Tim Neverett, A view from the Broadcast Booth - Dodgers

Tim announced his first professional baseball game at the age of 19

Filling out index cards for Chicago Cubs and Montreal Expos draft

First broadcast was with a Pirates minor league and he was paid $25 

Tim’s eldest son, worked his way up from single A to AAA baseball announcing  and also UNLV football & basketball

Anniversary of Pirates “Take Your Kid to Work Day “ memory with his son

In radio “ Nothing happens until you say it does.” - you are the graphics

Television is more of an analyst position

Tim & Rick Monday keep the conversation organic

TV has more to setup and more people involved in putting the show together

Listening to Andy Freed & Neil Solondz with the Rays

Rick reflects on meeting in the past with kindred spirits of Andy & Bob

Creating visuals with storytelling

Getting the inside track on lineups hours before the game                  

Marlins manager Clay McCullough former Dodgers coach 

Conversations pre game outside of the booth and getting depth to share with the audience

"I can’t wait to get to work every day"

Tim once recorded a game from the top of a bus - recorder slid down from the arc of the top of bus during the game – luckily intact and just needed a little editing

Old Park in Vancouver Pacific Coast League in AAA – A small wooden box with a wooden door & latch and a sawed out space for a window

Thrilled to be any box in any game

Calgary & Anaheim Duck - Close Call Sports with Lindsay who also plays organ for the Ducks

Approach on national assignments for announcing  - playing it evenly between the teams 

Pitch clock has reduced the amount of time to share stories on radio

Yadier Molina & mound visit restrictions

The game is moving along quicker and it is a crisper game

Pre-pitch clock - had to plan to have filler stories to tell for during longer breaks and mound visits

MLB extra innings Placed Runner – (not a ghost runner)

Tied games in Japanese ball and train transportation

Before MLB Manfred Man there was Softball the Olympic Tiebreaker

2016 Spring Training conversation with Rob Manfred about the need to have umpires with microphones to explain certain calls

Umpires were mic’ed up in Japan long before MLB brought it into the game

How does a younger audience enjoy the game 

Many ways to listen or watch a game today via tv, phone & internet

At Bat app  - BAM – Baseball Advanced Media – adds more depth to the players

Teoscar Hernandez – sunflower seeds in astroturf to mark his place  

MLB has loosened up & allowed players to add some flash to their uniform 

Prepa for the show - room temperature water is essential for 2 reasons

Field of Dreams broadcast booth – who is your partner

A drive in the Mojave Desert and a Voice mail from Vin Scully -  a treasure that Tim will keep forever

Red Barber & Vince Scully story – broadcasting from the roof of Fenway Park on a cold windy day without a coat

Rain delays are just part of the game all part of the Charm of the Game

The Oddities & details of a game are what make baseball memories

Dryout – game called off with blue skies and not a cloud in sight

Favorite away field – PNC Park in Pittsburgh

Maury Wills & Steve Garvey should be in the Hall of Fame

Steve Garvey - bat boy for the Dodgers during Spring Training in Vero Beach

The depth of preparing for the game that many might know

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Transcript

Tim Neverett – Dodgers – The Craft of Sports Broadcasting - 292 - May 6 2025

[00:00:00] Mark Corbett: Welcome to Baseball Biz On Deck. I am Mark Corbett. Your host with me is Mr. Tim. Neverett. And we're talking about the announcer far, the Dodgers. Yes. That's the Los Angeles Dodgers.

[00:00:11] So Tim's been doing this for a while. Hey Tim, how you been my friend?

[00:00:14] Tim Neverett: Mark, how are you?

[00:00:15] Mark Corbett: I am doing great. I'd, I'd hope to have my good buddy, uh, Mat Germain with me, he's, sent me two pages of notes of questions to ask you a lot of questions. Yeah. Well, I've sent it out a bit and I've thrown in a few of my own, so we'll see how it is, but he's.

[00:00:29] I know he is a big fan of everything that you're doing, so, uh, I wanna thank you for that. And, you know, one of the things looking at as, as far as your own personal history, I mean, what you've been, you've been broadcasting for like over like, maybe 22 years now. From what I've been able to ascertain, 

[00:00:45] Tim Neverett: it goes back further than that actually.

[00:00:47] The first game I broadcast to professional baseball was 1985. Wow. And I, and I was 19 years old, I was still playing baseball in college at the time, my college season had ended. I went home and I became an intern for a double A [00:01:00] team that was in my town. I would get them the lineups and all these things, you know, sit in the booth and observe.

[00:01:05] And then one day, , one of the announcers had to be off 'cause they didn't work full-time for the team. They would just come and go. 

[00:01:10] Right? 

[00:01:11] And then, uh, the, the younger of the two announcers said to me one day, Hey, he's not here tonight. You wanna do an inning? I said, sure. So I sat and did an inning.

[00:01:21] The next night I did two innings. Uh, the next night I did three innings, and by July 4th I was doing both ends of a double header by myself. So, um, that's how I started in pro baseball. And I, after my freshman year of college, 

[00:01:34] Mark Corbett: my gosh, man, if you weren't exhausted if doing a double header like that in your first year, that's something, and, and, and it goes to a good question.

[00:01:42] Mat asked and he said, you know, what first inspired you to actually pursue a career in sports broadcasting? 

[00:01:49] Tim Neverett: Well, I think a lot of it was because, uh, you know, sports was a, a big thing in my family. My brother was a really good athlete and, , I was a young kid always going to his game saying, oh, this is cool.

[00:01:59] I want to do [00:02:00] what he does. I want to play. And I did, and I did my own share of, of, uh, of playing and had my own set of athletic endeavors that carried me. Uh, even further than him. So, but at the same time, I thought at one point I was going to get drafted. At the time you used to have to fill out index cards, like scouts would give your coach index cards.

[00:02:22] I mean, we've come a long way with the internet, right? Um, and I, and my coach came up to me and he said, here's two cards, so we need you to fill these out. One was for the Chicago Cubs and another was for the Montreal Expos. 

[00:02:33] Mark Corbett: Oh my gosh. 

[00:02:34] Tim Neverett: And every card had the same question on it, and it said, would you consider a career in professional baseball?

[00:02:41] Yes or no? And you know, I couldn't check the yes box quickly enough, but, but the draft came and went. And I figured, I'm like, you know, I'm still, you know, 18 years old. I'm like, oh. So I was, uh, I was donezo after that and I figured, you know what, if I'm gonna stay in professional baseball. [00:03:00] Uh, I think my only way would be as an announcer.

[00:03:02] And lo and behold, we had a double a team with Pittsburgh Pirates in my town, and my dad knew somebody at the radio station and he said, Hey, can you use an intern? And went and talked to them and they, they brought me on and I got paid $25 for my first professional game. And, uh, my rates gone up a little bit since, but, uh, it, it was quite a moment when I got my first check to broadcast a game.

