The only baseball in the world right now is in Taiwan — and they need English broadcasters.
"We are preparing to do it for the long term, so we're looking for more talent to join," Eleven Sports General Manager Simone Kang told NBC News on Wednesday.
"We have many candidates. We have young people. The younger generation in Taiwan speaks good English here, and some of them studied abroad in America or in Australia. So they can speak good English, and we have those people who very interested, very crazy about baseball." Richard Wang and Wayne McNeil broadcast a game between the Rakuten Monkeys and the Fubon Guardians at Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on Saturday, April 18, 2020.Kang said she'll hire at least two new pairs of English-speaking broadcasters in coming days to augment the pairing of Richard Wang, 48, and Wayne McNeil, 40.
The five English-language games last week were done by Wang and McNeil, who likely rank as the self-governing island's most qualified English-language baseball broadcasters. In non-coronavirus times, Wang does TV commentary on MLB games in Mandarin for the Taiwan audience. McNeil is a Canadian expatriate who works as a research analyst for a publishing company in Taiwan, and he does baseball play-by-play as a hobby.
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