We had no audio it was a mess.”īut he corrected, and people listened and watched and liked what he was doing. He kept it simple, he said - doing his first broadcast in the sixth grade with the Norton Media Center, a Little League championship game for 12-year-olds. He had no formal training, other than listening to his idols, who include Vin Scully, Gus Johnson, John Sterling, and Jeff Levering. “I’d listen to games instead of having bedtime stories read to me,” said the son, adding about the usual two-person broadcasting team, “I had two people putting me to sleep.” “He’d be in his room repeating some of the great calls in sports, like the ‘Miracle on Ice’ Olympics game and Don Larson’s perfect game,” the father said. “His grandparents gave him a book, ‘And The Fans Roared’ that has a CD with great sports calls.” “We’d find him in his room, late at night, with the AM radio listening to Yankee broadcasts,” said his dad, Craig, who handles the camera duties at his son’s games, be they hockey, baseball, football, or whatever the Lancers are doing. “I get grief all the time,” he said, pushing the fan envelope to its max by adding this about his mother, Jill, a Montreal native: “Her favorite hockey team is the Canadiens.” And, yes, he and his family are huge Yankees fans, the young man said with a laugh, knowing what that means in the thick of Red Sox Nation. His love of describing sports started when he was 6, listening to New York Yankees games on the radio at night. “They have to paint a picture for the listener.” “I’ve always liked listening to sports more than watching, and always thought broadcasting sports was the coolest job in the world, besides playing,” said Blake, who does that, too, as catcher on the Norton High baseball team.
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