Tag: Peter Schwartz

“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."

"That is more the goal right now then breaking a transaction on Twitter. I really prefer to write an actual story. In my view, that’s how you win now.”

“I think Gunnar, at the age of 31 and having his own child and now starting a whole new life because of new drug development due to the money we’ve raised along with the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation was kind of my calling.”

“The older I got, the more I found myself more of the sports media than the games sometimes. ESPN and SportsCenter was a huge part of my life back in the day before the internet. It's always been there and has always been an interest.”

“I do them whenever I want,” said Francesa.  “I do them the length I want to do them.  I do them on any topic I want to do but basically, I’ve done sports.  They’ve been received very well.”

“We do a show from New York and I'm from New York but I desperately want this show to be for everyone and I think that comes from dotting the map in my career,” said Amendolara.  “I care that somebody in Omaha or somebody in Little Rock or somebody in Columbus listens and gets the show as well."

“I’m very grateful for the blessing and the opportunity to be here and do this job... it makes it even more special that it’s in my home state with the team that basically made me fall in love with hockey.”

Before this hockey season began it had been nearly two decades since Bob Wischusen called hockey games. When ESPN acquired NHL's TV rights, Wischusen wanted in.

"I’m in New York.  I’m on TV five days a week.  I’m still talking about New York sports.  I couldn’t have asked for a better experience so far.”

“It was only more recently that I was like why do I have to only be a radio guy?”