What is the biggest homer call you have ever heard made? It can be from an announcer, a color commentator, or an analyst/"expert" making either a call during the game or a prediction or whatever. What is the ultimate homer call?
Yesterday's winners: My brother and O-Train
Rob:
Fine ill be the dirty italian and say the godfather one because it has everything that could be asked for in a movie violence, romance, culture (bilingual) ... and all that other shit im too lazy to type. I mean what is more attractive than a bunch of italians in suits. Plus, the godfather had Al Pacino, who is the man and not just some midgets in robot machines
O-Train:
I, too, am going with The Godfather Trilogy, supporting the Dago reasoning of Uncle Bubba. The first two are timeless classics and a part of American film lore. While the third movie was not as good as the first two, it served the purpose of a trilogy in tying up the loose ends and bringing the story to a close. The film finds redemption in the closing sequence after Sofia Coppola gets capped (a great scene because it ends her acting). We see Corleone, once powerful, reminiscing about all the women in his life while Mascagni's "Intermezzo" plays softly in the background, completing one of the most perfect music-scene compilations ever.
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You can't talk about a "homer" without mentioning the name Johnny Most, the legendary Celtics broadcaster. Fans would mute their televisions and listen to Most's broadcasts and swear that two different games were happening. Crowing in his trademark raspy voice from "high above courtside," he might be the only broadcaster to drop a lit cigarette in his own lap during a live broadcast.
Most was a "homer" in every sense of the word, and was downright vicious towards opponents (for example, he frequently referred to Magic as "Crybaby" Johnson). Perhaps his most famous call was during the playoff series vs. Detroit:
"There is a violent, violent knockdown by Laimbeer and Bird just smacked him! Oh my! Oh, the yellow, gutless way they do things here! They have been called a dirty ballclub and I can see why! This is a typical, disgusting display by Rodman, Laimbeer and Isiah Thomas! And they told me I shouldn’t say bad things about Isiah and I say ‘why not!’"
My honorable mention goes to the great Harry Caray, who rooted for the Cubs, but broadcast like a true fan. For example, Cubs OF Jorge Orta dropped the ball once, inspiring Caray to say, "How could he lose the ball in the sun? He's from Mexico!"
Any time Tim McCarver opens his mouth about the Yankees. He could be calling a Diamondbacks-Rockies game and he'd talk about how great Mariano Rivera is and how Troy Tulowitzki reminds him of a young Jeter. Shut your mouth and remove Steinbrenner's balls from it. You cannot retire soon enough.
What does "homer" mean?
You mean like a homerun?
I'm going to choose to interpret this as what is my favorite single call of a home run ever, which I can easily answer: The WEEI guy calling a grand slam that was recorded onto the bottle opener that BChao and I had on our fridge in 1706. Any time we reached for a cold one, we also got a crazed man heralding our beers with: "Pitch and a swing...way back....WAAAAAY BACk...GRAAAAND SLAAAAAAAM! [his voice cracks a bit, the crowd is yelling in the background] Go crazy folks, the Red Sox win this one!"
It started to have a Pavlovian effect, so every time the Sox got a hit, I expected a beer to follow soon and every time I had a beer, I expected the Red Sox to win in a grand slam. And, frankly, I was perfectly okay with it.
Okay now I understand the question. I know what a homer is, but didn't understand what this question was asking. Please have former idiotic comments stricken from the record.
I, too, realize I misinterpreted this specific use of the word "homer" but still want to let my response go in the mix because I finally answered a question and that has to count for something.
John Fucking Sterling and Suzyn Waldman are two of the worst, most annoying homers I've ever heard (in clips).
Some gems from Sterling:
-An A-Bomb, from A-Rod!
-A thrilla, by Godzilla!
Both of those have to be said in a dirty old man, orgasmic voice...call me if you really need to hear it, because it's fucking awful.
And of course, his biggest crime.
'Yankees win...tha-a-a-a-a-a-a Yankees win', where he sounds like some stuterring retard happy about winning the special olympics.
And Suzyn Waldman: Her Roger Clemens stuff "Of all the exciting things I've ever seen!!"...and this was because that fat douchebag was in Steinbrenner's luxury box. You're right Suzyn...Clemens signing with the yankees was sure more exciting than that Boone thing.
One blog has a title of a post about her call. It says "Suzyn Waldman has orgasm, takes shit on air." Here's the opening paragraph. "New York Yankees radio announcer Suzyn Waldman became the first person ever to have an orgasm and simultaneously take a shit on the air yesterday as Roger Clemens was introduced to the New York crowd by Vince McMahon and Mr. Fuji as the newest member of the 2007 Yankees."
Here's a link:
http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=695991
It's just awful radio.
And an honorable mention to everyone in our Facebook NCAA Hockey Pool this year. Everyone but Timmy's pops and myself picked a sputtering (to be kind...one could also say they sucked assjuice by thr end of the year) BU team to beat Michigan State.
I still don't understand the question.
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