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“Evan and Babs already had a fanbase. They were already established in the radio world. People know them. A lot of celebrities and entertainers are well aware of who they are.”

"One of the things that I worried about was that I came from Bleacher Report and is NBC going to try to curtail my personality a little bit…sometimes I like to swear on my podcast and do stuff like that and they’ve really allowed me to be me which I really appreciate.”

“You have to network but you also have to get good at what you do,” he said. “I think spending the time to get better and make yourself a fundamentally good broadcaster".

"You always want to be first and you always want to have the next story but there’s also always going to be another story.  You can’t get held up in why you didn’t get this or what happened here."

“The best thing for me in radio and in talk radio was working with a person I connected to,” Clough said.

“I watch and it doesn’t seem like the people on the show even like sports. They’re so mad about everything."

Now there’s a human element in this space because there’s more athletes getting involved with television, radio and podcasting. If [they] can believe in what they know and know what they believe in and give it to the audience, [fans] are going to love that player that they once loved.”

“It hasn’t sunk in,” said Hartung.  “I think when the ball gets kicked off at Arrowhead (Stadium), it will all become very real."

“I try to be a student of this so whatever my assignment is I immersed myself in it."

“I always thought I would be a baseball broadcaster,” said Burke. “That was always the idea when I was a kid just because that’s what I was around."