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18 Jan 2025
Amy Curtis


NextImg:JUUUUST a Bit Outside! Alex Rodriguez's Tribute to Sportscaster Bob Uecker Strikes Out

On Thursday, beloved sportscaster Bob Uecker, voice of the Milwaukee Brewers for over half a century, died at the age of 90 following a private battle with small cell lung cancer.

Uecker was a fixture in Milwaukee baseball and will be mourned by fans of all teams this (and every) season. There have been countless tributes to Uecker on social media.

One such tribute came from Alex Rodriguez, played with the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, and New York Yankees before retiring in 2016.

But he seems to have made a slight error:

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Now, it's completely possible it was a reference to the film 'Major League' where Uecker played Harry Doyle, play-by-play announcer for the fictionalized version of the Cleveland Indians. But the picture -- featuring Uecker in both the Milwaukee Braves and Milwaukee Brewers caps -- seems to indicate it's not and A-Rod just swung and missed.

X users wasted no time having some fun with this:

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That is a real rooftop in Milwaukee, in the flightpath of Mitchell Airport. This writer has seen it with her own eyes.

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Just let him keep going.

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Whoops.

What a call, by the way.

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About 436 miles outside.

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OMG.

This is absolutely perfect.

(For the uninitiated, Uecker was not the best baseball player, something he often joked about)

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'They're the same picture.'

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All correct.

This writer also snagged a screenshot in case he does delete it.

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That and the use of PEDs.

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EL. OH. EL.

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Heh.

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And maybe it is. It's inside baseball, if so.

But you're right - it's what Ueck would've wanted.