Steve Phillips Joins Sunday Night Baseball

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Morgan AND Phillips?

Wow, so much idiocy in one room.

by JoshNY on Jan 21, 2009 12:58 PM EST reply actions

I like Phillips.

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I always kind of liked him. Better than Joe Morgan, and better than Peter Gammons in my personal opinion.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Jan 21, 2009 1:33 PM EST reply actions

Did Joe Morgan just not seem to like John Miller? Maybe Miller just took up too much space in the booth and Morgan thought: “Damn dude, try the salad bar once in a while.” Personally, I liked John Miller’s voice as he called the game.

Steve Phillips, on occasion, has some interesting things to say. He just says them too damn much! Better yet, he over-explains just about everything. He’s a yammering windbag. I’ll just put the t.v. on mute and listen to the local broadcast on the internet, thank you very much.

I still like listening to Orel Hershiser on ESPN’s Wednesday Night Baseball.

I’m looking forward to seeing who MLBn uses for their broadcasts of Saturday Night Baseball.

" PLEASE! CHANGE THE PATCH! "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 21, 2009 3:30 PM EST reply actions

woof

that sounds awful. if you throw tim mccarver in there as well then you pretty much have the baseball announcers apocolypse. poor jon miller. now he will know how karl ravich feels.

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Jan 21, 2009 3:49 PM EST reply actions

hahahaha

You guys are serious snobs. The baseball broadcasting world doesn’t revolve around; Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling and the bald guy.

" PLEASE! CHANGE THE PATCH! "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 21, 2009 5:13 PM EST up reply actions

You're right

It revolves around Fran Healy and Tom Seaver…. ugh

by James Kannengieser on Jan 21, 2009 6:10 PM EST up reply actions

Speaking of "ugh"

SNY is showing the Mets NL East clincher from ’88 against the Phils, featuring the legendarily horrible announcing team of McCarver and Healy. Makes me glad I could only listen to games on the radio back then.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 21, 2009 8:50 PM EST up reply actions

hating tim mccarver and steve philips makes me a snob

then consider this my application to join bushwood country club.

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Jan 21, 2009 11:17 PM EST up reply actions

That's a shame for the baseball broadcasting world, then.

And why does liking on-top-of-the-play, articulate, analytical baseball announcing better than I like ungrammatical free-association and half-witted knee-jerk opinion make me a snob?

by anonymous on Jan 22, 2009 4:29 PM EST up reply actions

You talkin to me?

“Snobbery”. I felt that the vast majority here seem to turn up their noses to anyone who gets mentioned. Whether it be sports writers or game announcers, no one seems to pass muster. And sometimes the blog can get a bit persnickety for some due to comments like your own. This isn’t some blog on fine arts, history or english lit. It’s a sports blog. No more, no less. So enough with all the high-minded attitude.

For the record, when I state or write something here in the blog, I don’t do so with an attitude. I do recognize that the tone of an entry made is hard to comprehend. Were it not for the overall sarcastic tone, not just here, but elsewhere, I’m sure responses, to include your own would be friendlier.

Were you to post more frequently, you might understand the dynamic I have w/other members of AA. I think it’s safe to assume some of us have a certain understanding. I don’t think it’s necessary that I precede every comment I intend to be funny with: I intend to be funny. Perhaps you would have understood my tone with LOL instead of “hahahah”. “Hahahah” could be misunderstood as a facetious laugh. But since the powers that be frown on “LOL” and emoticons and such, I had no recourse but to use “Hahahah”.

In closing, I just want you to know that I mean you no ill will.

" PLEASE! CHANGE THE PATCH! "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 22, 2009 5:05 PM EST up reply actions

to be fair

most sportscasters really do suck. I often wonder what the networks are thinking when they put certain people on the air, and keep people despite everyone hating them. We are very lucky, in that we have 3 very good broadcasters. The Dodgers are lucky as well, Vin Scully is still the best, by far, IMO. I can’t stand his voice or the team he broadcasts, but Harry Kalas is very good. I’m sure there’s a few more, though those are the only ones I listen to on a semi-regular basis that I like. The Nats/Marlins/Braves/Yankees announcers are, I believe, objectively terrible. Partially b/c they can’t be objective.

And the national broadcasters suck mostly b/c they really aren’t telling you about the game you’re watching. They’ve seemingly scripted out what they’re gonna talk about before the game, and they’ll fit it in no matter how they have to do it. They aren’t familiar with any teams, and therefore suck when announcing all teams.

by cjmulrain on Jan 22, 2009 6:15 PM EST up reply actions

Hear hear

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Also, I really miss FJM.

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 22, 2009 6:21 PM EST up reply actions

Received

But if I start hearing broadcasters discussing items such as:
wOBA
wRAA
CHONE / MARCEL projections
UZR &
WAR
…I’m basically just gonna mute the idiot box. I, and I assume the majority of casual fans don’t give two $hits about that stuff. Sure, stats have their place, but I don’t need to hear something that sounds like some penhead regurgitating the latest results of the NYSE.

Give me someone who has a great voice, understands the game, provides some historical context from time to time and who doesn’t act like a know it all and I’ll be satisfied.

*Last season’s broedcast team for the ALCS between Tampa and Boston definitely overused the word “fisting”. Every, and I mean every ball that was squibbed through the infield was “fisted”. It became so ridiculous that it ended up being somewhat funny.

" PLEASE! CHANGE THE PATCH! "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 22, 2009 6:59 PM EST up reply actions

case in point, if we move to another sport for a second

Give me someone who has a great voice, understands the game, provides some historical context from time to time and who doesn’t act like a know it all and I’ll be satisfied.

Al Michaels totally fits your description when it comes to calling NFL games. Bar none.

Give me an Al Michaels who knows/does baseball instead of Joe Buck, and I will be the happiest Fox Sports Baseball Watcher on Earth.

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Jan 23, 2009 1:25 AM EST up reply actions

The Herd

Colin Cowherd had him on his show yesterday. He basically said the same thing you just did. His assessment was that the guys voice alone commanded respect.

" PLEASE! CHANGE THE PATCH! "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 23, 2009 1:29 AM EST up reply actions

hey, for the record

i was also saying nice stuff about jon miller and karl ravech.

i feel you, lou, its just, on the innernets, its so much more fun to trash stuff than to actually commend the nice work done by others. kind of like the evening news but on meth.

now if you’ll excuse me ive some VORP to calculate in my mother’s basement.

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Jan 23, 2009 11:57 PM EST up reply actions

There it is!

I’ve finally had someone admit the true essence of what’s behind AA blogging. Thank you dear boy thank you! Hugs and ~~kisses~~! Well…Let’s just stick with hugs.

" PLEASE! CHANGE THE PATCH! "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 24, 2009 12:22 AM EST up reply actions