Chip Caray

They're fun to be around.

I consider them dear friends, and I would trust my family with them.

And I think that's the secret sauce of what makes a broadcast successful is it's not just knowing the game.

It's not just being able to work with somebody.

It's being able to stand, and I use that with quotation marks around it, being around them as a surrogate member of your family for six months because you're away from your real family, because that's what the job entails.

And I've really, really been lucky that starting with Steve Stone and my father,

great friends in Atlanta, my dad, Jeff Rancourt, and so many others, Chicago with Steve and Seattle with Dave Niehaus, and now in St.

Louis with Brad Thompson and Mark Sweeney, that they're not just coworkers, they're friends.

And I think that's the magic.

I think that's what makes the difference between

just a booth and a a broadcast where people actually feel like they're welcome to listen and welcome to watch and want to watch and want to invite you into their homes because you don't like the guy you're working with it's going to come across on tv and if that happens you're going to alienate your audience and luckily that hasn't really ever been a case for me

I'll start with the social media part.

I think Harry would have loved it.

Harry came from an era where any publicity is good publicity.

It doesn't matter if they're ripping you or praising you.

your name's in the papers and, you know, people are thinking about talking about you.

My dad was a much more private person.

Uh, he, he was, he got to the point in his career where he, he didn't, he didn't care about, um, what some newspaper writer wrote about him.

He cared deeply about what the fans thought because ultimately he wanted to serve the fans, but he could care less about what some newspaper TV critic wrote about his work because that person in

many cases has never worn a headset in his or her life and either can't or wouldn't be able to do what we do uh the evolution for me has been uh very sensitive to that earlier and as i've gotten older and wiser i'm a lot less sensitive to it my job is to do the games and go home and spend time with my family and my friends and that's what i try to do but to your point