In sports, in broadcasting, in politics, there is no accepting about it.
When anyone leaves a aggregation or a berth or an office, we acquire to speculate. Who comes next? Who will be the next centermost fielder? The next anchor? The next senator?
The next articulation of the Angels?
Rory Markas, a man of attenuate humor, adorable accent
and accustomed professionalism, died al of a sudden and accidentally Monday night.
He had suffered a academician aneurysm in November 2008, recovered, advertisement an absolute Angels division in 2009, was able-bodied into this USC basketball division and was accepting accessible to be the full-time, approved television annual man for the Angels in 2010.
In November, the Angels and FS West concluded their relationships with Steve Physioc and Rex Hudler. What had been a collection on TV and radio of Angels choir -- Markas, Terry Smith, Mark Gubicza, Jose Mota, Physioc and Hudler -- was added clarified.
Markas and Gubicza would be the television team; Smith and Mota the radio team; Physioc and Hudler bare new teams.
And so there's that question. It's angrily sad to ask so anon and yet it's getting asked. Who succeeds Markas?
Can it be Physioc? It can't be Hudler, even as abundant as Angels admirers would like that. Hudler doesn't do play-by-play.
Hudler was affecting in speaking about Markas on Tuesday afternoon. His tears chock-full his articulation and he had no faculty of what the approaching will accompany for Angels television. "My acquaintance is gone, a acceptable activity has ended," he said. "But for me, I've confused on from the Angels. I anticipate I've had to."
Pam Zirbel of Corona, who met her husband, Jeff, because both had division tickets in the aforementioned Angels section, said she admired Hudler could appear back, knew he couldn't and would be annoyed to apprehend Physioc's articulation on the advertisement again.
"I'd adulation to acquire Rory back," Zirbel said. "I'd be blessed if Steve came back. A accustomed articulation in this bearings would be good."
An Angels anchorperson has to acquire some things. You're the No. 2 aggregation in the big market. Vin Scully is a legend. You are not. You ability be good, your admirers may adulation you but you aren't Vin Scully. Can't be.
Dick Enberg understands.
He acclimated to be an Angels broadcaster. He went adjoin Scully, he and Don Drysdale. "We approved to double-team him," Enberg said. "We both had a button to accomplish ourselves live. We anticipation two active were bigger than one adjoin Vin."
Enberg didn't apperceive Markas able-bodied but he understands the Angels market. "You acquire actual loyal admirers and your articulation is important," Enberg said. "Don't belittle the acquaintance of the articulation to your fans. Baseball admirers are so loyal."
Enberg loves his baseball. He afresh appear a acknowledgment to the game, as an anchorperson for the San Diego Padres. "The Angels didn't call," Enberg said if asked if he ability acquire alternate to his baseball roots.
But would the Angels and FS West wish to grab the accustomed and accompany aback Physioc? Or is it too awe-inspiring to rehire a man so afresh accounted expendable?
"I'll do what anybody wants me to do," Physioc said Tuesday. "I'm just affectionate of aloof appropriate now. Rory was a dear, baby friend, that's No. 1."
Certainly, Physioc didn't bake any bridges. If his abortion was appear endure fall, Physioc thanked the Angels and buyer Arte Moreno. He batten of his adulation for baseball, of the actuality he would move anywhere, go any abode to do added baseball. And thanked the Angels again.
Clippers anchorperson Ralph Lawler, who formed for three years with Markas and who said that Markas' wit and versatility were "very abundant underappreciated alfresco of Southern California," said it seemed as if Markas was just advancing into his own as he was about to activate of a full-time television presence. He aswell said that it would be actual abnormal for a aggregation or arrangement to accompany aback a man so afresh kicked to the curb.
If Physioc wasn't account befitting on lath in November, what would be the point of calling him aback now? If he was advised fifth-best endure fall, would that plan now?
Probably not. It could but that's not how things plan in sports or television or politics. It's about aggravating to acquisition the next new thing. Not rediscovering what you already had.