OT Brewers icon & Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Uecker passed away today at the age of 90

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    He's a Hall of Famer and a legend in Milwaukee. RIP Bob
     
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    Crazy. Saw an interview with him not too long ago and thought he seemed pretty sharp for his age. I remember him mostly from Major League.

    RIP
     
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    I am guessing he has front-row seats up there. Seemed like a great guy.
     
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    Bob Uecker and Al McGuire (Marquette coach) were both very involved with community efforts and various charities. Bob was as popular in Milwaukee for decades like Shonz was in Portland.
     
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    This really sucks ... such a funny guy and truly a one of one kind of individual from all accounts
     
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    When I was young I just knew him as the dad on Mr Belvedere then I realized that for a lot of people in Wisconsin he was the voice of baseball and his lines in Major League are legendary. He was a one of one. RIP.
     
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    RIP Mr. Baseball!
     
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    RIP Mr Baseball.

     
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    I don't know if they continued to do it, if it was an everytime thing or what, but the 2 games I went to in Milwaukee, they would play his broadcasting over the loud speakers, where you got his announcing throughout the game. It was pretty cool, because he was awesome. Lost another great one
     
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    He lasted about 6 minutes in the Major Leagues. He turned his face made for comedy into self-derisive stand-up comedy. I saw him on Johnny Carson sometimes. Then he adapted the nickname Mr. Baseball to make fun of his non-Stan the Man career.

    1976...opens with the antiwar Smothers Bros leaving to the Air Force tune-in the 70s we could joke liberally about war, before Reagan returned the country to a war mentality...the irreverent Mel Brooks is a guest...Uecker gets into jock itch...

     
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    He played in the majors for 6 years don't disrespect him.
     
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    That's news to me. His whole gig was to put down his career, both length and stats. We didn't have search engines then, and most believed him that he had a short career. If you'd walked into a library and asked for baseball statistics, the librarian would have moved on to the next person in line. Wikipedia now covers sports, which encyclopedias put their noses up at.
     
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    Just because he did doesnt mean we have to.

    6 years is a good career.
     
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