[78-L] "have a crap" records

[David Lennick]

Ken "Silver Showcase" wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Having a monitor speaker in the washroom was another godsend..ask anyone who 
>> worked for a station that ran live baseball broadcasts. "And it's another 3 up 
>> 3 down inning for the Expos.."  Zooom!
>>   
> 
> OMG!  Talk about literally being caught with my pants down!  I made lots 
> of mad dashes down the hall in a frantic effort to get back to the 
> control board in time.
> 
> But we ran Milwaukee Brewer games and if Bob Eucker is announcing those 
> short innings he usually tries to stretch it out a bit to give us local 
> guys time to get back to the board.  The same for pitching changes.  At 
> least he did it that way when I was running games back in the 80s and 
> 90s.  Sometimes he would even say something like "Let's give the board 
> operators at our network affiliates time to get back to the control 
> room, ..." or "Put that pizza down guys because we have a station break 
> coming up for our local affiliates ..."  That's very considerate and one 
> of the reasons that I love Eucker.
> 
> -- Ken
>> dl

I don't think we ever missed a break though. And the washroom was at the far 
end of the building.

dl