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Braves announcer Skip Caray dies

LISTEN,  and remember, and smile.
 How very sad for Braves fans all over the country. Skip Caray's voice seems a part of my world, seems like he was always there, because the Braves were always on t.v. in our house in the Summer.

During one of the BIG pennant races , maybe 1992 , I was working nights at The Country Place, a sort of swanky restaurant in Midtown Atlanta. It must have been a Friday or Saturday night, very busy, people going to the Symphony or the Alliance Theater, across the street. It was a tight, tight race and the Braves needed to win. The radio was on in the kitchen, bottom of the ninth. I think we had just stopped cooking, just to listen. Someone out in the dining room heard us whooping and yelling, and had the 4 doors to the front of the house opened so the whole place could hear the Braves win. Skip Caray's voice took us all there.

Another time, leaving a Georgia game, another close end of season , or play-off game. We had done "THE CHOP", inside Sanford Stadium, (93, 000 of my closest friends) the most people ever to do it in one place. Leaving the Football game, WSB-Radio had the Braves on- every car, Skip Caray's voice was just in the air, Braves won again. Atlanta was Braves obsessed those pre Olympic years. I remember downtown buildings made a huge tomahawk out of their lights. Skip Caray's voice was a part of ... life!

It was  very sad for me when TBS stopped showing the Braves to the rest of the country, for me, an ex-pat Atlantan, it was a connection with home that I now miss. I get to see the Braves every time they play the Mets, because we get all Met and Evil Empire games, but it is SO not the same , with out, Skip Caray's voice.

He will be missed by so many people, and not just in Atlanta, where he stared on the radio in 1964! with the ATLANTA CRACKERS! (wow), he will be missed by people all over the country. 

Good Night, Skip.....