Will Ferrell as Harry Caray Collection, 2008-15, & Harry Caray, 1986, '89

here, almost brought the six pack, lousy case, listen to me, you've been making these games for 42 years, is there anyone who's been doing play by play longer, even close to that? Well, I think maybe Ernie Harwell with the Detroit Tigers, an excellent broadcaster, then Sky. I started in '40. Scully started in '48, so he's close. They told me when they hired me that it was a temporary job. Yeah, you started with who, well, I was born and raised in St. Louis and you can imagine the Cardinals are my favorite team since the day I can remember and suddenly, the miracle of life.

I'm broadcasting Cardinals games and making sure I own the city not to broadcast them for 25 years and I thought they were going to give me a gold watch and They gave me a pink slip, I let you, yeah, so I want to have to working for Charlie Finley for a year and that's normal, yeah, then I came to Chicago and there were the White Sox for eleven years and now with the police, yeah, yeah. Do you like it a lot like in Chicago? I love Chipko, have you ever missed it? I've missed a game in 42 years, I've never missed a game, I've never missed an at-bat, I've never missed a half inning and I was supposed to.

Know? Chicago is such a wonderful city, David, hey, we have people from Chicago, you know, I've made several death visits to Indianapolis and everyone, you must say, there's a million friends there because everyone would come up to me and say, hey, I knew David Letterman very well, not just in Indianapolis, but now, Harry, I also know that you are a man who enjoys relaxing after the ball game and you go out to Chicago, various places you stay late, which you certainly have the right to do. to do. Yeah, have you ever worked on a game? When you've been a little less than what you know, listen Dave, you know very well that you

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never succeed in this business until you have had the experience of working with a terrible hangover, not until you have been able to get ahead with great success.

In those circumstances, can you consider yourself a professional? And God knows I've had more than my share of angles, but I never missed a day. People never missed a day. I never missed a day. I never missed a night. Oh, you sure said, hey, look, oh damn, you see these are all adults forever and ever. I saw it throughout his career, he was not only a great player but a great man to this day, he tries to contribute and give something back to the game. of baseball because he appreciates the good that baseball did for him. everyone isn't like that man Stan my first baseball glove was a Stan Musial three finger hand fielder's glove how come you couldn't use it very well?

I know I couldn't, they told me it would be Indianapolis, now Harry, the Cubs are out by 123 or something. You have to ask a question, but they're not doing well. They know they are not well. They have been playing. They have been playing. up to 24 games, how can you make a game like that exciting? Saying that they are playing a series with the Dodgers is someone who is not doing well this season either. How is it possible? Yes, Dave, it's impossible not to be excited about the Chicago Cubs. baseball, especially at Wrigley Field, you know, I heard the Cubs down 24 games played the Phillies the other afternoon the Phillies were down 21 games it was like I was feeling angry on a Wednesday afternoon in Chicago 38,000 people paid we got the All-Star break the first day after the All-Star break all the other teams play tonight the Cubs play the only day game that goes through everyone in baseball and they played the only day game it's a great franchise but that's not my question Harry, I know you well.

How can you make the broadcast exciting for people who can't get off work to go to Wrigley Field? Well, I have great partners, I have Steve Stone, Arnie Harris, our TV producer, Lou Boudreau, Duane stats, Vince Lloyd, they're easy guys to work with. and you know, and you're also drinking beer, there's no different light to the whole situation that makes almost any game exciting. It's easy how Rosen's images look. Listen Harry, have a great second half and good luck. She seemed like a very nice woman. . Johnson, well, people in the Midwest are very nice, so I'm very nice, very polite, very thoughtful, but she couldn't have cared less about the big car giveaway.

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be in his forty-sixth consecutive season as a baseball play-by-play announcer. Pretty impressive record over the last few years with the Chicago Cubs and this summer this man will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He's written this book right here, all about his life. It is titled Sacred Cow. Please, welcome back here, Harry Geez, you look good. Harry, you have your spring training tan, right? I left Scottsdale yesterday morning and came here when it's nice and cold. Spring training is the best part of your year, without a doubt, it's very exciting, I'm glad it isn't.

I don't know if it's fun. What are you aiming for? What exactly are you doing down there? Well, we have a tough union, we work two days of the entire week, we broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays, fight time, we have to check those balls. it fades and the younger ones play a lot of golf on the course. I was just going to ask you about that, what's up with that Pete Rose thing, what are you here about that guy, I'm what's happening to our heroes, I hope he helped, there's nothing to do? that if this turns out to be another one of those things where it's all accusations and there's no evidence, someone should get in trouble for it, you know, Pete Rose has meant a lot to all of us, he was a legitimate hero and still is.

