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It’s been 50 days since I started working for The Score. Just toady Mitch Rosen, the program director, asked me to start a blog about just what it is I do on a daily basis. Not wanting to make it look like I do nothing, I said, “sure.”
I’ll try and boil down the last fifty days into some highlights. Some are funny, some are boring and all are pretty awesome when you consider that just fifty-one days ago, I was on my couch wishing I had a job like this.
Bad Baseball:
I spent the first three weeks or so watching bad baseball. By now, Chicagoans have come to accept that no mater who you root for, Sox or Cubs, this summer was ugly. I saw close to fifteen games on the north side—where the disappointment was tangible—and about twenty games on the south side—where the disappointment had already been received like a dinner guest.
Being in both clubhouses for the first time was fairly cool. A few notes on those in case you haven’t been: The Sox’ clubhouse is nice. The Cubs’ is not. Notes over.
So, while I was watching all this baseball, my responsibility was to go down to the clubhouse after the game and interview players. It only took me a week and a half to get over the nerves to ask Milton Bradley a question and then a few days after that I finally asked one. Well, not really… but close.
The Olympics:
When Mitch calls you answer. Even at 7:30 in the morning… especially at 7:30 in the morning.
This happened a week or so ago. The call came in at 7:30 am. I wasn’t even close to awake. I think I walked over to my phone the first time thinking it was the alarm and just shut it off. Finally, I picked up the phone (four calls later). Mitch needed me to drive over to the Shertaon Hotel to roll on (that’s what guys in the biz call record) a press event being held by Mayor Daley and the 2016 Olympic bid. There were there on a Tuesday morning to talk about losing the bid.
A few details. I needed to be there by 8. I could not miss the main speaker. I am 45 minutes by El from the Sheraton.
I decided to take the car and risk Lakeshore Drive. Frankly, it’s a miracle no one was killed.
The Mighty Blackhawks:
They’ve taken up most of my time lately. I covered all of training camp and have only missed one home game. It was the 6-5 comeback win against Calgary. Yes, I’m upset.
It’s real easy to see the change happening around that team from a media perspective. Middle of the week, no games it’s mostly just the beat reporters from newspapers. Day before or after games—everyone who can wrangle a credential is there jockeying for microphone position while talking to Cristobal Huet. My hope, and the Blackhawk’s I’m sure, is that by the middle of the season, they’ll be the sports story in Chicago.
It’s been a blast so far. Next blog—Chicago Marathon.
Helluva way to make a first Impression. One line in, and he's already calling the boss just toady
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That's my big stink with what's NOT going on...If I even took part in a contest like this, I'd try my best to be on the air as often as possible, regardless who's calling the shots. Maybe I'm making more out of this than I should, but Connor was supposed to start in September since winning the "SCORE Search". If I were calling the shots instead of Drew Hayes at 670 AM, Connor would be getting steady work, especially at night doing updates during Laurence Holmes' nighttime and/or Les Grobstein's latenight show, plus give David Schuster an occasional breather at the arena or stadium reporting on the games around town.
