I voted Other. Sal is his lover.
I like the way you think. Totally should've been an option, it'd have garnered my vote.
You know what, you know, I think I know, though? I think Sal
is Phil. I think each Friday night Phil spends hours writing down dialogue, then recording himself as Sal. He replays the recording a thousand times over, making sure to seem to interact with "Sal" as seamlessly as possible. Then Saturday morning comes and Phil fires that baby up and hits play.
Back to reality though, I admittedly haven't played close attention to any of this Sal nonsense beyond occasionally popping my head in this thread and offering my mocking condescension. But it just doesn't seem to add up - nobody is familiar with him? As obsessed with local sports/baseball as this guy clearly is, I'd have expected he'd have been on these forums at this point. But fine, even if he is a tech averse old fogey, I'd expect he'd be familiar to folks at autograph sessions, NatsFest or whatever - even just stalking Phil around the depths of Nats Park during home games. Nobody on here is overly familiar with Sal personally, even merely casually? Is this guy literally only popping up around Phil, or is he at least a presence on other call in shows and whatnot?
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