[00:03:26] I'll tell you that. 

[00:03:27] Mark Corbett: Wow. Well, that, that's exciting, man. I know the, , the early beginnings of any of our careers, it's the, sometimes it's opportunities present themselves. It takes the passion, it takes, the almost a need to participate , and you had both of those things and opportunity, so I'm so glad to hear that and how you were inspired.

[00:03:46] But to me, I'm looking here, I'm thinking, Hmm, I'm looking at Tim Neverett and I see. He's, he's inspired a few other people himself. I think you've got three sons are involved in sports too, is that correct? 

[00:03:58] Tim Neverett: That is correct. And, [00:04:00] my oldest is in his fifth year in Triple A , , with the a's. , he's been broadcasting baseball for a while.

[00:04:06] , he worked in double A in Birmingham. He worked in single A for a couple of years, , down in Bradenton, Florida, in the Florida State League and. He's in Las Vegas. They're all three of 'em are in Las Vegas. In fact, they all three share a house, so it's kind of fun. But, um, my middle son works in a sports, , gaming business, and my youngest son works in the sports event business, and now he's starting to moonlight as a broadcaster.

[00:04:29] And what's been kind of fun is this is the first year that, um, he started broadcasting. He did some college volleyball because he, he played volleyball at South Carolina. And, . My oldest as well as doing the AAA games when he can, he does the college games at UNLV 'cause he does football and basketball at UNLV and they have him do some of the baseball.

[00:04:52] And then my youngest son this year started to sit in with him in broadcast games with him. So the brothers doing games [00:05:00] together. Um. And, and for me, I'll be in a hotel somewhere and I'll flip it on the computer and I'll listen. And, uh, it's kind of, you know, it's, I don't know who's having more fun, them or me.

[00:05:11] Mark Corbett: I love it. I mean, that's, that's gotta be encouraging to see your own kids, you know, following up in your own footsteps and, you know, and finding success as they're growing in it. So that's, that is, well, that's so cool to me. Man, I gotta tell you, go ahead. I'm sorry. 

[00:05:25] Tim Neverett: I was gonna say it's been, it's been rewarding.

[00:05:28] Mostly because I never pushed them into it. , They were coming to the ballpark with me from a very young age. , My youngest, , recently we had, we shared an anniversary of a game that when I was with the Pirates, it was Take your Kid to Workday. Mm-hmm. And I took him outta school and he had a headphone on and he was sitting in between me and my partner Bob Walk.

[00:05:49] And, you know, while we broadcast the game. And he got to eat everything he wanted all day. I mean, he was pretty young at the time and we lost to the Milwaukee brewers like 20 to three. It was just a [00:06:00] terrible baseball game. And he thought it was his fault and he said, I can't, I can't come anymore. I said, you can't, it wasn't your fault.

[00:06:08] But, um, we reminisce about that actually a couple of weeks ago because we, we ran into that anniversary was kind of fun for us. 

[00:06:16] Mark Corbett: Well, there's one thing I like. When I'm listening to a game, and that's a good, clear voice and a knowledgeable voice. And Tim, you definitely bring that. And I gotta tell you my own personal experience.

[00:06:27] I think of a young man in Louisville, I think it was the Colonels, was the team way back then playing baseball at the fairgrounds. And I would go out there and I would take. My little transistor radio, which is about as deep as five iPhones now, and hold that to my ear and listen to the radio broadcaster of the game.

[00:06:45] You know, I could, I could see all this, but to be able to, to hear somebody who is knowledgeable about every player, gimme depth and all that, that was just so enriching. And uh, and when I'm looking at some of this. [00:07:00] And I'm also thinking, you know, to be able to visually see that, I know you, you have to transition between radio and television sometimes.

[00:07:08] What's, what's the biggest difference between calling games on, on radio versus television? 

[00:07:12] Tim Neverett: Well, biggest difference I think is knowing when to step on the brakes and knowing when to step on the gas, right? So there's a lot of differences between TV and radio and quite honestly, it's been my experience that if you came up in radio and you learned radio first.

[00:07:27] You have an easier time to transition to television than the other way around. 

[00:07:31] Right. 

[00:07:31] Tim Neverett: Uh, there are a number of broadcasters who have been just television guys who've tried to do radio and just they struggle with it. They really do. Um, it's not easy to go backwards and I call it going backwards, but, um, you know, with tele, with radio, nothing happens until you say it does.

[00:07:48] Right. Um, oh yeah. There's no graphics. You are the graphics. You have to give the score often because people can't see it. Um, you have [00:08:00] to think about it that way. Uh, you know, the difference between a routine ground ball to shortstop on radio and TV is night and day. You know, like, uh, in tv you know, you can say, uh, you know, Machado hits a to no.

[00:08:16] You can just say, uh, ground ball Betts one out. Right. You, you can do that for television, right? That's, yeah. That's easy, you know? But for radio you have to say, you know, Machado swings hits a ground ball. Mookie Betts two steps to his glove side. Left grabs it, throws sidearm to first and Freddy stretch, and he's got it right, or something like that.

[00:08:36] So it's much more descriptive and you have to put the picture in people's heads. Um, you know, you can tell the story by saying, Hey, there was a ground ball that short Mookie threw him out. Yeah. But what about the rest of it? What I mean, you know, when we started broadcast on radio, I'll start by saying what the uniforms look like.

[00:08:56] Last night , I said, the Marlins are wearing their home whites [00:09:00] trimmed in, uh, caliente red and you know, Florida blue, right? So. The Dodgers in their traditional road grays, but Los Angeles, across the chest, because they've got two different road uniforms. , But you wanna describe what they're looking like so people can see it.

[00:09:14] Television, the picture's right there in living color. You don't have to say anything. Tv, you don't have to give the score tv. You don't have to, you know, acknowledge sometimes when graphics come up with a batting average or uh, OPS or whatever they're, they're throwing up there in the lower third. You don't have to even acknowledge it sometimes because people can see it.

[00:09:35] Television is more of a, a, I think it's more of an analyst's medium. 

[00:09:40] Mm-hmm. 

[00:09:40] Tim Neverett: Where the analyst should really shine. Um, and for a play-by-play announcer, you're really a traffic cop. You're kind of, you know, directing traffic. You're getting direction in your ear from the truck anyway, or radio, you are in charge.

[00:09:54] You know, if you're gonna go somewhere with a, with a conversation, that's where you go. Be because [00:10:00] that's what is organic. And with, with Rick Monday, and I, we've known each other a long time and we, we spend a lot of time together. So I I, I'll tell you like 99.99999% of the conversations we have are completely organic and come up during the game.

