Sep 27

Written by: Sheridan
9/27/2007 8:25 PM

If football is a sport of quick hits and flashy uniforms, baseball is the sport of slow shifts and tradition. What other sport features so many teams who still wear uniforms from the early 20th century, and they're not throwbacks? Part of the tradition is also in the voices that call the games. For most Oklahomans, that meant Jack Buck and the Cardinals on KMOX at night and to a lesser degree Eric Nadel and the Texas Rangers. For me, though, it's been Skip Caray and the Braves on TBS. Sunday afternoon, all that comes to an end. TBS, once the network of brash boat captain and soon-to-be-Jane-Fonda-ex-husband Ted Turner, is now the property of Time-Warner-AOL-whatever with no room for tradition or Skip. It is fitting that the last broadcast will be a meaningless game with the Braves out of contention, even as they were for most of my youth in the '80s. Then it was Dale Murphy, now it is Chipper Jones. Then it was Claudell Washington, now it is Andruw Jones. Then it was Skip and Pete, now it is, well, Skip and Chip. So much for tradition. The baseball gods must be weeping.

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