Nothing has changed in the last 25 years, with the exception of instant replay and really pedestrian stuff. Not to pat ourselves on the back, but I truly believe that a lot of this stuff is going to change not only the way football is broadcast, but the way basketball, baseball, rowing and tennis are broadcast. MV: No, I think that elements of this are really going to change the way sports are televised. OMC: Is this the next generation of broadcasting? Or is this an anomaly? The business end of the XFL broadcast is very busy. Or they'll see the action from a camera that's being operated by a guy standing right behind the line of scrimmage. (Fans will see) first-person point-of-view stuff from a camera that's mounted on a person's helmet or from a camera that's flying over the field. You have to make sure you're involving the sideline guys because they play a major role in these shows. There's all kinds of business to attend to on these telecasts. A line here, lay out because they're using some kind of goofy camera angle with a microphone attached. Whatever storytelling I'm doing has to be conveyed in quick-hit form. So it's really been hard to regear my style and really do what amounts to a sound-byte game. It's even a stretch for me, because as a football fan, you're used to absorbing football in a certain way. In my case, I'm not really trained in football broadcasting, per se. Everything from the switching pace, to the director, to the producer in the truck, to my cadence on the air as an announcer, to the look of the thing. It's truly a guerilla element for network television. Nobody's ever done this kind of broadcast before. I don't know when I'm even going to fill out my tax return forms or get my hair cut. Between what's going on away from Milwaukee, and all the ceremony involving the opening of Miller Park, which remains the most exciting part of all this stuff, it's been busy. OMC: 2001 is shaping up to be the busiest year of your life. Last week, we caught up with Matt, who spends the Brewers off season at his home in Los Angeles, to discuss the new developments in the broadcaster's career. He's also an aspiring musician and a regular on Dave and Carole's morning show on WKLH. He was also star of a series of video game commercials for 989 Sports. He just wrapped up "Sports Geniuses," a cable TV game show. Whether it's calling a baseball game, broadcasting the Toughman competition alongside Lawrence Taylor, or starting Saturday, doing play-by-play with Jesse Ventura in the XFL, this year will be an active one for the California native.Īnd these are just the ongoing projects. Turn on the television on any given day, and it's a good bet he's on the air. On the weekend Stewart was inducted into the Albuquerque Professional Baseball Hall of Fame, we reflected on his two years with the Albuquerque Dukes, how pitching in extreme altitude toughed him, how the PCL playoffs prepared him for the MLB playoffs, and what the Hall of Fame honor means to him.Anyone who's followed the career of Brewers TV announcer Matt Vasgersian knows his star is rising. "Smoke" shared why he pulled his cap so low when pitching, which teams didn't want him to throw the forkball that made him a star, what compelled him to visit the hardest hit areas of his hometown during the 1989 earthquake, and yes, the 9-0 record in nine starts vs Clemens. We discussed how close he was to leaving baseball after the Phillies released him in 1986. Stewart's rise to the top didn't come easy. Dave Stewart never won a Cy Young award, but between 1987-1990, he was the best pitcher in baseball: four straight 20-plus win seasons the ace of his hometown Oakland A's team that went to three straight World Series (and who started Game 1 of every series) the starter of the 1989 All-Star Game a no-hitter in 1990 and the guy who always beat Roger Clemens.
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