I worked for the Pac-12, CBS, ESPN, YES Network. DEWAYNE STAATS. Are Angels Foreshadowing Gloomy Future for Baseball on Radio? The Rays lead 2-1. Sun and clouds mixed. He just doesnt get predictable, and that comes with experience. And while there's plenty to tell -- he worked with Hall of Fame announcers Gene Elston and Harry Caray and for George Steinbrenner, after all -- this formula is common enough in memoirs. Timely, daily updates provide the latest developments and news relied upon by industry leaders. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? What better to write about? Berman talks with SBJs Abe Madkour almost a year into her role as leader of the womens soccer league. This is now action time, a moment to really concentrate on the action. Our Cubs are the champs of 89. (Harry Caray and Staats), Improbably, the ballad workedtill that Octobers League Championship Series loss to the Giants. 1 draft pick Andy Benes. WebHe played as a professional baseball infielder both in Japan and United States for close to a decade. Bill Plaschke has been an L.A. Times columnist since 1996. Hit deep to left! I didnt hit anybody. Triumph. DM: During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s there was a popular trend for local baseball team broadcasters to often split up play-by-play between the start of the game, only to give their voice off to a colleague to call the middle innings of the game, and then switch back to the original broadcaster who began calling the game at the top of the broadcast at the start of the game. Listening was good practice for some day airing teams in Texas and Florida, with Midwest expatriates all around. Jefferson was a guest on The Old Man and the Three podcast with JJ Redick and Tommy Alter and he said right before he retired from the NBA, he was encouraged by Gerry Matalon, who was the senior coordinating producer in charge of talent at ESPN, to keep getting reps behind the microphone: I started doing tons of it. So its not anything really that different; almost everybody in the business is doing something like this now.. Today continues our look at radio/TV Voices of baseballs 10 post-season teams by Curt Smith, former Speechwriter for President George H.W. Boston, undefeated when leading after eight innings that season, lost in the ninth. Staats favorite, though, was Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the Cubs and Yankees, which is remembered for Babe Ruths alleged called shot homer off Chicago pitcher Charlie Root. 
Lets go., Staats: Again, sage advice from you. It never occurred to Jim that he could not compete with other athletes. Cohen, 30, has no steady major league experience, having announced minor league baseball for two seasons. And after trailing 7-0, the Rays came back to win in extra innings. So, you talk about that efficiency with his pace, he likes to get that offense back to work as quick as possible, Anderson says. 
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BLURB: Anxious at Augusta; Iowa's season ticket surge; Breaking down the markets for men's hoops viewership and Baltimore opens a 'new' arena. It was a cool thing to do those games. Playing organized youth baseball and particularly pick-up neighborhood games during my childhood, I think it was a frequent occurrence for many of us to have our own play-by-play running through our heads, especially when we reviewed in our heads what had just happened in the moment. We just said that he made a motion toward the dugout. Genes son, Kim Elston, thinks he may have a DVD with several radio broadcasts and will try to track it down during these long days that we all face without baseball on the air. So we didnt make it a dramatic thing (in the recreation). What sticks out to you in your memory of Abbott that gives you perspective on how hard some athletes have to work to overcome adversity in order to achieve their goals? Rays broadcasters continue to be a major reason many forego the Trop for warm and welcoming conversation on the air. There are a number of reasons to switch back and forthcross promoting, rights holders, egos, etc., but today with almost every game on television it seems logistics, if nothing else, tells us to separate television and radio. Dewayne has also handled play-by-play for FOX Sports national baseball coverage. Gene was a stickler for research, Staats said this week of his late mentor, who died in 2015, He anticipated a work stoppage, so he spent some time in the Major League Baseball archives researching some past games. I got to hear Staats on Cubs telecasts in the 1980s and was impressed then, and remain so. I was really scared my brain was going bad.. Watch the video above to hear what he had to say.. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. The 70-year-old has served as the teams television voice since its debut season in 1998. Unanswered prayers turned out to be blessings in disguise. I used to always read about stress, but never knew what it meant until now, Campbell said. There are many days on First Take or even on the podcast where Ill say something and Ill think about it. It was truly a gracious act. 
