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Listen to games on the radio. Gonna miss Fred, warts and all. A Baltimore fan through and through.  He knows how to let us know that he wants the Orioles to do well. A classy announcer.  Come back to do a game when we get to the Series..

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So I turned on my radio in the top of the third.   Fred is just coming on to do play by play.    I'm having warm fuzzy feeelings.    Benintendi hits a ball that that Fred identifies as "a sky high fly ball," as if it's a routine fly, then says the outifielder is drifting back on it, and then all of a sudden, it's a home run.   

How many times has Fred done that?   Nice man, and I hope he enjoys his retirement.      I won't miss his play by play even a little bit.  

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1 hour ago, Frobby said:

So I turned on my radio in the top of the third.   Fred is just coming on to do play by play.    I'm having warm fuzzy feeelings.    Benintendi hits a ball that that Fred identifies as "a sky high fly ball," as if it's a routine fly, then says the outifielder is drifting back on it, and then all of a sudden, it's a home run.   

How many times has Fred done that?   Nice man, and I hope he enjoys his retirement.      I won't miss his play by play even a little bit.  

It was kind of a moonshot that was almost coming straight down when it hit in the front area of the flag court.

So ten feet shorter and it very well might have been catchable (by a decent ML RF, not necessarily Trumbo!)

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1 hour ago, Frobby said:

So I turned on my radio in the top of the third.   Fred is just coming on to do play by play.    I'm having warm fuzzy feeelings.    Benintendi hits a ball that that Fred identifies as "a sky high fly ball," as if it's a routine fly, then says the outifielder is drifting back on it, and then all of a sudden, it's a home run.   

How many times has Fred done that?   Nice man, and I hope he enjoys his retirement.      I won't miss his play by play even a little bit.  

That was his signature...at least in the later years.  I stopped worrying and grew to love it.  Granted, partly because my habit of watching the game while listening to the radio feed adapted me to a constant mismatch between action and description.  But even when I was just listening, I think it added to the suspense of things.  Critical situation in a tight game: "Fly ball hit to Adam Jones............he is ranging after it....................the ball it.....[uninterpretable crowd frenzy]......Jones goes into a tumble........[more uninterpretable crowd frenzy].....his hat goes flying......the ball.......is..........caught!!!!!"

Plus he made Joe Angel happy. The two together were a pleasure to listen to.  I spent a chunk of the game today doing yard work and just listening to them.

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2 hours ago, Frobby said:

So I turned on my radio in the top of the third.   Fred is just coming on to do play by play.    I'm having warm fuzzy feeelings.    Benintendi hits a ball that that Fred identifies as "a sky high fly ball," as if it's a routine fly, then says the outifielder is drifting back on it, and then all of a sudden, it's a home run.   

How many times has Fred done that?   Nice man, and I hope he enjoys his retirement.      I won't miss his play by play even a little bit.  

Thorne had a similar call from n the telecast.

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Loved the tonal *tandem* of Fred's and Joe's voices. Echoes of Jon Miller's quick glossiness in the former, which made Fred a great straight man for Joe's vaudevillian always almost tumbling on the edge of a chuckle.

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2 hours ago, Frobby said:

So I turned on my radio in the top of the third.   Fred is just coming on to do play by play.    I'm having warm fuzzy feeelings.    Benintendi hits a ball that that Fred identifies as "a sky high fly ball," as if it's a routine fly, then says the outifielder is drifting back on it, and then all of a sudden, it's a home run.   

How many times has Fred done that?   Nice man, and I hope he enjoys his retirement.      I won't miss his play by play even a little bit.  

He always misjudged his fly ball and homerun calls. I let it irk me for a while, and then I kind of grew to expect it. I enjoyed his time overall though.

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