Phillies broadcaster Andy Musser dead at 74
Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer tweets that Andy Musser, a 26 year veteran of the Phillies broadcast booth, has died. He was 74. Musser retired after the 2001 season.
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Never heard of it. Any good?
Some people don't think it be what it is, but it do.
by TheOrangeCone on Jan 24, 2012 11:46 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, it’s a fine beer. But I didn’t realize Musser’s post-announcing career was a beer sales rep.
After leaving the Phillies in 2001, Mr. Musser worked as the East Coast representative for Anchor Steam Beer and Maytag Dairy Farms. Both were owned by a friend, Fritz Maytag, who made Anchor Steam a national brand.
Mr. Musser used to joke that he had two hobbies in life, baseball and beer, and that he turned both into careers.
Made me admire him that much more.
by Wet Luzinski on Jan 25, 2012 12:15 AM EST up reply actions
I gotta find me some of that beer. If it’s good enough for Musser, it’s good enough for me.
Unless it’s a pale ale, then yeeeeecccch…
Some people don't think it be what it is, but it do.
by TheOrangeCone on Jan 25, 2012 12:24 AM EST up reply actions
I’m pretty sure the one up by Section 330 has it.
http://www.thegoodphight.com
by WholeCamels on Jan 25, 2012 10:06 AM EST up reply actions
So the government hates good Phillies broadcasters?
All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia
by Veni Vidi Vici on Jan 23, 2012 9:36 PM EST up reply actions
I liked Andy Musser. He was a good second team behind Harry & Richie. Also remember him from Sixers games (channel 45 or 57? depends on the year, I guess…. “gusto dunks” anybody?)
Musser’s signature baseball call will always be Mike Schmidt’s division-clinching home run vs. the Expos: “He buried it! He buried it!” That was before my time, but you can’t avoid hearing it in clips. He never used that line in any other call.
As yolacrary mentions, he was really a basketball announcer who also did some baseball on the side, except his baseball career lasted a lot longer than his basketball career did. He teamed up with Sonny Hill to do Sixers broadcasts. Last year I heard Musser call into Hill’s Sunday morning show on WIP and they reminisced together.
The call
I was 11 at the time and hearing that call brings chills back. What a year.
He was a great broadcaster. That was quite a tv/radio team back then.
by Adam Gladstone on Jan 27, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
That’s the third reference to the Prism channel. What exactly was it? I’m still relatively new to Philly.
All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia
by Veni Vidi Vici on Jan 23, 2012 9:37 PM EST up reply actions
It was the precursor to the Comcast Sportsnet but had much less sports content. I think it was pretty expensive too.
Philadelphia Regional In-home Sports and Movies (PRISM). They aired home Sixers games, I think just weekend Phillies games and all Flyers games (from what I recall). They also showed new release movies (new to VHS, that is).
Mental image: What if the cast of Goodfellas started a regional cable channel?
by Wet Luzinski on Jan 24, 2012 11:43 PM EST up reply actions
I think it was something like $25 a month. Of course, this was in like 1990, so it was kind of pricey for the day, I suppose. IIRC it would carry some old B-list movies during the day, a rerun or two of the previous night’s sporting event (Phils/Flyers/Sixers) and occasionally an episode of The Great Sports Debate which was the most awesomely amateurish sports debate production in the history of television.
It also had some, um, saucy movies on late at night!
I had it back in 1985 when it was a button on a set-top box in central PA. Whatever HBO cost at that time, was the price of PRISM. I remember being so pissed off because I wanted HBO, which was the much cooler channel.
Yeah, it would have Skinemax quality films late night.
"I wouldn’t run if there was a fire. I wouldn’t run anywhere. I hate running." - O. Munn
I’m concerned that this appears in response to this:
It also had some, um, saucy movies on late at night!
by Cormican on Jan 24, 2012 10:05 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
As a kid living in NYC, my only regular access to my favorite team was the wavering radio signal of 1210 WCAU, crackling with static on hot summer nights. I love baseball today because of Harry, Whitey, Andy, and Wheels (they all did a lot of radio back then). They are as much a part of my childhood as anything else. Andy Musser, RIP.
I think you made a mistake in your second sentence. The last two pre-parenthetical words seem out of place.
by 88Lindros88 on Jan 24, 2012 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
i have a pretty idiosyncratic memory of Andy Musser. He was doing sports talk radio, I think on WCAU/1210. At that point, I’m pretty sure he was doing Sixers broadcasts, and Jack Ramsay had just become coach. He had Ramsay on as a guest. I was in junior high I think, but I still called in because I was fascinated that he would be called “Dr.” Jack Ramsay.,
Me (innocently): What are you are “Dr.” of? I mean, what is it in?
Ramsay: Education
Me (surprised, but precociously): Well, what was your thesis?
Ramsay: You mean my dissertation? That was on teaching the “zone press”
Musser: Uh, thanks for your call.
I was completely shocked that you could get a degree, a doctorate, teaching sports stuff.
But I just found out Ramsay is still making $$ on this.
Musser was always my favorite broadcaster as a kid…it’s too bad that most of the years he broadcast were pre-MLB-internet-savvy and I was out of town so I did not hear him that much as a Phillies broadcaster. He was very good at basketball, as the poster above noted.
GMAT verbal section question, Philadelphia sports version.
In 2015, which one of the following will prove to be a better investment?
(a) Ilya Bryzgalov's contract (b) Ryan Howard's extension (c) Mike Vick's extension (d) Greek bonds from 2009 (e) Papelbon's bloat deal
by Bud in TN on Jan 24, 2012 12:16 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
From about 2007-2009 I went to the same church as Andy, and often sat in the same pew, so we would chat. He seemed like a very kind person. After I met him I felt bad about all the times we made fun of him in the 70s and 80s for not being able to see balls off the bat very well. He did make up for it with that Schmitty “He buried it” though, and he was a very good basketball announcer. Rest in peace, Andy.
Nothing has come easy, but I guess that wouldn't be the Philadelphia way if it did come easy. - Jimmy Rollins
This is sad news
I grew up listening to Musser doing Sixer’s games and as part of the Phillies broadcast team. I was a frequent caller to his CAU show. He was always the low man on the totem pole during Phillies broadcasts, but he’d be head and shoulders above the current group of T-Mac, Sarge and Wheels.
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