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Friday, July 22, 2005 |
It's A Long Way To Vin Scully
I found out the other day that the brother of a coworker is the Yakima Bears broadcaster. (Yakima is the short-season low-A affiliate of the Diamondbacks.) It's kind of odd, because the Yardley household kept the TV off, and with dad a research scientist and mom an academic dean of a small east coast college and nobody else in the family interested in sports, it's kind of a strange trip to broadcasting minor league games in the northwest. But Johnathan Yardley, an English double major at Rice, got a headstart by broadcasting the College World Series' champions' games, giving him a knockout demo reel:
Though the games are aired over KUTI (1460 AM), Yardley's salary is paid by the Bears -- as is the arrangement with most pro sports broadcasts. And McMurray says his office is inundated annually with applications for the job. "All the resumes are too good to be true," McMurray says. "But through the demo tapes you can get a better feeling for what they really do as opposed to what they purport to do."Yardley also single-handedly wrote the media guide for the Bears:
"Chad did a good job with it," McMurray says. "The guy before had substantial problems and the person before him essentially did nothing. I dumped this on Jonathan — and dumped is the proper word — and I never heard from him again. He just did it, and did it extremely well."Everybody has to start somewhere; Vin Scully called Fordham University games. But it's a long way up to the MLB press box. Good luck, Johnathan.
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