To any Phillies fan: I'll have to admit - growing up in LA (Vin Scully, Chick Hearn, Bob Miller), nothing gets me more hype than hearing Harry Kalas RIGHTFULLY call some of these moments, and getting to call the Phillies World Series win in 2008. That still gives me chills.
We're both lucky, in that we managed to hear two of the all-time best in Vin Scully and Harry Kalas call our games for so many years. After listening to some other play-by-play announcers, I sometimes wonder if we were spoiled by having it so good.
There were/are a few voices I'll treasure until I die and Vin Scully and Harry Kalas are two of them. John Madden, Keith Jackson and Doc Emrick also come to mind. Jon Miller is easy on the ears as was Joe Morgan. Great team. Never cared for chick Hearn Of course there are some I wish I'd never heard such as Jack Edwards, (Bruins), mostly cause he's dumb as shit but combine that with his New England accent, 🤮. Rick Jeanneret, (Sabres), also comes to mind. Not as dumb as Kennedy but oh such a high pitched shrill of a homer. Oh! And Beth Mowins. Just go away. Don't care how smart you think you are, you're not and your voice is horrible to listen to. Add Doris Burke too. Another horrible voice ruining basketball for me.
Wow!! The Phillies have played a major role in the memories of my life n I was so excited to see Shane's ITPHR vs. Padres at Petco. My youngest Son (he was only 3 at the time), my niece Vicky n I flew out to visit my Oldest Son n his Family for the series. Watching Shane round the bases brought back all of the Fantastic times we had over the Weekend. Seeing the other ITPHR,s n remembering a lot of them is what baseball has been to my Family n so many others. Great Family Memories wrapped around our Favorite teams. Here's hoping that the greed doesn't take that away from our Grandchildren.
:45 it's still so funny to see chases gas tank run out when he rounds 3rd lol. He was struggling at that point. Hell of a head first dive to get in there though!
i laughed at the nats when harper was there and being mediocre(at best) for all but one season. now i cry knowing i'm stuck watching the most overrated player in history for the next dozen years. there is a reason no other team was stupid enough to offer him more than 5 years and that was conditional. there was a reason his own nationals didnt fight to keep him. big spenders Red Sox and Yankees didnt even sniff at him. Klentak and Middleton promised to be stupid between the 2018 and 2019 seasons and couldnt have been more so. there's a reason Dodger fans (in our own park) and Tiger fans chanted "overrated"-- because harper is. take a look at harper's first season with us. people complained when Howard struck out as much as harper did. yet Howard hit for a higher average in his prime, more homers and came through when we needed him. harper? besides his extra inning grand slam, how long do you have to think to come up with another big hit? how about how many times he got thrown out on the bases because of stupid baserunning? name another "great player" being thrown out on the bases half as often as harper? the Phillies have lowered fan expectations so much since our glorious run a decade ago, that we now cheer a player that hits for an embarrassingly low average, strikes out tons, especially when a hit is needed, didnt start hitting homeruns until the Phillies were fading, and is a terrible baserunner.
Steve Swangler Steve Swangler 😂😂😂 Then just stop being a Phillies fan if that’s how you feel. No one will miss your pessimism. Who the hell cares how dodgers and tigers fans feel about Harper?! Also, His grand slam was in the ninth first off. He also had a huge walk-off hit against the Dodgers. He had a big game-tying home run in LA early in the season. The man batted .357 with runners in scoring position. Which is EXTREMELY good and one of the best in baseball (if not THE best) despite just batting .260 overall. Yes, he struck out a ton especially during one specific stretch. Yes, he can get more consistent. I tend to love his aggressive base running which was sometimes ill-advised, but most of the time wasn’t. He was also better than expected in right field. He did just fine in his first year in Philly and there’s reason to he optimistic moving forward. But sure. Be all Negadelphia about it and choose to be miserable watching an exciting player.
These were awesome to watch! Even the last one by Cesar Hernandez even though that technically should’ve been scored E1 and E9 but hey you take em any way you can get em!
so just in case anyone is wondering, its 90 feet between each bases 90 to first 90 to second 90 to third and 90 home 360 feet the equivalent of 120 yards!!!
I don't know if you can call them errors exactly but there were certainly 2 or 3 misplays. The ball looks catchable and I think he got spoked by the wall. I give him credit for trying. But this is a playoff game, so the smarter play may have been to try to play it off the wall. And lastly, where was the right fielder? Was he on a bathroom break? He should also have been running right at the ball to back up his teammate precisely because of what happened.
briefly clips of him running the bases on it on the 2005 video yearbook but yeah ive never seen mlb repost that one, great memory guys that was the first year i started watching! great channel btw much love for it
Wish we had Utley’s in the Parker on last day of 2005 season. I believe he hit a line drive to deep left center and took a crazy ricochet past center fielder. He went in hard at the plate. Anybody remember that one? I can still see him walking to dugout wearing a Red Cross helmet in remembrance of the hurricane that year.
Is Kevin Jordan's stuck in the Wrigley ivy inside the parker available anywhere? I remember Abreu hitting one against the Mets at the Vet on a shallow pop to left that got past a sliding Benny Agbayani and rolled all the way to the wall
I remember doing my homework late when Dernier hit the "HR". No way that should have been scored a HR as Mitchell totally botched it .....twice! But I did wake my dad up to tell him what happened.....because he went to sleep disgusted.
The opposing team had to be pretty bad, for Bobby Abreu to get an inside the park homerun! As much as I can remember, he wasn't to fast. Maybe he was early in his career.
He got a little heavy later in his career, but Abreu stole at least 20 bases in all but one of his seasons with the Phils (and in that season, he stole 19). Plus he led the league in triples in '99