[00:10:14] Wow. You know, I don't say to him during a break, oh, that, I just got reminded of you in a Joe DiMaggio story. I'm gonna bring that up. I don't even say that to him. I don't have to. We have an act, a natural conversation during the game, and I'll try to set him up with some things.

[00:10:28] Every once in a while. He doesn't know what's coming. He has no idea what, what I'm gonna throw to him. So, and that, I think that makes it better. But television, sometimes things are set up and you also have to work in a third person, sideline person, and, you know, so it's a little bit more of a, a larger team that puts the telecast together.

[00:10:47] I think the play-by-play person has a lesser role than they do on radio. And, uh, I'm, I'm from, you know, uh, I don't know if I'd say old school, but I'd say maybe middle aged school where, um, I'm open to new ideas, but [00:11:00] I still believe in the old school way of doing radio. 

[00:11:04] Mark Corbett: I like that because there's a, a lot more color you're able to bring to it and, and like you said, because, uh, pictorially, if we're looking at the screen, it, it's in front of us already and it can be as very simple.

[00:11:14] Explanation of what's happening. But that's where a lot of times I will turn down the volume and I love Dewayne Staats Bryer and Anderson when I listen to the race. But I, I will listen to Andy Freed and Neil Solondz do what they do, you know, from the radio booth and the interplay like you're talking about.

[00:11:31] I, I'll love that. Uh, I, if I'm watching, sometimes I'll. Be listening to D Wayne and Brian Anderson. Brian's a pitcher and it, he's gonna be able, they're gonna slow down a pitch and they're gonna show me exactly how he's holding the ball. So it, it is a different experience completely. But as far as the richness and conversation, there's not no doubt, from my experience anyway, is listening to those two guys on the radio.

[00:11:55] That's it, my friend and that, that I, I'll stay out in the freaking car. I pull [00:12:00] in the house. I don't come in to watch the game. I'll sit out in the car until at least the end of the inning or maybe end of the game sometimes. 

[00:12:06] Tim Neverett: Yeah. You know, it's, uh, you mentioned a Andy, you know Andy and Neil. I know very well.

[00:12:10] Andy I've known a long time, and he and I are, I think, are from the same, same school basically. We, we agree on a lot of things, I think in terms of philosophy and how you do a game. And, and of course his, his former partner, the late Dave Wills rest his soul. What a great man. Um, he was kind of the same way and, and, uh.

[00:12:27] Uh, and, and down there in Tampa Bay. But, um, my goal every night is to is to have people see it on the radio. 

[00:12:35] Yeah. 

[00:12:36] Tim Neverett: You know what I mean? You, you want to create these visuals. You want to create, uh, something, you know, fly ball to center field. You know, PI has got it two outs, right? That's tv, radio, you know, there's a fly ball, hit the center field backing up his pa his over to his right, and right in front of the warning track.

[00:12:53] He squares up and makes the catch. So you, you try to be just different. It's, it's a different way of doing it all [00:13:00] together and, uh, you know, I've been doing this a long time and I really, really enjoy it every day. I can't wait to open my score. It sounds corny, but it's true. I can't wait to open my scorebook and start creating the day in my scorebook filling it out when my, my day begins before I get the lineups.

[00:13:17] I get, I get 'em really early. Um, we have a little inside track where I get 'em way before myself and the other broadcasters, the Dodgers, we get 'em way ahead of other people. We keep it secret, but it gives us a chance to get to work and Right. I mean, the other day, it was last week for some reason, we got lineups like 10 minutes to nine in the morning.

[00:13:39] Hmm. 

[00:13:40] Tim Neverett: And that's when I started working. As soon as I got him, you know, first seven o'clock game. Wow. I just, I love doing it. I love comparing notes with other broadcasters. Uh, I love talking to people. Last night I was on the field, I was talking to, you know, people with the Marlins and some with the Dodgers obviously, but, , had a [00:14:00] chance to catch up with our, our old first base coach, who's now the manager of the Marlins , and Clay McCullough, and talked to him for a bit.

[00:14:06] You know, those, and those things are valuable because what they tell you, you can relay on air, you know, not everything. You're gonna say, but you're gonna try to filter out the things that you can use. And, um, you know, like I asked him, what's been the most surprising thing about being a major league manager?

[00:14:25] Like, what have you surprised at that you didn't expect? And he told me what that was and, and then I said, you know, you know, knowing Tani as well as you do, how do you tell your guys to pitch to Tani? And you just went like this, you. So, um, he said, you know, you, you can't pitch around him 'cause you're gonna put 'em on.

[00:14:44] So you gotta, you gotta try to get 'em out somehow. And, and they weren't too successful last night either. So, um, but it's, it's a, it's a great thing and I think that it being part of the game and relaying it to people, you've gotta be down on the field. You gotta be in the dugout, you gotta be in the clubhouse, you gotta, [00:15:00] excuse me, you have to talk to, to people in the game.

[00:15:04] You build longstanding relationships and I've, I've got those in the game, fortunately, where every city we go to, there's a bunch of people I know and can talk to, and every year it seems like I meet somebody new. So, um, it's a wonderful game with great people in it. And, uh, I, I, I never take it for granted.

[00:15:24] I love what I do. I, it's one of those jobs where I can't wait to get to work every day. And then when the off season comes, you're like, okay, get a little break. But I'm telling you, mark, about two weeks go by and I'm just itching to go do something again. And, and, you know, I'll start watching baseball.

[00:15:42] I'll watch the picking league baseball, I'll watch anything. Um, and, uh, I'll watch old games. I'll listen to old games from the year that we had. Uh, you know, so it just Neverett stops. Uh, I might get a little vacation here and there, but you know, you Neverett stop thinking about [00:16:00] it. 

[00:16:00] Mark Corbett: Here's the interesting thing. I was curious on the road. What has been the most unique broadcasting booth or experience that you've had to step into and go, oh my gosh, or, oh man, this is great. What, what, what is anything unique?

[00:16:14] Tim Neverett: There's, some great broadcast booths. There's some others that are okay. Um, I would say any broadcast booth in the major leagues, if you get a chance to sit in it, it's the greatest place you're ever gonna be. Right. , Wrigley Field. Could use a little more space, uh, but it's still great.

[00:16:32] You're at Wrigley Field, you, you're broadcasting a game with the, with the Cubs involved. Yeah. , You know, the, the booth we're in here in Miami right now is actually a really nice one. , There's, I I'd say any major league booth you can get into is, is good. A lot of 'em are different because of size or where they are.

[00:16:51] Um, and that hasn't been an issue, but, , I'm trying to think of. Probably the, the strangest one I was ever in or place I had to [00:17:00] broadcast from was, um, many years ago doing high school football. There was a rain out of a football game, so, you know, it was a torrential situation where the field was unplayable on a Saturday and they had to play the game on a Monday afternoon.

