Soriano's Three Home Run Game at Atlanta (2007)

by cmhosin on Feb 16, 2012 11:02 AM CST

This will be really random

but does anybody know where I can find (or have themselves) audio or video of Chip Caray's call on Soriano's third home run in the game at Atlanta in 2007? Here's the game in question-- http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL200706080.shtml

This was the "An Ill Wind blows from the North!" home run call and I've tried to convince a couple friends that this was the most hilarious/ridiculous call I've ever heard, but I can't seem to find it anywhere online. Any help would be appreciated!

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Let me look...

I might have it! I totally remember 2 calls from this game:

“An ill wind blows from the north and his name is Alfonso Soriano!”

“Soriano has hit his third and he’s got the trot a-workin’!”

by cubbieblue on Feb 16, 2012 11:34 AM CST reply actions

Wow.

I’m glad I was actually at that game and did not hear any of this.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 16, 2012 11:42 AM CST up reply actions

Huh?

The ill wind one is pretty good, if you ask me.

"Pounding sand since 1982...."

by cubswynn on Feb 16, 2012 11:49 AM CST up reply actions

I believe there was someone who was telling us to pound sand if we said anything

good about Sori, :)

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by shoemile on Oct 21, 2011 10:10 PM CDT

by Madison Cub Fan on Feb 16, 2012 11:58 AM CST up reply actions

Ah, got it.

"Pounding sand since 1982...."

by cubswynn on Feb 16, 2012 12:33 PM CST up reply actions

"Fisted!"

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by daver on Feb 16, 2012 11:59 AM CST up reply actions

THIS

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by Musicdude10 on Feb 16, 2012 3:14 PM CST up reply actions

That would be so awesome!

I’ve scoured the interwebs trying to find it, but just can’t seem to get it. On a related note, one of my friends swears up and down that in a WGN broadcast a couple years prior, back when Matt Clement was with the Cubs and Chip Caray was a part of the broadcast team, Caray shouted “Oh, there’s the Rail-Splitter!!” as a strike-out call because Clement threw a splitter and because he had been comparing Clement’s physical resemblance to Abraham Lincoln for a couple innings leading up to that.

I love Len, mostly for his even-handedness and because he seems to be less homerish than a lot of the other announcers, but every once in a while you want some of that ridiculous flair.

by cmhosin on Feb 16, 2012 12:33 PM CST up reply actions

No luck tracking down the clip....

sorry!

by cubbieblue on Feb 20, 2012 9:42 AM CST up reply actions

Oh shoot,

but thanks for checking! I appreciate it!

by cmhosin on Feb 21, 2012 11:28 AM CST up reply actions

He got plunked the very next day right??

Then Lilly got tossed??

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by Hammer on Feb 16, 2012 12:14 PM CST reply actions

Well he got plunked by Hudson

but Marquis was pitching

"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Cubs win....what a lucky break!!" ---Harry

by Hammer on Feb 16, 2012 12:16 PM CST up reply actions

Yeah, then Lilly threw at a guy...

…in the first inning, the very next night, and got tossed from the game. That’s how I remember it, at least. I think this was also the same series that Edgar Renteria slid into Mike Fontenot and blatantly forearmed him in the face.

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by daver on Feb 16, 2012 12:22 PM CST up reply actions

Correct

And it was Jim Wolf who ran Lilly, infamously telling him that “I knew you were going to hit him.”. Footnote….Wolf is a terrible umpire.

by krummy12 on Feb 16, 2012 2:05 PM CST up reply actions

Brother of Brewers pitcher Randy Wolf, no?

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by daver on Feb 16, 2012 2:23 PM CST up reply actions

yeah

"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Cubs win....what a lucky break!!" ---Harry

by Hammer on Feb 16, 2012 2:24 PM CST up reply actions

My favorite home run call is the "Bob Seger Homerun"....

Against the Wind.

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by mrcubsfan on Feb 16, 2012 12:50 PM CST reply actions

ah

the good old days…

Forget all that other stuff. I gotta believe.

by drewishdrewid on Feb 16, 2012 1:30 PM CST reply actions

And...

Prior to that HBP by Hudson, I recall that Soriano was red-hot and that after, he scuffled. Looking back for reference, he indeed was 19-37 with 6 HR’s in the 8 games prior to and including the HBP AB. 5 of the 6 HR’s had come against Atlanta.

After that, he was 0 for his next 20 over the next five games. Hudson and Atlanta found a pretty simple way of cooling him down.

by krummy12 on Feb 16, 2012 2:33 PM CST reply actions

I was at the Cell for this game

I remember watching the score jump what seemed like every thirty seconds on their score board. Every time it did, all the Cubs fans would jump and cheer. The Sox game was rather boring if I remember correctly

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by Musicdude10 on Feb 16, 2012 3:16 PM CST reply actions