Chip Caray

Well, the owner forgot that, you know, those people are buying tickets and spending money that's going into his pocket, too.

And the beauty of WGN, WOR in New York, and WTBS in Atlanta was it was a national broadcast with a hometown flavor.

They made no bones about, at least my dad's crew, that they wanted the Braves to win every day.

The same when I was on WGM with Steve Stone, we wanted the Cubs to win every day, but we were doing a national broadcast, which sent our signal, our games nationwide and made tons of baseball fans in places that didn't get to see baseball either live or on TV too often.

So in my humble opinion, and I don't know all the background of it, but I thought that was a big misstep by major league baseball and taking away those, those national super stations because they were very popular.

They humanized baseball.

both the Cubs and the Braves broadcast.

They made the broadcasters super famous, but they had really good players and they sold the product exceptionally well, which in today's world is really, really important and becoming more and more fragmented, it seems, by the week.

Yeah, we hear about that all the time.

And there's a homogenization of the way that the games are done now.

And I think if I could put an exclamation point on it, I think that's what made those broadcasts so great was you turned the game on and you had an unmistakable knowledge of who was doing the game and where the game was and who the people were, who you were watching on TV.

You know, Pete Van Waren, call of a Dale Murphy home run in Atlanta.

You knew who you were watching.

You're watching a Braves broadcast.

Same with the Cubs and WGN.

And I think that people sort of miss that.

I think they long for that.

And I think that's what made them

in large part, very, very successful.

Yeah, I did with Harry especially.