Phillies 2017 Thread

[PhillyPhreak54]

I try to ignore TMac but Kruk will be the reason I watch more Phils broadcasts this season for sure.

[QB Eagles]

local baseball announcers are 100% about wanting to hang out with the person and 0% about providing good insight.

Yeah if I'm watching football or basketball I hope the color guy can sometimes point out something I don't already know. With baseball, it's farging baseball. Tell some stories about the old days, shtein on the umps a little, point out funny stuff happening in the dugout... that's pretty much the job.

Especially easy to praise Kruk after the Nationals series, because all you have to do is click over to the DC feed to hear a complete disaster.

[Rome]

Is it me or does McCarthy seem completely disinterested in engaging with Kruk?   Maybe I'm just imagining things but it sure seems like it. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

That's because TMac is straight and narrow and has the personality of a door. Kruk cuts up and TMac doesn't know how to react to this.

[Rome]

It's amazing that McCarthy still has a job.  He's that farging awful.   I don't know a Phillies fan who doesn't hate listening to his screechy shrill voice, so of course he'll have a job forever. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

What's crazy is he's passable as an NFL PBP guy

[MDS]

local baseball announcing and doing national stuff is a different skill set

no 1 thing for local guys is to be likable. do i want hang with the person? tmac is a decisive NO. on football/basketball for cbs its all about the game. hes just a voice. he does a good job on there because hes a skilled broadcaster. but just being a skilled broadcaster doesnt mean you can do local baseball pbp.

the phillies know hes not popular but the very fact that he gets cbs work is why they keep him. theyre thinking -- hey we're going to fire a guy who does football for cbs?

[Rome]

I know It's blasphemy around here but I'd take Scott Graham back in a hot minute over McCarthy.

 

[Geowhizzer]

I know It's blasphemy around here but I'd take Scott Graham back in a hot minute over McCarthy.

I like Franzke's banter with Andersen better, but I enjoyed Graham's play by play.  Both are leaps and bounds over McCarthy.

[MDS]

graham has a really good radio voice...its too phony to be on tv

franzke is perfect for tv and theres legit no good reason why hes not doing it

[Rome]

Stubborn, irrational, arrogant, clueless and resistant to meaningful change. 

Can't imagine why they've only won 2 championships in 135 years. 

[smeags]

yeah but, but, middleton.

[Rome]

Close but no cigar?

[smeags]

you just smoked that pun.

[Rome]

Left it in ashes.