Jon 'Boog' Sciambi

But I mean, I appreciate it.

Look, I loved as a kid just the basic nature of the sport, playing it.

Both sides of my family liked it.

Dad's side was Phillies fans.

Mom's side, Yankee fans.

I've told this story a million times.

My grandparents went away on a cruise.

I was six, and I didn't understand what a cruise was.

And when my grandfather sat there, you know, we're going to eat, we're going to gamble, we're going to dance, we're going to play shuffleboard.

And at the end of it, I looked at him, and my only question was, how do you get the box scores?

And he said, you don't.

And I said, I am never going on a cruise.

And editor's note, never been on a cruise.

Not because of that, by the way, but I just haven't.

So I just loved it, and then...

I, it was the sport I wanted to call.

It was the one sport I didn't call in college.

So as I mentioned, I go into the Marlins, uh, you know, empty broadcast booth or a booth that was empty and call it into a tape recorder.

And then, you know, gave the tape to Dave O'Brien and then, you know, your buddy, Jim Favola.

then i went to to boise idaho and you know off we went but it's and then i think as it went on yeah the the the sabermetric stuff the guys like rob nyer and bill james interested me and i got a chance to learn and understand and know more and more about the sport and then you meet different people and i mean there's so many smart interesting people in the sport