Skip Carey quotes

In article <4461a5c9-d60d-4bdd-bef3-e7f8b2d77aa5@
26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>, gabadie.RemoveThis@hotmail.com says...
> On Aug 12, 7:38 pm, taylor <jtupchu....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Aug 12, 10:10 am, Tommy Smeltzer <to....RemoveThis@sixtysecond.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > What are your favorite Skip quotes, especially from the pre-1991 years?
> >
> I remember a Braves game on back in the 80s against the Mets at Shea.
> The cameras showed a horde of fans coming off the subway beyond the
> outfield fences and Skip nonchalantly quipped: "I wonder how many of
> them still have their wallets".

Was Skip the one that coined the "Oh-seventy-six ... Bingo!" comment?

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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:32:51 -0500, Dale Hicks
<dgh1138.RemoveThis@southernbell.com> wrote:

>In article <4461a5c9-d60d-4bdd-bef3-e7f8b2d77aa5@
>26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>, gabadie.RemoveThis@hotmail.com says...
>> On Aug 12, 7:38 pm, taylor <jtupchu....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Aug 12, 10:10 am, Tommy Smeltzer <to....RemoveThis@sixtysecond.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > > What are your favorite Skip quotes, especially from the pre-1991 years?
>> >
>> I remember a Braves game on back in the 80s against the Mets at Shea.
>> The cameras showed a horde of fans coming off the subway beyond the
>> outfield fences and Skip nonchalantly quipped: "I wonder how many of
>> them still have their wallets".
>
>Was Skip the one that coined the "Oh-seventy-six ... Bingo!" comment?

He's the first I recall using it.
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The Ghost of General Lee wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:32:51 -0500, Dale Hicks
> <dgh1138.TakeThisOut@southernbell.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <4461a5c9-d60d-4bdd-bef3-e7f8b2d77aa5@
>> 26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>, gabadie.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com says...
>>> On Aug 12, 7:38 pm, taylor <jtupchu....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Aug 12, 10:10 am, Tommy Smeltzer <to....TakeThisOut@sixtysecond.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> What are your favorite Skip quotes, especially from the pre-1991 years?
>>> I remember a Braves game on back in the 80s against the Mets at Shea.
>>> The cameras showed a horde of fans coming off the subway beyond the
>>> outfield fences and Skip nonchalantly quipped: "I wonder how many of
>>> them still have their wallets".
>> Was Skip the one that coined the "Oh-seventy-six ... Bingo!" comment?
>
> He's the first I recall using it.

I noticed that Joe Simpson said that line the other night and got a
little choked up. Ok, so did I.
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Tommy Smeltzer wrote:
>> What are your favorite Skip quotes, especially from the pre-1991 years?
>
> I remember one game against the cubs in which relief pitcher
> Heathcliff Slocumb had walked the bases loaded. Skip reported that the
> manager (I forget who) "is scribbling on his lineup card as he
> approaches the mound to have a chat with his pitcher... probably
> something to the effect of 'remind Heathcliff to throw strikes.'" I
> was in my car at the time and I nearly ran off the road I was laughing
> so hard.

As said to Joe Simpson on occasion, "And the horse you rode in on".
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>From a spring training game:
>"Giovanola to Graffanino to
>Pecorilli...double play. Somebody get me
>some pasta!"

One of the Mets broadcasters noted on the day he died that Carey, during
an extended losing streak back in the mid-80's when the team was awful
said, at the beginning of the game:

"Like lambs to the slaughter, the Braves take the field".

That's something Uecker would say in a "Major League" movie.

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