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The question I've been asked the most from Brew fan: "What's your home run call?" Well, I hope I don't disappoint you but I don't have a home run call. I think I use "gone" a lot...Sometimes "outta here." But mostly I just call it as I see it. Is it a line drive? A high towering shot? Did he get enough? Here is my mental checklist for home runs (and any other big hits): Name, Score, Shut up." Especially during home games.

Now, I'm not opposed to home run calls. It's just that all the good ones are taken. In my opinion, there are three ground rules for such calls: 1. If you're in, or headed to, the Hall of Fame you can have a home run call. 2. No plagiarism. And, 3. Only one per team. Especially if that "one" is memorialized with ballpark signage.

I was a big fan of Harry Caray's call, "It might be, it could be, it is..." said with the proper amount of slobber, of course. Vin Scully has a classic and by far the most imitated: "She is gooooone!" My broadcasting hero Ernie Harwell has a beauty too, "loooong gone." I like Bob Uecker's "get up, get up, get outta here" because it's a players call...something you'd hear in the dugout. Even though it's quirky, Matt Vasgersian's movie lines always crack me up and I find myself saying Hawk Harrelson's "You can put it on the board, yyyes" quite a bit...mostly when I'm playing board games with my seven year old.

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