Is there anything better about a local team going to the World Series than local news guys interviewing fans in a bar before and after the game? Absolutely not. Last night on Comcast SportsNet, Art Fennell had my favorite interview, first interviewing a guy about his lucky Phillies shirt (”Hey, keep wearing that shirt and your lucky hat”), following that up with a borderline-nonsensical statement (”You don’t often get an encore performance in a sports bar”) and finishing up with a weird comment about Cliff Lee (”He’s already given you blood”) that elicits the only possible response (”More blood!”). The “More blood!” guy was our expert of the night, because he knew the game would be up to Cliff Lee and Chase Utley or whatever. There was also a dude in the background twirling a rally towel and somebody chanting, “Two more wins!”
The way I see it, interviewing fans postgame is about the silliest, most pointless part of any station’s coverage, so it might as well be done as a sort of surrealist theater, where people use empty phrases to cheer on the Phillies. Good job, Comcast SportsNet and Art Fennell. You’ve elevated sports bar interviews to an art form.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 am
dmac straight KILLING it this morning. I’m still recovering from last night, what a fucking game.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 am
I also liked how Fennell said, “We haven’t edited this!” It’d be awesome if they had on a fan pretending he had predicted Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels would be important to Game 5.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 am
CSN have been picking the weakest bars to go to for WS games.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 am
Never in my life did I ever expect to see the phrase “surrealist theater” on The Fightins. Way to go, McQuade.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 am
I most appreciated the man in clown makeup sitting the corner, slamming his head on the table and sporadically yelling “Godot!” and then drinking pea soup with a straw.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 am
@DD’s brain
Agreed. The 3 Monkees? That jukebox is busted and the owners play either jazz or Springsteen.
Weak.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Strange how buoyed I feel in light of last night’s Phillies Phueled debauchery. I mean, at one point, I exclaimed to the barmaid, “Gimme the handcuffs!” Irish Handcuffs that is….anyone familiar?
No?
Well, it’s a pint of beer in one hand and a whiskey in the other.
She obliged a few times yet here I stand today…must be the adrenaline.
Go, Fightin’s.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Is Three Monkees the one across from the Torresdale train station? Maybe SportsNet is forced to take SEPTA due to cutbacks and wanted to have access to a Regional Rail stop just in case of a “surprise strike.”
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I can’t help but think of Devito in its alway sunny quoting rambo.
“They drew first blood!”
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I love the guy’s reaction to the awkward “lucky hat” comment.. just looking at the camera and backing away confusedly
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 pm
MORE BLOOD!
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Nostradamus wears a Trent Cole home alternate.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:32 am
@DMac- yeah that’s the place. Not a bad spot for an NE bar
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:36 am
@Animal and D-Mac
It wouldn’t be a bad place if the owners would allow the patrons to choose the music they want to listen to. Every time I go in there, the jukebox is “broken.”
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 am
i threw up twice during the ninth inning
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Post Game Live from Knights (Fights?) Tavern on Wednesday night… in the GREAT Northeast!
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I’ve been to Barnaby’s in Havertown before, and I can say, Arthur Fennell was standing in the most annoying sport to be standing. Well, that is when there’s people there. That place looked like it emptied out quick.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
i was thinking the same thing last night:
woah, this guy really went out on a limb. cliff lee is the key to game 5. wheeler jr?
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
They should do post/pre game live at Morrell Tavern. You always come out smelling like roses after a night of drinking in that bar
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I lived in the Northeast my whole life and I’ve only been in the Morrell once…..for like 5 minutes. didn’t they have a strippeer pole in the middle of the bar?
“Coming to you live from BEEFSEEKERS, it’s Art Fennell, yelling at you like Steven A.!!!”