Brandon Tierney and Creeping Dodgerism

During recent thirtieth celebrations of Dwight Clark's “The Catch,” 95.7 The Game's Brandon Tierney commemorates with a replay of the sound byte of Vince Scully's television call. First of all, Tierney should play Lon Simmon's great radio call. Secondly, Tierney gives a sigh of satisfaction and makes a remark about the great Vince Scully. Scully is an icon in the broadcasting industry and it is understandable that the local announcers respect and admire him. However, they should reserve this for the broadcasters' club, because this is nothing less than Creeping Dodgerism. Even though Vince Scully is doing a network NFL playoff game, fans in the Bay Area identify him as a symbol of the Los Angeles Dodgers and, as such, the locus of all evil in the world. When the Anti-Christ appears he shall be a Dodger fan. Tierney also whines about the choking performance of Alex Rodriguez. A's fans enjoy this, except if he is playing against the Dodgers in the World Series. Some might say that local fans benefit from an outsider's view. They already have this with the Eastern SPorts Networt (ESPN) and they crave dedication in local programming. Brandon Tierney is a newcomer to the area, but he needs to be taught proper values by those around him, possibly the likes of Greg Papa or Mychael Urban. The most important of the local values someone representing Bay Area sports must champion is proper Dodger hate.

Beasts of the East Out: ESPN Disappears.

Last Saturday I got off work in time to see the last few innings of the Giants-Phillies NLCS game before I was to leave for a late movie date. I saw the end of the game and some of the post contest hoopla. I was not able to see any highlights and since I missed the first part of the game I was looking forward to viewing them. I got home from the movie late and tuned in the Eastern SPorts Network (ESPN) and since this game had to be top sports story of the day, I figured excerpts would be shown again and again on the network. But, no! All I saw was college football footage. I got up the next day and low and behold all I saw was their NFL pre game show. No NLCS highlights to be found. If the Yankees and Phillies had won their respective championship series then ESPN would have been breaking into their football show with baseball highlights. Maybe if Brett Favre had somehow been the winning pitcher they may have mentioned it. They seem to be fascinated with this guy. The San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers completed magnificent series championships over their eastern rivals and show fans in the east that they are not entitled to the World Series. ESPN did not recognize this and became irrelevant.