Booze, broads, and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?
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Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball.
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Holy cow!
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I figure I had no business being here this long anyway, so what do you care how old I am? I've been on borrowed time for years. You know my old saying: live it up, the meter's running. I've always said that if you don't have fun while you're here, then it's your fault. You only get to do this once.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I`ll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
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Oh, I get a little tired now and then, but knowing my lifestyle, that's only natural.
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This has been the remarkable thing about the fans in Chicago, they keep drawing an average of a million-three a year, and, when the season's over and they've won their usual seventy-one games, you feel that those fans deserve a medal.
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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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