[00:17:15] They couldn't get the stadium they played in, so they had to play at their practice field. And this was in New Hampshire in the fall. And they didn't have a booth, so they drove a bus and parked it behind the bench at the 50 yard line. You know, the top of the school bus is kind of like, it's kind of arced a little bit.

[00:17:35] Yeah, Tim. And they had to put this game on tape delay. So I had a recorder up there and they said to me, look, we have a contractual obligation with the school to carry this game. You're gonna go out there and do it by yourself, and here's the recorder. Bring the. Is how old it was. Bring the cassettes back with you and we'll play the game tonight at seven.

[00:17:57] So sometime during the game I'm, I'm kind of [00:18:00] moving around on the top of the bus and whatever, and it's kind of windy and cold and, um, I didn't realize it, but the recorder started to slide down the arc on the front of the bus and eventually fell off. It landed in a soft spot, I guess, 'cause it didn't break, but I had to climb down from the bus.

[00:18:20] Grab it, make sure it worked, climb back up, and then continue the broadcast. And when I went to the station at night, I said, Hey, by the way, from this point to this point, you don't want to air that. You want to edit that out? I said, because the recorder fell off the bus. But that was probably the strangest, oddest place.

[00:18:37] I've, I've had to, you know, climb up ladders to get into towers and uh, to broadcast events and things like that. Um. Did the Boston Marathon one time from an insurance office building, uh, that overlooked the finish line. The windows wouldn't open. Um, you, I don't know if you've been around long enough, you've been in some funny [00:19:00] places, but, uh, you gotta go where they, where the action's happening.

[00:19:03] And that's what I like to do. But I'd say in, in baseball, um, I don't know, maybe the weirdest, the, the worst one I've been in in baseball was at the old park in Vancouver, um, when I was in the Pacific Coast League. AAA In Vancouver, it was just like a wooden box that had a, a window that was just a wooden door.

[00:19:27] Mm-hmm. It had a little latch that you locked and unlocked little sliding lock, and you'd have to open that up and there was a little metal hook and it would hook the door. To the wall, to your right, and you look through this looked like the, somebody came with a saw and just cut out a square and you were in this wooden box that was only big enough for you.

[00:19:46] I mean, you could stretch your arms side to side and you, you, you couldn't stretch 'em out all the way. So that was a little different one. But I don't know, I, everyone's a challenge sometimes, uh, that, that's different. But [00:20:00] I think it's a, you know, for me, I'm just. Thrilled to be in any box, you being able to call any game.

[00:20:07] Um, you know, I've done a lot of hockey too, and I've been in some interesting hockey arenas. Um, this fall I was up in Calgary. I did the Anaheim Ducks in Calgary, flames, and, uh. They have a catwalk that's kind of out almost over the ice. Wow. And as you walk on the catwalk, it shakes a little bit. So that was a little bit, they, they warned me about that before I went up there.

[00:20:29] I said, okay, no problem. So I, you know, holding onto the railings and walking out there and. Got in the booth and it's a great view looking straight down over the ice. 

[00:20:38] Mark Corbett: Geez. I know. Was it the lady with, uh, close call Sports Lindsay? She plays the organ for the ducks and she's not analyzing what's going on out on the field.

[00:20:48] And she has a, anyway, pardon me? She has a whole thing where she looks at Ejections and criticizes him on YouTube, but it's a lot of fun. Now looking, this is [00:21:00] from, uh, from Mat and he wanted to know how you. Approach preparing for a game, especially stepping in for like a national assignment? 

[00:21:09] Tim Neverett: Well, if it's a national assignment, um, you've gotta give each side the same amount of preparation and the same amount of, um, the same amount of play, I guess.

[00:21:22] Um. When there's a scoring play or a big play, it's always a big play no matter who's making it. Right. Right. Uh, so you have to do things down the middle. Um, I've been fortunate enough, I've done enough national assignments to know how to do it, and I've done, you know, for, there was a period of time where I was doing a lot of 'em.

[00:21:44] Um, but you, you've got sometimes, you know, going in this game might be lopsided or it might be a good game. If, if it's gonna be kind of an upset if you're sensing an upset Yeah, you do. You [00:22:00] kinda lean toward the team. 'cause you, you, you know, you, you wanna be involved in the story somewhat where you're telling that story.

[00:22:06] About how this team who was supposed to get crushed today is now on the precipice of pulling off a good upset. So you want to, you know, kind of be involved in and invested emotionally in that too. Um, but you have to play it pretty evenly on both sides for the most part. Uh, when you're not doing a national one.

[00:22:23] You know, the Dodgers for instance, you know the people who are listening and watching, they wanna know about the Dodgers. 

[00:22:29] Mark Corbett: Yeah. 

[00:22:30] Tim Neverett: I don't have to tell 'em everything about the other team. I don't think, I think you can, you tell 'em some basic things, you can tell 'em some, you know, get them educated on who they're playing against.

[00:22:39] And baseball's a, a sport where I think especially on tv, you have the opportunity to, to do that more because. People can see it. You don't have to describe what's happening. You can just say, this guy is, you know, uh, father was a lumberjack and his mother was a, I don't know, an Olympic sprinter or whatever.

[00:22:58] You, you give more time to [00:23:00] tell those stories, I think on television than on radio. In the era of the pitch clock, we used to be able to tell more stories on radio than we can now. Now we really have to sneak them in because of the pitch clock. Um, but. Uh, I, I still think all in all people, if you broadcast for a team, people want you to get excited for that team.

[00:23:21] They wanna hear more about that team and what's happening, uh, not only generally, but on a daily basis. 

[00:23:28] Mark Corbett: Well, and I appreciate you sharing that too about the pitch clock because you know the rules of the game change and to hear how that impacts you say, okay, well the game has been shortened. And I usually say, okay, looking from a very basic, uh, look from the stands or if I'm there.

[00:23:44] Hey, how do concessions do today? They do as well as they did in the past, but certainly looking in the broadcasting booth there with you, Tim, and saying, how am I gonna be able to get all this information in when it's turning like that? Uh, I, I love Yandy Diaz with the Rays. Now, before this pitch [00:24:00] cock clock came into place, it was not unusual to see Yandy step out three or four times and you'd have all the time in the world to share whatever you wanted to.

[00:24:09] Tim Neverett: That's exactly right. And there were, there was a time when we didn't have, um, you know, restrictions on mound visits. 

[00:24:16] Mark Corbett: Yeah. 

[00:24:17] Tim Neverett: You know, I remember every time going down to St. Louis, you know, Yadier Molina, we knew going in, he's just gonna march and wear out a path back and forth between home plate and the mound, because that's what he did.

