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Harrelson's emotive and particularly distinctive call of [[Mark Buehrle]]'s [[Mark Buehrle's perfect game|perfect game]] on July 23, 2009, was also notable. As Buehrle exited the field after the eighth inning, he exclaimed, "Call your sons! Call your daughters! Call your friends! Call your neighbors! Mark Buehrle has a perfect game going into the ninth!" Also, as the final ground ball of the game rolled towards the White Sox shortstop [[Alexei Ramírez]], Harrelson called out "Alexei?!" (Harrelson often refers to the White Sox players by their first names.) As Ramirez completed the throw to the first baseman [[Josh Fields (infielder)|Josh Fields]], Harrelson shouted "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! History!"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5699087|title=Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | TB@CWS: Buehrle induces grounder to seal perfect game – Video | MLB.com: Multimedia|publisher=MLB.com|date=June 19, 2012|access-date=September 1, 2012}}</ref>
Though some did not like Harrelson's lack of verbosity and obvious hometown boosterism at the concluding moment of the game,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlbbabble.com/2009/07/24/hawk-harrelson%E2%80%99s-terrible-buehrle-call/|title=MLB Babble|publisher=MLB Babble|date=2011-05-15|accessdate=2012-09-01|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714103524/http://mlbbabble.com/2009/07/24/hawk-harrelson%E2%80%99s-terrible-buehrle-call/|archivedate=July 14, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> others felt the outburst of emotion captured exactly what they were feeling as the perfect game was sealed.<ref>{{cite web|author='Duk|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Ten-reasons-we-re-going-nuts-over-Mark-Buehrle-s?urn=mlb,178408|title=Ten reasons we're going nuts over Mark Buehrle's perfect game – Big League Stew – MLB Blog – Yahoo! Sports|publisher=Sports.yahoo.com|date=July 23, 2009|accessdate=2012-09-01}}</ref> A ''Chicago Tribune'' columnist, Phil Rosenthal, arguing that each perfect game call is "memorable in its own way", made an explicit comparison of Harrelson's call to [[Vin Scully]]'s call of [[Sandy Koufax's perfect game]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/07/two-descriptions-of-historic-perfection-09-harrelson-vs-65-scully.html|work=Chicago Tribune|title=Two descriptions of historic perfection, '09 Harrelson vs. '65 Scully|date=July 23, 2009}}</ref>
Harrelson had a 30-minute special on [[CSN Chicago]], ''Put it on The Board'' which aired on Monday, June 7, 2010 celebrating his 25 years as a Chicago White Sox broadcaster with memorable footage, memorable quotes and an interview with CSN Chicago's Chuck Garfien. Ken said during the interview, "I hope to be broadcasting for the White Sox until I die." He joked and said how he was going to die: in the White Sox broadcasting booth with his last words, "You can put it on the booooard... (dies without finishing)" Harrelson was honored with "Hawk Harrelson Night" by the Chicago White Sox for 25 years of broadcasting that was on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 vs. Detroit Tigers. The White Sox had a T-shirt giveaway for Harrelson for the first 10,000 fans that came to the game. The T-shirt has the White Sox logo on the front and in big letters on the back "Hawkism" with his famous catch phrases on the back. Harrelson also threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game to White Sox manager [[Ozzie Guillén]]. Hawk fell silent after the Tigers scored 6 runs in the 7th inning leading to a 7-2 Tigers victory, ruining "Hawk Harrelson Night."
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