My job has given me a lot of really cool opportunities and experiences. Recently I found myself in the St. Louis Cardinals radio broadcast booth. I shot some video so you could see for yourself what it’s like.

As a lifelong fan of baseball, and a guy that's been in radio for 20 years, this was one of the neatest things I've done.

Since ESPN Evansville 105.3 is a new radio affiliate for the Cardinals, we were invited to attend their annual affiliate event at Busch Stadium. As luck would have it, we were randomly selected to go up and visit the broadcast booth. Kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity if you ask me, and as you’ll see in the video, it really is the best seat in the house.

As an unexpected little bonus, we got to meet Cardinals legend Red Schoendienst. Red turned 93 years old this year and still looks great. In fact, he washed down is daily meds with an ice cold Budweiser. Awesome! Red was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1989. It's certainly not every day that you get to meet a big league hall of famer. By the way, Red is the fella in the red jacket, sitting next to me at the top row of the booth.

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