Why Bob Uecker Stole the Show in Major League
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Why Bob Uecker Stole the Show in Major League
0:00 Introduction: Bob Uecker was the MVP of Major League
0:33 Ueckers background made him perfect for the role
1:13 Bob Uecker's humor separates himself
1:30 Uecker's voice provides commentary not of just the game, but of the whole movie
1:58 Summary on why Bob Uecker steals the show
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Grew up in Wisconsin, Uecker has been calling brewers games longer than I've been alive. I am so grateful when I hear him in the radio in the spring
@TheMoviePodium
17 күн бұрын
One of a kind in that industry, his humor is top notch
As an Indians fan since I was 9 in 1968., Uecker saying "Oh my God , the Indians win it." always brings tears to my eyes.
@TheMoviePodium
20 күн бұрын
Such a Joyful moment for us Indians fans!
He isn't just a beloved broadcaster, he is a Hall of Fame broadcaster
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
💯 true! Thanks for the comment!
@user-gl6mq1lr6f
Ай бұрын
Probably on the Mount Rushmore!
@TonyGwynn-vf8zv
Ай бұрын
@@user-gl6mq1lr6f Definitely is!
@HariSeldon913
Ай бұрын
He'd still prefer to get in for his playing career.
@jesusthroughmary
Ай бұрын
@@HariSeldon913 lol
Bob Uecker was so good in this!
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Don’t know anyone could’ve done better!
My favorite Harry Doyle line is "Heywood leads the league in most offensive categories, including nose hair. When this guy sneezes, he looks like a party favor."
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
😂that’s such a good one!
@TonyGwynn-vf8zv
Ай бұрын
Dudes were built different in the 80s haha
@russellgrosser-7677
Ай бұрын
Clu Haywood...played by former MLBer George Vukovich.
@chrischar9428
27 күн бұрын
@@russellgrosser-7677PETE VUCKOVICH
@philiprein8985
25 күн бұрын
@@russellgrosser-7677 Actually I think it was Pete Vukovich. Its confusing though, because George Vukovich briefly played for the Indians in the early 80's.
"He'll need a rocket up his ass to catch this one." Another of the memorable lines that made Bob Uecker's portrayal of Harry Doyle perfect.
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
You another great line! So many!
He was hilarious. He stole the show. I love the line. "Just a bit outside."
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
It’s still so good and embedded into our vernacular!
@user-gl6mq1lr6f
Ай бұрын
So many memorable characters, but he might be the best!
Bob Ueker is just one example of MLB as a part of American culture.
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
💯 agreed!
22 күн бұрын
Yup, nothing even close, nobody can even hold the candle,we all should miss those days, never again
@TheMoviePodium
22 күн бұрын
You're so right!
i seriously miss the days when sports commentators had personality and were allowed to have fun during a broadcast. remember to support your local radio broadcasters because god knows they're 10 times more interesting than anything fox or cbs could put together
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
💯!
@user-gl6mq1lr6f
Ай бұрын
They were allowed to have fun!
@JeffRyman69
26 күн бұрын
Remember Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese
@TheMoviePodium
25 күн бұрын
@@JeffRyman69 great players of their time!
If memory serves, the stadium scenes that were supposed to be in Cleaveland was in fact filmed in Milwaukee. That would have put Bob right at home.
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Exactly! Yeah browns preseason when both the browns and Indians were playing at old Municipal!
@user-gl6mq1lr6f
Ай бұрын
@@TheMoviePodium What a dump! haha
@TonyGwynn-vf8zv
Ай бұрын
You can tell how comfortable he is in these scenes too.
@billf1
Ай бұрын
The old Milwaukee County Stadium. I saw a lot om historical events at the Stadium. I do miss it.
@bruce4303
12 күн бұрын
@@billf1 were you there when Cecil hit it out of the stadium (Tigers fan asking)?
As a Brewers fan, I've been extremely lucky to be able to listen to him my whole life. Get up! Get out! GET OUTTA HERE GOOONE! Can always send chills down your spine
@AFmedic
Ай бұрын
I'm 73 and spent my childhood & early teens living about 20 miles North of Milwaukee, so I had the privilege of actually watching Bob Uecker playing for The Braves.
