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Physioc does his job
July 10th, 2009, 7:33 pm · 28 Comments · posted by Mark Whicker, ocregister.com
Andruw Jones had a chance to hit four home runs in Wednesday night’s Texas victory over the Angels. He would have been the fourth player this decade to do so and the 16th in the history of major league baseball.
Steve Physioc, calling the play-by-play for the Angels, advised the fans to hang on and pay attention to Jones’ last plate appearance even though the Halos weren’t really involved in the game.
Considering the history involved, it never occurred to me that anyone would take offense. But the MC of an Angel-oriented website did so, indignantly, and his lemmings followed suit, castigating Physioc viciously.
The website doesn’t deserve mentioning and neither does this incident, probably, but I do want to point out that Physioc performs his job using his own name, which brings accountability.
Unlike the website guy.
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Your baseball posts are worthless Whicker, and don’t worry, this is my real name. Physioc is a horrible announcer, but you don’t watch the games, so you’d have no idea.
At least Wicker gets paid for his posts/articles. If anything is truly “worthless” wouldn’t it be your two cents on this matter.
shit on top of shit, is shit. so yeah, we agree?
I think that is something we can all agree on.
Could you imagine a team like the Cardinals playing a division rival like the Cubs or Brewers and the Cards announcer wanting Cards fans to stick around in case Derek Lee or Prince Fielder hits his 4th home run of the game in a blowout? He would be ridiculed like no other.
I use Cards as an example because I live in St. Louis and it is hard for me to imagine that scenario. It would be a lot uglier than a blogger posting about it.
They would absolutely say the same thing, and if they didn’t, THEN they should be ridiculed.
Yes, Justin, I can absolutely see Jack Buck or Joe Buck or Harry Caray or Vin Scully or Ernie Harwell or Skip Caray or Denny Matthews or Don Orsillo or Sean McDonough or Jon Miller or Jeff Kingery or Eric Nadel or a dozen other announcers I could name promoting a truly historical achievement even if it doesn’t involve his own team.
Do you think any of those announcers would tell their audience to stick around for an opposing no-hitter? Of course they would, and no-hitters aren’t as rare as 4-homer games. Most baseball fans respect the game _ particularly in St. Louis.
Not to the extent that Steve did. I agree there is nothing wrong with saying and even talking about how special and unique event it is when and if it occurred. But to encourage Angels fans to stick around just to see if it happens? None of those announcers would say that. They would talk about its historical content when it happened and maybe in his next at bat. But encouraging the fans of a rival team to stick around in case it happens….no way. I am not saying he even is a bad announcer, but he could have handled the situation better.
O and Harry Carey was great, but was the biggest homer he would not encourage Cubs fans to stick around to see the at bat of a rival player in a blow out game. No way.
I agree with Whicker, and Steve is a fan of the game and not just the Angels, can’t fault him for that. I think phys does a decent job.
Rev Halo is a douchebag, so I’m not sure why anyone would take anything he says seriously. His rant against Physioc is the worst thing he’s ever written-and that’s saying a lot.
Stick around Angels fans, Arod is a triple and a single away from the CYCLE. OMG
a cycle isnt same as 4-HR game moron.
I wonder if rev will complain that Physioc mentioned the Giants guy who just pitched a no hitter??
By the way, everyone: STOP WATCHING THE ANGELS-YANKEES game and go see Jonathan Sanchez’s no-hitter for the Giants!
“jeter makes the catch, 2 outs”
….
“did he drop it? what an absolute shock”
I agree with you Mark.
If you are a fan of the game you would be interested in the possibility of seeing history, whether or not your teams winning. Thank god the majority of people that go to games aren’t as whiny as the fans on these sports blogs.
I’m not getting into the whole fan site thing, but I do want to say that Steve Physioc is an incredibly nice man and generous to the community (and not just the Angels fan community).
Most fans don’t realize that Rex and Phyz are directed to deliver the games with a certain style. Rex has been honest about that when he’s given interviews on sports talk shows. Phyz isn’t Vin Scully or Dick Enberg, but he is himself, and I’d much rather have that than someone who tries to emulate other broadcasters.
