Last year, Wayne Randazzo was broadcasting a historic season for the Kane County Cougars, who won the Midwest League championship.
Randazzo is back in Chicago this week in his new role as host of the pregame and postgame shows on radio for the New York Mets. He was named to the job at WOR radio this past winter. Randazzo also fills in on play-by-play duties when either Howie Rose or Josh Lewin is on another assignment.
“Being on the air in Chicago, working at the Score and WBBM, there is some training ground from being in this market to that one,” said Randazzo, a graduate of St. Charles East High School and North Central College in Naperville.
“As far as baseball is concerned, being in Kane County and now being with the Mets, it’s been everything I could have dreamed it would be. It’s been awesome.”
The Cougars were one of the top stories in minor-league baseball last year, when they won 91 regular-season games and swept to a 7-0 mark in the playoffs.
“It was great,” Randazzo said. “It’s fun when you’re winning. Ninety-eight wins in a minor-league season, including the playoffs, you never see that. It was almost like it was unfair. Compared to the rest of the league, they just beat everybody up.
“It was so great to be on the air here and to be with the Kane County Cougars. St. Charles High School is five minutes from there. I was lucky to be able to do that. I get to live my dream. That’s something not too many people do, so I don’t take it for granted.”
Credit to the Chicago Daily Herald who originally published this article
Jason Barrett is the President and Founder of Barrett Media since the company was created in September 2015. Prior to its arrival, JB served as a sports radio programmer, launching brands such as 95.7 The Game in San Francisco, and 101 ESPN in St. Louis. He also spent time programming SportsTalk 950 in Philadelphia, 590 The Fan KFNS in St. Louis, and ESPN 1340/1390 in Poughkeepsie, NY. Jason also worked on-air and behind the scenes in local radio at 101.5 WPDH, WTBQ 1110AM, and WPYX 106.5. He also spent two years on the national stage, producing radio shows for ESPN Radio in Bristol, CT. Among them included the Dan Patrick Show, and GameNight.
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