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
@@AFmedic wow that’s so cool!
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Yeah in Cleveland, we’ve been lucky to have Tom Hamilton on the radio, one of the best. But uecker made this so funny!
@user-gl6mq1lr6f
Ай бұрын
@@TheMoviePodium Hammy is so good!
@TonyGwynn-vf8zv
Ай бұрын
Man I can't imagine getting to listen to him all the time!
Even before Major League when he was part of the broadcast team for the game of the week on NBC or ABC - he used his self-deprecating humor about his career to keep the announcers and viewers laughing. Dude is LEGEND! Not to mention his Miller Lite commercials!
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
His humor about his own career is classic. Not many people have the humility that he has or the sense of humor! And those miller lite commercials were so good!
My coach took our entire baseball team to the theater to watch it. Saw it 2 more times on dates 😁
@TheMoviePodium
19 күн бұрын
That’s awesome!
Well done guys!
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Thanks!
"Post-game show brought to you by...(fumbles drunkenly through notes on desk)... Christ, I can't find it. The hell with it." 😂😂😂😂
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Can you imagine if the announcers were allowed to drink!
Bob Ueuker had funny memorial lines before Major League. I loved his being in the front row. Just a bit outside is a classic.
@TheMoviePodium
27 күн бұрын
He was one of the best to ever do it, that’s for sure!
As Cleveland natives, "Major League" is one of our family's all-time favorite movies. My dad will remark that Uecker's character looks like a Harry Doyle! 😂 He and I quote Harry Doyle often: "Free admission to anyone who was actually alive the last time the Indians won the pennant!" "Ball four." "Ball eight." "Welcome to another edition of Teepee Talk!" "The Indians have won a few games here and there, and are threatening to climb out of the cellar." 😂😂😂😂😂
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Grew up big Indians fans ourselves! For a long time this was the closest thing we had to winning something. Until that 95 World Series at least and the 97 and 2016. Too many almosts 😂but major league was such a fun ride and Uecker was a big part of it!
@suds5214
20 күн бұрын
The whole family went to my first game when I was 7 in 67. I waited in the rain for about an hour to get into the movie the first day of release.
@TheMoviePodium
20 күн бұрын
@@suds5214 that’s awesome! Thanks for memories!
🎵There's a red moon rising On the Cuyahoga River🎵
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Yesss! Randy Newman ftw!
Ueuker was the best part of that film.
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
His commentating definitely brightened up this movie and yeah probably the best part! Even though he's really not in it that long
He's Mr. Baseball for a reason
@TheMoviePodium
10 күн бұрын
Exactly! The best
Uecker is in that small room of the Hall of Fame reserved only for the greatest of the Great. He doesn't need to take a bank seat to anyone including Bucks, Caray or even Vin Scully.....yes he is that good. Thank God I've been able to listen to him for the last 50+ years
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Agreed! And so lucky right?! One of the best to ever do it. Thanks for the comment!
So many awesome quotes 😅
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Couldn’t even pick a favorite! Just a bit outside might be the most iconic though.
@user-gl6mq1lr6f
Ай бұрын
This guy threw at his kid at father son game 🤣
@SouthernMan72
Күн бұрын
Brought to you by.... Christ, I can't find it. To hell with it! 😂
@TheMoviePodium
Күн бұрын
@@SouthernMan72 hahahah yesss
A juvenile delinquent in the offseason ....im crying right now
@TheMoviePodium
16 күн бұрын
Such a good one!
Absolutely! Wonderful performance.
He made these movies as popular as they are, Yes the movie would've been good without him, But He made them GREAT!
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Exactly! Still a funny movie, but the dynamic he added made it one of the best
@prowannab
14 күн бұрын
@@TheMoviePodium Juuuuuust a bit outside,LOL 10 feet from the plate!
@TheMoviePodium
14 күн бұрын
@@prowannab 😂so good!
Just a bit outside. Ball 4 ball 8 ball 12 and Vaughn walked the bases loaded on 12 straight pitches 😭
@TheMoviePodium
19 күн бұрын
How can these guys lay off pitches that close
"I think we got hosed on that call."
@TheMoviePodium
23 күн бұрын
With the gesture 😂
Major league 2 is worth watching just for him.