Some people might prefer a half-drunken crank like Harry Caray. They’re entitled to their tastes. I think Rex and Phyz pretty much reflect the OC demographic. People bag on Rex’s enthusiasm but it’s genuine and it’s nice to have someone who’s positive and doesn’t jump ship every time the team loses two games in a row (that would be certain people online). Life is much more enjoyable when you’re positive and keep things in perspective, and I think that’s what Rex and Phyz do best. This is only entertainment, it’s not life and death. They both love baseball, so do I, and that’s good enough for me.
Stephen: Good points. But Harry was never half-drunk. He was never drunk on the air but made up for it later.
The website is Halo Heaven.com. and it is THE ANGELS WEBSITE by and for the fans to express their independent opinions without fear of censorship from the non-independent, apologetic, mouthpieces of the Angels organization.
Halo Heaven is one of the top most valuable baseball blogs based on traffic to the site and close community spirit. It serves more readers by far than the Angels Blog at the OC Register. News and information about the Angels is posted and updated minute by minute at the Halos Heaven Blog.
Hi, rev.
I agree, Mark. I’m a big fan of Steve and Rex myself though. This hate-filled blog post by a man that goes by Rev Halofan on AM 830 doesn’t surprise me. His rants and cackling laugh on the radio have this Angels fan turning the radio dial to somewhere else whenever he’s on. Someone please boot him off the air.
I loved what Stephen wrote.
Rev is annoying.
Does it seem odd that the brave guerilla leader of the fiercely independent Angel website that has set itself apart from all the apologists is a regular on Angel broadcasts on 830, the Angels station? Yeah, the club really seems terrified of him.
1) “The website doesn’t deserve mentioning”? Really? Not only are you failing at Internet Courtesy 101 — providing a link so that readers know who you’re talking about & can evaluate for themselves — you are condemning an entire and diverse community of Angel fans as worthy of nothing more than nameless contempt. The most charitable description of that move is “inaccurate.”
2) If you *had* provided the link, readers would be able to note that your “lemmings” comment is even more inaccurate/insulting, since many people defended Physioc, as they have in multiple subsequent threads. Speaking as one longtime reader and poster to the site, I don’t agree with the specifics of this particular complaint, but I wholly agree that Physioc is a sub-mediocre announcer, and should be considered an embarrassment to an otherwise top-notch organization.
3) His name is “Mat Gleason,” which he makes no effort to conceal.
I understand that sports-columnist a-holery is if nothing else a tradition, but it sure isn’t a shortcut to accuracy, let alone adding any value whatsoever to a baseball discussion.
Very well said, Mr. Welch. You are truly the voice of “reason” (pun intended).
I didn’t understand Mr. Whicker’s need to attack the website or its contributors as he did. I can understand if he disagrees with the posters opinion, but why so hateful?
I would be interested in Mr. Whicker’s response to your comment.
I was not attacking the site as much as defending Physioc from the juvenile and obscene attacks on that site, when all he was doing was his job, in the case of Andruw Jones.
Concerning Rev’s true identity, I always thought pseudonyms were used by people who had achieved a certain distinction in life, like Marion Morrison (John Wayne) or Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). Maybe he should have used Che Guevara
I am not opposed to the websites per se. Anything that adds to the conversation is good. Angelswin.com is terrific, for instance.
You were attacking, as well as spiteful and discourteous.
I wrote an editorial about a broadcast and Mark Whicker posted that I had no right to critique baseball broadcasts. OC Regster Editorial columnists have not met President Obama but still critique him.
A blogger with more readers (which I can prove with independently-gathered numbers if the OC Register Angels Blog would like to suffer such humiliation) than Mark Whicker is unfairly attacked as Mark Whicker criticized my essay about a broadcast without actually having watched the broadcast I was critiquing. Does Whicker report on games he leaves early or doesn’t attend at all? Nobody would notice…
So, rewrite the freedom of speech part of the constitution: You cannot editorialize about people you do not meet face to face, you may as well post your name and social security number in your byline and if you write for a newspaper you can scold bloggers about things you yourself did not actually witness.
Whicker, why don’t you just come out and admit that after 22 years in the press box you don’t like to see your colleagues discussed for their inadequacies by independent bloggers who don’t jump for the press box carrot by playing nice and ignoring the fans.
Mat Gleason aka Rev Halofan.
Seriously, are you twelve years old?