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Chapter 1: What insights does Brian Anderson provide about postseason broadcasting?
And we're seeing that right now as we storm through the division series. Phillies, Dodgers, where I was, just boots on the ground, Citizens Bank Park. Well, they had the day off. If you want to go check out that press conference, Rob Thompson, we got that up on the feed. But what was going on in Toronto, Toronto... Yeah, they beat the Yankees, but the story was our guy, Trey Yassavage.
Trey Yassavage, we said it. Adam Adovino said it on the podcast. He was going to be, of all these young pitchers, he was going to be the guy who we should keep an eye on. We should say that is going to be the guy. That is going to be the difference maker. Sure enough, he was. Five and a third, no hit, innings, 11 strikeouts, historic.
And obviously the Blue Jays put a whooping on the Yankees, up 2-0 now. So we love some good Trey Usavage talking. Again, that's another press conference that's up on the feed. John Snyder and Usavage talking about what happened up at Rogers Center, taking that 2-0 lead. Then you have Seattle. Seattle comes back, ties it. Big school bowl.
Whoever thought that could happen, they beat school bowl barely, barely 3-2. But Seattle evens up that series at 1-1. All right, so now we're heading into the Rubber Meets the Road time, which is basically every day in the postseason. But one of the things that fascinates me... when it comes to the postseason of many, many, many, many things are the broadcasters.
I love listening to all these broadcasters, these national broadcasters. I love how they morph from maybe doing local broadcast to doing national broadcast. I love hearing the guys as we sort of advance further and further and further, the elite step up and have these iconic calls. And there is nobody I love more in terms of listening to the broadcast of postseason baseball than
and Brian Anderson. Brian Anderson, friend of the podcast, been on a few different times, was just on earlier this season. He, of course, regularly does the Milwaukee Brewers, but now he's all in with Jeff Francoeur doing the Phillies Dodger Series. And Brian is not only a great guy, not only really insightful, not only offers all the things that we strive for here at the podcast, education,
insight, information, entertainment, all of it. He's just really, really good, man. Like he's just really, really good. And I always really love talking to him to get the what's what about different things when it comes to broadcasting, when it comes to teams. In this case, it's really insightful in terms of how he approaches these national broadcasts.
This is so good because you're going to be able to listen to this podcast and you're going to be able to listen to and watch these broadcasts in a completely different way. All right. App BB isn't boring. App BB isn't boring. Again, like I said, up and down the East Coast, all over the place, trying to make plans. Who knows what's going to happen going forward.
All I know is that we're going to keep cranking out the podcast. We already got a great slate. coming for you all week long. We had a great weekend. Go check out all the podcasts we put up this weekend in case you missed it.
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Chapter 2: How does Brian Anderson prepare for national broadcasts during the playoffs?
It's a great t-shirt.
It's a good company to get in and on. I was just talking to Tanner Banks, and he said the same thing. He was like, because he was with the White Sox, and I gave him a black and white. He was like, what? You have red and white?
Oh, yeah, I have red and white.
What color do you want?
Make it happen. No, I want all the colors. Okay, that's fair. How about a hoodie? Oh. No, I'm in on the t-shirt. Oh, you want a t-shirt. I feel like my hoodie game, because I live in Milwaukee. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So my hoodie game is pretty strong. Okay, all right. That's fair. I do like the t-shirts. Hat? Are you a hat guy? You know, I am. I got a bald spot, so I need a hat.
Oh, well, I have a whole head of bald. Hat.
um anyway uh so but sincerely we the conversation we had i don't know when it was a couple months ago it was people loved it man like i'm not just saying that like people loved it and it had nothing to do with me but i think the combination of you telling the stories about coming up as a broadcaster but also offering insight to the team that team the milwaukee brewers at that time with pat murphy and everything it was so good but i write about everything
Kind of, yeah. I mean, I think you were optimistic they were good. We'll have to go back and listen to the tape now. I mean, I did. You know, it's funny because since then, because I wanted to be educated about Pat Murphy. Like, I honestly did. And I was talking about, this is a name drop, but whatever. Driving into Yankee Stadium. This is a total name drop more than I think about it.
Driving into Yankee Stadium, I was talking to Dustin Pedroia for the entire ride. Oh, yeah, they're real tight. Yeah, and so Dustin was like, he's all fired up because he's in Hawaii, he just needs someone to talk to. But he was like, yeah. The Pat Murphy, Pedroia dynamic.
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Chapter 3: What unique challenges do broadcasters face during playoff games?
We gather as much information as we can. We have a lot of relationships. We know a lot of guys. And we spend these days, these practice days, workout days, talking to those individuals and try to get a vibe. Who's doing what? Right. I was just over asking how Trey Turner is, how Alec Boehm is feeling, what's the situation at second base.
You kind of know all the hot spots and what their news is, decisions that they're making, and then you just build off of that. And then we get our time with the players, we get our time with the manager. So I wouldn't need any of that if I was the brewers. If I was with the brewers, I wouldn't need that because I know all that stuff. Well, one of the things you said was vibes.
So you can go through and you're looking at all the numbers, all the stories, everything else. But the vibes are so important, right? Because when you're around the brewers, you know the vibes. Yes. And I would imagine the days leading up to a series like this is like the... talking to people.
Am I wrong? I mean, the vibes are... Yeah, no, that to me, and the analytics crowd may disagree, but I do like to catch a little bit of like... For a wild card series winning team, you know the vibes are good. They're going to come in here hot, feeling good. So for me, a little bit of the story is like, what did the Phillies do during that week? They sold tickets. They drew 31,000.
That's an amazing thing to have an actual game in the middle of this downtime. Now I want to find out, like, did it help or hurt? Did you feel like you were in a game? And so I'm talking to players and, you know, to a man, they're like, yeah, we had the juice. We had the feel of a game. They brought the PA announcer in, the music, the fans, the concession stands were open.
They put $31,000 in here, you know, and all the money goes to... Phillies Charities, which is great. So those are the kind of things you're trying to assemble, which will then, once the series starts, now you're into the baseball and the previous game. The first game is always kind of the hardest because you're doing more setup and introducing two teams to a national audience.
And that does get a little mundane for the local fan. So if you're a hardcore Dodgers fan, or a hardcore Phillies fan, you've been watching your teams all year, that first game always feels like, ah, I know all this stuff. But again, most of the audience is a national audience that hasn't been tapping in every day with the Phillies or the Dodgers. So I'm trying to give a little bit of that
Bigger picture, this is like the path they went on. So part of that is book work. Part of that is just communicating with players and coaches. Part of that is talking to Jeff Rancourt, my partner, and seeing kind of where he's at. And, you know, we do a lot of these games on the Tuesday package.
Yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 4: How do different crowds influence the broadcasting experience?
That was a Homer call. Again, had the Phillies won, maybe I would have said the high hopes or whatever. I don't know. It's like you're kind of, as the series starts, you're just trying to catch a vibe or a feel of what's taking off. I remember Jack Peterson had the Pearls. Yeah. And we did a whole bit on the Pearls. Bryson Stott, remember, his walk-up music.
We tried to lay out on his walk-up music. Last year in Cleveland, Tom Hamilton is going into the Hall of Fame. So we did a whole homage. We played Tom Hamilton's call of a Cleveland homer in a replay. And people were wondering, well, why don't you play John Sterling's call of a Yankees thing then? Again, it's like you're trying to catch the vibe of the moment.
And if there are some detractors, that's... part of it and we're good with that we're just going to do what we do yeah and to the enjoyment of many and to the displeasure of many no man it's to the enjoyment of me i don't care about anyone else thank you i really appreciate it good to be with you