The Brewers need some kind of Uecker Bat Signal when he’s calling a game.

So as we went over at the beginning of the year, Bob Uecker is very much day-to-day as it relates to calling games on the Brewer Radio Network this season. Which makes sense! The man is 90 years old and owes us absolutely nothing. He’s given us more entertainment in his 54 years as a Brewer broadcaster than any single fan base deserves. Throw in a few seasons of Mr. Belvedere and his time in the WWF in the 80’s and it’s icing on a 10-tier cake.

The Brewers said at the beginning of the season that Mr. Baseball was calling the home opener with his schedule TBD after that. Basically: If he feels up to working, he can work. If not, that’s fine too.

Now here’s what I’m proposing: A Uecker Signal. Basically the Batman Bat Signal but with something like this as a logo:

Because like we said in that blog way back on Opening Day: We need to soak in Bob every single time he’s on the radio. I don’t want to miss a second of it. I imagine he must tell someone within the organization that he’s working on a certain day, even if it’s only an hour or two notice before a game. At that point that person needs to hit the Uecker Signal. An alert to all Brewer fans to turn on the radio if they want to catch a game called by Ueck.

Where did this idea come from? Last night I was watching the game on TV, when I got a text from my wife on her way home from work that simply said: “BOB IS ON THE AIR. I REPEAT BOB IS ON THE AIR.” And I instantly turned on the radio broadcast. I don’t think he called the first two games of this Cubs series, but felt like he wanted to hop on the mic last night. Well if someone would have hit the Uecker Signal, I would have been locked in from the start of the game. Uecker Signal. Make it happen @Brewers.

PS: How about Blake Perkins last night. Three Lo Cain-esque catches in the outfield, one which saved a 2-run home run, and then he hits his own 2-run bomb and a double to boot. Sweet sassy molassy.

Double PS: “How about Blake Perkins last night” is not a sentence I thought I would every type but here we are.