Flanagan joined the Orioles' front office in December 2002 after four seasons as a team broadcaster and two one-year stints as the team's pitching coach.
As the team broadcaster John Sadak wrote in an e-mail, "More casual fans know the Blue Rocks for Mr. Celery over anything else".
In 2010, a team broadcaster's passing mention of him as "the greatest Laker" prompted a wave of protest in favor of Magic Johnson or West.
Walt Frazier, another Knicks legend and a team broadcaster, said that the Stoudemire-Anthony combination was the Knicks' best in four decades — since "Frazier-Reed," referring to Willis Reed.
"It's always been, always will be a football state," Tom Grieve, a team broadcaster and former Rangers player and executive, said during the division series.
"1-15 is just another forgotten bad season," said Jim Mandich, the tight end for the 1972 team, who is now a team broadcaster.
Harry Kalas, the longtime team broadcaster, reprised his singing of "High Hopes," the tune he belts out in the clubhouse on those rare Phillies title celebrations.
Jim Mandich, a tight end for the 1972 Dolphins and now a team broadcaster, said a victory over the Patriots would be the equivalent of Appalachian State beating Michigan.
Darling was in attendance, and he turned a question about his humble and often self-deprecating nature as a team broadcaster into a chance to tease one of his partners in the booth.
"I have a new three-year deal with YES," said Murcer, who is in his 24th season as a team broadcaster, "and I'm going to be here when they open the new stadium in 2009".
