Physioc Reads HH
by feNOMINAL on Jul 10, 2009 10:01 PM PDT
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Or, someone alerted him to Rev's recent post. Through the top of the 7th, Physioc has been near perfect. Every complaint I read about last night has been addressed.
With insightful content, solid leads to Rex, excitement and optimism in Halo homers, runs, and defensive gems, and a more "beat the other team" attitude, I can't think of anything in tonight's broadcast that would annoy the Phys hater. Unless you simply don't like his voice, or just really like the ill-timed delivery of awkward-voiced Rory.
Sure, it's just one game. Many of you will look for any mispronounced name or stutter to sling your poo, but that's an all too-human trait inherent in every broadcaster.
With BillyMac pretty much stealing the Jobba the Overrated Hut line from this mornings pregame points post, I just thought it was funny that an honest look into tonight's (not yet finished, but almost) broadcast couldn't be further from the hate dished out the other night.
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He did a superb Yankees broadcast tonight
Really reminded us why we all root for the Pinstripin’ Bombers
Yet you commented on it
"F it, let's pitch." - Ervin Santana
by Chzburger Jones on Jul 11, 2009 2:46 AM PDT up reply actions
apparently
he wasn’t the only one. the on screen scoring had also changed the “out” column from 1 to 2.
www.13stoploss.com
What about in the 5th
when he thought there was 3 outs and started wrapping up the inning?
RIP NICK ADENHART
My Bad
I get it now.
Sorry, I’m a little slow.
I’ll just stay out of the game for now on.
www.13stoploss.com
nobody is saying you cannot have your say
but this is a community and we are disagreeable with each other – they get on me all the time, why should anyone else be any different.
You like Phyz and that is cool but you are not adequately articulating why to a degree that satisfies those who are sick of him.
You can have your say, but so can everyone else. It is the democracy we so treasure. i have not erased a single post on this subject since I brought it up yesterday.
by Rev Halofan on Jul 10, 2009 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions
i understand what you're saying, but...
I don’t understand why the broadcast tonight was “an all-night Yankee stroke-a-thon.” There was hollow dread and disappointment in his voice when ARod homered off a weak slider at his ankle off Saunders. ALL NIGHT, both Phys and Rex were commenting on “where did that pitch miss (about Angels pitchers, especially Jepsen and Speier)?” Then, there was Phys’ hollering excitement when Aybar made that gem of a throw off Figgy’s deflection; there was the same optimism in his voice with Matthews’ RBI single, ARod’s error with Rivera safe at first, Morales’ BOMB, Napoli’s follow up hit, Aybar’s almost HR, then Aybar’s REAL HR.
The one complaint about Phys that I can sometimes understand is that he is occasionally too bipartisan. With the jubilee in his voice at every spectacular Halos defensive play and clutch hit/scoring, there can’t be a single doubt about his broadcast tonight. He was so money as a HALO FAN. You could literally hear it in his voice, begging them on, and damn near shrugging, though admittingly, when the Skanks scored.
Is he getting down on Joe when admitting he didn’t have his good stuff? No.
Was he stroking ARods ego by acknowledging the homer off a terrific pitch from Joe? Not at all.
Is it a crime to begrudgingly acknowledge that stupid Derek Jeter was all over Joe? It’s not like he was stroking that ego either. He just calls the game.
And like I already mentioned, I’m actually surprised by the verbal disagreement (on air) about the tight and inconsistent strike zone of the home plate umpire. There were at least 4-5 times when Phys made a comment about an Angel pitcher who should have had a pitch called a strike, and I didn’t know broadcasters could voice disagreeance with the umpiring staff.
After reading those posts, especially tonight’s recap, it’s like everyone is watching an entirely different game. A game where stuff is made up and overexaggerrated to pile on the hate. “All night stroke-a-thon” and “pinstripe french-kissing,” aside from the literal, is wholly inaccurate.
(for the record, I wasn’t the one asking or accusing about post deletions)
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you make some good points
It is hard for me togive props to someone for doing the basics of their job. Props are for exceeding expectations, smacktalk is for performing under those expectations.
It comes down to this: I – and many Angel fans judging by the response to yesterday’s screed… we have been listening to this guy for over 12 years. He strokes the Yankees. He regales in reliving the BoSox “magical 2004 season” … if he had done it once or said it twice in ten years none of us would have noticed, but it is an accrual of his tin-ear transmissions that caused me to burst a pipe and write an outburst and for many to write in agreeing.
I don’t know how long you have been listening to Physioc – maybe as long as all of us, but it seems that people begin disliking him slowly over time. Perhaps he is best described as the OPPOSITE of an acquire taste – he does not necessarily turn people off at first but does so at some pint of overexposure – let’s say after 300 Physioc broadcasts a majority of people snap.
