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Media Approval Ratings: Steve Phillips


It's not often you hear ESPN's Steve Phillips in the broadcast booth for a game, but hey, it's tough to turn down a trip to Japan. We think the days of the fake press conferences are over, but Steve Phillips remains, undaunted. More »

1:05 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Leitch
9,948 views, 73 comments

Latest by dhochbaum: He has absolutely no baseball knowledge that the average baseball fan does not have. He has no new insights to more »

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A Completely Unfair Shot At Steve Phillips

Just because it's always fun to make fun of Steve Phillips, here's a look at some of his outstanding August predictions. More »

3:30 PM on Tue Sep 18 2007
By Leitch
10,839 views, 42 comments

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Everywhere You Look, There Is Steve Phillips

After watching this Steve Phillips gimmick segment on "Baseball Tonight" last night, we await, with much dread, the attack of the Steve Phillips clone army. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Jun 12 2007
By Leitch
2,262 views, 76 comments

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Buster Olney Responds: "I Like My Job, Thank You"


One of the things we love about Mr. Irrelevant and his gang at AOL Sports Bloggers Live is that they're fun enough to pounce on the real sports stories yet clean and well-shaven (and AOL-affiliated) enough to bring in big-name guests that we don't have (or, more accurately, have little desire to have) access to. We get to be the crazy uncle who plants them questions for their big-name guests without those guests having to, you know, sully themselves with us. It's a nice exchange. More »

4:30 PM on Tue Nov 15 2005
By Leitch
1,277 views, 11 comments

Latest by whittlz: Ok, well, correct me if I'm wrong: Hasn't Chris Berman been there, doing that schtick, the whole time? And more »

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Saying A Sad Goodbye To Mock Press Conferences


Well, tonight's the final night for those brilliant and universally lauded Steve Phillips mock press conferences on ESPN, and we think it's important that the lunacy of the feature not be forgotten by time. Phillips — whom we don't mean to destroy here; he comes across sympathetic and intelligent in that big ESPN steroid story — did the Dodgers last night, and it was fascinating to watch producers try to pump some life into the feature. More »

2:15 PM on Fri Nov 11 2005
By Leitch
196 views, 5 comments

Latest by CliffX: Anyone else find it amusing how they seemed to time a camera flash every three seconds? I mean, sheesh, more »

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More Mock Press Conference Shenanigans

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An alert reader clues us into some ESPN tech snafus last Sunday, the first day of the mock Steve Phillips press conference things. More »

4:00 PM on Wed Nov 9 2005
By Leitch
488 views, 2 comments

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OK, Seriously, Knock It Off You Guys


All right, we know we've mentioned this already, but we're still kind of obsessed with this daily SportsCenter feature of Steve Phillips "playing" the role of every team's GM. At first, we thought this was just going to be a Boston thing, playing with the Theo Epstein press conference last week. But then they did the Yankees, and then the Cubs, and the Astros tomorrow, and we're realizing that they're really going to do this, they really might do every MLB team. So we thought we'd just go ahead and confess every part of this we're confused about. Henceforth: More »

11:00 AM on Wed Nov 9 2005
By Leitch
3,983 views, 14 comments

Latest by Will Leitch: Ha. That's fantastic, Martha. You're right: That IS the best part. When Phillips compliments his own questions. Brilliant. more »

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Sure, Yeah, Critics, ESPN's Totally Listening

Maybe it's that ridiculous Steve Phillips mock press conference thing that "SportsCenter" is doing right now, but for whatever reason, there's all kinds of anti-ESPN invective out there today. More »

11:30 AM on Tue Nov 8 2005
By Leitch
100 views, 2 comments

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The Sad Faces Of Buster Olney And Jeremy Schaap


For anyone who wondered just what sacrifices that legitimate journalists like Jeremy Schaap and Buster Olney have to suckle from ESPN's cash teat, look no further than this morning's "SportsCenter." In it, baseball analyst Steve Phillips answers mock questions in a mock press conference, pretending to be Boston's general manager. This is bad enough, dumb, pointless, harmless. But then, the people "asking" the "questions" to Phillips ... they're real ESPN journalists! Including Olney and Schaap, who both, after asking scripted questions to a co-worker, have considerable "I hate myself and want to die" looks on their faces. More »

10:15 AM on Mon Nov 7 2005
By Leitch
1,799 views, 9 comments

Latest by Sportszilla: My favorite part was the crawl at the bottom of the screen making it very clear that it was a more »

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We Have To Ask ...

Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ...
• 1 p.m. MLB with Steve Phillips: OK, seriously, the Mets front office is missing about 17 staplers. What in the world could you be doing with them?
• 1:30 p.m. Louisville DE Elvis Dumervil: We somehow doubt that you're going to make it back in time for that 2:30 p.m. political science class.
• 3 p.m. Pro Football Weekly: Hey, where can a guy find a little action in Riverwoods, Ill.?

10:24 AM on Tue Sep 20 2005
By Leitch
71 views