A Day in the Life
Hi Everyone, I thought I'd give you a quick rundown of my day today here in Mesa. Of course, we didn't televise the Cubs-Royals game, but I was at the game. People often ask me what sort of preparation I do on game days and non-game days. Well, here goes...we'll title this "The Life of a Broadcaster."
First thing this morning, I got up (good way to start the day, don't you think?) and got on-line for about an hour...perused all the Chicago papers and skimmed the other baseball articles around the country. I then got cleaned up and headed to the ballpark around 10:00 and met up with Oneiri Fleita, the Cubs Director of Player Development, at Fitch Park where the Cubs minor league camp is taking place. Oneira showed me around the four diamonds and pointed out (and introduced me to) several of the Cubs minor league coaches/managers/instructors/prospects.
Then around 11:00 I headed over to HoHoKam and went into the Cubs clubhouse to say hi to everyone and talk to some people and get up to speed on the day's news in camp. I then had lunch with Ryan Lefebvre and Denny Matthews of the Kansas City Royals radio crew before heading up to the pressbox to watch the game. During the game, I also looked through some of the new media guides the Cubs media relations staff had recently gotten from other teams.
In the 8th inning, I joined the Royals radio crew and chatted with them on the air until the end of the game, a Cubs 6-1 win. I then fought traffic and headed back to the hotel. Went out, had a nice dinner at a local Mexican restaurant, came back and typed up this email. Now, I'm gonna do a little more media guide work and then call it a night.
Go Cubbies...
Len