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Of natural causes at age 80.
Sad news.
Loved hearing him call games through the years.

Unfortunately, like other great announcers we know and are near and dear to our hearts, he had a drinking problem.
He lost his job at ESPN after calling a CWS game some 10 or so years ago.
He was drunk on air.
I was keeping score of the game and began to notice that he was announcing the wrong batters … the last batter of the previous inning he said was the first batter of the next inning.
His color guy kept nicely correctly him as we all do with our drunk friends usually.

Actually, IIRC, he was replaced during the game and never heard from again.

Still will miss him

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Provided the weather clears up, the Beginning of the End of Nazism will begin tomorrow, which will then lay the seeds of neo-Nazism which will also end soon enough, hopefully.

Yesterday saw Arkansas’ Gage Wood throw a no-hitter and come within one pitch of a perfect game.
It was truly a masterful pitching performance but I continue to think Kumar’s gem against Duke was even better given that I personally witnessed that game while keeping score (I saved it to show to my future grandson pitcher as a way of supporting him working hard to someday pitch for Vandy and do the same. A man can always dream.)

We get extra baseball today as the late game on Monday was rained out and picks up today in the 4th inning at 10 am CDT on ESPN.
Consequently, we’ll likely experience 10+ hours of college baseball today, weather permitting.

LSU ended up burning their #2 ace pitcher, while UCLA’s starter had already been knocked out. LSU leads 5-3.

Next up comes the regularly scheduled games: Louisville vs. Oregon State again, then the LSU-UCLA loser gets to play a 2nd game against Arkansas.

I’m trying not to worry yet, but has there been any word of players Vanderbilt is going after in the portal? It seems like radio silence so far.

Just had the nastiest rebound dunk I’ve ever seen. Over the top of Chet Holmgren. Absolutely insane.

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Hearing Caden Harris is a possible flip to UGA. Smoke is real. Timeline TBD.

Recording episode 320 tomorrow night

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