Jon 'Boog' Sciambi

You know, there are different things and there's timing and there's flow and all the knowledge in the world and the ability to tell the story if the timing and the flow isn't on point.

And if you're not describing what you see in a really good way, then, you know, the rest of it's kind of moot.

So.

I, yeah, it was just, I wish I could tell you when it started to feel like I got this.

Yeah.

My last year at the Marlins was 2004.

So yeah, I, sometime after that, sometime after that, but I think

Yeah, it just, it took a while.

And I tell you, the other thing is, Mike Ryan and I were talking earlier about just kind of the, you know, about you and I possibly doing a show together back in the day.

And, you know, that I was chasing my, you know, my dream, my passion to do play by play.

But one of the things is that I got more comfortable with,

later in my career just doing me.

I always talk about, to young guys, what's hard is you've got to get comfortable with the mechanics, but what you're trying to do is take what you're like on the air and take what you're like off the air, and you want them to be

As much the same thing as possible that you're, you know, willing to make the jokes and say the off cuff thing that you think isn't supposed to be the domain of play by play.

And so like, I didn't think like, I felt like I got better when I turned 40 because I got just a little more comfortable with who I was.

on the air and that you're really getting me.

And so I do think that one of the components of the connection to baseball and baseball fans is every day.

But I do think the way people react to me is in part about that I'm able to bring authentic me to the air.

And so they feel like they know me.