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Harwell teamed with Ray Lane in the broacast booth from 1967-72. In 1973, Paul Carey replaced Lane, forming the Tigers' best-known broadcasting team, until Carey's retirement after the 1991 season. On December 19, 1990, the Tigers and radio station WJR announced that the station wanted to go in a "new direction" and that 1991 would be Harwell's last, as his contract was "non-renewed". Harwell worked a part-time schedule for the California Angels in 1992. The following year, the Tigers were purchased by Mike Ilitch, who made it one of his first priorities to bring Harwell back. The 1993 season concluded with a three-person radio team (Rizzs, Rathbun and Harwell) with Harwell calling innings 1–3 and 7–9 of each game. Rizzs returned to Seattle following the 1994 season. From 1994 to 1998, Harwell called television broadcasts for the Tigers. In 1999, he resumed full-time radio duties with the Tigers, teaming with analyst Jim Price and continuing in that role through 2002. During spring training of that year, Harwell announced that he would retire at the end of the season -- this time on his own terms; his final broadcast came on September 29, 2002. Dan Dickerson replaced Harwell as the lead radio voice for the Tigers.

He was known for his low-key delivery, southern accent (Detroit "Ti-guhs"), and conversational style. Some trademark phrases...
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• "That one is long gone!" (His trademark home run call, with an emphasis on "long")

• "He stood there like the house by the side of the road, and watched it go by." (After a called strikeout)

• "Called out for excessive window shopping." (Also after a called strikeout)

• "It's two for the price of one!" (After a double play)

• "A fan from (insert a city) will be taking that ball home today." (When a fan would catch a foul ball)

• "The Tigers need instant runs." (When the team was behind in the late innings) 

• Harwell would also begin the first spring training broadcast of each season with a reading from Song of Solomon 2:11-12 (KJV): "For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land."

METRO "DYNAMITE"
BLAST FROM THE PAST
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REVISITS JUNE, 1993
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1.  Name the park where the fireworks display exploded on the ground?
2.  What was found on the window ledge in the cottage at Lake Huron?
3.  What was the #1 souvenir purchased at the zoo?
4.  What game was played on Sunday nights riding home in the car after getting an ice cream cone?
5. A homer at Coyle Park to left field was over the fence. What was it to center and right fields? 

AHHH... 10 THINGS THAT SAY "SUMMER"

* Dennis diving head first into a 3' pool
* Stepping on rotten cherries getting to that 3' pool
* Wondering why do a chlorine test when you can't even see the bottom of the pool
* Rick giving swimming lessons in a 3' pool
* Warm water
* Moving away from the warm water
* Camping out in the backyard
* Sneaking back into the house due to heavy dew
* Mosquito chasers
* Off

MIKE'S TOP 10 CHERRY PICKING SAYINGS

10.  All cherries are good except for the bad ones
  9.  This job is the pits
  8.  Stem cherries are good
  7.  A cherry a day keeps the doctor away
  6.  O.K. ... maybe he only had 4 sayings

TRIVIA ANSWERS

1. Ford Field
2. Part of a Hot Dog
3. Hat with a feather (squeeze lobster was a biggie also)
4. Counting trash cans
5. Cheese Castle and the Sidewalk.

Well it’s summertime, and that means those little McCarty Grandbrats will be out of school and bothering their parents by hanging around the house. Just thinking about those summer slackers makes me hotter than the vinyl seats in my Dad’s station wagon. These kids today have it way easier than we did.

You can bet those little McCarty Grandbrats will be complaining about the heat all summer long. “Oh it’s too hot outside, I think I will lay down in my air conditioned house and watch cable television”, Fiddle Foey!! When I was a kid we played outside everyday no matter how hot it was. We had to, because it was hotter than an oven in that house we lived in. And when it was really hot, we had a crappy fan that my Mom would turn on to blow hot air on us. Sure we were a sweaty clump of kids huddled around an electric fan, but we didn’t care, we loved it. Because if you talked into the fan, it made your voice sound funny.

And these kids nowadays with their skateboards and rollerblades think they are so cool because they like extreme sports. When I was a kid, if we wanted a thrill, we would go to the park and go down the slide sitting on a piece of wax paper. We’d fly down that slide going faster than a rocket and then when we were done we’d watch as some unsuspecting little kid would fly down the slide and land about 20 yards from the bottom. Sure there were lots of injuries, but we didn’t care we loved it!! Because we had a need for speed.

And these kids nowadays have to stay cool by going to water parks, going on water rides, or going in a swimming pool. When I was a kid, all we could do to get relief from the heat was run through our sprinkler. We looked like idiots prancing through the sprinkler on our front lawn, but we didn’t care, it kept us cool! And sometimes, the park director at Coyle Park would open up the fire hydrant and we would have Street Showers! We would have high pressure water squirting out of the hydrant flooding the streets while fire fighters across the city were forced to respond to building fires with a trickle of water coming from their hoses.

So if those little McCarty Grandbrats come to you and tell you they are hot and bored and don’t know what to do this summer, just tell’em to hold a piece of wax paper on their butt and run through the sprinkler. Have a great summer!!!