{"id":64222,"date":"2013-06-17T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcntv.rcn.com\/?p=64222"},"modified":"2023-02-28T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:46:35","slug":"behind-the-mic-pennsylvania-state-baseball-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/behind-the-mic-pennsylvania-state-baseball-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Mic: Pennsylvania State Baseball Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Pennsylvania State Baseball Championships<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Preparation<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Friday, June 14, the RCNTV team broadcast 4 games for the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN). There was plenty of work that occurred prior to the games themselves in order to be prepared to do the best job possible. The crew and office staff took care of all the logistics to get 15 people to the site, set up, fed, and housed. This is our 13th year of doing these games so the process was pretty much set.<\/p>\n<p>For me, however, the process was greatly disrupted this year. The semifinals were to be played on Monday, which was the case for the past 12 years. This year, however, 15 of the 16 Monday games were postponed until Tuesday. One full day of preparation was eliminated. Everything was moved back a day. After Tuesday\u2019s games were played and the championship finalists were known, a conference call was held on Wednesday morning informing all the teams of their responsibilities to the games and to me. I needed information and I needed it fast (coaches, rosters, starting lineups, statistics, human interest stories on the players and teams, historical records for the programs, coaches\u2019 histories, etc.) The normal process allows two days \u2013 one day for gathering the information (Tuesday) and one day for organizing the information (Wednesday). There was only Wednesday this year. It all got finished with the last school to respond getting with what I needed by 3:30 on Wednesday afternoon. Additional information kept trickling in from the schools throughout the evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving to Work<\/strong><br \/>\nThe crew left for Penn State, the site of the championship games, at 9:00 and I left at 11:00. They needed to get to Medlar Field at Lubrano Park to lay all the wire, set up all the cameras, run the audio lines, and prepare the graphics for the next day. I needed to get to the hotel to sift through all the information I had gathered and prepare packets for each game for my fellow announcers. Their work is very physical, mine is mental. We all met in the hotel lobby, went to dinner and discussed the elements and concerns for the next day. Crew call was 7:00 AM; announcers\u2019 call was 8:00 AM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Championship Friday<\/strong><br \/>\nEveryone was at the field by 8:30; 2 hours prior to Game One. The crew tested all the equipment; the announcers talked to the teams and their coaches. Everyone took their positions in the stadium and in the press box by 10:00 AM. \u201cLet the games begin\u201d. I have attached a highlight video summarizing the baseball highlights of the day. Tim Kafer put the piece together; and the musical background is from \u201cThe Greatest Game in the World\u201d by Fran Kovalski.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/BAE5xv4AsVE<\/p>\n<p>There are 664 high school baseball teams in Pennsylvania; 39 District Champions; and just 4 State Champions. Congratulations to the winners!<\/p>\n<p>As for our gang &#8211; We came on the air at 10:30 AM and said, \u201cGood night, everybody\u201d at 10:10 PM \u2013 11 hours and 40 minutes later. In between, there were 4 games, 30 innings, with the final game of the day (naturally) going two extra innings to decide a champion. All of us believe we \u201chit a wall\u201d sometime during Game Three, persevered, and got through it. 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