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Corrigan is still with the Rockies. He was a channel 43 guy, not an Indians guy (he also did Cavs games on 43 in the 80s), so when they lost the rights, Jack went on to greener pastures.
I remember Channel 43 hired their own guys. For whatever reason (Some might remember) Reggie Rucker was hired on to be an "expert analyst" on baseball on 43. He once told Joe Tait they should put an outfielder behind the catcher to prevent a wild pitch LOL. Joe Tait told him that was illegal. So much for the "expert".
Reggie played a little baseball at Boston U, but other than that had no real connection to the sport.
They hired him because he was a popular player with the Browns, and were looking for any gimmick to get people to watch, because in the early 80s - let's be honest - the (then) Tribe was God-awful.
Ah yes...Super Joe.
The embodiment of the term one-hit wonder.
After that one magic year, he got fat, got lazy, and got hurt, and basically disappeared.
Though the stories about him opening beer bottles with his eye sockets (among other things) did lend a bit to his aura
You mean the excitement of watching Jerry Dybzinski, Miguel Dilone, Mike Fischlin, Ron Pruitt, Chris Bando and Rick Waits didn't have people thinking pennant and world series. (HA). Joe Tait is beloved in this town and rightfully so but I always thought Bruce was a great foil for Joe in baseball. I enjoyed Joe and Jack Corrigan but Jack was more of the straight man like Joe.
Rick Waits was briefly something of a hero in Boston in 1978. His late-season shutout of the Yankees enabled the Red Sox to draw even with New York after blowing that 14-game lead. I remember a "Thank you, Rick Waits" headline the next morning. Of course, that only resulted in more pain for the Red Sox in Game 163 ... Bucky #@$%@! Dent ...
Ah yes, the old barn on the lake.
Where every Tribe fan basically had a section to themselves.
When you could tell the season was getting close to the end when you saw yard markers in the outfield.
And the concourses had such a wonderful aroma of cigarettes (legal and otherwise), beer, #1, and #2, with things floating in the troughs in the gent's restroom that weren't meant to be floating in there
Whatever happened to the Julio guy I wonder? Terry Pluto mentioned him in his book and you could hear him on the radio too. Every time he came to bat you heard Juuuuuuuuulllllliiioooooooo.
Another blast from the past.
Easy to hear in that cavernous barn when there was hardly any other voice to drown it out.
Didn't Julio Franco continue to play (albeit in Japan) into his 50s?
The world's biggest Bloody Mary.
I think it was Peter Gammons writing in the Boston Globe who remarked that the all-red uni made Boog look like a giant blood clot.
Oh, and the first time Boog Powell would come to bat in a nationally televised home game (on NBC, of course) and the fans greeted him in the usual way, Curt Gowdy would invariably explain "They're not booing him. They're going 'Booooooog.'" When he was an Oriole, they were on Saturday afternoons a lot, but that never kept Curt from telling the viewers what 99 percent of them already knew.
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Well, I suppose Curt figured he needed to say that for those watching for the first time. I miss those old-time announcers. They didn't yack away as incessantly as today's announcers do. And I also miss Saturday afternoon games. Quite a few Saturday afternoon Indians games were televised locally on channel 8 with Harry Jones and his partner of which there were several over the years, including Dave Martin, Rocky Colavito and Mudcat Grant.
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Come to think of it, he may have done the same explanation for Louuuuuuu Piniella.
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