EP 057: Joe Davis, LA Dodgers
Episode 57 features a conversation with Joe Davis, who followed Vin Scully as the TV voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Topics of discussion include:
- How knowing he wanted to be a sportscaster at a young age helped him to advance early in his career.
- How going to a small DIII school in Wisconsin was advantageous for his career.
- Why being a college quarterback helped him as a broadcaster.
- Finding his first baseball job with the Schaumburg Flyers during college.
- Leaving his senior English class to accept his first affiliated minor league job.
- How not taking a job helped him to potentially avoid a career disaster.
- How hard work helped to put him in a position to receive lucky breaks.
- How a random email from a fan helped him to get connected with ESPN.
- What was his welcome to ESPN moment?
- How he quickly advanced from ESPN, to Fox Sports, to landing the Dodgers job.
- How a lost hand written letter got to Len Kasper via a Chicago Taco Bell.
- Following the legendary Vin Scully.
- What advice he got from Vin Scully.
- Putting personality into your broadcast without making the game about yourself.
- How his relationship with Adam Amin and Wayne Randazzo helped all three of them to push each other towards success.
- Taping a cell phone to a Mountain Dew bottle as a mic stand to get through a broadcast.
- How he balances marriage and fatherhood with his sportscasting career.
- Does he ever get a break to recharge during the season?
- What he still does to get better after each broadcast.
- His favorite broadcasters to listen too.
- How he prepares for a baseball game.
- The lifestyle change moving to Los Angeles.
- He discusses Culver’s vs In N’ Out Burger.
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