Episode 39 - Rich Waltz

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01/29/21 • 62 min

Rich Waltz provides play-by-play for CBS Sports Network, Turner Sports, MLB Network, and FS1. A three time Emmy winner, Waltz is known for calling television broadcasts for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball from 2005 to 2017. In addition to his various baseball assignments, Waltz covered college football and contributed to numerous sports on ESPN including NCAA Basketball, Arena Football, NCAA College Softball World Series, Little League World Series Regional Finals and Major League Soccer. He has also served as play-by-play announcer for Tennis Channel, Raycom Sports, Pac-12 Networks and FOX Sports 1. Waltz is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, where he played college baseball. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

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Joe Block has worked as a TV and radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Pirates since 2016. Block has called Major League Baseball play-by-play for nine years, and 17 seasons of pro ball, previously working with the Milwaukee Brewers and in the minor leagues in Billings, Mont., Great Falls, Mont., Jacksonville, Fla., St. Paul, Minn., and Charleston, S.C. He also broadcast for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Montreal Expos, the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets, and for various regional TV networks calling major college football, basketball and baseball since graduating from Michigan State University in 1999. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

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Episode 40 - Dave Jageler

Dave Jageler enters his 16th season with the Nationals teaming with Charlie Slowes since 2006 to form the longest-running radio play-by-play duo in the District. Jageler has been at the mic for the Nationals historic run to the 2019 World Series Championship plus the Nationals’ four National League East championships, three no-hitters and Max Scherzer's MLB record-tying 20-strikeout performance. Jageler joined the Nationals after spending the 2005 campaign as the radio and TV voice of the Pawtucket Red Sox of the Triple-A International League. Prior to joining Pawtucket, he worked in Boston co-hosting an afternoon talk show and serving in various capacities with the Boston Celtics radio network, including fill-in play-by-play. Jageler spent six years in Charlotte as the voice of UNC-Charlotte basketball and co-hosting a morning drive talk show. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.