Going to opening day at the dome this year is going to be a very different experience now for me and all other Twin fans and players. The only field announcer the Twins have ever had dies at age 79 on Easter sunday. Damn. Lots of memories can be derived just from the sound of Bob Casey's voice. We'll all miss him.
More than 3000 games and 44 years Casey worked for the Twins, and rumor has it he only missed 2 or 3 games in all 44 years; and one of those was for his daughter's wedding.
Definitely an end of an era at Metrodome, and there will be an odd aura for months to come as we will no longer be reminded during pre-game that there is "noooooooooooooooo smoking in the Metrodome!" And when players step up to bat, and we hear someone else's voice over the intercom, we'll look up and say, "that just doesn't sound right."
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You know what happened when you said "noooooooo smoking in the... ". I got a hankerin' for a dome dog. Weird. I could actually smell it! Bob Casey is as much a part of the Twins as Harmon Killebrew or Kirby Puckett. It is going to sound really weird to hear someone else. I've heard rumors of them continuing to use the no smoking clip going forward. That would be kind of a weird/nice tribute.
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