I've recently taken an internship with a pre-game radio show for the Oakland Athletics. I work with a guy named Marty Lurie, who broadcasts before every game on 1550AM out of Oakland. There is a pre-game show that is done by the same guys who do the play-by-play, and this is the show that is directly before that.
I wanted to convey the crazy amounts of knowledge that these guys know about the game of baseball. Not only are they on the up and up with their team, they know every player, where they've played, big stories about them, and have their own opinions about how their career will pan out in the big leagues. My hat really goes off to these guys because they clearly know more about the sport then I do.
The amount of preparation that goes into each game is just plain dirty. Besides reading the sports page from every team's home city in the major leagues, these guys look at countless stat sheets, read the media guide and pick anything they can up from the stuff that they read. It's completely fair to say that MOST broadcasters know exactly what they are talking about. I'm reading everything I can get my hands on just so I don't look like a fool in the press box. So my posts are becoming less consistent, but you know what I'm doing now. Besides the text books I have to read and stories to shoot, edit and write, I'm reading an insane amount.
2 comments:
Reading is a good thing. I would post about all the stuff I learn from my human anatomy and physiology texts but that's not half as entertaining as the stuff you get to study. See you at the game tonight bro
Congrats on the internship... sounds awesome!
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