AND SORRY for implying that my not deleting any posts had anything to do with your thoughts and feelings on this matter.
by Rev Halofan on Jul 11, 2009 12:57 AM PDT up reply actions
fair enough
I’ve been listening, minus a 5 year stretch in the Army (that unfortunately coincided with the greatest Halos moment in history), since the days we had a rotation of Finley, Langston, and Abbot (though I couldn’t tell you who the other SP’s were). I grew up with the signings of Winfield, Gaetti, wasn’t there a DParker?, and the blossomings of DiSar, Salmon, Anderson, and Edmonds. I was in the back of my 8th grade classroom with a walkman headphone in one ear when the Langston and Phillips led team lost the one game playoff to RJ. It was a great time to grow up a homegrown Halo fan. I’m sure I’d like Sparky a bit more now than I did then…
I can tell you what a glimmer of “home” feels like to wake up at 2 in the Iraqi morning—to turn on AFN Sports to catch an Angel game, broadcast by MY TEAM’s Phys and Hud. And THAT made me smile that AFN would play a game other than the Skanks and BoSux.
When I came back in late ‘06, I didn’t even know who that putz of a Rory was, and I still can’t figure out how he got in, or why he’s on the air.
BTW, I saw the video you posted with the NY guy on the main page. Your over-enunciation seems a bit borrowed from the Phys. You can blame it on the coffee (lack), but what can Rory blame his skills on? Might not be a bad idea to figure out how to create a streaming feed on HH to broadcast your own audio…
www.13stoploss.com
OK, Rory Markas isn't great ...
… but I still have a BIG soft spot for this one call: "Here’s the pitch to Lofton. Fly ball, center field. Erstad says he’s got it. … Erstad MAKES THE CATCH! The Anaheim Angels are the champions of baseball!"
A friend of mine from SoCal actually sent me a beer-bottle opener that plays that call when I open a beer. I love it.
Don't call me Desmond
by highlandhalo on Jul 11, 2009 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
it was more like
“Fly ball, center field. Erstad says he’s got it….Erstaaaaaaaaad MAKES THE CATCH!!!! AND THE ANAHEIM ANGELS ARE CHAMPIONS OF BASEBALL”
sigh still gives me chills
34 - N.J.A - R.I.P
i agree completely
when you say he calls it as it is. He does get an excited tone in his voice for some opposing team’s plays(recently Blalock’s walkoff homer in Arlingtion), but he seems more excited when the Angels make a big play.
I personally enjoy Phys for what he is – a play-by-play broadcaster. He has a great radio voice, but and keeps my interest on televison more than Rory does. There’s talk of how he’s more of a national broadcaster than a hometown guy, but you gotta imagine that’s why Rex is there. Rex is the typical goofball homer of a color commentator, while Phys the professional does the play-by-play. So what he fudges names here and there? No one’s perfect at their job
They should rename Angel Stadium to "Heaven"
His voice may be good for radio...
But his play by play is horrible for radio. Maybe he’s spent too many nights in the bright lights of the television broadcast booth, but for whatever reason he doesn’t seem to realize that those of us listening on the radio can only see the details he chooses to share. In some very big moments in Angels games, I’m often just waiting and waiting to find out what happened on the field, trying to divine it from the fan reaction to the play. With Rory and Terry I don’t find myself in that situation.
Let's do this for Nick Adenhart, Courtney Stewart, and Henry Pearson.
At least it hasn't gotten this bad.
Of course we are nowhere near the Nats in bad play, but it’s worth the read.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2009/07/rob_dibble_on_the_nats_its_pat.html
Poor phys???
Have you been watching and listening to him in the past two games??
Please get rid of Kendrick and Aybar. And Santana. R.I.P. Nick Adenhart, Marquis Cooper, Steve McNair
by JoseGuillenSux on Jul 11, 2009 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Poor is probably the wrong word there
I’m sure he makes more money than a lot of people here.
RIP #34
For what it's worth ...
I knew Steve Physioc back when I was a beat reporter for the club in the late ‘90s/early ’00s. Now, back then he was reasonably new to the job, but I can say honestly that Phys is (at least in person) a damn nice guy, not stuck up at all, and a really good fellow to hang around with in the dugout before games, in the clubhouse, and in the press dinining room. Really nice guy personally. Not sure what he’s like now, people change after all …
I also admit he’s got a great voice for broadcast, which is the main reason he keeps getting jobs.
After all these years, yes … it still grates on me when he rhapsodises about other clubs/players, esp the Red Sox and Yankees. But he does show genuine emotion for the Angels too, although not in a homeresque fashion (that’s Hud’s job!)
