Bob Uecker was dearly missed during Monday’s Brewers home opener, an 11-1 loss to the Royals that the team’s beloved radio broadcaster would have somehow made entertaining. With Uecker on the mic, sometimes the bad ballgames were the most entertaining.

Cory Provus wanted to pay tribute to late Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker, his former colleague and mentor, when the Twins played in St. Louis during the season-opening series. Uecker, the beloved Hall of Fame broadcaster famous for his late-night talk show appearances and movie roles,

Cory Booker, delivering a speech that bypassed the 24-hour mark in the Senate chamber Tuesday, made a Bob Uecker reference during one anecdote.

It was about 10 days ago that Milwaukee’s radio broadcasters started kicking around the idea of using Bob Uecker’s signature home run call for the first Brewers homer of the 2025 regular season. But there were some guidelines.

On that final October broadcast, Uecker got up to leave with a few minutes left in the postgame show. A fellow Hall of Famer, Robin Yount, was helping Uecker up the stairs. Levering, fretting as he saw Ueck rise from his chair, feared he would never get a chance to say goodbye in the press box’s sacred air.

Christian Yelich came dressed for success before the season opener Thursday, wearing an all-plaid suit that would make Bob Uecker proud.