Minor League Stories

Playing Music For The Visiting Team 0
- Announcing, Minor League Stories
- September 7, 2015
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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Think of the Fans First 0
- Game Production, Minor League Stories
- June 8, 2015
We work in an industry in which it’s easy to forget why we’re there, for the fans. Not the players, not the officials, not the coaches, but for the fans. The players are getting to play the game, the coaches are coaching the players, and the officials are participating by making sure the game goes
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Taking Care of “My Guys”0
- Announcing, Minor League Stories
- June 1, 2015
In nine years of Minor League Baseball, between all the leagues I worked in, I always kept one thing constant. I always took care of the players who used to play for my teams, by playing their walk-up music when they came in as a visiting player. Sometimes, I had to get creative, others it
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16 Hours A Day, A Couple of Tarp Pulls and All The Soda You Can Drink 0
- Minor League Stories
- April 16, 2015
Such is life in Minor League Baseball. The one constant that I had at the various levels of Minor League Baseball was the pay was bad and the food, blah at best, was always limited. And when it rained, you had to drop everything to pull the tarp to try to save the game. Oh
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Minor League Stories: Expanding Beyond Baseball 0
- Minor League Stories
- November 7, 2014
Throughout my nine years in Minor League Baseball, there were always a few things that were the same. My car was always full of random stuff, my apartments were barely lived in, I worked long hours, and I always found something else to announce in addition to the team I was working for. It started
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Minor League Stories: Let Them Be Royals 0
- Minor League Stories
- October 16, 2014
Yesterday, the Kansas City Royals won the American League pennant for the first time in 29 years and advanced to the World Series by sweeping the Baltimore Orioles. It’s not the first time a Royals team has beaten an Orioles team to advance to a championship though. The series though was filled with a lot
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