the save. SOX WIN, SOX WIN Holy Cow! LOL
February 23, 200917 yr QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 23, 2009 -> 02:51 AM) Wow, that's a hell of a broadcasting duo. Man, Chicago baseball fans were absolutely spoiled with great announcers for a long time. Piersall and Caray and then we had Don Drysdale with Hawk. We did have some real good ones. I think Caray was canned becasue he was too brutally honest about some of the past teams we had critical of management Edited February 23, 200917 yr by elrockinMT
February 23, 200917 yr QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Feb 23, 2009 -> 08:21 AM) Piersall and Caray and then we had Don Drysdale with Hawk. We did have some real good ones. I think Caray was canned becasue he was too brutally honest about some of the past teams we had critical of management I don't know all of the details of why Harry left, but I remember it having something to do with the Sox switching to pay-per-view and the Cubs being televised nationally on WGN. I remember reading about Piersall getting canned because he was too critical of management... but then I also seem to remember him doing the radiocasts back in the mid '80s, so who knows. Throw Rooney (Sox), Stoney (Cubs/Sox), Brickhouse (Cubs), and Milo Hamilton (Cubs) into that mix and, wow, that's an amazing collection of broadcasting talent.
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