[00:24:29] And I still firmly believe the reason we have the mound visit restrictions is because of him. Um, but you know, it was, I was looking at some numbers the other day actually. Um. I wanna say like 2012, 13 were the longest. We've had games. I mean, they were averaging like three 15 and they were regularly three and a half.

[00:24:52] Wow. 

[00:24:52] Tim Neverett: You know, now they're regularly two and a half to 2 45. I think last night was 2 45. And that's a reasonable amount of [00:25:00] time. 

[00:25:00] Yeah. 

[00:25:01] Tim Neverett: We're seeing fewer and fewer and fewer pitch clock violations too, because the, the players, the pitchers and the hitters have really gotten with the rules and it's made a lot of sense.

[00:25:11] The game does move along a little better. Yeah. Uh, it's more crisp and it's, uh, there's less waste of time and that's, I think, what fans appreciate. I think us as broadcasters, we appreciate it because now we can call the game and not have to worry about how much. I used to have to keep a notepad, a separate notepad with filled material with storage, and I would break 'em out.

[00:25:33] And if I didn't use it, like if I used it, I'd put a check mark. If I didn't use it, I, it would be, I'd say, okay, I haven't used this one in a while, I can use it again. Um, but you used to have to find all, especially on radio, you used to have to find a lot of filled time because we would have 10 to 12 mile visits a.

[00:25:50] We would've guys stepping outta the box all the time. We'd have people calling timeout all the time. Um, but the way the game is played now, I really like it. I like some [00:26:00] of the rules, adjustments that have taken place over the years and, um, still I was on the fence about the extra innings rule for a long time, uh, because I broadcast a number of those.

[00:26:13] 15, 17, 18 inning games, um, in the past. But we will have those in the postseason. Uh, but the, uh, the, the placed runner, and it's a pet peeve of mine when people call it a ghost runner 'cause it's not a ghost runner. Um, a ghost runner is what you play whiffle ball with in your backyard. This is major League baseball.

[00:26:37] Mark Corbett: Thank you. 

[00:26:37] Tim Neverett: It's a people. We have people on our own staff that do it. , And I just, I don't agree with it. I think , it's cheapening what it is by calling it something that you used to play with your friends in the backyard with. It's not the same. 

[00:26:52] Yeah. 

[00:26:52] Tim Neverett: This is a professional game and should be treated as such.

[00:26:55] And it's a placed runner, that's what it's called. That's what we call it [00:27:00] on radio. But I, I, I'm coming around on that rule for the regular season games. 'cause I haven't seen the extra innings games that have gone 10, you know, have, have, have gone more than 10 or 11 innings. 

[00:27:12] And, you know, hey, people gotta get home.

[00:27:16] Mark Corbett: Amen. 

[00:27:17] Tim Neverett: They wanna see the end of the game. They, you know, in Japan they have ties. Right. 

[00:27:23] Mark Corbett: That, that blows my mind. I, I mean, the whole concept of a tie of a baseball game

[00:27:27] Tim Neverett: because the trains stop running at a certain hour and people need to get home, so that's why they have ties after 10, after, what is it, 10 or 11 innings over there.

[00:27:34] Geez. So that's their rule for the regular season. But, um, you know, I've come, I've kind of come around on that one, but most of the time I, I think all the things that have happened in the game have really sped it up. They've done a good job with it. 

[00:27:48] Mark Corbett: Yeah, I, I'm, I'm with you there. I'm, I kind of, I was, I mean, I still have mixed feelings about the place runner, I'll tell you that right now.

[00:27:55] Once I was like, well, you know, this speeds it up. It's okay. And then of course there's the [00:28:00] sarcasm of saying, calling that position , the Manfred man. And, uh, but just 'cause he came up with this, but, 

[00:28:06] Tim Neverett: well, he, he didn't really come up with it, though. I had actually seen it before. It's, it's, uh, it's from softball.

[00:28:14] Okay. It's called the Olympic Tiebreaker, and I actually saw it for the first time in, uh, I think it was Athens ath, the Athens Olympics when I was working at, uh, in 2004. Uh, and I saw it in Beijing again in 2008 when I did, uh, baseball softball there. And, uh, it, it's actually, it was known then as the Olympic tiebreaker.

[00:28:35] So if the game was tied at the end of seven, they would do that. They would take the person who made the last out and they put them at second base. And then play like we play now, this is not a major league baseball invention. Okay. Regardless of what people think. Rob Manfred didn't come up with this.

[00:28:52] Okay. This was presented to him, uh, same as the, the umpires being on microphones. Yeah. Okay. Because I did an interview [00:29:00] with, with Rob in 2016, I think in, uh, Fort Myers, Florida in spring training, and I asked him specifically because we needed it then. We, we needed the umpires to explain the odd things. I said, look, we don't need safer out, but we need something on some of these odd plays, why a guy gets two bases or, or whatever.

[00:29:22] So the fans can know, and then the fans at home can. He said, we'll never do that. He told me at that time, we're Neverett, I probably have the tape somewhere. He said, we're ne we'll Neverett do that because we're trying to take away time from the game, not add time to the game. It hasn't added really any time to the game.

[00:29:36] It's been really good. Uh, the, the communication between the umpires and the, and the broadcasters and the fans now is, I don't think it's ever been better. So, um, you know, major League baseball does some things, but. They'd been, they've had the, the mics or the refs micd up in Japan for years. Yeah. Before we did here.

[00:29:58] So [00:30:00] not everything is Major League Baseball's idea. And even though they like to take credit for it, maybe. Um, the good ones. 

[00:30:06] Mark Corbett: The good ones, yeah. 

[00:30:06] Tim Neverett: Yeah. The, the, the placed runner deal that, that was not Major League Baseball's original idea that started with the Olympics. 

[00:30:13] Mark Corbett: I love it. I look at some of these things and the changes, and I know Mat was asking me too, he was saying, you know, in an attempt he said to keep, I'm reading his question here. In an attempt to keep the game attractive to youth, MLB has made changes to the game. What do you think about the way ways young fans consume baseball differently today?

[00:30:33] Tim Neverett: That's a good question. A lot of times people just watch the highlights. There's highlight packages available. I even, I watch 'em on the phone. There's condensed games Yep. That are edited. If you have the MLB app, you know, you can have your favorite team bookmarked and you can go watch the game in, I don't know, 20 minutes.

[00:30:52] Uh, you, you, it's all edited up. Uh, people will look on their phones to watch the game, to listen to the game. They'll just look [00:31:00] at the score. There's so many more ways to consume it with technology today. The MLB at BAT app, and this is not an ad for the MLB at BAT app, but it's genius. 

[00:31:12] Yeah. 

