I was never a Harry Carey Fan. In real life he could be drunk, mean, and obnoxious and in professional life he was just drunk and babbling all the time. He almost fell out of the announcers booth a few times cause he was so stiff. His restaurant is terribly over priced. Harry used to have to keep a cheat sheet with the players names cause not only couldnt he remember them but he couldnt pronounce some of them right.
Now Jack Brickhouse? There was a great announcer. People forget he did Cubs broadcasts on WGN for 33 years including ushering the team on to the first cable network for WGN, yet nobody is even mentioning his name. He was part of the great, classy first wave of TV sports announcers yet I havnt heard his name the entire year.
My first Cubs game was about 1963. I went to most of the home games in '69 when they entered August with a 9 game lead over the Mets, in Tom Seavers rookie year, and they blew it to a great "miracle Mets" team who went on to win the '69 WS. I endured a lot of futility with the Cubs over the years which is why I became a Sox fan tho in truth it was the Tribune company who bought them that I hated.
Congrats to the Cubs. They had a tremendous year and have a lot of integrity on this team. And Guts.
