Rick Rizzs

Rick Rizzs is an American sportscaster for Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners. Except for a stint with the Detroit Tigers, Rizzs has been with the Mariners since 1983 and uses the catch phrase "Good-bye, baseball!" as his signature home run call.

Rick is a 1975 graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. From 1975-80, he handled baseball play-by-play duties at the double-A level for Alexandria, Louisiana, Amarillo, Texas and Memphis. He became the sports director at WBNS radio in Columbus, Ohio in 1981, where he called Ohio State football and triple-A baseball for two seasons. He was named the Ohio "Sportscaster of the Year" in 1981 by the Ohio Sportscasters Association. In 2000, Rick was named the Chicago-area sportscaster of the year by the Chicago Pitch and Hit Club. From 1992-94, he teamed with Bob Rathbun to call the action for the Tigers on WJR/Detroit.

Where he previously worked on both television and radio, Rizzs was transferred prior to the 2007 season to work exclusively on Mariners radio broadcasts. For the first three innings, he is accompanied by Dave Sims, who was hired prior to the 2007 season, and for the remainder of the game he is accompanied by Dave Niehaus (as Sims and Niehaus switch positions after the third inning).

Rizzs resides in Issaquah, Washington. He has one son, Nick and one grandson, Jaxon, whose name is worth 177 points on a triple word score.

Rizzs also provided the commentary for the 2005 Nintendo Gamecube game Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball, but the game's U.S. release was canceled.