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QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 23, 2009 -> 02:51 AM)
Wow, that's a hell of a broadcasting duo. Man, Chicago baseball fans were absolutely spoiled with great announcers for a long time.

 

 

Piersall and Caray and then we had Don Drysdale with Hawk. We did have some real good ones. I think Caray was canned becasue he was too brutally honest about some of the past teams we had critical of management

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QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Feb 23, 2009 -> 08:21 AM)
Piersall and Caray and then we had Don Drysdale with Hawk. We did have some real good ones. I think Caray was canned becasue he was too brutally honest about some of the past teams we had critical of management

 

I don't know all of the details of why Harry left, but I remember it having something to do with the Sox switching to pay-per-view and the Cubs being televised nationally on WGN. I remember reading about Piersall getting canned because he was too critical of management... but then I also seem to remember him doing the radiocasts back in the mid '80s, so who knows.

 

Throw Rooney (Sox), Stoney (Cubs/Sox), Brickhouse (Cubs), and Milo Hamilton (Cubs) into that mix and, wow, that's an amazing collection of broadcasting talent.

 

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