Phillies Pay Tribute to 'POOP' Scoreboard Before a Wild Win over Pirates

The MLB Finally Gave The “POOP Game” A Proper Memorial After NBC Went Away From The “POOP” Scorebug

Major League Baseball finally provided the proper send off to the “POOP Game” and “POOP” series. There’s an outside chance that you have no idea what I’m talking about when I say “POOP game.” Allow me to enlighten you. When I say “POOP Game,” or even “POOP Series,” I’m talking about the scoreboard imaging that used to appear on broadcasts of the baseball games between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies. Historically, when you w…

Phillies broadcast mourns loss of iconic ‘P 0-0 P’ scorebug

On this edition of the Central Sixty, Martine Gaillard shows you the Philadelphia Phillies saying goodbye to an iconic baseball meme, and Juan Soto getting a frosty reception in his return to the Bronx.

In Memoriam: NBC Sports Philadelphia Paid Proper Tribute to the POOP Game

With the advent of a new score bug in 2025, the Phillies vs. Pirates POOP game is no more. Tom McCarthy and NBC Sports Philadelphia thusly paid tribute to the late POOP game on Friday night: A touching pregame tribute on the @Phillies broadcast 🤣 pic.twitter.com/GVzoBLXmvF— MLB (@MLB) May 16, 2025 “Before we continue with this telecast, we have to address what is on everybody’s minds and hearts. July 29th, 2022, our beloved score bug first lit…

Phillies pay tribute to 'POOP' scoreboard before a wild win over Pirates

Bryce Harper reached 1,000 RBIs and was part of a wild seventh-inning rally on a night when the Phillies broadcast honored their "gone but never forgotten" scoreboard.

Tom McCarthy eulogized 'POOP' scorebug before Pirates-Phillies game

The NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast of Friday’s game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies started with Tom McCarthy paying tribute to a dearly departed friend, the POOP scorebug. From 2022-2024, the NBC Sports scorebug showed, from left to right, the visiting team’s logo, the visiting team’s score, the home team’s logo and the home team’s score. So, when the Philadelphia Phillies, whose games are covered on NBC Sports Phila…

Phillies release touching tribute honoring the infamous P00P games ahead of weekend series vs Pirates

Ahead of the 2025 MLB season, NBC Sports Philadelphia rolled out a new on-screen scoreboard (aka “score bug”) that immediately had Phillies fans questioning whether or not the new-look was a necessary update. Let’s just say reactions were mixed.The main point of criticism was obviously the death of P00P games and in a rare occurrence of self-awareness, Major League Baseball and the Phillies acknowledged the score bug update and the death of the …