There's got to have been a reason(s) why Phil didn't get one of the choice radio/TV gigs when the Nats first came to town. I mean, as bad as his air presence was/is, he was "Mr. Baseball" for a baseball-less DC for decades. He had to be wondering to himself, what happened?
Phil just mentioned on Nats' Talk that he had the Channel 5 sports job lined up in the early '80s but turned it down. He recommended Al Koken for the job. The rest is history.