No they've been arguing but just with all the fees, yes betting at the racetrack that's legal there's nothing wrong with that but apparently they're trying to get something else going and I really love Pete and I know him since then. He burst in, I knew he knew the guy who modeled his style after the eNOS killing, you know, he never walked on the ball field, always Ram country, eNOS killings, how do I know? Hey, listen, you know you're going to be in Chicago, that's right. I'm coming to Old Town, I'm looking forward to it. Well, I find it hard to believe.

Yes, say, do you have a stupid Petric? Would you like to do it. 430, tell me about the book. It's called Holy Cow here, where did that start, by the way? I always thought it was Phil Rizzuto, everyone in the yard thinks it was, but you know Phil Rizzuto was playing Yankee chard in 45 46 in those days, two civilian teams you couldn't go out on the road and transmit, you meet. the home team so I do the browns when they are at home the Cardinals when they are at home only Rizzuto was playing short for the Yankees now if he used holy cow then he had to be yelling across the diamond to his second baseman Jerry linda and yelling " Hey, holy cow," you should have covered that play, but in the meantime I was in the broadcast booth, so you were the one who broadcast it.

Yes, let me ask you a question. The Browns were in St. Louis, which was the dominant team in those days, those Cardinals and then the Browns, who became the Orioles, or am I crazy, that's right, they became a real power once they were moved to Baltimore, it's a strange thing, you know, the biggest owner, the Baseball has never met Bill Veeck. He had more trouble buying a baseball club and even selling it. They tried to keep him out of major league baseball and then created a difficult form to sell ownership of him. That's what happened with Baltimore and Of course, that's what happened with the White Sox because he sold the team to Mr.

DeBartolo from Youngstown Ohio, you know they have a mailing address, Harry, I do what I can, I'm sorry now, you were just with President Reagan there, yeah, and you hear old friends, well, it turns out that way because he broadcast with me on st. . Louie and st. Louis when he appears in the film of complements when the team back in 1948 he was just a movie star and was so good at broadcasting, I knew they had been enough Des Moines as a sportscaster, little did I dream 40 45 years later, he visited I in a booth again this time as President of the United States and the other day in Scottsdale he gave his first formal speech, he addressed these students and the state of Arizona and they just loved him, what a wonderful man he is.

Wow, no, don't spend too. How long in the sun? Harry, yes? I don't know how to ask this. I'll just ask him. You're still drinking a lot of beer. What do you think? I think you're probably those dogheads in Chicago. And at the end of the summer, honey, what I've done I've really slowed down. I believe in moderation, as does everyone. Where I used to drink a V or 90 drinks a day, now I'm down to six or seven, very, very good. when you, when you were hitting them pretty good, Harry said this is a day off and you have nothing to do but lie by the pool, how many Budweiser could you consume?

Oh, 50 or 60, so that's just in the afternoon, no, not really that. I don't count the cocktail hour, we've changed the martini. I'm joking, yes, but you're known as a big beer drinker. Hey, listen, I'm waiting for you to meet him at the Chicago hotel where I've lived for the last 20 years. I have an apartment there year round and I found out that you're staying there thanks for announcing that Harry well no his record is bad but maybe that means you know 1984 they had a really bad spring and they called it quits. win the division I hope that's what happens this year about three years ago it seemed like everything was changing they really won in '84 they had a team that looked like it was going to be a dynasty, yeah, and then they never won again, yeah, that's it a shame because it would be great to have a real team there in Chicago, you know, it's Chicago, such a great city about the White Sox, do they look good or not, yes they are, yes they are a struggling team, they were rebuilding it with young people .

I think they are more or less waiting until they get the new stadium that the city will give them for about two hundred and thirty-five million of taxpayers' money. Now Harry Mattei, ma'am, could be finished in about three years, so when they get the new stadium you say that's when they'll start playing well. I think maybe Bettina is just a little boost for the guys. I'm glad to see you again. Harry. I think they're leaving. They finish each weekend and then leave. We're done, right? My thanks to Jimmy Walker and also to Mr. Kerry and the people who helped us tonight with stupid Patrick's tomorrow on the Kid Inventors show it wasn't it wasn't legs it wasn't with Frank Sinatra Jr. and Mary Tyler Moore and Moore are not well, see you and then good night everyone.