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Chip Caray out as TBS’ lead major league baseball announcer

Chip Caray’s tenure as TBS’s lead major league baseball announcer ended Monday, with he and the cable network agreeing to part ways, Richard Sandomir writes. "Caray’s high-volume style was mixed with a penchant for bad play calls, embellishments and factual errors," Sandomir adds, quoting an oft-cited Caray call from the American League Central Division tiebreaker between the Twins and the Tigers in October: “Line drive. Base hit. Caught out there. The runner tags. Throw to the plate. On target. And in time! A double play!” In a memo sent to company employees, David Levy, the president of Turner Sports, wrote on Monday: “Since the end of this year’s M.L.B. playoffs, we’ve had several discussions with Chip Caray regarding 2010 and beyond. Both sides have agreed that now is the right time for Turner Sports and Chip to move ahead on different paths.”
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One Response to “Chip Caray out as TBS’ lead major league baseball announcer”

  1. David McCullough Says:

    I moved to Atlanta from Detroit, where the firing of Ernie Harwell drove me to rage. Fortunately, it’s only TBS this time, so who cares, as long as Caray keeps calling the Braves games as a homer. He’s as simpatico as Harwell was.

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