[00:31:13] Tim Neverett: Okay. It's run by BAM, Baseball Advanced Media out of Boulder, Colorado, and they have done an unbelievable job.

[00:31:19] It's created. An incredible revenue source for Major League Baseball and the ownership, um, the technology is wonderful. Uh, I mean, I'll watch the end of games or beginning of games on my phone if I'm on the team bus from the ballpark to, to the hotel after a game, I might listen. In fact, uh, before we get on, I was listening to the last night's game because I, I listened to every game to make sure that I'm doing it right.

[00:31:43] So, um, you know, and I, I use the At Bat App app almost every day. People who are fans also use it quite a bit. And uh, so if you have MLB tv, if you have a smart tv, like I know my TV in my main living room, I have it on the [00:32:00] MLB app, right? 'cause I've got a smart tv. So I'll just click on the app and I'll watch game.

[00:32:05] I'll watch the games there. And, um. It's, it, it's been remarkable what they've been able to do. The other thing is too, they have a lot of features on there. So you get to know players a little bit better. You gotta wanna find them, you gotta go scroll through. Oh, they got something on Mookie Betts today. Oh, look at that.

[00:32:22] Um, uh, Mookie Betts has his own podcast and sometimes they'll run clips from that thing. So I learned something from that the other day, that, uh, when Teoscar Hernandez plays right field on artificial turf, he takes sunflower seeds and he marks a spot with the seeds. On the turf. 'cause in the grass you can just kind of scrape your cleats and you're gonna make a mark, but you can't do that in artificial turf.

[00:32:44] So I learned that he does that. I haven't used that yet. I prob probably used that over in Arizona. Um, but uh, so, you know, just different things that you can learn. And the other thing that baseball has done that has nothing to do with technology is they've loosened up. The rules on what you can [00:33:00] wear as a player.

[00:33:01] Yeah. 

[00:33:01] Tim Neverett: You, there was always a big poster in the, uh, clubhouse that said what the uniform code was. Your shoes had to match your, you know, anything like wristbands, whatever, that had to match your main team color. Now they don't, and the young players love the flash that some of these guys have. Like, here you are, the, the, the buttoned up Los Angeles Dodgers, white blue.

[00:33:21] Right. We got guys wearing hot pink and bright yellow spikes out there. That clash. But they do it to show their personalities. Um, I think there's a lot of young players that like to see that stuff. Um, I. I mean, me personally, I like when the uniforms match, but I understand what they're doing. It, it helps to market the game.

[00:33:44] It creates other branding opportunities for players. And, uh, one of our players told me he travels with four different colors of spikes on the road. , You know, so, but I think the young people like that. And that's okay. And, and it makes it easier for [00:34:00] them to find their favorite player. 'cause all you can do is look on the field and whoever has the bright green spikes, uh, you know who they are.

[00:34:05] Mark Corbett: There he is. Yeah. Oh, he is over in the left field today. Right? No, no, that, that's amazing. I, I've gotta wonder though, sometimes too. In preparation for a game, and this is silly question kind of, but you know, I think of as a, as a kid when I'd watch these movies and you'd see somebody for the opera getting ready and they'd be backstage and they're have a little mis to aerosol, they're spraying to get their voice a certain way or and actor, before they take the stage, they're doing tongue twisters or they're doing the scales up and down.

[00:34:39] Before you sit in front of that mic and you turn it on. Are there any special things you do to, or maybe just. Regularly to take care of your voice. That's your instrument. 

[00:34:49] Tim Neverett: Not really. Just make sure you have enough water. Right. And, and I don't, I don't drink, this sounds kind of primadonna ish. Uh, but it's, there's a reason for it.

[00:34:59] [00:35:00] There's two reasons for it. Sometimes like. When you do tv, people come in, they, you know, you have a stage manager. They ask, do you need anything? Can I get you anything? Radio, they don't care, but tv, they'll come in, they'll say, I'll say water and I'll ask for room temperature water. And I'm not doing it to be high maintenance.

[00:35:18] I'm doing it for two reasons. Number one, uh, if you have the cold water, it can tighten you up a little bit depending on how cold it's, so you want room temperature, water. The other reason is. You outdoors in the summer, it's warm. That bottle, that's a cold wa bottle of water is going to be condensation all over it.

[00:35:38] It's gonna drip down, it's gonna get all over your papers. It's gonna wet your scorebook or wet your, your, your notes or whatever. And, and that's one thing I learned a long time ago is if you have a bottle of water, make sure it's room temperature, uh, so that it doesn't leak all over your stuff, which makes.

[00:35:55] It could ruin your scoreboard. Um, so those, those are the [00:36:00] two reasons, but I, I'll, you know, try to drink as much water as you can. That's about it. And, and, you know, um, uh, you know, there's a lot of people that like to stand because you gotta breathe from your diaphragm and all that stuff. Yeah. I don't, I don't do that anymore.

[00:36:15] I just kind of sit down and when the game starts, I start talking and we can go from there. 

[00:36:21] Mark Corbett: Well, Tim, I'm gonna take us on a little trip. We're going to the broadcasting field of dreams. You're, you're sitting in a broadcast booth up there and you're looking out in the ball field and you're seeing all these players come to the corn fields from, whether it be from now or from the past or what a mix.

[00:36:38] And then you turn and you look to your partner who's there in the booth with you, and it could be anybody from all time, past, present, maybe somebody from the future who, who is that person? 

[00:36:51] Tim Neverett: That's a good question. I mean, obviously I'd like to see one of my sons in there. 

[00:36:55] Yeah, 

[00:36:56] Tim Neverett: that would be kind of cool.

[00:36:57] But I mean, I, I think the obvious for me is, [00:37:00] is, you know, with the Dodgers is, is Vin (Vin Scully). 

[00:37:03] Yeah. 

[00:37:03] I've been very fortunate where I've been able to sit in the booth with him, not during a game, but to, to be able to sit in the booth with him prior to a game and talk and exchange notes and, uh, things like that, that privilege.

[00:37:19] Absolutely wonderful memories of, of that. Um, and, and how well he treated me, uh, me, you know, means and, and meant the world to me. Yeah. Uh, you know, there's no currency that can buy what, what he made me feel, how he, how he made me feel. Uh, but I would love to have been able to sit in there with the headphones on and just listen, uh, for a whole game.

[00:37:45] Yeah, and just watch how he went about it. And I've actually been in the booth watching him fill out his scorebook, and I didn't know the first time I did that, I didn't know he was left-handed until I, I happened to catch it that he was filling it out with his left hand. [00:38:00] And, , I was with the Pirates at that time and he said to me the pirates were trying all kinds of new things and it never worked.

[00:38:08] Uh, but he said. Can you tell me? It's a bad imitation. I'm sorry. He said, can you tell me why your picture is hitting eighth? I said, I said no, Vin I can't.

