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My Dream In My Life

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Standing in front of a window at a four-star hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with rain falling steadily on the window, I had tears roll down my face as I came to an important decision in my life. Six years of chartered planes, car service, chartered buses and trains, free tickets, free meals, traveling the United States all over multiple times, a nice salary, and a lot of other perks, it was that evening that I remember recalling that it wasn’t what I wanted to do anymore and I was ready to come home.
Growing up as a young boy in Arcadia, Louisiana, my dream was to play Major League Baseball. I collected baseball cards, baseball ice cream helmets, baseball figures, baseball books, and played baseball every summer. Even when I was not playing I was outside hitting a rock with a stick. I spent one Summer cutting grass to save up my money to get to meet and an autograph from my favorite baseball player Mark Grace of the Chicago Cubs. Baseball was my life. Fast forward in my life and while working is sports talk radio, I was given the chance to be the radio producer for the Baltimore Orioles.
Being the radio producer was something I had never done at that level before. I had worked in sports radio for the previous nine years and hosted radio shows and produced talk shows, but this was truly going to be something new. To be honest I probably wasn’t the most qualified but when I was asked I said yes and then thought “I’m not sure how to do this, but I will figure it out.”
So,

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