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That is exactly what the Phillies TV announcers are now....Tom McCarthy (formerly a Mets broadcaster) and Chris Wheeler just talk too damn much, and most of the time they're talking about something dumb that has nothing to do with the game. The Phillies TV broadcasts went downhill fast after Harry's passing. Growing up listening to Harry and Whitey calling the games and now listening to McCarthy and Wheeler is like day and night. The Phils' radio brodcasts are good, though, with Larry Andersen and Scott Franzke. But it says something for the Phils' TV team that whenever I had the chance to watch the game on the opposing teams' network I would watch it there...
Harry was really amazing. Even listening to his voice on commercials was something special. There are very few people who have the IT factor that he had. When he spoke he had your undivided attention, simple as that.
I was actually around a bunch of people waiting to get into Citi Field on opening day when word spread through the crowd that Harry had died. Let me tell you something, whatever goes down between the Phillies and the Mets and the fans of both teams, there was a lot of sadness going around in that locale. Every once in a rare while a guy comes along who is just that good and that important.
See--there's always hope! That's what the NL East really needs: a nice, knockdown, drag-out season long battle between the Mets and the Phillies (with both teams making it to the playoffs). Now all we need is that cup of coffee for the Wilpons to wake up and smell...
I agree. As much as I hate to see Omar go, he's gotta.
Here's an absolutely crazy idea: Bring Wally Backman in as a coach! This team has had zero personality for at least 3 years now. It's time to shake things up in the clubhouse and get some emotion going.
Yeah. And sign up Lenny while you're at it. He could use the money.
Even the Mets' media personel is inept. I live in the NY market so I'd watch Mets on TV every now and then and Gary Cohen can't go a game (playing the Phillies or not) without whining about how unfair it is that the Phillies play in a small park.
Yea Gary, they move the fences in 10 feet when the Phillies hit and the Phillies also don't play any games away from CBP
Not to mention their players always have to bring something up about the Phillies in post-game interviews no matter who the opponent was.
Whatever happened to New Yorkers (residents and athletes) supposedly having thick skin? The Phillies are in their heads and it started with that harmless Rollins comment.
LOL
Phillies did pretty well in Citi and Shea, methinks........
There was an article in the NY Daily News yesterday about a curious move by Minaya. It seems he's talked to a couple of recently-fired general managers about the possibility of them coming to New York as part of his staff. According to our wonderful media, Minaya will be on thin ice in 2010--if he doesn't deliver, his tenure will be over (blah blah blah--what some newspaper hack says and what the Wilpons do aren't necessarily the same thing).
But they did credit Minaya with nerve. If he doesn't turn the Mets around, he may well have put his own successor on the payroll! If nothing else, and either or both of those GMs takes the offer, it should be interesting.
There was an article in the NY Daily News yesterday about a curious move by Minaya. It seems he's talked to a couple of recently-fired general managers about the possibility of them coming to New York as part of his staff. According to our wonderful media, Minaya will be on thin ice in 2010--if he doesn't deliver, his tenure will be over (blah blah blah--what some newspaper hack says and what the Wilpons do aren't necessarily the same thing).
But they did credit Minaya with nerve. If he doesn't turn the Mets around, he may well have put his own successor on the payroll! If nothing else, and either or both of those GMs takes the offer, it should be interesting.
Jeff Wilpon was REALLY furious with Minaya during the Tony Bernazard / Adam Rubin stuff and used the same media to relay that message a few times. The Wilpons don't like to pay people to NOT work for them, but they already started to shift a lot of the media-related responsibilities to the assistant GM John Ricco.
Minaya hasn't talked to any of these people on his own. From the day Minaya came back to New York at the end of the 2004 season, the real GM has been and will be Jeff Wilpon. More than likely it was recently made clear to Minaya that if he was going to stay he was going to have to also go out and find some "help" for 2010. Whoever does end up coming on board won't be doing so to help Minaya, who is really just going to ride this train for as long as he can knowing that he's going to be paid no matter what.
...it was recently made clear to Minaya that if he was going to stay he was going to have to also go out and find some "help" for 2010. Whoever does end up coming on board won't be doing so to help Minaya, who is really just going to ride this train for as long as he can knowing that he's going to be paid no matter what.
Let's hope so. And in amongst whatever else may transpire, let's also hope that Minaya's unfortunate comment about signing ballplayers based on culture (rather than a silly concept like, say, ability) will fall by the wayside. I myself have never cared what the Mets look like--be they white, black, Hispanic, or "other." But the idea that the team has been assembled because the GM thinks more highly of Latino players than anyone else...that's gotta be flushed down the proverbial toilet, and quickly!
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