Broadcasting Career
After retiring as a player, Uecker returned to Milwaukee. In 1971, he began calling play-by-play for the Milwaukee Brewers' radio broadcasts, a position he holds to this day. For several years he also served as a color commentator for network television broadcasts of Major League Baseball, helping call games for ABC in the 1970s and NBC in the 1990s. During that time, he was a commentator for several League Championship Series and World Series.
Uecker currently teams with Joe Block to call games on WTMJ in Milwaukee and the Brewers Radio Network throughout Wisconsin. Uecker is most known for his catchphrase of "Get up, get out of here, and gone!," which he says when a Brewers player hits a home run.
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