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Phillies announcers will be on WPHT 1210 AM for all Phillies postseason games

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Harry Kalas, Chris Wheeler, Larry Andersen and Scott Franzke will be behind the radio microphones for every inning of every postseason Phillies game.

Gary Matthews, along with hosts Jim Jackson and Franzke, will be on the air for the pre-game and post-game shows that have been expanded from 30 minutes to one hour. The shows will provide audio highlights of the game, analysis, interviews and reports of other postseason games. http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/content/printer_friendly/phi/y2007/m10/d01/c2243931.jsp
 
Re: Phillies announcers will be on WPHT 1210 AM for all Phillies postseason game

Fire Wheeler
Fire Matthews

Bring back Scott Graham
Add Mitch Williams

= 200% improvement over what we heard this season.
 
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Gary Matthews improved ten thousand percent over the way he was in April. I'd give him
a second season before I start tying the noose.

Now Chris Wheeler....he's gone.
 
I agree Gary Matthews is much better than at the start of the season. Scott Graham was the worst, I'm glad to see him gone. I like Mitch Williams, but he might not be any good at play by play or color.
 
Hey, that's great. We’ll be able to enjoy our favorite sport casters, only 8 seconds delayed from the live action analogue video, and 6 seconds from the HDTV video, if there even is one for TBS. Wait, I’ve got it. I’ll DVR the game, and just start watching it after 8 seconds. Wow, it’s sure gonna’ be fun syncing that up. What a way to enjoy October baseball, fighting to keep it in sync. Who’d a thunk?
 
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QzarDE said:
Gary Matthews improved ten thousand percent over the way he was in April. I'd give him
a second season before I start tying the noose.

Now Chris Wheeler....he's gone.
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i ten-thousand percent disagree with you. matthews offers no insight...if he described a player at-bat as a "fastball hitter" one more time this season, i was literally going to shoot myself. who in the major leagues ISN'T a "fastball hitter"? the term "pitcher's pitch" was also used in 3/4 of the games. he was the master of the obvious, he didn't tell me anything i didn't know, and had a horrible voice for describing action. other than that he was great.
 
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orange434 said:
i ten-thousand percent disagree with you. matthews offers no insight...if he described a player at-bat as a "fastball hitter" one more time this season, i was literally going to shoot myself. who in the major leagues ISN'T a "fastball hitter"? the term "pitcher's pitch" was also used in 3/4 of the games. he was the master of the obvious, he didn't tell me anything i didn't know, and had a horrible voice for describing action. other than that he was great.
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Matthews still has a lot of learning to do, and he does repeat phrases quite a bit, so I do agree with you somewhat. That said,
the upside of keeping Matthews is better than having Chris Wheeler saying his favorite phrases every night like "Hey, we'll turn
the lineup over" or "let get three outs and get out of here." Please don't even get me started on Wheelers horrible home run calls,
or him cheering from the press box.

Matthews doesn't know any better yet. Wheeler should.
 
Scott Graham was fired for unfair reasons it really gotta be hard being him these days
 
Sam-

There is indeed an HDTV feed on TBS......Comcast channel 220 on my system.
 
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Not all systems in the area have TBS HD yet. Comcast says it will have about 57% of all their customers up before the first game. I got it on my system around 3:00 today. TBS itself was a big help. The comcast contract with TBSHD didn't start until midnight tonight, but because TBS had the tie breaker game, they sent out word that cable providers could add the channel before the contract began. This is a good things, because we all know how slow comcast is, and if they had to do it all on Wednesday they probably wouldn't have had it in place before the Phillies game. Hell like I said, I only got it a few hours ago, despite TBS sending out the early clearance early Monday.
 
I had it last night for the Tie-Breaker Game.

I was a little worried about it myself. I switch over to Verizon FiOS TV tomorrow, so I hope they have it as well!
 
They have TNT HD listed as Channel 825 for VZ FIOS SE PA, so the odds are they will find a way to work in sister station TBS HD's location in there as well.
 
radiofan2007 said:
Scott Graham was fired for unfair reasons it really gotta be hard being him these days
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Eh, not really. I'm pretty sure he's still doing football play-by-play for Fox, which is a sweet deal any way you cut it.
 
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Even if they were in sync, I get that you might prefer the hometown announcers, but if you're at home and you have HDTV, who is going to mute a Dolby 5.1 feed to hear the game in glorious AM mono?

It might make sense to unplug your center channel speaker and replace it with the AM radio, so you have the home town commentary plus the benefit of the surround sound. But that only works if TBS mixes the broadcast correctly, and doesn't have the commentary coming out of the left and right (like Comcast SportsNet sometimes does - they even have it out of the rear speakers sometimes).
 
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I think that WPHT should drop the IBOC during the playoffs so the games can air in real time.
 
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Julius May said:
I think that WPHT should drop the IBOC during the playoffs so the games can air in real time.
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Flipping between WNPV and WPHT during game one of Rockies @ Phillies, the two stations were in sync with the Phils radio network broadcast. Previous Phillies broadcasts had WPHT approx. 5-7 seconds behind WNPV.

Not sure if the delay was related to IBOC or WPHT leaving the 7-second delay necessitated by live talk programming. Clarification is welcome.
 
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Flipping between WNPV and WPHT during game one of Rockies @ Phillies, the two stations were in sync with the Phils radio network broadcast. Previous Phillies broadcasts had WPHT approx. 5-7 seconds behind WNPV.

Not sure if the delay was related to IBOC or WPHT leaving the 7-second delay necessitated by live talk programming. Clarification is welcome.
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That's strange - at least for the first few innings while I was at work today, I had on WNPV and the woman in the next cubicle had on the Big Yacker and WNPV was about 5 seconds ahead - I could hear it repeat over the cubicle wall, and she would cheer (or more often groan) about 5 seconds after I heard the play called.

I have to say I really don't care for the chemistry of some of the Phillies broadcast teams, remembering fondly the running stories between Harry, Richie, and Andy, even By and Bill. There is long silence between pitches these days.
 
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