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Matt Ottinger

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Variety article on "Chain Reaction"
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2006, 03:45:57 PM »
As it happens, Olbermann used the line last night on his news program.  It was the "alone" version.
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« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2006, 03:49:10 PM »
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Very. I think that gaffe has been attributed to about six different broadcasters of the era.
Voices of the Game does nail its quotes pretty well, though. I've checked several against sound files available on the Internet, and the book got each one right. So maybe Saam did say it, once upon a time. It would been easy to hang the quote on, say, Jerry Coleman. Of course, Voices of the Game says that Jerry once identified himself as Jerry Gross. The book has a long list of Jerryisms that will brighten any day. But then some of those quotes differ a little from Internet lists I've seen.

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Variety article on "Chain Reaction"
« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2006, 03:55:40 PM »
[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'120531\' date=\'Jun 6 2006, 01:43 PM\']
You can't win (which seems to me to be the title of a "National Lampoon Radio Hour" game show parody).
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Or a Kevin Matthews bit.

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« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2006, 04:21:15 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'120539\' date=\'Jun 6 2006, 12:45 PM\']As it happens, Olbermann used the line last night on his news program.  It was the "alone" version.[/quote]And one of the SC anchors (can't recall who) did the "...you need to get out more" line last night, as well.

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