Can this season get any worse? RIP, Skip. You were my favorite announcer.

Honestly, i’m finding myself at a loss for words. I practically grew up on Skip Caray, as did many of you i’m sure. No offense to our current announcers but the games just haven’t been the same without him. This is a very sad day for me!

RIP Skip. You will be sorely missed!

Skip was the best and he made it fun and enjoyable to listen to the Braves no matter how good or bad they were, mainly because he kept everything in a good beat and told it like it was. He will be greatly missed.

when I think of the hours and different means I went to for the chance to hear an AM radio broadcast or to be staying up into the wee hours of the morning on a west coast game to hear the possible Skip Caray call of “Braves Win”. His voice became the voice of the Braves in the mid-70’s till now (even ESPN’rs imitate it for Braves highlights). Scanning through AM radio stations from a car at night…you could always tell when you found the game….Skip’s voice…’and heeeres the pitch’...and that voice was always the perfect pitch for me.

I remember as many of us do, listening to Skip and Pete call game after game. His voice, more than any other, sounds like baseball to me. Players, managers, winning, losing, even ballparks come and go, but Skip and Pete were always there. I liked him so much that I honored him with my SN here when I signed up a few months ago.

So long, Skip! We’ll miss you.

When I was a kid, cable gave me the chance to see the Cubs and the Braves play nearly every day. For years and years, the majority of baseball I saw was announced by Skip or his father, and I loved listening to both of them. It breaks my heart that both of them are gone now.

I offer my sincere condolences to Braves fans everywhere. Skip was one of the best.

I loved listening to him. It is shocking hearing this news and I know he will be missed.

RIP Skip

My favorite thing about Skip was how when somebody would catch a fly ball he would randomly make up their home town, ‘A fan from Gwinett snagged that one.’ People would write in and ask how he knew where everyone that got fouls balls was from he’d make up this nonsense about having a detailed seating chart made out for him before each game and he’d just check it when somebody got a foul ball. My dad and I would watch games and it was always this quick moment of hilarity whenever a foul ball happen.
I loved listening to Harry, loved listening to Skip, love listening to Chip, and I have no doubt I’ll love listening to Chip’s son someday.

For me, on a personal level, this moment will be what I remember as the worst for the Braves in this long season of misery. Like many who’ve already posted, I grew up listening to Skip, and he is synonymous with the team – he is the voice of the Braves. Not to sell Pete short – I feel the same about him, but this is Skip’s moment. I, too, loved the fan hometowns, and there’s another funny thing Skip used to do that always made me laugh. When he’d read off the contestant names for the Goody’s homerun jackpot, he’d say, “And tonight’s contestant is Bob Smith, who lives in a P.O. Box in Alpharetta, Georgia.” That’s one of my favorites.
So long, Skip. Thanks for everything!

PS
Josh Caray broadcasts for the Rome Braves theses days. He’s not too shabby – check him out sometime on the internet.

RIP

“Chipper Jones” will never sound the same.

+1 Skip…always and forever.

I was out yesterday and really didn’t get to check any news until this morning…and then I see this.

Rest in Peace, Skip. We’re all going to miss you.

I’m more of a New Orleans Saints blogger, but I heard about this sad news yesterday and wanted to express my sadness at an appropriate place. I was raised a Braves fan by my grandfather and I cherish those memories of watching games with him. Skip’s voice always reminded me of those moments. I will miss him dearly.

That I’ve lost family members that have upset me more than this, but Skip, was family too.

“Beat the Mets, beat the Mets, the Mets can’t win on the road or at Shea, beat the Mets!”

I salute the man who I grew up with watching TBS Braves coverage.

As I grew up, my father and I would watch Braves games on TV every night with the volume down and the radio on. He was second to no other announcer in the game. I especially enjoyed games of late when Skip and Chip would broadcast together. I’m sure that those games were wonderful father/ son experiences that few sportscasters get to experience. Thanks for the memories Skip, you will be missed and never forgotten.

than listening to Pete and Skip in the middle of July sitting on a boat in the middle of a lake, fishin’ and drinking beer.

Like many others here, I “grew up” listening to Skip. My favorite combo was Skip and Ernie but Skip had that dry sense of humor we all loved. I miss the TBS coverage altogether but Skip absolutely made it great. He will never be replaced…

...I really do feel like a favorite uncle died. There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t already been expressed here already. I just wanted to pass along a link to someone else’s beautiful tribute to Skip.

Links:

http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200808043251567

http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200808043251568

http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200808043251569

He’ll be missed.

this was just great news to get before a 12 hour car ride. it was on my mind all day. i’m crushed…i was at the last game he commentated, and i didn’t even think to turn on the radio to listen to him on the way home. RIP skip, you will be missed SO MUCH

Rest in peace Skip, like all of you I have fond memories of watching Skip, Pete, Joe, and Don call the games during “the streak.” He was the first baseball announcer that I really enjoyed listening too. It is a sad time in these changing times with the Braves no longer on TBS. I was glad that I watched the last game on TBS, because being up here in Washington it was the only way to watch my Braves. He will be missed up here.

and in the mid-90s when i was old enough to understand baseball, Marge Schott thought that telivising to many games would keep people away from the ballpark, so the Reds only telivised 45 games a year. So I watched a lot of Cubs and Braves games because of TBS and WGN. I grow up with Harry and Skip Caray. I remember that February day when I learned Harry Caray died. I was heart broken. Skip dying is harder. I just grew accustomed to being able to turn on TBS and hearing his sarcasic commentary. I remember how boring Braves games seemed in 2004 when they took Skip and Pete off of TBS. Skip Caray is a huge part of the Atlanta Braves franchise. This will be as tough for you, as Joe Nuxhall’s death, last winter, was for Cincinnati.