Comments on: Congratulations, Dave

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:29:23 +0000

The Mariners need to produce a DVD of Dave’s best calls… They produced one for Edgar (You Gotta Love That Guy) and 2001’s 116 win season. I’d pay anything for that.

They could easily get a sell out based on that as a giveaway…

By: DMZ

DMZ — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:59:07 +0000

Seriously, i before e in Niehaus. That can’t be that hard.

By: bratman

bratman — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:51:09 +0000

Right now the Mariners looking for the tie. They would take a fly ball. They would love a base hit into the gap and they could win it with Junior’s speed. The stretch and the 0-1 pitch to Edgar Martinez, swung on and lined down the left field line for a base hit. Here comes Joey. Here is Junior to third base, they’re gonna wave him in. The throw to the plate will beeee late the Mariners are going to play for the American League Championship. I dont believe it. It just continues, My Oh My!
–Dave [Niehaus], October 8, 1995

By: cody

cody — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:46:24 +0000

Congratulations Dave-
You are the greatest thing that has ever happenned to the Seattle Mariners franchise.

By: Breadbaker

Breadbaker — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:58:37 +0000

Dave has almost a sixth sense of the tenor of a game sometimes. It will be 5-1 in the sixth and sometimes when the other team gets a guy on base, he’ll make it sound like nothing, and sometimes like the start of a flood. And he’s almost invariably right.

One thing we should have is a list of the people he’s given the title of “That Man” to. The real Mariner killers like Pudge Rodriguez, Vlad Guerrero and a few others. On this day, they should wear the badge of distinction given to them by an opposing team’s announcer like diamonds. The kind made of carbon, not grass.

By: cdowley

cdowley — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:13:59 +0000

I still remember back in 1995, the day of the tiebreaker game. I was on the schoolbus going home while the game was on, and the driver had the game cranked. It was the first time I sat in the front row (I was usually a third row guy, not sure why), just so I could make sure not to miss anything. Right before we got to my stop, Sojo hit that ball that just wouldn’t find a glove, and I still to this day remember that call and the pure excitement in Dave’s voice.

And watching the end later, with Randy pointing up to the skies, and that mix of joy, relief, and sheer ecstasy in Dave’s voice… it still sends chills up my spine.

Congratulations Dave. This honor is far, far overdue.

By: Sentinel

Sentinel — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:40:21 +0000

Being a fan since 1988, when I turn eight and my parents took me on my first trip to the Kingdome, I have many fond memories of the Seattle Mariners. The Dave Niehaus Experience is and always will be one of those fond memories. Through the bad times, like now, you can always enjoy a game that has Dave as its voice.

Congrats, Dave.

By: scott19

scott19 — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:24:24 +0000

Like some others here, I, too, am a Midwest transplant who was privileged to have grown up with another Hall Of Famer, the great Ernie Harwell, as my first “voice of summer”. Through days spent at the beach, cookouts, swatting mosquitoes at twilight on the back porch, or staying up late on those muggy nights to catch a game from the west coast, you always had Ernie to call the Tigers on the radio for you.

Admittedly, though my love of baseball had never completely gone away, it had waned somewhat by the time I moved to the region in 1994. But it was this team’s emergence in 1995 — narrated, in its entirety, by a man with that rare and unique gift of being able to paint pictures with words — which once more rekindled my passion for the game.

I have been blessed to have enjoyed many a summer with two of the game’s very best. One, though, is still keeping the light on for us here on the airwaves as he has — through good or bad — for the past 32 years.

“My, oh my!” indeed, Mr. Niehaus!

Congratulations, Dave, and best wishes to you always!

By: IdahoInvader

IdahoInvader — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:00:02 +0000

As a third grader living on the Idaho/Oregon border (Ontario, OR) there weren’t many people, let alone kids my age, who wanted to follow The M’s like I did. It was 1980 and I overheard my dad listening to the M’s on the radio and literally was hooked soon after. I didn’t realize until a few years later that all announcers weren’t exciting and interesting like Neihaus.

He was the real reason a generation of us pre-1995 M’s fans stuck w/ it for soooooo long. He made every game seem important and any potentially significant play was exciting. Throughout the 80’s they were VERY rarely on tv, so he was our link to the team. During the 80’s and into the 90’s, in the house or the car or wherever else, his voice was a nightly ritual as I grew up.

I even got to meet him once. My dad drove us 500 miles for our first game in person, way back in 1983. (Mike Moore pitched a complete game vs the Twins and lost of course allowing all seven of the runs in one early inning). About an hour before the game my dad asked a guy working the elevator if his son could meet the announcers. To my surprise, he came back and led us up to where they were. Dave and Rick both greeted us right away and talked for a good ten minutes w/ me. They were extremely nice and probably amazed anyone wanted to follow the team this closely due to the constant futility.

Dave and Rick asked if I’d like a picture of them, so you know I said yes to that. I ended up w/ an autographed glossy from each which they signed right there in front of me along w/ a nice note. Neihaus even signed a baseball for me. Also, finally getting to see what the infamous Kevin Cremon (sp?) looked like was interesting too, lol.

So even 25 years later, I can remember Neihaus being as genuinly nice in person as he always sounded over the airwaves.

Congrats Mr. Neihaus, the Hall is truly lucky to have you.

By: galaxieboi

galaxieboi — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:35:52 +0000

Thanks for making a lonely kid happier growing up in the 80’s, Mr. Niehaus. Baseball to me is Dave’s voice over the low, very low murmer of a Kingdome crowd.

We should all be thankful for him. Listening the d-bags here in Denver doing Rockies games I’m acutely aware of what I’m missing. He’s the best in the biz.