I was with you up until you said that about Hud. He is an unabashed gamer. I love the guy, but he is not insightful. Exciting, yes. Insightful, no. He says the same things game after game, year after year. But he’s fun-loving.

If you want an insightful, unbiased broadcast, you want Rory Marcus and Mark Gubicza. Rory is a great broadcaster, our best. He always stays positive but fair, he doesn’t GUSH about the Angels like Rex. Gubi is an ex-player who, unlike Hud, was smart and good. More than once, Gubi has explained something that I never knew before, and I consider myself a life-long scholar of baseball. And the way Rory and Gubi take jabs at each other, or joke around about the awful promotions they have to say, they are hilarious! I laugh out loud at least once a game when they’re together.

Terry Smith is a bit dry, and drags his calls out too long, but when he’s next to Rory, he’s alright.

Fizz…fizz blows.

Yes! And he never corrects himself! I don’t mind an occasional error, if the guy corrects it. But Phys just keeps going, and leaves me wondering, “Did I hear that wrong, or did he say it wrong?” A good broadcaster, like Rory Marcus, corrects his own mistakes.

Then he goes off track into non-baseball related stories that flirt with the twilight zone. Hud is the best cheerleader of them all and his energy for the Angels is what I like best about him.

And kick Phyzz out of the booth

Hey physioc…

I remember the beginning of the season, you could just hear it in Terry’s tone of voice, he really didn’t know what to say to a lot of Hud’s Hudisms.

However, I can remember all the way back to when Rory and Terry first started doing radio together, and there was also awkwardness then. I think Terry is just a little stiff. But once he loosens up, he’s okay.

Still, Rory and Gubi had a great dynamic from day one.

Absolutely agee. Hehe.

I’ll bet he studies tape of Joe Buck.

but Mitch Williams totally sucks.

I love listening to him talk smack about pitchers when he himself was one of the worst I’ve ever seen

Chuck Richter loves Steve Physioc because he thinks Steve is the right ass to kiss to get ahead in the organization talking shit about Steve Physioc is not allowed at Chucks site in fact lately Chuck is slamming anyone who criticizes anything over there. If Rev got mentioned on television by someone the same thing would happen.

I haven’t seen him in the ESPN Sunday booth in a long time now; he’s WAY better than 95% of the other guys out there. Which, huh, gives me an idea… of course, he’s pretty old …

JK, seriously though Phys sucks. I don’t know why the Angels organization keeps him around. He seems almost like he’s rooting against the Angels every night

he does great with cbs football games, and they have good announcers there too, which is why i like games on cbs better than fox or anywhere else

He was excited about the possibility of making the call – he was thinking about himself, it was obvious, painfully transparent, and was salt in our wounds during a difficult loss. This is a game being watched EXCLUSIVELY by Angels fans. HE didn’t even have the sensitivity to ask “Will Angels pitching find a way to stop Andruw Jones from making history?” – something like that shows that he knows who he is talking to … but he does not care who he is talking to because he so enjoys listening to himself talk.

and I like how he is the only person capable of telling us what is going on within Vlad’s head.

you should too. Just go to the “help/contact us” at the bottom of the main page.

The show sucks royal nuts!

At first I thought it was Liberace.

If I take a step down, it would have to be on my knees and just like Hall and Oates, I can’t go for that, no can do.

so we are not alone!

And I have noticed he is much better when the play-by-play partner is respectful toward him.

Gubi is getting on the job training but repeats the same analysis at a high rate.

In his first season he said “change the eye level” an average of three times per batter per game.

because he is polished and uncontroversial. But even at his best, he is boring and as seemingly uninvolved with the Angels as are the national announcers like Joe Buck.

Hunter’s catch was a big play in a close game watched by a mixture of two teams fans.

Jones’ HR quest was late in a depressing blowout watched only by the hardcore base of Angels fans.

IT is the difference between an announcer teasing a group of raffle ticekt holders about which one of them will win the big prize and having your dentist kick you in the balls as a “favor” to you to forget about your toothache.

They get flack here, but Physioc wants it both ways – he wants to be seen as impartial as if he is auditioning for a national television position, but then wants to pitch for his masters and gets fake-enthusiastic for Angel promos that then just ridiculous and trite.

Phyzz has a problem of trying to be the man in charge. Even though he is, if anything, a shift leader. But he is always too busy doing every other position except his own.

He’ll add force tidbits, and asinine commentary, into the call of the game. When he is actually the play-by-play guy in the booth. He’ll tell stories during the early parts of close games, ignoring the game it self. Blabbering thru an at bat until the batter strikes out, on a 3-2 pitch, only saying “and that’s strike three”.

If it wasn’t for the internet Halos Heaven would be lost as to the stats, and highlights of the game the Angels are involved with. But we all know what Big Poppi, or Jetter, have did that day three-fold.

I could straighten this guy out, but I am developing an inappropriate reputation…

Here is a link that those who know me will find hilarious in light of Mister Serious Analysis comments:

http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/57583-locals-only

was not focused on this one game but on Phyzz’s style, which I also don’t like. This is not the first time that Physioc glorifies the other team in such a way that the “home” feel is absent. Honestly, it really annoys me.

On your example of the Raptors, I doubt that the announcers sounded like they were glad that Kobe scored 81 points. Its unprofessional for a home broadcaster to laud the away team if they are beating the home team.

