Leila Rahimi

Where every Bulls fan feels like you can talk to Stacey King.

You can communicate with him.

He would take pictures after games.

Where...

I know which White Sox fans I might hear from after a win or a loss because you know the community.

Where I know people who are in the bleachers at Cubs games where you see familiar friends and faces.

It's not just about the broadcasters.

It's about the fans, too, and the people that you know.

Even the Bears fans groups, you know, sitting in a stadium that fits over 60,000 people.

One of the best parts has been getting to know all the fans and just the full, complete...

that is covering sports and being a part of the sports community, which is really what it is in this town.

And I said on Saturday, Stacey King was such a joy to work with, or Sunday, to learn the game from and to talk to.

But you know that.

You know that because you watched the games and you saw the exact same version of Stacey that we got to experience off the mic.

He was like that in every broadcast.

And to have to write that in past tense is something that I still don't fully comprehend.

And I think it's going to take a lot of us a very long time to be able to do so.

He was so good at teaching the game, too.

We're so lucky in the analysts that we have who are somehow as brilliantly entertaining as they are good teachers.

And Stacey is one of those.