I though the Maloff boys had legal claim on the Anaheim Royals.

Ha, ha!

The Angels post-game guys were finding far too many ways of getting Hudler on the air. Problems solved! This has been a great off-season for the Angels, on and off the field.

Screw you, Dan Glass.

I predict that by May, Poochie Rex Hudler will have to return to his home planet.

Does the punishment ever end for you poor guys?

Steve Physioc

I thought this was some strange reference to Steve "Psyco" Lyons.

Does the punishment ever end for you poor guys?

I should have known building that golden calf was going to lead to trouble...

Brilliant job by the Royals, really. This is sure to bump attendance up over the three million mark.

Brilliant job by the Royals, really. This is sure to bump attendance up over the three million mark.

The Yankees should take a cue from this, switch Sterling to TV and the YES men to radio, and they would have sellouts for at least the next five years. Of course, their TV ratings would plummet, but...

The Royals hired the two guys who think Yuniesky Betancourt is a good player.

I moved to LA from Kansas in '99 and always thought Physioc and Hudler were a good team for the Angels in the early aughts. 100% homers, for sure, but most local broadcast crews are.

As long as Denny is still on the radio, I'm happy.

FWIW, the Angels won the world series four years after Hudler came on board as an analyst. Does this mean the Royals are now targeting 2015?

Wow, not just Hudler but the guy who brings out the worst in Hudler. What a disaster.

always thought Physioc and Hudler were a good team for the Angels in the early aughts.

Um, no.

Living in Pac-12 country, I put up with a lot of Physioc on college football and basketball even if I don't get to see the Angels. He is a Stereotypical Announcer Guy who utters $10 words in place of 10-cent words, 100-word sentences in place of 10-worders, and cliched descriptions of everyone in the game. As mentioned earlier, he encourages his analysts the wrong way (Hud) or ignores them entirely (say whatever, Marques Johnson).

I know big-time Royals fan Bill James sticks up for Denny Matthews, but that must have been in the past. I can't stand Matthews on the radio now. You never know what's going on, and his monotone is the same whether a guy hits a home run or grounds into a GIDP. No fun. He isn't even a good homer announcer. The younger generation (Masur, Provus, Flemming) seem to be more my style.

Matthews does seem to have lost interest at times, but in his defense, anybody would have lost interest in the Royals by now. I listened to him most every day in 1996 and 97, and he wasn't the most excitable guy then, either; that's just not his style. And he's not at all a homer. What he is is intelligent and inclined to give a detailed, if idiosyncratic, description of the action. He's one of my favorites.

As for the younger generation, Flemming is excellent. The others seem to have been hired mainly for being indistinguishable from each other and unobjectionable at the cost of being uninteresting (I'll grant that they are unobjectionable). Nobody would hire a Skip Caray, Bill King, or Denny Matthews these days--they're too individual and therefore too potentially divisive. This avoidance of all possible controversy has come at a loss to the game.

On the plus side it appears there will be less Bob Davis, the 2/3rds of Royals fans that hate him because he is a KU puke will be happy. The other 1/3 will also be happy, because he is awful.

FSKC

Very similar to what Royals fans will be saying as they listen to this new team.

And people say there aren't cheerleaders in baseball.