Mr. Niehaus

Anybody who likes baseball and grew up in Washington State (like Janice and me) has spent countless hours of their lives listening to Mariners games on the radio. Yesterday, the Mariners' long time announcer, Dave Niehaus, was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

For native Washintonians Dave is like a part of the family. Like all good radio announcers, he is almost like a member of the family. Always there through good times and in bad.

Anybody who has ever listened to Dave knows that he lives for the Grand Slam. One listen to "Get out the rye bread and mustard Grandma it is grand salami time!" and you're hooked for life.

I wanted to add a few audio clips to this post but it was more trouble than it's worth so you'll have to settle for a few links.

Here's one that has all the good ones from 1995 http://www.grose.us/motivate/mariners.htm
And, here's a link to a good story about Dave from the Seattle times that sums up quite well the typical Mariners fan's feelings http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/stevekelley/2004190770_kelley20.html

I'm sure all of us (whether we grew up as Mariners fans, Twins fans, or whatever) have many good memories that our home teams have provided thanks to their respective announcers.

I won't miss much of American culture while in Chad but I will miss hearing Dave's smooth voice.

Have a great day.

sf