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  • Announcing ‘Outside’ Your Comfort Zone

    Announcing ‘Outside’ Your Comfort Zone0

    Welcome to the world of sports announcing, where hockey is played indoors, football outdoors, and the announcer resides comfortably in a pressbox out of the elements, or courtside in a nice comfy chair. But what happens when that isn’t the case.  In almost 25 years of sports announcing, I’ve announced in some pretty interesting places,

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  • What Is A Homer?

    What Is A Homer?0

    Recently, there have been posts online about “being a homer”, but is there a true definition of being a homer? We’re not talking about a four-base hit in baseball, nor the patriarch of The Simpsons, neigh the author of “Iliad” and “Odyssey”.  A search of dictionary.com finds nothing until you get to the slang definitions

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  • Rosters, Help Us Please2

    How many times have you received a roster, only to find that it’s in alphabetical order by first name, alphabetical order by last name, or in just some random order?  Annoying, isn’t it? Yes, I won’t lie.  In all the years I’ve been announcing, that’s one of my biggest pet peeves.  Below, I’m recapping some

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  • Rosters, Please Help Us

    Rosters, Please Help Us0

    How many times have you received a roster, only to find that it’s in alphabetical order by first name, alphabetical order by last name, or in just some random order?  Annoying, isn’t it? Yes, I won’t lie.  In all the years I’ve been announcing, that’s one of my biggest pet peeves.  Below, I’m recapping some

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  • Father’s Day in August

    Father’s Day in August0

    Every announcer has that name that they’ve looked forward to announcing for one reason or another.  I’ve announced for Cal Ripken and Brooks Robinson.  Ripken was coaching a game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards that I was announcing, and until earlier this summer, was the highlight of my announcing career. In June, my son,

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  • Playing Music For The Visiting Team

    Playing Music For The Visiting Team0

    This post was originally part of the original SportsAnnouncing.com blog in 2011.  It’s long, yes, but pretty interesting.  I’ve made some minor modifications to the story, but all-in-all, contains quite a bit of interesting information. Recently, ESPN ran a story about the history of walk-up music.  It contained some pretty cool information and posted the

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