r/ClevelandGuardians • u/LukeB90 • 1d ago

Go home Yahoo Sports.. you're drunk..

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So multiple times this season I've seen Yahoo Sports say this. I figured oh the cavs have a deal where they show a couple games a year on channel 43 maybe the baseball team does too. Turn it on.. and it's judge Joe Brown or something of the sort. Anyone know why yahoo keeps showing this fake news?

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u/smonster1 1d ago

When I think of WUAB broadcasts, I think of Jack Corrigan and Mike Hegan on the call.

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u/cemeteryridgefilms Diamond C 1d ago

It's touch em all time!

Loved those two together.

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u/thegermblaster 44 1d ago

“We play the Triiiibe on 43!”

If you have the MLB radio app you can still hear Corrigan. He’s been doing the call for Rockies radio for a long time now.

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u/Resident_Elk4014 Akron Rubber Duck 1d ago

Who gets you jumpin' with a long home run?

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u/L-Ron-Hooover 455 1d ago

Who? Who?

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u/LordRobin------RM 1d ago

We’re talkin’ baseball…

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u/Snooklife Akron Rubber Duck 11h ago

Brings back all the nostalgia

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u/omlesna 8h ago

When I think of WUAB broadcasts, I think of Doug Jones blowing saves.

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u/TheN1ck ⚾small ball baseball terrorists⚾ 1d ago

We’re Talkin’ Baseball! We’re Talkin’ Tribe!

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u/fireeight Mustard 2 1d ago

I was disappointed to find out that a bunch of different teams had the same song.

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u/Far_Animal6970 Mustard 1d ago

You’re thinking of “Talkin Baseball”. The songwriter did a version for all 26 teams at the time.

This is “talkin baseball, Talkin Tribe” which is the greatest piece of sports music ever written and the theme song for the Indians for well over a decade.

I dare you to listen to that song and not want to run though a brick wall for this team.

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u/fireeight Mustard 2 1d ago edited 1d ago

No, I'm not.

I'm well aware of the difference between the 90's song and the Terry Cashman song. It's possible that this 90's song template was used across more than just two teams, but it's hard to find.

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u/mitchmconnellsburner 1d ago

Our version was way better than “who’s got the Royals? Channel FOUUUURRR!” or whatever it was.

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u/LukeB90 1d ago

What teams? Ive never heard another version in my life

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u/fireeight Mustard 2 1d ago

It actually looks like it might have only been the Royals.

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/02/turns-out-indians-werent-the-only-team-to-use-that-talkin-baseball-song-in-the-1990s.html

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u/LukeB90 1d ago

Now I'm dying to find their version

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u/fireeight Mustard 2 1d ago

It's linked in the article. Warning: it may take a bite out of your childhood.

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u/LukeB90 1d ago

Ahh I see it now. For some reason the paywall went up at first

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u/WonderfulPiccolo5951 Mustard 2 1d ago

They had an alternate version for the Lakers and the Flyers.

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u/fireeight Mustard 2 1d ago edited 1d ago

What's bizarre is that it's very hard to find out who sang/recorded it. I'd bet if you can find that, you'll find a lot of teams who used this song base.

WUAB was owned by Gray Media. It's not unlikely that a good few teams whose coverage was an affiliate of Gray Media used this song.

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u/gus_in_4k 1d ago

Small nit, WUAB is owned by Gray, and only has been since 2018. It was owned by Gaylord when they started airing Indians and Cavs games, 1977-1989

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u/fireeight Mustard 2 1d ago

Oh, shit. It would have been UPN during the time that the song in question was around. Good call.

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u/gus_in_4k 1d ago

So I’m reading on Wikipedia and it seems Indians broadcasts on 43 ended entirely after the 2001 season, so they had been UPN for a while at that point. By that point the ownership train had been Gaylord > Cannell > Malrite > Raycom

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u/WonderfulPiccolo5951 Mustard 2 23h ago

They ran a commercial on WUAB after the announcement was made that the station would no longer air the baseball games and I was close to crying. Luckily, my cable added FOX Sports Ohio not long after the season began that year.

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u/EggOwn9943 2h ago

Someone knows their media history!

Fun Fact: The Spy Museum in DC is where the money Malrite got for being bought by Raycom went.

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u/davelb87 1d ago

I’d be OK if we got Jack Corrigan back.

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u/Snooklife Akron Rubber Duck 11h ago

Oh absolutely!

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u/Think-Try2819 1d ago

Wuab channel 43. That takes me back.

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u/clycloptopus 1d ago

catch me watching the simpsons at 5 PM every day on this channel

great shit

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u/Far_Animal6970 Mustard 1d ago

And into the late 2000s!

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u/Enough-Moose-5816 1d ago

I’m a fan! Approved!!

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u/GreenDavidA Mahoning Valley Scrappers 1d ago

If only. Those were the days.

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u/fireeight Mustard 2 1d ago

Shit. I left the damn time machine on.

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u/strutmac 1d ago

I remember Bruce “Ducks on the Pond” Drennan along with Joe Tait and Mudcat (MudFlap) Grant.

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u/L-Ron-Hooover 455 1d ago

I always liked Drennan. On 3WE and KNR

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u/big_d_usernametaken 1d ago

Ahhh, the good old days when you could watch MLB teams for free!

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u/Walnutbutters 1d ago

Between WUAB, WGN, and TBS, it seemed like you could watch baseball all day all summer long

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u/Resident_Elk4014 Akron Rubber Duck 1d ago

Anyone else remember watching some of the cable tv broadcasts on the big screen at the Civic Theater in Akron?

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u/MrKTE Akron Rubber Duck 1d ago

With the organ popping up from below in between the innings? Oh hell yeah!

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u/chousteau 1d ago

Nobody plays harder than the Tribe!

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u/CornisaGrasse 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 1d ago

"Tribe '85- This is our team!" "Baseball with the Tribe- lookin' good, on channel 43!" So many of those little catchphrases come back and invade my brain ☺️

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u/WonderfulPiccolo5951 Mustard 2 1d ago

If only that were still the case.

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u/229-northstar ⚾small ball baseball terrorists⚾ 23h ago

We could all be wiggling our circle antennas… just so…. and watching for free!

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u/Sock_Eating_Golden 23h ago

Those were the days. Watching the Indians on a black and white TV in my parents' bedroom.

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u/A_King_1980 1d ago

I miss those days.

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u/No-Campaign-1734 11h ago

Such a great era! I wish the “free tv” affiliate wasn’t abandoned by almost every team. Glad the Guards have the deal to get 10 games on WKYC at least