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New Phillies Broadcast Team......

J

jlongstreet

Greetings,

Well now that baseball is back on the air once again, what are your thoughts and feelings for the new Phillies TV crew?

Gary Matthews, Wheeler, and Harry in the booth? My opinion is that it STINKS. Just what we need, Matthews mumbles, Wheeler never shuts up, and Harry is still Harry, the best play by play man around.

To think that Scott Graham lost his job for this fiasco.............

Regards
 
I had to turn the sound down and use closed captioning. What a mistake? This decision should cost the head of their broadcast operations his job.
 
Harry is adequate. The Phillies have never had a great broadcaster.
By Saam was good. Bill Campbell was good (better at football). Richie was OK.
Nobody great.

The greatest baseball announcer around is Vin Sculley.
The only great broadcaster - or even good - broadcaster still around is Vin Sculley.
The rest stink.
The network crews are even worse than the team crews.

It's all two or three ex-jocks talking while a baseball game is going on (which they happen to think to mention occasionally).

At least the Phillies have gotten stat boxes on screen - the last team to do so.

Of course, the Phillies are the only team not available on satellite TV and apparently they are OK with that.

I don't care for the new ballpark and I hate the ticket prices. When I start jonesing for baseball, I go to Reading. Baseball for less than a movie and better food - and no idiot jock announcers.
 
Partial agreement with the above. Harry is slipping, but he's still easily one of the top 10 broadcasters in baseball. Wheels is an [EDIT] in person (when I met him, he couldn't have been any more -------like) and on the air, yeah I know this is nothing new, but still. The "Sarge" sounds so damn out of place, it isn't even funny. The Phillies dumped Scott Graham for THIS GUY?!? Perhaps a wee bit more accurately, the Phillies moved Larry Andersen for THIS GUY?!? L.A. was nothing to sing praises about on the air, but at least he was capable and somewhat humorous.

I find it interesting that they use Wheels and the Sarge with Kalas for 6 innings. Is this the first time since the days of WTXF's coverage that the Phils have gone with a 3 man booth? I vaguely recall that Andy Musser, Wheels, and Ashburn all teamed up for some innings on 29.

FF, gotta agree with you on Vin Scully as the best in the biz today and the best of all time. I feel sorry for Dodger fans when Vinny hangs up the headset. They'll go from stoic Scully to screamin' Charley Steiner. (BTW, has Evander Holyfield ever delivered on that whoopin' he was gonna give Steiner?)

I think you may be overexaggerating though on the lack of good play by play announcers in baseball though.

[EDIT-namecalling and vulgar]
 
Jim,

For the first time in 35 years of following the Phillies both on radio and tv, this is the WORST broadcasting setup that I have seen or heard.

What happened to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"? Why in God's good name do they feel the need to have 3 broadcasters in the booth? Didn't Wheeler explain everything there was to be explained to us before? (sarcasm meant)

This is not going to be a long term team. Bring back Scott and, heck, Andy Musser too. They were far better than this creation.

Regards.
 
JimWilliams said:
FF, gotta agree with you on Vin Scully as the best in the biz today and the best of all time. I feel sorry for Dodger fans when Vinny hangs up the headset.
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Vin is not quite the best of all time IMHO - but he learned from the best, Red Barber.
 
Ah yes, Red Barber. Red's certainly no Gus Johnson! And I mean that as a compliment...to Red.
 
These days, I try to listen to the radio broadcast of the Phillies games. To me, it seems that Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen have more fun than the three on TV. Isn't it obvious that Harry misses working with LA? "Sarge" would be better fit for radio, in my opinion, although I can see why they did what they did.

I am thinking that they didn't want to break the chemistry between Franzke and Andersen. Gary Matthews knows what he is talking about when he speaks, but he seems to be a little monotone.

To quote Dennis Miller, "Of course, that is my opinion. I may be wrong."

-Kingbill
 
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What happend that LA was relegated to straight radio duties? Why can't they rotate around like they used to in the 80's when harry and whitey would do 1-4 innings...then Andy musser and whitey thru the middle innings and then back to harry and whitey to finish the game.

Matthews bores me during the game, and Wheels doesn't KNOW the game...he tells you stuff you already know. I think he should go back to PRISM and do the games with Jim Barniak. I mean there was a time when Michael Jack did time as an announcer but he knew that wsn't his bag.

I mean I understadn they want to keep Matthews but rotate them around I suggest Harry and Gary 1-4 innings, Wheels and Anderson 5-7, HArry and MAtthews 7-9.


Of all the people to put in the booth why did they pick Gary Matthews
 
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