There's always anticipation when Albert Pujols steps to the plate. During his quest for 700 homers, the anticipation is even greater. katiejwoo on how broadcasters prepare for his milestone moments ⤵️
Rooney is quite familiar with helping tell baseball history. With the way this Cardinals season is trending, he’s prepared to tell more.“The best reality programming is sports,” Rooney said. “You don’t know what’s going to happen, you don’t know how it’s going to play out, you don’t know what’s around the corner. No one could have predicted Albert’s second half of the season, nor could they have really predicted what we’ve seen since the trade deadline.
“Any radio broadcaster wants those fans to want to be in the ballpark with them,” Rooney said. “And that’s the way I’ve tried to call a ballgame, trying to describe what I see and what’s in front of me. I try to capture what’s in the ballpark. That’s the challenge of the job. You’ll tell them that you’ll see beautiful green grass in the park and so on and so forth, but when the actual moment happens, the flight of the ball, the fans standing, how quiet they are before each pitch.
Polo Ascencio, the Spanish-language broadcaster for Cardinals games, says: ‘When things come from the heart, nothing can beat it.’ “I don’t think about it,” he said. “When I think about things, that’s when I don’t perform at my best. I put so much pressure on myself every day, trying to be perfect. And at the end, I am the most imperfect person you can imagine. While trying to be perfect. I might mess up the moment. And it’s not my moment. I’m just here to recreate what I see and throw it out there.”
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