Bill Murray joins the Cubs and Braves broadcast booths, things get weird
Bill Murray is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan. He's backed the team in various ways throughout the years, one of which was in September when he wore a pair of awesome Cubs shorts at the BMW Championship Pro-Am.
He's never been shy about his allegiance to the club, and Sunday was no different when he attended the Cubs-Braves game in Atlanta. Murray was in town with some of his brothers, so they decided to catch a game, where he joined both the Cubs' and Braves' broadcast booths.
With Bill Murray being the unique character that he is, there were a handful of strange yet comical moments, as expected. Here are the best from his time in the booth.
"I'm warm. It's a wet heat here in Atlanta."
That was how Murray opened his chat with the Cubs broadcasters, after being asked "How are you?" Yet, as weird as it sounded, Murray wasn't wrong. It was 95 degrees in Atlanta on Sunday, which is indeed a bit toasty.
His thoughts on Turner Field smelling like hamburgers
After sharing how hot it was down on the field, Murray proceeded to explain the smell of Turner Field. "It smells like hamburgers here. I've never been to a ballpark where it smelled like hamburgers. This is the first place," Murray said. "Is that a good thing?" he was asked.
"Well, I ordered one," he said. "Then I came up here, so someone's eating my hamburger down there. Drop it fella. Drop the burger!"
On baseball parents
"We have four errors?" Murray asked. "You feel like the parents of these players are probably going 'That's all right, Timothy! That's all right! Keep your head in the game, Tim-othy!"
On playing golf with Jordan Spieth
A few weeks ago, Murray played in the pro-am with Jordan Spieth at the Dean and Deluca Invitational. Murray said he had a great time and it was "so much fun," but the best part was getting 10 percent of Spieth's winnings, which didn't actually happen.
"He went ahead and won the tournament, so I got 10 percent of his check -- $1.6 million -- I got $160,000 just for playing in the pro-am."
He's only missed a few Cubs game this season
"I've really probably only missed maybe three games in the last year and a half," he said. "Sometimes you have to record it and watch it later, but that's OK. You get to skip commercials." Conclusion: Bill Murray enjoys the DVR like the rest of us.
A fan mistook him for Dan Aykroyd
Murray was once mistaken for fellow "Ghostbusters" actor Dan Aykroyd as a woman asked him repeatedly for an autograph. Murray insisted he wasn't Aykroyd, but the fan refused to believe him.
"She never believed me for a second," he explained. "She started to curse me, I said, 'No he's my friend, I know the guy you're speaking of. He's a good guy.' I can kinda fake a signature, too, but I'm not that guy. She wouldn't let me go. It got worse and worse."
On the hardest part about signing autographs
"You can read my handwriting. See, highly legible," he said. "The hard part is the spelling. Legibility is just a choice."
He exited by pleading the Braves outfielder to hit the wall and drop the ball
Before leaving the booth, Murray called the third out of the top of the fifth. Ben Zobrist hit a deep fly to left-center as the center fielder ranged back to the warning track.
"Go. Go. Keep going. Go. Hit the wall and drop it! Ah, not today."
He once signed a napkin "To Gabe: Learn to drive a tractor."
Braves play-by-play guy Chip Caray shared with Murray that he once signed a napkin for his son, Gabe, which he's been trying to live up to his whole life.
"To Gabe: Learn to drive a tractor. Bill Murray." Murray responded by saying "Some people say it's a life's work."
"This is the year" for the Cubs
Murray, who has never witnessed a Cubs World Series championship, proclaimed that 2016 is their year. After nearly reaching the World Series last season, he believes this is the year that they break through and win a ring.
"This is the year. I think you know that. I think we all know that. The folks at home know that, the American people know that," he said. "They're really having a lot of fun. They weren't quite ready to win it all last year, but gosh they had fun. ... And they have an amazing amount of talent this year."
