Showing posts with label Nick Devlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nick Devlin. Show all posts

Monday, March 8, 2010

Website, Field, and Why I'm the First To Go

First things first: If you go to http://www.silverhawks.com/, you'll notice a new look. Minor League Baseball has redesigned their pages, but all the important information is still there. Not a whole lot has changed other than the design, but it may take you a minute or two to find things. A link to this blog can still be found under the multimedia tab at the top of the page.

Secondly, here is today's picture of the field. Two things to notice:
1) No Snow
2) Joel Reinebold cutting the grass. It's nice to seem him actually working after sleeping in the office all winter

Thirdly, I teased this in an earlier post, but here's the story behind the weird title to this post. Nick Devlin was an intern for the Quad Cities River Bandits. He's now the broadcaster for the Burlington Bees. He's also blogging, (I'll link to his blog on the right side of this page as well).

Anyhow, Nick had a post about other Midwest League bloggers, and included mine. I appreciate the love, but let's take a look to see what he wrote about me:

"Owen Serey's the South Bend radio guy, and an all-around likable young man. When I was interning with Quad Cities last year, I made it a habit to sit in with each opposing broadcaster when they came to town. Usually I'd listen for an inning, ask a few questions during commercial breaks, thank them for their time, and head out. Owen was among those who seemed most concerned that I learn something while I sat in with him, though. Not in an overbearing way, either. It just seemed like he really cared. Now, maybe it's because he's a really nice guy, or maybe it's because he has red hair and will therefore be the first to go in any apocalyptic scenario, but it made for a very positive experience overall, and it makes me like his blog a lot." (emphasis added by me)

While I appreciate the compliments about the blog, and I do like to make sure people actually learn something from me when they sit with me for an inning or two, what's with the line about how red heads are the first to go in the Apocalypse? Did I miss that memo or something? Why does everyone feel the need to take shots at the red-headed guy?

We have a staff meeting later this afternoon, so this is probably my last post for today. I'll have another red-head related post tomorrow for you....and probably a mention or two about baseball as well.

Friday, February 5, 2010

What is with MWL Broadcasters?

Apparently, if you work in the Midwest League as a broadcaster, you have a hard time getting out of the league. But that doesn't mean you always stay with the same team.

The latest news in the broadcaster world is that the West Michigan Whitecaps have hired Ben Chiswick as their new play-by-play broadcaster. First of all, congratulations to Ben.

Secondly, let's try to track some broadcaster/media relations movement around the league.

Ben is now in West Michigan.

Ben used to be the play-by-play guy for the Quad Cities River Bandits.

Quad Cities is no longer doing radio (bad move in my opinion).

Ben's intern in Quad Cities was Nick Devlin.

Nick is the new broadcaster for the Burlington Bees.

Sticking in the Western Division, Jeff Hem remains at the mic for the Kane County Cougars.

Jeff used to broadcast for the Battle Creek franchise, before that fell apart.

Not to be forgotten, Marcus Jacobs is the media relations director in Beloit.

Marcus spent some time working with Dave Lezotte in Clinton before ascending to his current position.

Jumping back over to the East, Tom Nichols enters his third season with the Dayton Dragons.

Tom originally broadcast for the Fort Wayne Wizards in the 90's.

I worked with Tom for the Dragons.

I'm clearly now the broadcaster for the South Bend Silver Hawks.


Got it all? Good. There will be a quiz later today. (Hopefully I'm not forgetting anyone).