Advertisement. Lou Boudreau and Milo Hamilton were icons of my youth. Later, Staats relished joining them for dinner. 2023 Leaders Group. I had the easiest job in the world with Tony, said Dewayne Staats, Kubeks MSG partner. So he came up with the games and did the research. . 1 salary (more along the lines of $200,000) because he would be groomed to replace Coleman when Coleman retires. As the title implies, the memoir by veteran broadcaster Dewayne Staats is more than an autobiographical collection of baseball Meanwhile, Bally Sports Sun is "making some changes to its pre- and postgame crew." Up to that point, he had averaged about 17 and a half, 18 pitches an inning. The last pitch of the 2-1 game has some drama, and Staats captures it just right, with a little crescendo on to the TRACK! before Jennings hauls in the final out. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. Brennaman, who will turn 77 on July 28, is retiring after a 46-season, Hall of Fame radio career. From that mindset, he never saw himself as handicapped. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Take it home. Jim Abbott took it home all I did was ride the moment. Ironically, Harrys son Todd Kalas worked primarily with Staats as a pre-game, in game, and post-game reporter on the telecasts of Rays baseball from 19982016. The other minor league coaching change of note will occur in double-A Wichita, where the organizations top young pitching coach, Gary Lance, is being moved up from class A to work with, among others, national No. Heres mine. Streamers have been keen on landing the conferences games. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world Just send him sprawling. Register for this free event here. Doug Waechter will "return in the lead analyst role," while Orestes Destrade is "out after 11 seasons" (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 2/22). This is more bad news for the Pac-12 if Mandel is right. He is the author of five books, including a collection of his columns entitled, Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoil Sports, Foul Ball and Oddballs. Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, Around the Horn. For his community service, he has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and has received a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Womens Law Center. Today we profile Dewayne Staats, long-time TV Voice of the Tampa Bay Rays, who played in the American League Division Series, which began on Thursday, October 7th and ended four games later with the Red Sox knocking off the Floridians, advancing to the LCS. How did todays pitcher, Odorizzi, react? The capper of that point is lacking, as every pitcher would like to get his offense on the field as quickly as possible, but the substance is right there and now the viewer has a good idea of what to expect from the pitcher. I think I may have some of the play by plays in my garage. Josh Reddick vs. Kyle Tucker, the Astros' only lineup uncertainty, MLB teams pledge $30 million to aid ballpark workers, Heartbreaking story behind Aggies golfer's tattoo at The Masters, 'Alien deer' stirs social media. You didnt see anything. . Staats, who after his years in Houston worked in Chicago and is a longtime Tampa Bay Rays broadcaster, thinks that fans of a certain generation would enjoy recreated games during this current coronavirus-related work stoppage. Staats wanders off base a little bit by suggesting that Ortizs posing is embarrassing to himself, when really, hes a showman, but his point is more about Archer worrying about himself instead of how his opponent acts. Eye of newt and raven beak /presto, its a winning streak. Dewayne Staats is the great play-by-play announcer for the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays made up the largest September wild card deficit of any team in MLB history that year. Ashtabula, OH (44004) Today. Winters Wednesday phone call to Staats was the Padres first contact with him since Staats flew here and met with team officials last week. In case you were wondering and he was Plaschke is rhymed with Great Gatsby., Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Lakers guard trio carries bulk of offensive load in defeat of Suns, Letters to Sports: All hail the pitch clock for saving MLB games, Shaikin: Shohei Ohtanis star power transforms Angels into international tourist attraction, Mike Trouts 441-foot blast cant save Angels in home-opening loss to Toronto, See the rebirth of Californias phantom Tulare Lake in striking before-and-after images, Whos sending mystery Uber Eats orders to L.A. neighborhoods? Currently, he serves as the television play-by-play commentator for the Tampa Bay Rays. He says there are no retirement plans on the horizon. Im still going to do a pretty full load of stuff. The Padre offices--and Manager/General Manager Jack McKeons phones--will be locked up next week. A national game becomes a separate entity. 