Skip Carey, 1939 - 2008

Skip Carey was the longtime voice of the Atlanta Braves and someone whom I enjoyed listening to while following baseball games for over a quarter-century on TBS. Carey, born Harry Christopher Carey II, began his long broadcast career in 1963 and joined the Braves broadcast team in 1976 just before the team went onto a nationwide broadcast over satellite and cable systems for 33 years. It was just at the end of the 2007 season that nationwide broadcasts of the Braves ended on TBS. Care was a wry sarcastic broadcaster with a rather nasal voice who was an unabashed "homer" in his presentation, oftening outrightly rooting for good things to happen for the Braves and referring to the players by their first names or nicknames during the telecasts. He also worked on the radio side for the Braves during his long career. Carey was the eldest son of the late and longtime Cardinals and Cubs television and radio voice Harry Carey, a Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster. Skip's son Chip followed him into the broadcast booth and is currently the lead broadcaster for TBS for their Sunday Afternoon Game of the Week presentation as well the ALDS/NLDS and LCS coverage on TBS in October. Skip's other son is a broadcaster for the minor league Rome (GA) Braves. He is survived by his wife Paula; and his two sons and two daughters.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Caray
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http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/braves/stories/2008/08/03/skip_caray_dies.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
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http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/braves/stories/2008/08/03/reaction_skip_caray_dies.html
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http://www.skipcaray.com/
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Promise of a Once Tasty Brew Returning

When I was a teenager, there were pretty much three beers my friends and I drank: Coors, Olympia, and Schlitz. Schlitz at that time was still a highly regarded brew with a taste that was esteemed by many. But corporate ownership during the late '70s and through the '80s changed the recipe, making the beer largely undrinkable; and it soon disappeared from beer coolers across the nation for over one and half decades. Now there is news that the original quality tasting product is coming back, with a limited distribution at first before going nationally in the next couple of years. Hopefully there will also be a re-emergence of the Schlitz Dark Beer, which was extraordinarily tasty and only got better as it aged in one's refrigerator. While I have reached the point in my life where I rarely have a beer (I have only had one in this calendar year, and probably less than a six pack in the last two years), every so often its an okay treat. I will look for the new Schlitz and hopefully new Schlitz Dark as 2009 moves along.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25970479?GT1=43001
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