This summer, I’ve had the privilege of working with a former Major League Broadcaster. He called games for one team for more than thirty years. The only thing that prevented him from staying in the bigs longer was the relocation of his team. Fast forward a few years, travel a few hours from Le Stade
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From Minor League Baseball to Major Fun: Part 6
For the record: I made an executive decision and declared the second New Britain/Portland match-up as part 5 of this series on my blog. I hope you don’t mind. It may not have been a home-and-home trip, but I changed ballparks one day this past weekend. After Friday’s trip up to Maine, I spent Saturday
From Minor League Baseball to Major Fun Part 3.5 (Or is it Part 5? Who knows.)
I guess there was a subconscious reason for the labeling of my last post. It may not have been the same date or the same order of ballparks visited, but I did happen to catch a Portland Sea Dogs game up at Hadlock Field on Friday night. Coincidentally, it was against the New Britain Rock
From Minor League Baseball to… Minor League Hockey: Part 8
I got a baseball job. What the heck does that have to do with minor league hockey? Quite a bit, actually. In fact, there’s no way I would have gotten this job if it weren’t for my hockey experience this season. Major props to Adam Kaufman (the Providence Bruins‘ Radio Broadcaster), who has been a
From Minor League Baseball to Broadcasting’s Wolf Pack
I recently had a vision for how the media family breaks down in minor league sports, and it reminded me of one of my favorite comedies: The Hangover. The way I see it, there are three main parts to media operations in sports: live in-house communication (like Public Address Announcing), live broadcasting communication (like radio,
From Minor League Baseball to… Minor League Hockey: Part 7
Sometimes, people need motivation to get stuff done. (That might be THE most obvious statement I’ve ever opened a blog post with.) How and where to get that motivation is usually the biggest challenge for those trying to be productive. Since people can have such different personalities and work styles, a method that pumps you
From Minor League Baseball to Hockey East
Despite the Boston University Terriers’ loss to the Boston College Eagles in the Beanpot Semifinals, it’s not all doom and gloom for me. (I got a blog post out of it. That has to be worth something, right?) If there was one good thing about the game that I saw on NESN, it was
From Minor League Baseball to Reading. No, Really
Some people say it’s overrated. Some people say it’s underrated. I say (and I’m not the first to) that reading is the gateway to a life’s worth of learning. Whether it’s because it helps you develop an interest in things or keeps you up-to-date in your industry, finding the right sources to read frequently can
From Minor League Baseball to… Minor League Baseball (and More)
Some people get a makeover to refresh themselves. Other people get a massage. Some go on vacations, while others prefer staycations. To reinvigorate my career, I did the professional (albeit less sexy) equivalent of those. I created another hub for my work, this time in the Sportscasters Talent Agency of America family. STAA is a
From Minor League Baseball to… Minor League Hockey: Part 2
Last night, I went to Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire for the first time in a year and a half. It’s a beautiful venue that seems brand new, but that’s beside the point. All that mattered to me was the previous games I experienced there, namely one of them. It was pretty cool
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