Dallas-born Scott Franzke is living his dream as radio voice of the World Series-bound Philadelphia Phillies
Read the article for the "origin story". Again, it's like radiation and superheroes. But, if you're too lazy to click on that here is the takeaway part.
In 2006, he already had been offered a Triple-A job in Albuquerque and was about to interview with Triple-A Pawtucket when the Phillies offered him pregame and postgame work and a precious two innings of radio play-by-play.Good luck to Scott and the Phillies.
How did that work out? In 2007, Franzke was bumped to six innings. In 2008, when the Phillies won the World Series, beating the Tampa Bay Rays, he was up to eight innings. It was Franzke's honor to hand over the other inning to Hall of Fame Phillies voice Harry Kalas coming over from television.
As you probably know, Kalas, who had become "a grandfather figure," died in the broadcast booth just before a Phillies game at the Washington Nationals in April. Philadelphia mourned the death of an icon. Franzke worked every inning of every game for the Phillies this season. After all, who could replace Kalas?
Soon after the Phillies beat the Dodgers on Wednesday night to earn another trip to the World Series, Franzke and his wife, Lori, whom he met at SMU, watched the celebration from the radio booth.
"Do you realize how lucky you are?" Lori asked her husband.
He just nodded his head.
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