Josh Maurer

It was great.

It truly was, Tony, one of the most fun experiences that I've ever had.

Yeah, it felt like a million.

It was almost 20 years actually working in the minor leagues.

My first job out of Maryland was with an independent league baseball team working as the pre- and the post-game studio hosts for the Brockton Rocks.

The City of Champions.

Rocky Marciano.

Marvin Hagler is from Brockton, Massachusetts.

And the Brockton Rocks won the Northeast League Championship in the summer of 2003.

And that was how it started.

Actually, I think it kind of really helped me get ready for Major League Baseball because I worked at every level that a player could be in in the minor leagues.

I went from independent league baseball.

I did single-A baseball in Charleston, South Carolina, double-A baseball in Trenton, New Jersey, and triple-A baseball in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

And that was from 2003 through 2021, just kind of moving all over the place.

And I had a parallel track calling college football and basketball, too, in various places.

It did.

It took me longer than I had hoped.

And I would tell you, not to get too wordy on this, but during the summer of 2020, I had kind of made up my mind that that was going to be it for me in play-by-play broadcasting.

I was frustrated.

I hadn't made it to where I wanted to get.