{"id":59,"date":"2010-10-31T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2010\/10\/31\/let-me-entertain-you\/"},"modified":"2010-10-31T11:42:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T16:42:57","slug":"let-me-entertain-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2010\/10\/31\/let-me-entertain-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Entertain You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDown goes Frazier!, down goes Frazier!, down goes Frazier! down goes Frazier!<\/a>\u201d\u2026\u201dDo you believe in miracles?\u201d\u2026.\u201dI can\u2019t believe what i just saw!\u201d..<\/p>\n

Everyone has their own favorite\u2026that one call that capped off a championship, won a world series, brought home a title\u2026.But usually that\u2019s just the final seconds of a game and it\u2019s the job of the play by play person to keep us interested the whole time, not just the climax of three hours spent\u2026At a recent sports journalism seminar at Boston University veteran broadcasters Ken Cail<\/a> and\u00a0Jon Meterpare<\/a>l offered insights on, among other things, what they try to accomplish in the booth\u2026\u201dI try to be as entertaining as possible\u201d, said Cail,\u00a0\u00a0the play by play man for the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League and the Lowell Spinners, who play in the New York-Penn League… Meterparel handles play by play for the Boston College Eagle football and basketball teams, having done Major League Soccer as well as The Charlotte Knights Triple A for two years. ..\u201d”You have to let the game breathe, let the game come to you. You get a rush doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

USA Today recently took a poll<\/a> of it\u2019s readers asking who your favorite NFL play by play announcer was\u2026Not surprisingly the results corresponded with the teams rankings by its own networks\u2026Fans seemed to vote for those who were impartial, called the game straight down the middle, which got me to wondering if, on a local level, you had to root for the team you\u2019re covering\u2026Said Cail, \u201cYou can\u2019t help but root for them, you try to be objective, you don\u2019t have to be a homer\u201d\u2026Meteraparel agreed stating, \u201cit comes naturally\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

And as for signature calls or rehearsed endings, both agreed they\u2019ve thought about it but decided to let the moment shape what comes out\u2026Some of our greatest memories <\/a>have come from unexpected moments on the playing field\u2026We love to remember where we were when we saw and heard that \u201cshot heard round the world.\u201d\u2026Chances are you remember who called the game as well\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cDown goes Frazier!, down goes Frazier!, down goes Frazier! down goes Frazier!\u201d\u2026\u201dDo you believe in miracles?\u201d\u2026.\u201dI can\u2019t believe what i just saw!\u201d.. Everyone has their own favorite\u2026that one call that capped off a championship, won a world series, brought home a title\u2026.But usually that\u2019s just the final seconds of a game and it\u2019s the job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}