Podcast - Disco Demo Davey Phillips (Part 2)

We continue our interview with longtime AL umpire Dave Phillips, picking up with the infamous Disco Demolition Night in Chicago as Davey delights us with more tales of his 31-year, 3,933-game career in the major leagues.

In Part 2 of the show, we start with the forfeited game known as Disco Demolition Night and continue with the resumption-of-play for George Brett's pine tar game in New York, with Joe Niekro's emory board ejection and a massive brawl between Oakland and and Milwaukee thrown in as well.

Click the below play (▶) button to listen to "Episode 18 - Disco Demo Davey Phillips (Part 2)" or visit the show online at https://anchor.fm/the-plate-meeting. The Plate Meeting is also available on iTunes (Apple Podcasts), Google, Castbox, RadioPublic, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, and several other podcast apps.

Podcast - Dave Phillips (Part 1)

At long last, our Plate Meeting Podcast with Dave Phillips is here! Davey's three decades in the American and Major League Baseball spanning 3,933 regular season games, three ALDS, six ALCS, and four World Series (83 ejections) is the lore of all things umpire, and a master storyteller behind the mic.

This St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame inductee presided over some strange sequences, including Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park (inspiration for his book title, Center Field on Fire), the continuation of Royals vs Yankees following Kansas City's successful protest of the George Brett pine tar incident, and the confiscation of Albert Belle's corked bat (and theft of the bat from the umpires' locker room by Cleveland pitcher Jason Grimsley) that ended with a criminal investigation run by a former FBI agent.

In Part 1 of our interview with Davey, we talk about his journey to the big leagues and he recounts tales about his experience and working with storied umpires he worked with along the way.

Click the below play (▶) button to listen to "Episode 16 - Dave Phillips (Part 1)" or visit the show online at https://anchor.fm/the-plate-meeting. The Plate Meeting is also available on iTunes (Apple Podcasts), Google, Castbox, RadioPublic, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, and several other podcast apps.

Alternate Link: Episode 16 - Dave Phillips (Part 1).

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Plate Meeting Podcast - Call for ?s - Dave Phillips

The Plate Meeting, a LF Umpire Podcast from CloseCallSports.com announces its next guest, 31-year American and Major League Baseball umpire Dave Phillips, who called three Division Series, six League Championship Series, and four World Series before retiring from MLB in 2002.

Dave concluded his career with 83 ejections, from his first, Reggie Jackson on May 29, 1971, to Larry Rothschild in 1999, including an A's-Brewers brawl on August 24, 1993, started in part because Tony LaRussa wouldn't stop arguing balls and strikes.

Ask Dave your questions here and stay tuned for the show at the end of the month!

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