[BlindTlk] exciting news

[Jude DaShiell]

I wish people like that could do Calculus courses over the radio too.  I
bet there'd be many more blind students successful with Calculus if that
were the case.

On Sat, 21 Nov 2020, Madison Martin via BlindTlk wrote:

> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 13:53:07
> From: Madison Martin via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: maddymartin at mymts.net
> Subject: [BlindTlk] exciting news
>
> Hi all,
> I know that most of you don't know who this guy is, and this isn't blindness
> related, but I just had to share. As my last post to the list was negative I
> figured I'd share something positive that's happened in my life. I've been a
> baseball fan for 5 years, and the Jays TV announcers are really grate at what
> they do, if it wasn't for them I can honestly say that I wouldn't still be
> watching baseball. When I first started watching I knew nothing about the game
> (the rules
> etc.) or anything about the players. Through them I learned about the game and
> more importantly got to know the players. The one announcer in particular (Buck
> Martinez) is really entertaining, but also really good at describing the game!
> Anyway I've been wanting to write to him to tell him what a grate job he does
> and that sort of thing, but I never had the nerve to do it, I was afraid that he
> wouldn't understand or wouldn't respond. Anyway a few months ago I just decided
> that I was going to bite the bullit and do it, so I went online and found his
> mailing address, but it was during the season so I didn't do it because I
> figured he'd be too busy. Well then one of my favourite hockey announcers
> retired, and that made me even more determined to connect with Buck.
> Well when I went online again I couldn't find the mailing address that I'd found
> previously. I'm a member of a few Jays fan groups on FB, so I posted to see if
> anyone knew or could find Buck's mailing address. I got tones of comments with
> tones of suggestions, but the one that made it happen was one of the members of
> one of the groups offered to copy my post and tweet it to the guy (Jamie
> Campbell) who hosts the Blue Jays Central pre and post-game shows. He responded
> and contacted Sportsnet (which is the chanel that carries all Jays games and
> employs the announcers) and they reached out to Buck and explained the situation
> and he agreed to give them his personal email address to give to me, as long as
> I agreed not to share it with anyone, not that I would've anyway. I'd reached
> out to Sportsnet twice previously, both times during the season, and I guess my
> email got missed as they receive so many messages.
> Anyway, not sure why I was afraid to write to him, he's been grate and he
> understands how important good announcers are to people like me who can't
> see!!!! Wish I'd just written him a letter 5 years ago! Plenty of sighted Jays
> fans (including Dad) love him too!! Anyway that's the story. Thank goodness for
> Twitter and for Jamie being a nice guy, I sent him a thank-you note along with
> the lady who tweeted him. Now I just hope that we can get to another Jays game
> and meet Buck before he retires (he's 76 or something), I'm not looking forward
> to the day he retires, no one will ever be able to replace Buck. Just couldn't
> resist sharing!
> Madison
>
>
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