2 announcer spot, phoning to say they would love for the top young talent to join their team. He has said for years that he hasnt watched any major league baseball Despite the fact that the first inning goes by without a hit, Staats and Anderson have managed to get a lot of information across. Download it here. Their love of the game was foundational to building a play-by-play approach. . He pitched in two World Series. One of the elements I love about a baseball season is one day builds toward the next, with multiple storylines popping up all over the place. He worked hard to beat the odds as any other athlete must do and I felt privileged to include his no-hitter as one of my highlights. Greg knew that hitters would be fired up, waiting for the fastball," he recalled. You guys are great at it. pic.twitter.com/k64L1AYwuy. Staats maybe could stand to work in a bit more play-by-play, but hes made the choice to let Anderson expound on his points, which are layered, and he doesnt miss any important developments. What did you learn from him about using unique phrases and original dialogue to connect with fans? Or broadcast? By Paul Hagen. Id grown up with Jack Buck, Dewayne would say, years later seeing him when the Cardinals visited Houston. The more likely prospect, though is that MLB Network or other outlets would opt for more recent re-airs. Staats, who began his work as a professional broadcaster while still a student at tiny Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in the early 70s, was the play-by-play man for the Houston Astros from 1977 through 1984 before joining WGN and the Cubs. The veteran play-by-play announcer, who started during the teams 1998 inaugural season, will cut back his workload, missing 20-30 games. Rays television broadcaster Dewayne Staats plans to take off 20-30 games this season, mostly during road trips, in what sounds like a joint decision between him and Bally Sports bosses. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ] Washington (Carpenter/Santangelo, MASN). He jumps in to credit Jonathan Lucroy for a good block of a slider in the dirt to keep the tying run at third base, and to note that Lohse had previously retired Evan Longoria on a change-up, before a 3-2 pitch sails just out of the strike zone to load the bases. San Francisco has the worst announcers in the league. Already a subscriber? Without you, it could not have happened. The overflow crowed stilled. 49 print issues delivered to your home or office. Kubek`s new partner is former Cubs announcer DeWayne Staats, who left Chicago for a lucrative five-year deal with Madison Square Garden Network. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. 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Lets go., Staats: Again, sage advice from you. It never occurred to Jim that he could not compete with other athletes. Cohen, 30, has no steady major league experience, having announced minor league baseball for two seasons. And after trailing 7-0, the Rays came back to win in extra innings. So, you talk about that efficiency with his pace, he likes to get that offense back to work as quick as possible, Anderson says. 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Im not thinking about retiring, but sometimes they retire you.. Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. But Staats makes it clear that he believes faith, preparation and hard work are all traits that can improve almost anyone's circumstances in just about any field. In the restructuring, Orestes Destrade wont return to the broadcasts after 11 seasons with the club. I think everybody around the league is taking a holiday break, and thats fine, I will too, said McKeon, who hopes to re-open trade talks with teams in the first week in January. Games are regularly clocking in at 30 minutes shorter than in previous years because of the new pitch clock and an emphasis on pace. The preparation work was a bit different in that we generally covered different teams each week but we had more time to concentrate on that single mission. After Lohse escapes further damage, Anderson avoids the trap of calling for a shutdown inning by Odorizzi, though he does stress the importance of the top of the seventh, with Braun and the heart of the Milwaukee order coming to the plate. Tampa Bay (Staats/Anderson, Sun Sports), 8. Getting two, that night the five-time batting champion faced Clevelands Chris Haney. BLURB: Anxious at Augusta; Iowa's season ticket surge; Breaking down the markets for men's hoops viewership