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WOW! Phils stun Dodgers — and Buck/McCarver — with ridiculous comeback win
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Last night’s Phils comeback win over the Dodgers was unbelievable. Welcome to the team, Matt Stairs. Discuss.
As awesome as the comeback win was, the announcing continues to be atrocious. Joe Buck and Tim McCarver are so so so obviously in the bag for the Dodgers, they sounded like they were at a funeral the moment Shane Victorino tied the game up in the 8th. When Stairs launched that missile way into the right field stands, I believe they actually held an impromptu moment of silence.
The win puts the Phils one win from the World Series.
Now regardless of how you feel about Joe Buck (best JB joke ever) and McCarver (he’s got a case of priapism for Manny Ramirez and, ostensibly, the now very-unlikely, theoretically subplot-laden Dodgers/Sox matchup), the real crime here is that we have to listen to these clowns when this matchup, if Fox Sports were thinking creativly, could have featured a broadcast booth pairing of Harry Kalas and Vin Scully.
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They’re both, I assume, doing the teams’ radio broadcasts.
That’s why we should all go to the Fox Sports comments page and let them know how we think they should do their jobs.
I will leave you with this quote from BaseballThinkFactory’s Game Chatter blog:
188. The Tailor of the Garden of Tea (Crispix Attacks)
Posted: October 14, 2008 at 12:10 AM (#2981304)
FACTS:1. Matt Stairs is a mammal.
2. Brad Lidge shuts down offenses ALL the time.
3. The purpose of Shane Victorino is to flip out and kill people.
Can’t take credit for this, but:
MATT STAIRS EATS FASTBALLS AND CRAPS HOMERUNS
I believe we need a Matt Stairs Facts page. Or at least a Matt Stairs Facts thread.
This is why you mute your television and turn on your radio. Works like a charm.
Fact #1: He is Canadian.
Fact #2: He defines journeyman.
Possibility #1: He will be the subject of a Disney movie.
@ kalas is king: yes, but it gets all mucked up if you’ve got a DVR and feel the need to rewind and rewatch, say, the Matt Stairs home run over and over. But now that I’ve mentioned it, I will not be happy until I hear Kalas and Scully call a game together. Which means, I suppose, that I will never be happy.
But seriously, why doesn’t MLB turn these things into announcer All-Star events of sorts?