Throughout my life, I’ve tried to leave as small a footprint as possible. When I leave a room, can I make it seem as though I was never there in the first place? This is, of course, a terrible way to live. My aim should be to leave things better than they were when I entered. In recent years, I’ve made an earnest effort to … Continue reading Back in the Booth: My Journey Through the 2025 Baseball Season
From June 30 to July 17, I went on the longest road trip of my pro career, a 5,500 mile odyssey that carried me from New Jersey to Massachusetts down to Mississippi and back up to New York. Throughout the trip, I did my best to chronicle each and every day of life on the road. All of those blog posts can be found here: … Continue reading Terry B’s Travelogue
Sometimes the broadcasting game can be a struggle. I think I knew that long before the fall of 2014, but that’s when the message really hit home for me. I was more than four years into a career as a professional sportscaster but as another baseball season wrapped up, I found myself with essentially nothing to do. In my early seasons calling minor league baseball … Continue reading Je suis au-dessus de ma tête
Sometimes I feel like a character in a sitcom. I make some mistakes, have a few laughs along the way and, in the end, as the music swells, I learn my lesson. Maybe there’s a hug, credits roll, see you next week. Except I haven’t really learned anything because I need to make the same mistakes again next week and I need to emotionally learn … Continue reading Another Baseball Screed
As I prepared to announce last night’s UIC-Loyola women’s basketball game, a name popped out at me from the Loyola roster. The Ramblers have a brand new coaching staff and their first-year Director of Player Development is Chanise Jenkins. I haven’t thought about Chanise Jenkins much over the last decade but the second I saw her name, I was instantly hit with a deluge of … Continue reading “A truly super super-sectional game”
We always seem to be at Lake Erie at the end of the season. That means that every year, I spend some time wandering around the city of Westlake trying to make sense of the summer that now has passed. It’s only this last week of the year that I start to realize that the summer has passed. I often talk about the time vortex that is … Continue reading A Critical Analysis of the 2021 Baseball Season
Sometimes, less is more. But not usually when you’re on the radio and there’ll be dead air if you don’t talk. In November of 2006, I got to announce my first college sporting event. I was a freshman at Saint Xavier University and was put on the call of their women’s basketball game for our campus radio station. Announcing games was half the reason I … Continue reading Tongue-Tied
“Well, I’d better start packing,” I announced as I rose from my chair by the door. I had been sitting in the common room of the London flat I shared with 11 other American students. Grant, one of my flatmates, sat on the couch to my right and Jake, another resident of Flat 17, was in the chair to my left. We sat, unconsciously, in … Continue reading Terry’s Odyssey
For the past three years, I have been leading the campaign to get Larry Walker into the Hall of Fame. The campaign has mostly involved talking him up to people who don’t actually have Hall of Fame votes, so you’d think it would be largely ineffective, but his voting totals have gone up every year since I started, so clearly I should take credit. With … Continue reading Larry Walker or: How I Finally Gave Up and Stopped Trying to Determine Hall of Fame Qualifications
When the White Sox and WGN announced that they had reached an agreement to broadcast all 162 games for the upcoming baseball season and beyond, I heard a lot of celebration that baseball is back on WGN after a three-year drought. But I also heard people express the oddness that it’s the White Sox they’ll be listening to on AM 720 and not the Cubs. … Continue reading WGN – Chicago’s Very Own Home for Baseball
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