Comments on: Quote of the Day: Steve Phillips on steroids http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Wed, 22 May 2013 15:28:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: micker716 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124975 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:46:28 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124975 A (former) MLB executive rationalizing the reasons for turning a blind eye to the steroid problem. I’m surprised we haven’t seen more of this.

]]> By: mrznyc http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124962 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:05:34 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124962 Another great Fred Wilpon hire – Sell, Fred, Sell.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124952 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:47:31 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124952 Baseball at the brink of extinction? Seems to me I read on this very site that someone (WSJ) made the case that 20% fewer kids are in Little League as compared to some unspecified time in the past (I couldn’t be arsed to look it up). Here’s a news flash; the birth rate has declined every year from 1991 to now. In fact there are 17% fewer children now than in 1991. Hence, if math doesn’t betray me (like it did the WSJ), there’s the missing ~20%; it’s not that they’re not playing ball; it’s that their mommies & daddies aren’t.
Sirius, Steve Phillips, and the rest of the ‘baseball is dying’ crowd never let logic get in the way of their mouths.

]]> By: royhobbs39 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124945 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:33:03 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124945 http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/10/22/2009-10-22_espn_phillips_sex_scandal.html

]]> By: Matthew Flint http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124942 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:31:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124942 I was referring to his GM job, but well played.

]]> By: jamie54 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124940 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:31:07 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124940 Yes, Craig, exactly. Thank you for making logical comments which just brings out the fact that much of talk radio is based on sound bites with no substance and the masses following along not giving a thought to the drivel they just heard. Sirius keeps running that sound bite and it’s just absurd.

]]> By: royhobbs39 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124938 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:28:37 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124938 “He got fired for being absolutely brutal at his job.”

Have you seen her? Any action for her is good action…

]]> By: bradwins http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124937 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:28:14 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124937 The only real problem I have with Steve Phillips is that he is not talented and not smart.

OK. I guess that is two problems. You got me.

]]> By: dirtyharry1971 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124931 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:16:56 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124931 The mets really should bring this guy back, they need him desperately right now

]]> By: professorperry http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124925 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:12:37 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124925 My favorite thing about MLB 2K10 is hearing Steve Phillips as the color man. It adds an air of verisimilitude when he says things like:

- This pitcher likes to start out with a hard fastball for a strike!
- (Curve, 82 MPH, Outside)
- I’m thinking they are going to pitch around him
- (Fastball, 91, Strike)

And so forth. The way the computer simulation can get things as wrong as the actual man is nothing short of genius.

]]> By: Jonny 5 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124922 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:06:37 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124922 So Phillips was already officially an ass. So what is this? Confirmation? Yes Steve, we already know you’re an ass, you don’t need to keep reminding us.

Maybe the players getting high, drunk, and smoking much less has had something to do with better performance?

]]> By: cmoore019 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124917 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:45:50 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124917 You can’t really fault an idiot for being idiot. You can however fault Craig Calcaterra for carrying the idiot’s message to the masses. Must have been a slow day..

]]> By: purnellmeagrejr http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124912 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:30:53 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124912 There is no more jealous, backbiting group than Sportswriters.

]]> By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124910 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:24:12 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124910 So he’s the only person in history to be fired for bad performance AND good performance….

]]> By: Matthew Flint http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/quote-of-the-day-steve-phillips-on-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-124904 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:59:58 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49563#comment-124904 I could never stand Steve Phillips. ESPN (while he was employed there) would trot this idiot out and ask his opinion as if I should give a shit. He got fired for being absolutley brutal at his job. I understand these jobs turn over quite often but if you got fired, go sit in the world of irrelevency. Not everyone who has been around the game qualifies as an analyst. Most of them are either there to kiss ass so they can get another job or say things that have shock value (hence this story) to get people talking about them. I just wish there wasn’t new guys year in and year out who have taken their broadcasting courses and think they should be on TV.

Sorry, rant over!

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