Youcastr Exclusive: Calling the 08 NBA Finals (Part II)

Overall though, calling the series was a blast and a half, and it re-affirmed my passion for calling play-by-play as well as my belief that I can someday do this for a living. While I enjoy writing columns as well (evidenced by the bundle of past columns I just added to my profile), announcing is much less of a grind, smoother, easier, more fun. When you write an article, often you feel you need to come up with a number of clever one-liners, puns and quips, have a formula and a point to the article. It needs to be punchy, funny, poignant and when I feel its lacking that, the thought process as well as my fingertips can often grind to a halt trying to find that perfect line. With announcing that problem doesnt exist. Calling the game makes the 3 hours fly by and its amazing how quickly halftime comes along.

My hope is that I can parlay this profile page into somewhat of a resume for that ever-elusive sports media job be it writing, announcing, anchoring or anything else that utilizes my talents. In time I hope to do some baseball broadcasts as well, most likely for the Yankees periodically throughout the summer and I also hope to do a narrative hi-light show of the most memorable moments from those 08 Finals. I would provide the voice-overs as well as the sample calls of the action. I may also decide to do articles or podcasts/shows detailing my memories or narratives of past championship series of various sports. Stay tuned. Hopefully I can build up a nice little following on here if I haven’t already.

I am very proud of my body of work over those six games and feel that my better calls during the course of those games would compare well to any professional radio calls of those same moments, whether it be from ESPN or otherwise. I know I made my mistakes and there are flaws mixed in as well but I feel strongly that with time and repetition, I will improve and smooth out some of those flaws, and hope to become as solid a broadcaster as any. I owe all the thanks to Youcastr for creating such a brilliant site to allow a talent like mine and others on here to flourish.

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