Tim donnelly blacksburg12/14/2023 ![]() I appreciate that they kind of cultivate their young talent. The Braves are very good and they do it right. And I'm only going to talk about local teams.Īnd that's going to be a survival thing. I'm going to ingratiate myself in this market so much so that I never have to talk about the Mets. It's been a bad, it's been a really disappointing season. See, here, I don't talk a lot about the Mets. But there's a lot of upset Yankee fans in upstate New York. And we went from there with the Yankees fans. And I just imagined I was talking to all my buddies that were Yankees fans and, you know, kind of played the, I'm going to rile you up and then hopefully you'll respect me. So then I ended up at a Yankees affiliate. Mike Piazza had a home run off the foul ball pole and I was like sold. I was like, oh, we don't do that in Little League. And I went, I was like eight at the time. And in the first inning, Jimmy Rollins and Pat Burrell out there in left field called each other off on a routine pop fly. So he took us to, we were in south Jersey, took us to a Phillies game. So my dad wanted us to be the local fan, like wanted to be fans of all the local teams. I grew up, part of my child was in Jersey. I don't know how I would last being at a Yankees affiliate. I grew up basically going to games at Shea Stadium because I'm originally from New York. Alright, I would not be able to work at a Yankees affiliate. Like I said, I want to make sure I get all three involved. And my cousin's husband played baseball at UNC. So there's the family connections to this area pretty deep. Like there was a changing of the lyrics that was sung about Cam when he was up on stage. There may have been an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini ad lib. I remember his, sorry Cam if you're listening, his center Cam Wentz on his birthday got up there. He was at that point the starting quarterback, so he had smartphones were a thing, so he would kind of sit there. So I used to ride his coattails to a party or two back in the day.Ĭome to Raleigh and dueling pianos downtown and everything. My cousin is who I believe is one of the best football players in NC State history, Mike Glennon. And then for the NC State, I like to tell all three in a group, so I have connections to all three. But it was mid-'80s, so it was Dawkins, it was Allery, it was Ellis. ![]() Backs against the back wall, they could open the window in Cameron Indoor. While they were dating, every year on their dating anniversary, my mom got my dad Duke basketball season tickets. My parents lived in Raleigh when they met. They don't know I'm literally talking about the foundation. So I like to tell people, my family's responsible for the foundation of modern UNC basketball. He worked for Carolina Steel and literally poured the concrete foundation for the Dean Dome. The family connections to here, I started writing them all out. What do you got? I have a wife and a two-year-old son. And then two days ago, I drove here, and we're putting down roots. It was Blacksburg, Virginia, flagship of Virginia Tech, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Newport News area. Then I made my way into the kind of region of the country that I hoped to stay in for a long time. Eventually, I went to an ESPN affiliate in Ithaca, New York, upstate New York, covered Syracuse. Which allowed me to make a lot of mistakes and get through it. And that town, the way I tell it is, my high school had more people in it than the town I was living in. You gave me all the best advice, and I've been following that for the last 10 years, like gospel. And I was reaching out for, hey, how do I end up in the triangle? And eventually, 10 years later, I'm here. That's actually the first time you and I spoke. But then I went to Nebraska, the world's smallest town. In that case, we don't want to call us the men hens either.Ĭorrect. Why do we need to call them ladies? They're not the lady, they're the Tar Heels. And I went, that's actually a good point. One time to the women's basketball coach, I called him the lady hens, and she looked at me and said, that's redundant, you. Only female mascot in college sports because a hen is a female chicken. Went back to a station in Delaware where I was football guy, sideline reporter, that kind of stuff. Then I was like, no, I want to do the on-air thing. And at 98 Rock, the little conglomerate there. Sold radio? Sold as a salesperson trying to sell ads at WBAL. I've been Baltimore, here, and that's it. Where have you been? I've been basically two places. First of all, give me your radio passport. Vader, Voldemort, Darkseid, it's the whole thing. ![]() In that case, I'm not a Skywalker? I have no idea. Although I appreciate Star Wars, I've also reminded a lot of people, it's the same story. ![]() Right now I wish my name was some kind of pun about a Harry Potter book, but unfortunately I'm not a Weasley. ![]() Welcome to our Raleigh affiliate 99.9 The Fan. ![]()
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