Far be it from me to celebrate anyone losing their job.
Well, come to think of it, I can make one exception. The New York Times is reporting that the Turner Broadcasting System has told the lead play-by-play voice for its national baseball broadcasts that they no longer want him bloviating into their mics.
For the third contract in a row, Chip Caray has been told “Yeah, that’s probably enough.”
Back in the late ’90s, you might remember that Chip was the host of Fox’s pre-game baseball telecasts. It’s why, when you see rebroadcasts of some of the Sammy Sosa freak show homer games from late 1998 you are as likely to hear Dan Roan or Wayne Larivee doing it as you are Chip. He was gone every Saturday to LA to do the Fox stuff.
When that contract ended, Fox told him to just go concentrate on his job with the Cubs.
At the end of the awful, horrible, 2004 season, the Cubs informed Chip that they had no interest in the exclusive re-negotiation window they had, and that he should just go find a job somewhere else. So he ended up at TBS with his dad, doing Braves games.
