I'll step away from the DeRon Furr watch for a bit to point out a sad story I just read. Braves announcer Skip Caray died today at age 68. I've always enjoyed listening to that guy. I know his health had declined in recent years, but it's still hard to hear this sad news.

I wrote a column when Jim Fyffe died several years back about how you feel like you know these guys when you grow up listening to them for so many years. It's a weird phenomenon, I guess. Same thing with Larry Munson for Georgia folks. They're icons as well as broadcasters. To this day, I'd say the highlight of my career is doing a segment on the pregame radio show with Munson preceding the 2006 Auburn-Georgia game (I completely and totally sucked...and my AU grad mother still gives me a hard time for telling him that I thought Georgia had a very good chance to win that game despite losing to Kentucky the previous week). But I was excited to do it and I'll never forget it.

In the same vein, Skip Caray and his dad were two unforgettable baseball broadcasters. This Bud's for the both of them.

Here's a must-read obit on Skip from the AJC's excellent Tim Tucker.