Everything Working For Dodgers Pitcher

Jason Johnson pitched for the Dodgers last night; the reliever is diabetic and uses an insulin pump on the field.

Let’s listen how announcer Tom McCarthy worked it into the conversation last night.

I hope Curt Schilling comes back, so McCarthy can say how Schill runs a charity for ALS. “And swinging at that breaking ball there will also destroy your brain and spinal cord cells!”

Sarge Was Really Excited About Alyssa Milano

Sorry for the delay on this one. Via The 700 Level, we have this clip of Alyssa Milano — who was at the ballpark Thursday to promote her clothing line or the DVD release of Double Dragon: The Movie or something — and Phillies announcer Gary Matthews chatting during the 4th inning. Matthews asks Milano about her tattoos, and then it gets awkward.

As you can tell from the above screengrab, Matthews, Milano and Tom McCarthy decided to settle things with a rare three-handed game of rock paper scissors. Unfortunately for Milano, she threw an illegal vertical paper, costing her a win over McCarthy’s rock at the very least.

Full Redlasso clip after the jump; The 700 Level has an even longer version, too.

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Phillies Hire Harry Kalas’ Successor

Yesterday, the Phillies re-hired Tom McCarthy, who worked the Phillies’ radio broadcast from 2001 to 2005 before leaving for the Mets radio job.

McCarthy is a good PBP guy, and he’ll now work three innings of television when Harry is on break. (This means no more Chris Wheeler play-by-play, which is what he’s better at.) McCarthy signed an unprecedented five-year deal with the Phillies, which is two years longer than any deal Harry Kalas has ever signed.

“I always enjoyed working with T-Mac,” Kalas said. “I’m glad he’s back in Philadelphia.”

Kalas is 71, but he’s not heading out the door anytime soon, huzzah, huzzah. I’m still up for just hiring a Harry Kalas impersonator (Joe Conklin?) to do PBP when he retires, but McCarthy is pretty good. I still kinda miss Scott Graham, though, but my guess is he’s not enough of a yes-man to work for the Phillies.

McCarthy back in the booth for Phils, this time to do TV [Inquirer]