For the past couple of nights during the Comcast broadcast of the Phillies game, the guys in the booth have been utterly fascinated with the almost full moon that has been in the sky like it doesn’t happen once a month or something. In the middle of last night’s game, while it’s still a 1-0 game in the 5th mind you, Tom McCarthy started to reminisce about the moon from the previous night when he dropped the BOMB on us that he thinks we could see the planet Jupiter through the lens of the HD CSN camera.

So while T-Mac was explaining that you can practically make out the moons around Jupiter, Sarge Matthews chimed in to let Tom know that, “those would be the rings.” Tom politely explained to Sarge that the planet with the rings is Saturn, and Sarge — who is obviously no Copernicus — told him that, “you can call the planet whatever one you want — I’m checking out the rings.”

It really is broadcasting at it’s finest. Cue the wolf howling sounds:

In Sarge’s defense, while you nerds were studying your Astrology Astronomy textbook, Sarge was probably putting in a few extra hours of BP and fielding practice getting ready for a successful 16 year career as a pro ball player. And honestly, would you rather know which planets have rings around it or be the MVP of the 1983 NLCS? Because you can’t have both!

You think it’s easy being the Sarge, don’t you? Well, you would be right!

Because when you work as hard as he does, with the color broadcasting duties and being a world-renown author as well as an ex-MLB superstar, you get treated to the finer things in life. Like limo rides to and from the games, special accommodations in only the finest hotels on the road, lavish steak dinners that would make royalty jealous, and when you’re standing on the Bud Light Rooftop Deck above Ashburn Alley waiting to go on-air for the pre-game show, you get fanned by producers so you’re not sweating for the camera.

Oh yeah, and you can spill beers with absolutely no repercussion.

To get a glimpse of behind-the-scenes Sarge, I’m gonna kindly ask if you’d JUMP.

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When the rain started to come down hard with Ryan Howard batting in the top of the sixth last night in D.C., the whipping winds caused the Phillies backdrop in the broadcast booth to come undone and fall on — who else? — Sarge Matthews. It sent his play-by-play partner Tom McCarthy into a laughing fit, and provided The Fightins dot com with yet another reason to feature the Sarge.

Honestly, if I ever decided to stop blogging here at The Fightins, I would probably just start an all-Sarge spinoff site. I can’t get enough of the guy.

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