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Exactly! It’s not the best, but he still has some great lines!
Bob Uecker is a treasure.
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
Yes he is! There aren’t too many announcers like him that’s for sure!
Hell yeah! Who else would it be, my favorite line is, one hit! One God damn hit, you can't say that on air, it's okay no one's listening.
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
😂😂one of the best!
@russellgrosser-7677
Ай бұрын
Pretty much summed up Tribe fans' apathy from the 1970s through the early 1990s. We lived through it. 😒😤😡😬🥺😔
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
@@russellgrosser-7677 it was a rough time! Other than Barker’s perfect game in 1981
@russellgrosser-7677
Ай бұрын
@@TheMoviePodium It was against the Jays, April 1981. The Stadium was something like 85% empty.
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
@@russellgrosser-7677 yeah crazy how after this movie the attendance and the team turned around once they got into Jacobs field!
I bet I say, "just a bit outside" 100 times a year. I may not even think of where I got it from at this point.
@TheMoviePodium
2 күн бұрын
It’s such a common phrase now!
bob uecker is the real life mvp of just about everything imo. guy is a hilarious legend. the best kind of legend.
@TheMoviePodium
7 күн бұрын
Definitely a legend! One of the best of all time
"When this guy sneezes he looks like a party favour"
@TheMoviePodium
27 күн бұрын
Haywood leads the league in most offensive categories including nose hair 😂
@internationalbroadcastingc4493
26 күн бұрын
@@TheMoviePodium 😀😃😄😅🤣 #Pete Vukovich...An original Toronto Blue Jay picked in the 1976 dispersal draft from the White Sox organization. Very fun player who never did much with the bat during his time in the National League.
@TheMoviePodium
26 күн бұрын
@@internationalbroadcastingc4493 probably more of a legend for this movie than anything else!
@internationalbroadcastingc4493
26 күн бұрын
@@TheMoviePodium Yep, he was Cy Young level in both leagues. But his career was sadly quite brief.
@TheMoviePodium
26 күн бұрын
@@internationalbroadcastingc4493 so many players like that! Always sad
Absolutely!
Bob is just a funny guy. 👍👍💯🇺🇸
@TheMoviePodium
20 сағат бұрын
One of the best in the business for a reason!
That guy reminds me of myself!
@TheMoviePodium
20 күн бұрын
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I wonder what baseball movie Bob Uecker would put on. They all used to be on vhs tape. I would put on major league 1 & 2. or the Natural There are 3 to 5 or 6 movies with kids in them >But another adult one is moneyball no Bob Uecker but it's one of watched several times. I didn't watch the brewers on t v like I do now. So I heard years of Bob, living in wisconsin. The only thing when I listen to the brewers on xm radio when on the road they would only give you the away feed boy For the last few years Bob doesn't go on the road anyway.
I miss Chief Wa-hoo and the Indians
@TheMoviePodium
3 сағат бұрын
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He was great !!!!!
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
So good! Thanks for the comment
Uke made up a lot of stuff as he went along like putting burboun behind his ear. Loved Bob in the Miller Light guy's commercials, my favorite commercials of all time.
@TheMoviePodium
19 күн бұрын
💯amen!
@chillydawgg4354
17 күн бұрын
He is still alive
@itinerantpatriot1196
17 күн бұрын
@@chillydawgg4354 You're right, my bad. I have trouble keeping up with such things, so many of my childhood heroes passing on. I have amended my post accordingly. Thanks for the correction.
The Best
@TheMoviePodium
13 күн бұрын
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But does he know what truculent means
@TheMoviePodium
27 күн бұрын
😂
One hit? We got one GD HIT? You can’t say GD on the air No one’s listening anyway (Quoting from memory; probably messed it up)
@TheMoviePodium
Ай бұрын
😂that one never fails!
You can’t say that! Who cares nobody’s listening 🤣
@TheMoviePodium
19 күн бұрын
You can’t say Jesus Christ on the air 😂
Just out sideeeee
@TheMoviePodium
24 күн бұрын
😂😂
Too bad the team gave in to political correctness and renamed the team Guardians.
@TheMoviePodium
3 сағат бұрын
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