Remembering Bob Uecker: Beloved Broadcaster Dies at 90

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00:00But Bob Euchre, 90 years old, passing away, of course, played longtime broadcaster for the Brewers,

00:09actor, Major League, Mr. Belvedere. Bob Euchre, Scotty, gone at 90. What a loss. Rest in peace.

00:19Yeah, obviously, I think it's a huge loss for baseball. And, you know, let's face facts,

00:27this guy was hilarious. I mean, I remember growing up and watching him doing, you know,

00:35Miller Lite commercials. I saw today someone put a giant 40 of Miller Lite on his statue outside

00:43the ballpark in Brewtown. I think he was an institution in not only Milwaukee, but in baseball.

00:50I think he's clearly the funniest guy that ever played baseball or that ever had anything to do

00:58with Major League Baseball. I think he's a Hall of Famer because of his humor. Certainly not his

01:04baseball. I thought his play-by-play work was worthy of the Hall of Fame as well. But his

01:11comedic ability, what he did on Johnny Carson, when I was a kid, he was always on Johnny Carson

01:19and he was terrific. I don't know if you've ever seen him talk about trying to catch a knuckleball,

01:24but he talks about how you just let it spin until it stops spinning and then have the umpire pick

01:30the ball up and hand it to you. He's just a freak. And he was genuine. He was real. He was always

01:38there. Talk about a guy that lived at a ballpark. I mean, this guy called every Brewers game for the

01:43last 50 some years, he was really special. And it's amazing to me how they show a guy that really,

01:53you know, never mattered as a player at all. He joked about how the, you know, companies paid him

02:01not to use their equipment. He literally, but he would walk out on a baseball field

02:07and wave his arm and fans, you know, 60,000 fans would go crazy. I mean, this guy was loved by

02:16everyone, Mike. Everyone loved him everywhere. It didn't matter if he was a Brewers guy,

02:21people still loved him. And he did games all the way to the end. I mean, he called a couple of

02:27those games against the Mets that they lost in that, in that first round. And man, it sucks.

02:32He was so good in those major league movies.