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The Air Former Phillies hero John Kruk is back in town, no he didn’t rejoin Dave Hollins on the Phillies, but as part of the Fox Sports Net guy-fest the “Best Damn Sports Show Period” which made its Philadelphia debut Monday night on Comcast Sports Net. “BDSSP,” which began in July features Kruk, Tom Arnold, John Salley, D’Marco Farr, and host Chris Rose taking a humorous look at the sports news of the day. The former member of 1993’s “Macho Row,” who left his job as the hitting coach for the Reading Phillies for the show, is enjoying his gig with his new “Macho Row.” “I won’t go to any of his movies, but we are good friends and go out to dinner once a week,” quipped Kruk of Arnold, who in this setting is actually funny in contrast to his Hollywood endeavors. Kruk said that he was selected for the show, along with former NBA star Salley and former NFL star Farr because they were athletes who weren’t afraid to speak their minds. “There are some ex-players who are now announcers that act like they’ve never made a mistake. We don’t claim to be perfect.” Kruk, still keeps in touch with many of his teammates from the 1993 National League championship team including Darren Daulton, Lenny Dykstra, and even Mitch Williams. “We would have never gotten to the World Series if it wasn’t for Mitch. He saved 43 games for us that year. As Terry Mulholland said, if he (Mullholland) didn’t give up five runs in that final game, the Joe Carter home run wouldn’t have mattered.” Kruk and his wife who make their home in South Jersey when not taping the show in Los Angeles are expecting their first child in April. Though he loves doing the show, he isn’t exactly “Mr. Hollywood.” “I don’t like the Hollywood lifestyle. I’d love to someday work in some announcing capacity for the Phillies.” Fittingly, in his first night on the air here Monday night after the Kobe Bryant/All Star game flap, Kruk defended Philadelphia to the rest of the crew especially D’Marco Farr who said that any athlete who likes playing in Philadelphia is lying. “All athletes who don’t play here think the fans are brutal, but they are the best fans in sports,” said Kruk. “The Best Damn Sports Show Period” airs on CSN weeknights from 11 p.m – 1 a.m. Also for CSN, an additional daily sports cast called “SportsNite After Hours” follows at 1 a.m. with rotating anchors. One person we know for sure who won’t be one of the anchors is Pete Christy whose contract wasn’t renewed. "I Want
My P-T-V"
The Phillies announced that 161 of their 162 games will be
televised this year, including seven nationally televised games on Fox
(if you want to see the Phillies play the Dodgers on August 11th,
you’ll have to fly out to L.A. since that is the only game not being
televised). Besides Fox, there will be 104 telecasts on Comcast
SportsNet, 45 on WPSG-UPN 57, and five on CN8. Additionally, the
Phillies have been selected by ESPN for potentially three Sunday night
telecasts "Vai's New Guys" NBC
10’s “Olympic Salute to Our Hometown Heroes” airs Saturday at 7:30
p.m. Vai Sikahema and Terry Ruggles host from Salt Lake City.
Larry Mendte handles things from Philly. “All
Star Game the Answer for NBC 10” Not surprisingly there was tremendous local interest for the “NBA All Star Game,” as it scored a 17.6 rating/27 share in the Nielsen overnight ratings. The other markets that were measured for the overnights had an average of 9.8 rating/17 share. Each rating point equals 28,010 homes. |