Post Gazette  Doc Emrick has called exactly one baseball game in his broadcasting career. As a graduate student at Miami (Ohio), he filled in at the last minute for a game against Kent State. Emrick, the national hockey play-by-play man for NBC who has spent more than 40 years calling hockey games, will get another chance at baseball this spring by calling some Pirates spring training games. “I didn’t know anything,” said Emrick, who visited Pirate City Thursday, of that college baseball game in the 1960s. “All we had was a lineup, no media guide, nothing.”

BOOOOM

I’ll be honest, I thought the Bucco Brass absolutely blew it when they didn’t immediately pop on “Good Ole JR” Jim Ross, when he voice interest in the job.

Fast forward a month and out of nowhere this announcement drops that the Doc is in this spring with Mike Emrick calling some of the Pirates spring training games and I’ll admit it, they did not completely blow it.  Mike is an A+++++ hire and hopefully this taste leads to a full time gig with the Pirates very soon.

Squibbed across.

Skittered one over.

Knifed away.

Ladled back in.

Speared back to center where it can be galloped at and taken.

No one out there invents vocabulary like Doc and you don’t even need to know what any of his words mean to get up for a game announced by Doc.  He’s part of the reason hockey season does not start until May.

I cannot wait to adopt a whole new vernacular for baseball but it’s those four famous word I most look forward to hearing Doc exclaim.

Raise The Jolly Roger

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