The Post’s TV/Radio columnist since 1982, Phil Mushnick joined the newspaper in 1973. He’s covered the Nets, Rangers and New York Cosmos.
Show of hands: How many would like to be at a ballgame seated beside a fellow (or between fellows) who kept leaning toward you, giving you his take on almost every pitch and swing? How many of you turn on a...
July 26, 2010 12:00 AM
How IS it, Jethro, that TV folk figure we don't notice what we can't miss? Part I: Most everywhere you turn, lately, someone's lecturing on how big league umpiring is worse than ever, a disgrace, an outrage. Oh,...
July 25, 2010 12:00 AMIf there's not enough time or space to remember Ralph Houk as the fellow who managed the Yankees to three straight pennants (1961-63) and two World Series wins ('61 and '62), couldn't we at least recall him as Lt. Houk...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AMThis Somewhat Great Moment In Sportscasting is brought to you by Paul Evans, who works the visitors' TV booth in D.C. and Baltimore, supplying stats and info. Tuesday night in Baltimore he worked the Rays' booth. In...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AM
This was one of those Say vs. See television weekends. That's not good. Say shouldn't even be in the same ring as See. Friday on Channel 9's Yankee telecast, Rays' right fielder Gabe Kapler made a leaping catch...
July 19, 2010 12:00 AMSo you're a New York sports columnist. You've covered George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Yankees, in some capacity, for nearly 30 years. You didn't like him on a personal or professional basis. You tried, but he...
July 18, 2010 12:00 AMIn a stretch, this week, and even in the wake of ESPN’s production of “LeBron au Follies,” one reasonably could conclude — again — that ESPN has become a put-on, a mockery of itself. Item One: If yesterday, during ESPN...
July 16, 2010 2:14 AM
You want floral-patterned platitudes about George Steinbrenner? Then turn the page, now. But if you want my version of the truth -- and that's all I've got -- then here goes: He made it very tough. To see...
July 15, 2010 12:00 AM
After Ed Sullivan's, whose voice was more imitated, and over more years, than Bob Sheppard's? Just as nearly everyone could do a reasonably good Sullivan, everyone could do a pretty good Sheppard. Danny Cater played...
July 12, 2010 12:00 AM
As sports fans, New Yorkers aren't nearly as sophisticated as we're told we are, are we? When a big free agent chooses to play in New York, it's a good thing, right? Whatta guy! We love him! Rah, rah and rah....
July 11, 2010 12:00 AMSo, what'd you expect from ESPN? A classy, dignified pregame to last night's "Decision" by LeBron James? The preface was everything ESPN does to everything, and that ain't good. "We're all on the edge of our seats,...
July 09, 2010 12:00 AMIf this weren't true, it would be funny. The following is from an ESPN press release, yesterday afternoon: "One of the most anticipated decisions in the sports world -- where NBA superstar free agent LeBron James...
July 08, 2010 12:00 AMIt has become clear that no 21st-century baseball telecast can be considered complete unless it contains several episodes during which a play is inspected, dissected, disrobed, examined, super slow-motioned, autopsied,...
July 06, 2010 12:00 AM
What's the matter with me? Why can't I get with the program? Why can't I fall in line and follow instructions, orders? Why, despite all the excitement attached to the LeBron James sweepstakes, does it seem the best...
July 04, 2010 12:00 AMOn Chicago's WGN, Saturday, the Cubs were losing to the White Sox when a shot appeared of a man in the Cubs' broadcast booth. All we could see, though, was a great head of hair; the man's face was hidden behind a TV...
July 02, 2010 12:00 AM
How is it that the country's most famous baseball team, playing in the country's largest city, presents the world's worst radio broadcasts? How? Hard work and preparation, that's how. Branch Rickey left us with...
June 28, 2010 12:00 AM
New-age baseball broadcasters too often beckon us to travel with them on fantastic, blind-faith-based journeys. Tim McCarver, Joe Morgan, Rick Sutcliffe and Joe Buck, among others, regularly suggest there's no...
June 27, 2010 12:00 AMThere is almost nothing that ESPN owns, rents or even touches that it doesn't attach to systemic absurdity. It's ESPN's way of saying, "Makes no difference if you tuned in to watch the event we've been promoting for...
June 25, 2010 12:00 AM
I suspect we won't be seeing USGA executive director David Fay for a while. By now he probably has ditched his bow-tie and blazer, and, as Jimi Hendrix sang, he's "goin' down south, way down to Mexico way." Or perhaps...
June 21, 2010 12:00 AM
Now that the Jim Joyce-driven We-Want-Replay! Knee-Jerk Chorus has taken a break — and it's not as if there isn't another episode just around the corner — reader Yank Poleyeff has a few questions for the quick-fixers,...
June 20, 2010 12:00 AM“The bells! The bells made me deaf!” — Quasimodo HEAR that? It’s not just here. It’s here, there and everywhere. The dictates of modern sports have determined that nothing can be what it is; it must be something else,...
June 18, 2010 4:28 AMScott Clark, Ch. 7's sports anchor the last 25 years, is leaving the station, Jan. 11. Clark, 57, replaced Cory McPherrin in 1985 and has been a regular and popular voice and face within Eyewitness News since. At a...
June 18, 2010 12:00 AM
Department of Tangled Webs: A common sin among radio hosts is the lifting of info and thought from newspapers, content spoken as original info and thought. Print folks would be fired for what some radio folks do daily....
June 07, 2010 12:00 AM
Nobody asked me, but . . . my Guide to the U.S. Team's Success in this World Cup: Think of the teams' skill levels in terms of A, B and C. The U.S. should be rated a B, even a B-plus. The best skilled teams,...
June 06, 2010 12:00 AMReady, fire, aim! Expanded use of replay in Major League Baseball? Be careful for what you wish, grasshopper. Knee-jerk responses cause us to look down, not beyond. Knee-jerk reactions eliminate foresight, make us...
June 04, 2010 12:00 AM
There is no practice drill, no instruction manual to consult. When Alex Rodriguez's line drive nailed Cleveland pitcher David Huff in the head Saturday, YES's director, John Moore, had to direct; YES's producer, Bill...
June 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Mike Francesa always de livers, never disap points. He always -- and I mean, always delivers on listeners' conditioned expectations to hear him expose himself as a big-time big-timer with nothing to support his...
May 30, 2010 12:00 AMThis weekend, even if only for a minute, let’s try to remember a man most of us never heard of. This weekend, let’s think of Jack Lummus. A star athlete at Baylor, Lummus might have made a living — and a name to...
May 28, 2010 4:16 AM
It must be our fault. After all, what do we know about television? All we know is that for a week YES and SNY begged us to watch Friday’s Yankees-Mets game, starting with extra special, extra long, extraordinary...
May 24, 2010 3:37 AM
Wednesday night on YES, Michael Kay and Ken Singleton got all over Rays' shortstop Jason Bartlett for trying to bunt his way on. At the time, the Rays led, 7-2, top of the eighth, man on second, none out. Kay and...
May 23, 2010 12:00 AM
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