RIP Harry Kalas

[phillyfan0417]

My wife called to ask how i was doing because she heard about that "phillies" guy and that he died. I've listened to Harry the K since I was 8 years old. I still get chills when I hear his call of Mike Schmidt's 500th home run or when he sang "high hopes" and last years "chase utley, you are the man"

There will be something missing every time I hear a great phillies play going forward but its fun to think he and Whitey can do some talking again. Anyway, as a grown man, here is a quote I read recently and describes how I feel about the game...

It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look -- I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring -- caring deeply and passionately, really caring -- which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naivete -- the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazard flight of a distant ball -- seems a small price to pay for such a gift.

Harry Kalas was part of this joy for me.

 

[Ashburn Alley]

This is truly a sad day for all baseball fans. I don't know if I'll ever get over the fact that I won't be able to hear Harry's voice over the radio ever again. I feel like I lost a family member. My love of baseball is because of my father and this man. Rest in peace, Harry. I will truly miss you. Say "hi" to Whitey for me.

 

[xcantgobackx]

Wow, reading all this stuff from Phillies fans, it must be tough for you guys. I'm sad and the Phillies are my distant second favorite team. I can understand this feeling a bit as I felt it when Phil Rizzuto passed. Harry was truly a superior broadcaster and his vivacious personality really shone through every time he took the mic. Sad sad day.

 

[mazarazz]

For a man I've never met in my life I don't think I've ever felt so sad. For so many, myself included, his name alone brings up memories of not only the game itself but so many other personal memories that I've shared with friends and family. I only hope that he'll be calling the games with Whitey again from a seat with a great view.

 

[Big Mac McGwire]

Ryan Howard, the way he would say Ryan Howard is a sound i will never forget. Also INSIDE the NFL will NEVER be the same without that wonderful voice.

RIP Harry

 

[Bob Loblaw]

On top of everything else, I now have no reason to watch the Puppy Bowl...

Found these that I took 4+ years ago...

 

[ostrander111]

its a shame he was a fabulous announcer he will be missed by many RIP Harry the K