[00:38:24] Oh, wow. I said I wish I knew. Um, but he left me a voicemail, um, uh, shortly before he passed. Um. I kept, I have three voicemails that I've saved. One is from each of my parents, so if I ever need to hear their voices, I can go back and listen. And the other one is from Vin. Um, , it, it is something that I haven't let a lot of people hear, but , it's wonderful.

[00:38:52] He had some incredibly nice things to say and the fact that he said them. You know, I cherish that [00:39:00] voicemail as much as I cherish, you know, anything, I've got, any of my possessions. It's, you know, for me in my business to have that and to hear him say it to me and have it recorded just happened to be a voicemail is, it was funny because I was driving through the desert from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, and I'm on the phone with my wife and we're talking about something and I hear beep beep.

[00:39:24] I didn't see whose number it was. I said, who somebody's calling? I said, whoever that is, I'll call 'em back. And so, uh, we hang up and I'm still in the Mojave Desert and I'm driving along and I, I hit play on the voicemail through my car speakers and I hear. Hello, Tim, this is Vince Scully. And I went, oh my God, I almost had to pull over.

[00:39:45] Oh my gosh, I'm driving 80 miles an hour. I'm going, I, I can't believe that. So, but he went on and said some really nice things and I was very appreciative of that. And, uh, um, I'll always, always have that. And I, and I'm gonna pass it on to make sure my kids keep it too. [00:40:00] 

[00:40:01] Mark Corbett: Yeah, I, I can't imagine much richer treasure than that as a broadcaster and somebody, you know, we meant a lot to everybody in the game and certainly with, with you all.

[00:40:10] Uh, geez. You know, uh, I'll just say something briefly here. My, when you were talking earlier about being on top of that school bus, I had this flash of a story in my mind that I can't even remember all of it, but I think it was Red (Barber), Barber and I think it was Vince Scully trying to begin his career. He had to stand on a Red , had him standing on a roof somewhere, I believe, doing some, some of it.

[00:40:34] I see both of you. All the passion of the game goes beyond. Sometimes it's like, does this really make sense to do this? Yeah. But the, the passion is there. I'm so glad you have that for him, man. That, that is such a rich, rich piece of, of personal thing to have with you. That's great.

[00:40:51] Tim Neverett: Yeah, it's, it's neat.

[00:40:52] Uh, I think the story you're, you're talking about, or, or might be, uh, when VIN was really young, [00:41:00] uh, red Barber sent him over to Boston to do a, a, a college football game. 

[00:41:05] It was between Boston University and Maryland, and at the old Fenway Park was where the game was going to be.

[00:41:13] And they didn't have the booths that they have there today, so he had to do it on a roof. Um, and this was a, a, a game for, I can't know, I don't know, mutual radio or some, it was national broadcast and VIN was really young and Vin had forgotten his coat back at the hotel, and it was really cold that day.

[00:41:37] So he's on the roof of Fenway Park with the wind whipping off the Charles River in Boston, and he is got no coat on. And he said that, uh, the thing that impressed Red Barber the most was that during the broadcast you would've never known that Vin was freezing. And he never mentioned it, never complained about it.

[00:41:57] He just did the broadcast. He did what he was supposed to do and [00:42:00] then, you know, worried about it later. Uh, and he said, that's what, what Red Barber. Really was impressed with and that from that point forward, VIN was always gonna be a fixture with Red in the booth with the Dodgers in Brooklyn. That's, 

[00:42:15] Mark Corbett: So thank you for sharing that. Yeah, that's that again, I think it shows the passion of the game and being able to, to stand up there in that cold and, and be able to be a professional that's really sets the mark for a lot of people.

[00:42:27] Tim Neverett: Yeah, sometimes it's not easy to do. Sometimes you find yourself in different environments, , where they're not very comfortable. But you know what? The people listening at home, they don't care. 

[00:42:36] Yeah. You get 

[00:42:38] Tim Neverett: They don't, they don't. And you have to understand that, that nobody cares if you're uncomfortable.

[00:42:41] Nobody cares if you're sick. Right. Nobody cares if you, I mean, I've done games where I've thrown up in between innings. I mean, and nobody, nobody cares. So you just go and do it, and you do your thing and you worry about it later, you're, you're there, you're to do a job and you do the job. And no Mat er if it's at midnight or if it's [00:43:00] at five in the morning, wheNeverett it is, you, you have to do it.

[00:43:03] And that's what you sign up for when you're a broadcaster. I mean, we sat around for three hours and six minutes the other night before we played a game, and the first pitch was at 10:21 PM in, in Atlanta. It's like people say, oh, what do you, isn't that terrible? I'm like, no, it's part of the game.

[00:43:17] It's like, so what? You know, Hey, we got the game in. That's great. That's what we wanted. We had wait a little extra. So what, you know, rain delays are part of the game. We're spoiled in Los Angeles. We don't even keep the tarp on the field there because we don't have to, and we don't have rain delays regularly.

[00:43:33] But I worked out east, I've, I've been in in markets where, you know, Boston, we had rain delays all the time. You know, especially when we played the Baltimore Orioles, it seemed like every time we went to Baltimore, we had a rain delay or a rain out or something. So. It's just a part of baseball. It's part of the charm of the game.

[00:43:52] . 

[00:43:52] Um, and you just deal with all that stuff, you know, we didn't get off the air. I think we passed midnight the other night. [00:44:00] It was like the bottom of the third inning. You know, we didn't get back to the hotel till 2:30 in the morning. I remember game three of the World Series in 2018, the game lasted seven hours and 20 minutes.

[00:44:12] You know, I didn't get back to the hotel till four in the morning. And you know what you don't, you don't complain about. It's like, so what? That's what you do. It's what you remember. I mean, if that game was three hours and two minutes, I wouldn't remember that, but I remember that it was 7:20 and I remember what happened.

[00:44:28] Max Muncy had a walk off winner in the bottom of the 18th inning, and I, I remember the details of that because of the, the oddities of. The game and the length of the game and you know, different things that, that surround. I remember in 2009 we had a, what I call the dry out in uh, DC We had a game in Washington.

[00:44:52] It was a 12 noon game. Uh, it was a getaway day and I remember going down to the hotel lobby, getting ready to go to the ballpark, and our traveling [00:45:00] secretary came out to me and he said, game's, game's canceled. And I looked out the door of the hotel, the old Mayflower Hotel there in DC and I said, there's blue skies out there.

[00:45:09] He goes, I know. He goes, they say it's gonna rain though. And uh, we went to the ballpark. We had to wait for our plane like three or four hours 'cause the plane wasn't in town yet. And we went over there, sat around for a while, never got cloudy. never mind rained. And so we had to come back for a double header in July.

