Bob Uecker’s Totally Real Genealogy of Homer Bailey
Most baseball fans will know that Homer Bailey is a right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. Fewer — but still many — will know that Bailey was a seventh-overall draft pick out of a Texas high school in 2004 and appeared on Baseball America’s top-100 prospect list four times — including two appearances (in 2007 and -08) in the top 10.
What no one probably knows about, though — or, at least didn’t know before last night’s WTMJ radio broadcast of the Reds and Brewers in Cincinnati — is Bailey’s rich family history.
Here’s the same totally true and very rich family history, as related by Brewers radio voice Bob Uecker:
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Uecker is, almost without a doubt, the greatest man to ever live.
Perhaps even less well-known is the fact that Homer Bailey once built a house with an extra dimension in it.
According to Ueck, YoGa fisted Rolen in the sixth inning last night.
Holy shit this rules.
Uecker, we worship you.
Hollywood needs to notice this man; he needs a sitcom. Maybe involving British housekeepers in a steel town. I dunno.
Bob made Major League