"We call Frank 'Old Reliable' up here, because we know when we're in trouble, he is here," Rizzuto said on the final 1973 Yankee broadcast before the renovation of the original Yankee Stadium.One of Messer's signature phrases at the end of his last inning before switching booths from radio to TV (or vice versa) was ""(Announcer) will carry you along the rest of the way.