Skip Caray Dies at Age 68

My dad is a huge Braves fan, and I watched a lot of games on TBS growing up. He was really funny, especially when the team was horrible and he had to be more entertaining to keep people interested.

Surprised and sad that he’s gone.

I grew up watching the Braves with my grandmother, so his voice was a permanent fixture in my childhood. He will be missed by many!

After we moved to Alabama in the 70’s all I could watch was Braves games until WGN got on cable. Skip and Pete Van W. are the braves to me along with Ernie Johnson Sr. Skip seemed to be going down hill the last year or so. He may have had a stroke, I know his speech sounded slurred. With TBS not carrying the Braves anymore it was not the same anyway. Condolences to his family…

Skip Carey was a pioneer of sorts. Unfortunately, he also was a real asshole, an abusive husband and an absentee father to Chip and his siblings.

He was my favorite current announcer. I think the last time I heard him call a game was last year when the Cubs played in Atlanta. They only let him do a few TBS games last season, but it was a joy to hear him again. Rich Hill threw a great game, his curve was really something that night. I grew up listening to Skip on Braves games on TBS, along with the previously mentioned Pete Van Wieren and Ernie Johnson. I couldn’t believe TBS didn’t let him do any playoff games last season, especially considering some of the announcers they had.

.... Skip was his own man like his father, in his own way. He certainly wasn’t treated right by the Braves his last few years. At least Chip got to work with him at the end.

Truly sad to hear of his passing. But I’m also glad that his health problems are at an end.
I have to believe that it tore him up inside to be limited to just home Braves games.
I recall reading just a few months ago that Skip had said this year has been hard
for him, dealing with his diabetes, and irregular heartbeat and congestive heart failure
not to mention reduced kidney and liver functions

All my thoughts are with the Chip and the Caray family.

I wish TBS had put Skip Caray on some of the postseason telecasts last season. It was sad to see less of Skip on Braves TV games the last couple of years. I was able to hear him on radio broadcasts because of a local Braves affiliate in Memphis. I thought he was a Hall of Fame announcer. Maybe, he’ll make it posthumously. I’m glad Harry got inducted while he was alive. This is a very sad day for those of us who grew up with MLB on cable TV in the 1980’s.

... he knew damn well by posting what he did it would inflame the masses and get us all to talk about Blue Mike once again, and he was right. He disparaged Caray right after his death solely to be unduly provocative, and it worked. Skip Caray’s death on BCB has become all about Blue Mike. It wasn’t that he wanted to post an edgy opinion or take an unpopular stand. He trashed a dead man, and likel y feels very proud of himself for doing so. What an absolutely pathetic way to get attention. Truly no class at all.

usually revolve around the bad Braves’ teams of the ‘70s and ‘80s, not the powerhouse ones of the ‘90s. He and Van Wieren really had to use humor to get through it.

Saying stuff like “The bases are loaded again, and I wish I was, too.”

That’s the difference between a broadcaster who gives you the basic stuff and one who actually is entertaining. BTW, I would put Len and Bob in the latter category, Hawk and DJ in the former. Those guys simply aren’t entertaining.

also said to “judge not according to the appearance, but judge RIGHTEOUS judgement ..” As one who has taught regularly from that standard, let me bounce something off of you ..

He did not forbid making judgment calls on people or situations .. what he demanded was an absolute commitment to sound, sober, fair judgment calls on anyone and any thing. He COMMANDED this .. it wasn’t an option. Those seeking to avoid discernment of a foible by pulling this kind of card miss the whole point of what he was teaching .

For one person to judge another’s actions isn’t some inexcusably intolerant issue, IMHO. he implicitly mandates this as a normal course of daily decision making and rational consideration but only in a completely qualified manner. He teaches that an inappropriate judgment is when a snap judgment is based solely upon a perspective or truth claim that hasn’t been fully examined.

“Judging righteously” isn’t an arrival at some sanctimonious snap-judgment .. it’s when real thought and real consideration is used.

I’m not trying to make this a theology lesson .. I’m simply pointing out that if we never judged anything because it was politically incorrect to too many people, we’d never arrive at anything remotely resembling civil order or personal / societal balance. Chaos would ensue when objective standards are tossed out the door to avoid seeming too “judgmental.”

So, frankly, on the basis of this principle, I think it’s entirely approprate that someone like MDBNIU should most definitely be judged by the standards of the community that he has chosen to be among. I agree with others here that, despite the sad reality that Mr. Caray had some serious family and personal problems, he deserves a little more respect then you’re willing to give him. How much of that dysfunction and personal failure that he may well have been guilty of could be something that, over the last several years of his life, he may have very sincerely, quietly and earnestly did all he could to change and reform from? HOW do you know he is still an “a__hole?”

I believe that all people who live under such shadows should be cut some slack and be given a chance to seek some redemption for their failings. It’s when they take a course of action that clearly shows they don’t give a rip about their dysfunction or what it does to others that we can conclude X or Y about who they are.

I’m not defending Caray’s past, but I like to think that perhaps he’s done all he can to change his ways, leading his son to make the comment he did. I certainly agree with everyone that at someone’s death, a generous bit of leeway with their personal pasts should be given and that they be granted a dignified memory of their life. Unlike what you’re defending here ..

either way he was a great broadcaster. Growing up in the south, I grew up listening to him broadcast Bravos games. He’ll definately be missed. This is just a complete shock to the baseball world…

which led to other breakdowns, and from this, his heart, liver and kidneys were failing.
Excuse if this has been posted. Reading the garbage that this thread has spewed is a bit much, so I’ve passed over many of the entries.

http://www.ajc.com/braves/content/sports/braves/stories/2008/08/04/caray_wife_death.html

(diabetes is not mentioned in this article, but I believe I’ve seen that reference in another story at a site I do not remember.)