Bob Uecker

Also referred to as Bob Euker, Bob Uker, Uker

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Major League The Rewatchables April 10, 2019

Major League

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie

Bill Simmons chooses Lou Brown’s ‘win the whole fucking thing,’ while Rembert Browne chooses Pedro Cerrano’s ‘I do it myself’ Jobu line; ‘hats for bats’ and Bob Uecker’s calls are leading alternatives.

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Candidates include ‘This guy is dead. Cross him off,’ ‘hats for bats,’ ‘just a bit outside,’ and ‘How’s your wife and my kids?’
The declaration 'fuck you, Joe Boo, I do it myself' is a finalist.
Jake Taylor's library question about the whale section in Moby Dick is nominated.
Willie Mays Hayes saying they should have gotten a live chicken is nominated.
Willie Mays Hayes calling his first steal a step toward the Hall of Fame is nominated.
The owner's 'I hate this fucking song' reaction to Wild Thing is nominated.
Bill Simmons chooses Lou Brown's 'win the whole fucking thing' line. — Bill Simmons
Rembert Browne says he loves 'hats for bats' but selects the Jobu line as his favorite. — Rembert Browne

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The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Clu Haywood, played by Pete Vuckovich, wins. Rachel Phelps, Bob Uecker, and Uecker’s unnamed broadcast partner are also accepted as candidates.

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The owner and Bob Uker are proposed as candidates based on their limited time and impact.
Clu Haywood is proposed and accepted as the winner.
Bob Euker's unnamed broadcast partner is accepted as another candidate because of his weird facial reactions.

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What’s Aged the Worst?

Charlie Sheen’s later baggage is the named vote, with Jake Taylor’s stalking and Wesley Snipes’s running called honorable runners-up, before the hosts qualify the result as a nine-way tie for first. The almost entirely white setting, later Bob Uecker imitators, Snipes’s throwing and sequel distance, the Lynn-centered freeze-frame, the ‘off the reservation’ phrase, and Pedro Cerrano’s stereotyped characterization are also among the criticized elements.

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Charlie Sheen’s off-screen history changes how his performance and Wild Thing persona play now.
The team and stadium crowd are overwhelmingly white apart from Willie Mays Hayes and Serrano.
The future sports-movie imitators of Bob Euker never reproduce this unique success.
The movie uses conspicuous slow motion and editing to sell Willie Mays Hayes as exceptionally fast.
The writer-director says Wesley Snipes was such an unskilled baseball thrower that the movie omitted scenes of him throwing.
Wesley Snipes’s later distance from the movie and refusal to return for the sequel complicate the affection for Hayes.
Jake Taylor’s pursuit of Lynn repeatedly ignores her boundaries and reads as stalking.
The final freeze-frame centers Lynn in the pennant celebration even though the team barely knows her.
Serrano's shifting Haitian or Dominican identity, voodoo practice, tribal music, and speech pattern are criticized as a racial stereotype.
The home-run phrase 'off the reservation' is separately criticized as poorly aged.
The final call names Charlie Sheen, gives honorable-runner-up mentions to Jake’s stalking and Snipes’s running, then qualifies everything as a nine-way tie for first.

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What’s Aged the Best?

Bob Uecker’s Harry Doyle broadcasts win. The alternatives are Jake Taylor’s bunt; the film’s slow motion; the Cleveland opening; credible baseball-player casting and Charlie Sheen’s physicality; the season-long structure and specialized roster; Lou Brown; baseball texture; Yankees villainy; the manager’s hunch; worst-to-first baseball magic; closer entrance music; and the profane R-rated tone.

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Having Jake Taylor win with a surprise bunt instead of a home run is introduced as an Aged Best answer.
The movie’s slow motion, especially Willie Mays Hayes running in pajamas during the opening, is offered as another Aged Best answer.
The opening credits’ documentary-like Cleveland images are praised for establishing the city and stakes.
Casting performers who look and move like baseball players helps the games feel credible.
Charlie Sheen’s youth and physical credibility as a pitcher hold up especially well.
Bob Euker as the lifelong local radio hack is praised throughout and is ultimately chosen as the winner.
The movie captures the day-to-day aspect, ebb and flow, and checkpoints of a baseball season.
The roster’s pre-Moneyball specialization, including speed, defense, and relief pitching, feels ahead of its time.
James Gammon’s Lou Brown is praised as a funny, credible manager rather than a sentimental caricature.
The film captures baseball's rule-bending, dugout drama, rituals, and superstitions.
Using the Yankees as the final villain restores their evil-empire role after a weaker decade.
The worst-to-first pennant story delivers the kind of baseball-movie magic the hosts want from the genre.
The grizzled manager's absurd hunch succeeds even though putting in Charlie Sheen should not work.
The Wild Thing sequence is credited with creating the closer-entrance-music tradition that followed.
The R rating, swearing, and adult jokes give the sports comedy an edge missing from safer versions.

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