But then I consider the opposite extreme … having someone like Chicago’s Hawk Harrelson in the booth. Now that would be pure hell. So, I’m pretty mellow about us having Phys for all those reasons.
Don't call me Desmond
I got your back, Rev
OK, f—- Mark Whicker. Just as was honest in my earlier post, in which I said from my experience as a beat writer that Steve Physioc is a very nice man, I’ll be equally honest about Mark Whicker.
Mark Whicker is one of the most snotty, conceited, unfriendly, condescending journalists I have ever had the displeasure to have to share a pressbox with (and not just at Angel Stadium, many AL ballparks). He’s a decent writer when he feels the urge to be, he gets decent interviews because of his “name value”, but otherwise is a kiss-ass who rarely has the balls to be critical of any of the subjects he is paid to write about.
As for his cowardly comments about HH and it’s “lemmings”, well that is just damned insulting. I’d offer to call you out myself, Mark, but you’re too much of a pussy to stand up for yourself. Just realise that most of the people still in press boxes today hate your guts.
Eat shit. Love, highland
Don't call me Desmond
by highlandhalo on Jul 11, 2009 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Wow, Whicker's got his own minions.
Anybody up for a holy war?
Phys: Well, Coon doesn't have a lot of power but he's a good bunter
Coon: F$%# That!
Thanks Zu
by halofan4life on Jul 12, 2009 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
i think physioc needs a nickname
but what shall it be?
Please get rid of Kendrick and Aybar. And Santana. R.I.P. Nick Adenhart, Marquis Cooper, Steve McNair
We have called him
THE GRAND PHYZZARD here on this site.
by Rev Halofan on Jul 11, 2009 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Not everyone can be Vin Scully:
And yes Phys gets a offbeat from the games, but it’s true, 4 homeruns in a game is history. 15 players in MLB history dating back to 1894 have done it. It’s a big deal. Think of it as Phys being a baseball fan, not just an Angels fan. In other words, would you not applaud a pitcher who pitched a brilliant no-hitter against the Angels? Granted it would sting, but c’mon, really? I would, it deserves respect.
Phys has a great voice for announcing, in my opinion.
Phyzz seems to be obsessed with making "the call".
True Phyzz is a good Angel fan, but he is also just an employee of the team. When the Angels play on national TV Steve usually gets left behind. Rex might get some airtime, Jose Mota might do the bilingual interviews, and Rory & Terry get back together for the local wireless broadcast. But Phyzz takes the day off.
So when Steve gets the chance to call a game when the Yankees, or Red Sox, are involved he gets pumped up for that game. Isn’t that the dream of every American boy. To grow up and wear pinstripes, and if not maybe a cap with a red “B” on it. So for a broadcaster it should be the same by wanting to call the Big Teams of the League. And when Steve gets the chance, He becomes obsessed with making the call.
But Phyzz doesn’t get that chance very often because he works for a team in the AL West. So any other chance he may get to make the call, he’ll pounce on with a vengeance. Giving it all the enthusiasm he can muster. Not caring one bit about the audience at hand.
Steve wants to be, “that voice”, making, “the call”, on highlandhalo’s bottle opener.
"The Call"...
Is like starting the slow clap. You’ll just know when to do it…
Yer joking about 'growing up to war pinstripes and a cap wit te big red b' right?
Cause I always wanted to grow up to strike out the side in the 9th for the ANGELS!!!!! in every fucking game of the playoffs vs. those dildostripes and ‘red’ b teams. Until we won the World series.
by Big Bad, 'Vlad'! on Jul 12, 2009 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
This is the previous sentence before the one you are concerned with
Isn’t that the dream of every American boy.
Maybe I should have put a question mark at the end to make it perfect. And what the hell are you acting so guilty for in the first place. With the denial and cover ups.
I am a girl and some of us dreamed of playing baseball.
Born in the wrong era for that, but I learned to hate the Yankees at a tender age, probably before I was 8.
.... as sexy as socks on a rooster.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Fizz has ever read a book.
Wait, I take that back, he did quote Wayne Dyer during a broadcast last week. But he may have been watching cable. So that’s an open question.
Torii Hunter: Best Halo Ever.
What are you talking about?
Physioc is not illiterate, and not even close to illiterate.
.... as sexy as socks on a rooster.
None of you losers could do his job stop.
this is angel fans.
they sit in front of their tv, volume up, sitting, waiting, with their laptop in tow, for Phys to say anything they can even remotely pick apart, they then come to message boards and post anonymously and do nothing but criticize, but of course none of you would ever do it to his face, would ya?
I would. Gladly.
Performance review.
And I’d think this is slightly above a message board here.
RIP #34
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