[00:45:31] Uh, but, you know, it's, it's the oddities of the game. You remember. And, uh, that's what I, that's just one little thing that makes the game great. Wow. 

[00:45:42] Mark Corbett: Mat left me with a few questions. You rapid fire. So, you know, just ask and answer and don't give too much thought to it. And Alrighty. We'll go ahead with these.

[00:45:50] Let's see, favorite stadium to call it game from other than Dodger Stadium. 

[00:45:56] Tim Neverett: Uh, probably PNC [00:46:00] Park in Pittsburgh. 

[00:46:01] Mark Corbett: Hmm. Okay. Hardest name you've ever had to pronounce on air. 

[00:46:07] Tim Neverett: Uh, let's see. I'm thinking Mark Zinsky. Um, anybody else? Uh, that might be the hardest one, that, it's definitely a high point Scrabble Name Mark Zinsky.

[00:46:22] Yeah. 

[00:46:24] Mark Corbett: Yeah. Let's see. One item that you Neverett go into , the booth. without in the booth. One item you Neverett go into the booth without. 

[00:46:31] Tim Neverett: Oh, my scorebook for sure. There's about four or five, six items, but, uh, my scorebook for sure, I, I, I always keep score. There are a lot of guys that do it digitally. There are guys that just take the paper that's provided for you by the, by the.

[00:46:46] Team. I don't like that at all, but I like to keep a book, so I have a history of the season. Uh, gotta have the scorebook. Gotcha. 

[00:46:54] Mark Corbett: All right. Here's one. How, how many pitching physical therapists do Dodgers employ? [00:47:00] 

[00:47:00] Tim Neverett: I don't know. Uh, good question. Uh, offic officially or unofficially? Um. That is a good question and I don't know the number.

[00:47:11] Mark Corbett: That's fine. It's just, let's see, what else. Oh, should Maury Wills and Steve Garvey be in Hall of Fame? 

[00:47:19] Tim Neverett: Uh, I, I think if you ask any Dodger fan, the answer would be yes. For a lot of reasons. Um, but yeah, I mean. Those two guys when they were playing, they were, they're amazing, both of them. We see Steve around the ballpark every now and then, now still.

[00:47:36] But, uh, yeah, I think they probably should be. 

[00:47:40] Mark Corbett: He was, you know, he was actually born here in Tampa. I didn't realize that. I don't know how much he may have played as a child or not, but yeah, he, 

[00:47:46] Tim Neverett: he actually lived on the East coast and he was a bat boy. Steve was a bat boy for the Dodgers in Vero Beach in spring training.

[00:47:54] Oh, wow. Years and years ago. He tells that story. It's, it's remarkable how he ended up playing for them. [00:48:00] 

[00:48:01] Mark Corbett: All righty. Let's see, Tim, let's na, Mat gave me a closing question and it is, if you could leave one lasting impression on the fans who hear your broadcast, what would you want it to be? 

[00:48:16] Tim Neverett: That I did a good job, that they enjoyed the game, that I got the score right, that, , was accurate with what I did, , and that they, uh, they were entertained and informed.

[00:48:24] Mark Corbett: Is there anything specific you'd like to make sure you share with the audience? 

[00:48:29] Tim Neverett: Uh, no, not really. I just, you know, I appreciate the opportunity to, to, you know, talk a little bit about the inside of the, of the craft that we have, and I think that a lot of people. Uh, who don't know that much about broadcasting.

[00:48:44] It, it, it's always interesting to, to, you know, to talk with them or to interact with them so they can get a better idea about what it is we do. 

[00:48:54] Yeah. 

[00:48:54] Tim Neverett: I, I can't tell you the number of times I've gone to a city and I've got a friend there from college or whatever, [00:49:00] and they'll say, Hey, uh, let's have dinner before the game.

[00:49:04] And they think you show up like right before the first pitch. No, I mean, I'm, I, I say I can't. Well, why? Well, why not? Game's not till seven. We can meet you at five 30. I'm like five 30. No, that's the end of batting practice. I mean, I can't, so I mean, I'm at the park at like 2, 2:30 in the afternoon for a seven o'clock game, and people don't understand that.

[00:49:28] They don't know what we do to get ready. They just, yeah. Flip on the tv or flip on the radio, and they just expect perfection right away. It doesn't just happen. You have to work at it. And, uh, that's what we do. But I, I do enjoy those conversations and helping, uh, you know, people understand what it is that we do and interacting with people that listen and, and watch.

[00:49:49] Mark Corbett: I appreciate it all. And Tim, it's always a pleasure to listen to you and the Dodgers. Um, I'm curious to see how things go with the Oscar hour. He got in injured the other day and Yeah. I'm glad to see, uh, was it, [00:50:00] Hey son Kim coming, coming into the team. So there's always something changing, something always do You had to prepare for I'm sure every game.

[00:50:07] Yeah. 

[00:50:08] Tim Neverett: You know, we just got a, a note just made a.

[00:50:14] Uh, they'll, they'll probably make another one tomorrow for a starter. Yeah. Uh, for our game tomorrow. So th th that's one of the things we look for during the day too, is, you know, what, what's gonna happen with the active roster? Um, I'm guessing that Kim's gonna start tonight. I know Mookie Bets has the night off.

[00:50:30] At least that was the plan as of yesterday, excuse me. But with the Teo Oscar getting injured, uh, we don't know what, what that's gonna be yet. Whether this is just a, a couple of days down or. One day down, or if he's okay. I don't know. I saw him walking out last night. He didn't walk with a limp or anything, so it was good.

[00:50:49] But, uh, you know, things change every day in baseball and you gotta be on top of it and you gotta understand the reasons why. 

[00:50:56] Yeah. That 

[00:50:56] Tim Neverett: the rosters move around the way they do. Um, [00:51:00] so. You know, it's, you know, for me, I, I'll get to work, I'll get on the bus, I'll get to the park and continue working. And, uh, I've got my routine that I do every day, and it helps me get prepared for the game so that when Rick throws it to me at the top of the top of the game, I'm, I'm ready to go.

[00:51:16] All right, 

[00:51:16] Mark Corbett: brother. 

[00:51:17] Tim Neverett: My job is to get ready to go every day. 

[00:51:19] Mark Corbett: Give our good wishes to your buddy there, Mundy. And, and thank you again, Tim, this, you've been listening with Tim Neverett for the Dodgers announcer. And, uh, on behalf of Mat Germain and myself, I wanna thank you buddy, uh, and continued success to both your, you and your family and, uh, sports and broadcasting, my friend.

[00:51:36] Well, thank you very much. You have been listening to BaseballBiz On Deck with special guest, Tim Neverett, broadcaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers sharing his stories from the booth.

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