Dumb and Dumber

Dozed off watching the Phillies game against the Rangers. That has been happening a lot lately. It has as much to do with the Phillies play as with my advancing age. I woke up with “way back, way way way back. Ding dong Dell has rung that bell, Home run! Del Ennis has done it again!!” ringing in my ears.  The call was from Gene Kelly, the Phillies broadcaster from the 1940s and 50s.  I never fell asleep with Kelly doing the broadcasting.  I suffered, as did all Phillies fans, through a number of terrible announcers including By Saam and Bill Cambell.  Although many consider these two as good, I don’t.  But even they cannot compete with the team of ‘Wheels’, ‘Sarge’, and ‘Mac’.  Gary Matthews, a competent ballplayer, has turned into an incompetent broadcaster.  Gary is all over the place with his ‘players insight’.  He does a boogalooo over the line that separates sense from nonsense.  Tom McCarthy must be paid for asking inane questions. Is it plausible that he does not know the answers to the ridiculous queries that he constantly puts forth?

And now we come to the worst of the team, Chris Wheeler.  As Angelo Cataldi has said, “The one thing I hate about baseball is Chris Wheeler!”  Wheels thinks it is his job to educate the illiterate Phils fans to his wonderful knowledge of baseball.  The fact that he is wrong 50% of the time and obnoxiously boring the other 50% does not help to keep me interested.  Please Wheels talk down to your wife and kids, not to your listeners.  Why can’t the Phillies use Larry Anderson and Scott Franzke on TV and relegate the other guys to radio?  Well,I don’t have to worry about sleepless nights as long as the Phillies insist on keeping the TV team the same.

Richie and Harry must be spinning in the grave at best.  Or at least listening to Scott and Larry on the radio.

Does the name Greg Oden mean anything to anyone?