By Grand Rapids Anonymous
thursday, january 16, 2025 at 1:57:00 p.m. est
Baseball announcer/comedian with deadpan delivery, Bob Uecker, now just dead—at 90
GRA: If you thought Bob Newhart had a deadpan style, Uecker took it to a new level—he NEVER cracked a smile on his Tonight Show appearances.
“(n.y. post) Bob Uecker, who turned what was, by his own admission, a mediocre baseball career into a 54-year broadcasting gig with the milwaukee brewers that earned him a spot in the baseball hall of fame and featured roles in commercials, a 1980s television series and in the popular major league film trilogy, died thursday. he was 90.
“Uecker, a light-hitting catcher for three teams during a six-year major league playing career, including stints with his hometown milwaukee braves and the 1964 world-champion St. Louis cardinals, was known more for spouting one-liners than hitting line drives. and usually those barbs were aimed at his own undistinguished playing career. he hit .200 in 297 major league games and once led the league in passed balls.
“‘and I didn’t even play in all the games,’ he said proudly."
--GRA
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteJoe Biden is doing his Eisenhower imitation by channeling his warning about the "military industrial complex", except Biden's warning about an "oligarchy" is hollow and hypocritical:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkXTRngEaHs
Ultra rich men have always exerted tremendous influence on the government, I'm not sure that all the billionaires working with Trump now equal the amount of power Rockefeller had in his heyday. Biden sees a few high profile tech billionaires sucking up to Trump and thinks it's some kind of revolution, but really, about the only high profile one who I would rate as an actual "ally" would probably be Musk. Most high tech wealthy (lot more millionaires than billiionaires) are Democrat Biden/Harris supporters anyways and they aren't just obscenely wealthy, they have direct control of what we see on the internet.
Biden has his own list of billionaire supporters:
https://www.forbes.com.au/news/billionaires/who-are-joe-bidens-top-10-biggest-billionaire-donors/
Whatever Biden is, he's no Eisenhower, no matter how much he tries.
Plagiarist to the end.
ReplyDelete--GRA