Sorry that it may seem like a local only attitude but its called having pride for the home team and Physioc sounds like he would rather discuss how great Andruw Jones played than the Angels. Do you think yankee announcers were excited when GA had the chance to break the rbi record? No. They were probably hoping it wouldn’t happen.

my two cents

Sure, no one likes a Kool-Aid drinking homer, and any professional announcer has the job of trying to keep the viewer’s interest throughout a game. At the same time, he has to remember exactly who is viewer is. On a local broadcast, it is going to be most likely a fan of the local team. And while it is quite proper to point out when something big could be happening, a good announcer should show that he has some sort of clue that this big thing would come at the expense of the local team, and temper his enthusiasm accordingly. Phys hasn’t gotten this clue in 12-plus years.

Like the Rev, I am absolutely fed up with Phys’ cluelessness. It’s bad enough to watch the Angels play like crap, but on top of that to have to listen to Phys wave his pom-poms for a fading, corpulent has-been who has been given charity pitches all night is something no fan should have to endure, especially when a vastly superior alternative is already available in-house.

Is analysis is much better than in the past – but i really do despise it when he is telling all the little leaguers watching how to play the game … at 9:30 PM on a school night n April.

http://www.heavethehawk.com/index.php

i think you underestimate my tolerance, I would have no problem with a well-written post on any subject I disagree with.

In fact, I would rather have well-written posts I disagree with than jarhead yokel spelzz ataxx that mirror my sentiments.

I agree that the anti-Phys posts have gone too far. I don’t like seeing the word “hate” being thrown around with such ease nor do I like to read about grassroots movements to give someone the axe when we have no authority or expertise to do so. This becomes more of a destructive discussion rather than a constructive one.

Sure, maybe Phys went overboard. It was a blow-out game, a rubber-game loss, and it was difficult to swallow as fans. It was frustrating to watch all of those long-balls and I’m sure it didn’t help to hear Phys rave about the feat. However, perhaps Phys was just trying to take the focus away from the poor play of the Angels, but by doing so, he rubbed it in even more. Overall, I appreciate a balanced broadcast and I think our broadcasting staff is more balanced than others.

As for Guby, I’m a big fan! I love it when Scioscia or Butcher make a visit to the mound and Guby tells us what they are probably saying to the pitcher. I believe every word!

for sure

It’d be funny to hear a home run call.

Get off my lawn.

Funny.

i am SO game for this.

to sit in front of a TV with the sound off and stream audio out onto the Internet of themselves doing play by play of an Angels game. Sit around, drink soem beer and down some dogs and joke it up. At one point I was goign to approach my oldest son, an accomplished improv comic and fellow HH’er, but he lives onteh other side of downtown now and is not home often enough to build momentum and pull this off.

is easily the most important thing we should take from this thread. I think (while it may be hard to pull off and might be awkward in it’s early phases) that having our own call a game would be just another way to make HH and blogging in general more unique and relevant. Imagine all Rev and another dude reading some of the posts while the game is going on. I know I would totally be into it.

They even implemented it for their superbowl coverage

a few years ago I guess someone in charge actually got sick of All Physioc all the time. Thank God they demoted him.

So much of this rant today was based on the fact that the guy has grown on me (negatively) in the past twelve seasons. Once or twice a season, big whop. Every night = mute mute mute.

 Steve Physioc is the bottom of the major league barrel. He is below Sterling. HE is below Hawk Harrelson. He is below Joe Morgan.

The only guy worse than Steve Physioc in my opinion is Steve Phillips and he is a color analyst not a play by play guy. Must be a Steve P Thing.

this a very bad comment to introduce yourself into HH. We welcome you, but you gotta support the facts. Although I DO agree that Rory can be late on calls, he does not disrespect his partner like Phyzz does. If I recall, Hud talked about his son that had down syndrome. Rex’s son hates the stadium’s noise, so he buries his face into his sister to avoid the loud sounds. Steve then went on about how Hud’s son needed to be a man and watch the game. This comment was followed by a long period of silence. That is one of the worst things you can say to a down syndrome patient’s father. Secondly, he is a huge hater of ketchup. That’s not a bad thing, but for a two week stretch, he rambled about how hot dogs were ruined by the condiment. In other words, the man probably doesn’t know he’s about to talk about the Angel game.

Second of all, I have a soft side for Hud. He loves the game and loves the Angels. Unfortunately, he can sometimes be a real pothead. In that, mean he goes off on the most random subjects. He went on a 2 minute conversation on nachos and also, he ranted about Daniel Murphy and his relation to 7s. The guy’s pretty cool, but man, he’s high 60% of the time!!!!

Lastly, you have to know Physioc is an unintelligent baseball analyst who is the anti-homer of anti-homers. He jizzes in his pants when Kinsler hits ‘em out and mumbles in a disgusted manner when we score. You can say he’s excited with the plays at the plate, but that’s because he’s rooting for the other team. All in all, Steve is auditioning to work for the 4-letter network.
 
Anyway, welcome to HalosHeaven!

“You’re always #1 in my book!”

That’s the type of cutesy gee whiz Phys crap that has most people participating in this thread.

I heard their interview with Avril Lavigne and man, they were pretty bad. She wasn’t too sharp either, but hey, she’s just a rock star.

Not sure if you attend the games or not, but Hudler does a LOT OF chatting with the other teams during batting practice. So, a lot of his stories are hatched from that time. I can see how his act grates on people, however, I eat it up.

Welcome to Halos Heaven!