LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The rain fell harder, delaying a fake baseball game in a make-believe town, and there was nothing else to do on the Phillies' radio broadcast but open the phone lines.
A barefoot Scott Franzke fiddled with a baseball, always stowed in his backpack for emergency joke purposes. Larry Andersen, who dipped into a red plastic cup, scanned ominous weather radar images on his iPad.
The diehards listening back home on WIP were rewarded. A rare direct line to Franzke and LA. Up next, Dave from Downingtown.
"How you doing, guys?" Dave said.