You Make the Call

They're not exactly trademarked or copyrighted, but home run calls vary from announcer to announcer. Phil Rizzuto's "Holy Cow!" is one of the more famous, as is Harry Cary's "It could be, it might be... it is! A home run!" Vin Scully gives a dismissive, "Forget it," and I've always been a big fan of, "Goodbye, Mr. Spalding," from the movie, "The Natural."

I feel like lately we're scraping the bottom of the barrel. ESPN's Chris Berman's, "Back back back back... Gone!" is pretty lame, and the Yankees announcer on YES gives an uninspired, "SSSEEEYA!" The Mets dude on WFAN gives a simple, yet enthusiastic, "OUTTA HERE!" which is certainly nothing special, but at least it's not annoying.

I'm hoping the White Sox do well in the post-season, so they can afford to get some better announcers. The home run call is, "You can... PUT IT ON THE BOARD! YESSSSSSSS!" which is just stupid, and they make it worse by having an even more annoying strikeout call: "He gone." It's like those lame-ass white dudes that still say, "What up, dawg?"

By all means, let me know if you have favorites or least favorites out there. What would your home run call be? Mine would either be, "He hit the crap out of that one!" or "Man, I wish I could hit a ball that far..."