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Today marks the 10th anniversary of Harry Caray's death. Comcast Sports is airing a documentary at 7pm tonight called Holy Cow: Remembering Harry Caray, and no doubt people all over the city are mispronouncing things in his honor.
This Thursday, mark your calendar for the 10th annual worldwide toast to Caray at 7pm. [CSN's schedule, Trib, more Trib, Robert Feder, Caray quotes.]
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"...mispronouncing things in his honor."
Hah!
Sadly, a lame (and mean-spirited) Will Ferrel sketch reduced Harry Caray to a blathering idiot for many. Growing up a Sox fan with Harry and Jimmy Piersal in the booth, my memories of him are more favorable (and accurate, perhaps). Sure, later in life he stumbled a bit and enjoyed saying player names backwards, but he was far from being the clown many of the uninitiated insist upon. (Hint: It's called getting old)
If you're going to bother calling attention to the guy, harping on some tired misconception is a rather perverse form of praise.
I was watching one of the "classic" Cub games yesterday on CSN, and looking back on it now, he was really losing it at the end. It was rather sad to listen to him try to call the game, actually.