Jon 'Boog' Sciambi

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

I liked getting a chance to learn all of the nerd type stuff and then go to the baseball people that had the eye to see things that I couldn't see.

And then you kind of come and form some of your own opinions.

And that to me was...

It is still so interesting when people give you data and then that I have the access to the baseball people on the field in the front office on multiple teams that are sitting there saying, OK, but here's something you may not be thinking about.

And it's just, yeah, you're just trying to be smarter.

No, I did.

I did a short season A, but I landed in Boise, Idaho, and I was waiting, and I was like, what did I do?

And I did it for a half season.

So, I mean, short season A is what, 75 games.

And I came back the year prior or that year I had been, I was doing talk radio here in Miami and I was also the Panthers pre-intermission and post-game host on the radio and I would travel with them.

And so, and then I would do my talk show on the road with Chris Moore and

And so, so the Panthers, Wayne Huizenga also owned the Marlins.

And I basically connected with the guy that did the hiring.

And the next year they changed up the way the Marlins were formatting their TV and radio broadcast.

And the fourth broadcaster was going to be a pregame, in-game scores, post-game guy, interviews.

And eventually it led to play-by-play.