and Baltimore opens a 'new' arena. It was a cool thing to do those games. Playing organized youth baseball and particularly pick-up neighborhood games during my childhood, I think it was a frequent occurrence for many of us to have our own play-by-play running through our heads, especially when we reviewed in our heads what had just happened in the moment. We just said that he made a motion toward the dugout. Genes son, Kim Elston, thinks he may have a DVD with several radio broadcasts and will try to track it down during these long days that we all face without baseball on the air. So we didnt make it a dramatic thing (in the recreation). What sticks out to you in your memory of Abbott that gives you perspective on how hard some athletes have to work to overcome adversity in order to achieve their goals? Rays broadcasters continue to be a major reason many forego the Trop for warm and welcoming conversation on the air. There are a number of reasons to switch back and forthcross promoting, rights holders, egos, etc., but today with almost every game on television it seems logistics, if nothing else, tells us to separate television and radio. Dewayne has also handled play-by-play for FOX Sports national baseball coverage. Gene was a stickler for research, Staats said this week of his late mentor, who died in 2015, He anticipated a work stoppage, so he spent some time in the Major League Baseball archives researching some past games. I got to hear Staats on Cubs telecasts in the 1980s and was impressed then, and remain so. I was really scared my brain was going bad.. Watch the video above to hear what he had to say.. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. The 70-year-old has served as the teams television voice since its debut season in 1998. Unanswered prayers turned out to be blessings in disguise. I used to always read about stress, but never knew what it meant until now, Campbell said. There are many days on First Take or even on the podcast where Ill say something and Ill think about it. It was truly a gracious act. Advertisement. Lou Boudreau and Milo Hamilton were icons of my youth. Later, Staats relished joining them for dinner. 2023 Leaders Group. I had the easiest job in the world with Tony, said Dewayne Staats, Kubeks MSG partner. So he came up with the games and did the research. . 1 salary (more along the lines of $200,000) because he would be groomed to replace Coleman when Coleman retires. As the title implies, the memoir by veteran broadcaster Dewayne Staats is more than an autobiographical collection of baseball Meanwhile, Bally Sports Sun is "making some changes to its pre- and postgame crew." Up to that point, he had averaged about 17 and a half, 18 pitches an inning. The last pitch of the 2-1 game has some drama, and Staats captures it just right, with a little crescendo on to the TRACK! before Jennings hauls in the final out. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. Brennaman, who will turn 77 on July 28, is retiring after a 46-season, Hall of Fame radio career. From that mindset, he never saw himself as handicapped. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Take it home. Jim Abbott took it home all I did was ride the moment. Ironically, Harrys son Todd Kalas worked primarily with Staats as a pre-game, in game, and post-game reporter on the telecasts of Rays baseball from 19982016. The other minor league coaching change of note will occur in double-A Wichita, where the organizations top young pitching coach, Gary Lance, is being moved up from class A to work with, among others, national No. Heres mine. Streamers have been keen on landing the conferences games. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world Just send him sprawling. Register for this free event here. Doug Waechter will "return in the lead analyst role," while Orestes Destrade is "out after 11 seasons" (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 2/22). This is more bad news for the Pac-12 if Mandel is right. He is the author of five books, including a collection of his columns entitled, Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoil Sports, Foul Ball and Oddballs. Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, Around the Horn. For his community service, he has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and has received a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Womens Law Center. Today we profile Dewayne Staats, long-time TV Voice of the Tampa Bay Rays, who played in the American League Division Series, which began on Thursday, October 7th and ended four games later with the Red Sox knocking off the Floridians, advancing to the LCS. How did todays pitcher, Odorizzi, react? The capper of that point is lacking, as every pitcher would like to get his offense on the field as quickly as possible, but the substance is right there and now the viewer has a good idea of what to expect from the pitcher. I think I may have some of the play by plays in my garage. Josh Reddick vs. Kyle Tucker, the Astros' only lineup uncertainty, MLB teams pledge $30 million to aid ballpark workers, Heartbreaking story behind Aggies golfer's tattoo at The Masters, 'Alien deer' stirs social media. You didnt see anything. . Staats, who after his years in Houston worked in Chicago and is a longtime Tampa Bay Rays broadcaster, thinks that fans of a certain generation would enjoy recreated games during this current coronavirus-related work stoppage. Staats wanders off base a little bit by suggesting that Ortizs posing is embarrassing to himself, when really, hes a showman, but his point is more about Archer worrying about himself instead of how his opponent acts. Eye of newt and raven beak /presto, its a winning streak. Dewayne Staats is the great play-by-play announcer for the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays made up the largest September wild card deficit of any team in MLB history that year. Ashtabula, OH (44004) Today. Winters Wednesday phone call to Staats was the Padres first contact with him since Staats flew here and met with team officials last week. In case you were wondering and he was Plaschke is rhymed with Great Gatsby., Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Lakers guard trio carries bulk of offensive load in defeat of Suns, Letters to Sports: All hail the pitch clock for saving MLB games, Shaikin: Shohei Ohtanis star power transforms Angels into international tourist attraction, Mike Trouts 441-foot blast cant save Angels in home-opening loss to Toronto, See the rebirth of Californias phantom Tulare Lake in striking before-and-after images, Whos sending mystery Uber Eats orders to L.A. neighborhoods? Currently, he serves as the television play-by-play commentator for the Tampa Bay Rays. He says there are no retirement plans on the horizon. Im still going to do a pretty full load of stuff. The Padre offices--and Manager/General Manager Jack McKeons phones--will be locked up next week. A national game becomes a separate entity. 2 announcer spot, phoning to say they would love for the top young talent to join their team. He has said for years that he hasnt watched any major league baseball Despite the fact that the first inning goes by without a hit, Staats and Anderson have managed to get a lot of information across. Download it here. Their love of the game was foundational to building a play-by-play approach. . He pitched in two World Series. One of the elements I love about a baseball season is one day builds toward the next, with multiple storylines popping up all over the place. He worked hard to beat the odds as any other athlete must do and I felt privileged to include his no-hitter as one of my highlights. Greg knew that hitters would be fired up, waiting for the fastball," he recalled. You guys are great at it. pic.twitter.com/k64L1AYwuy. Staats maybe could stand to work in a bit more play-by-play, but hes made the choice to let Anderson expound on his points, which are layered, and he doesnt miss any important developments. What did you learn from him about using unique phrases and original dialogue to connect with fans? Or broadcast? By Paul Hagen. Id grown up with Jack Buck, Dewayne would say, years later seeing him when the Cardinals visited Houston. The more likely prospect, though is that MLB Network or other outlets would opt for more recent re-airs. Staats, who began his work as a professional broadcaster while still a student at tiny Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in the early 70s, was the play-by-play man for the Houston Astros from 1977 through 1984 before joining WGN and the Cubs. The veteran play-by-play announcer, who started during the teams 1998 inaugural season, will cut back his workload, missing 20-30 games. Rays television broadcaster Dewayne Staats plans to take off 20-30 games this season, mostly during road trips, in what sounds like a joint decision between him and Bally Sports bosses. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ] Washington (Carpenter/Santangelo, MASN). He jumps in to credit Jonathan Lucroy for a good block of a slider in the dirt to keep the tying run at third base, and to note that Lohse had previously retired Evan Longoria on a change-up, before a 3-2 pitch sails just out of the strike zone to load the bases. San Francisco has the worst announcers in the league. Already a subscriber? Without you, it could not have happened. The overflow crowed stilled. 49 print issues delivered to your home or office. Kubek`s new partner is former Cubs announcer DeWayne Staats, who left Chicago for a lucrative five-year deal with Madison Square Garden Network. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. 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