The Bay Area News Group has a new SF Giants beat reporter.
Some sportswriters spend their whole lives hoping to work in their hometown or cover the teams that made them fall in love with the game. As cameras panned to the press box, two of my childhood heroes, Kruk and Kuip, nicknamed me “Homeroom,” on live TV during a Giants game when I was just 22.In five seasons writing about the Giants, I covered a team that lost a franchise-record 98 games and a team that set another franchise record with 107 wins.
Beat writers aren’t supposed to have “favorites,” but for me, it’s been Brandon Crawford for a while now. The hometown kid, playing for his childhood team, setting franchise records and defying expectations along the way? I bet 99.9% of players in baseball history would trade places with Crawford in an instant. Plus as a fellow Bay Area native, Crawford always knew how much this job meant to me, even if I felt compelled to write that his best days were behind him in 2019 .
At the end of the calendar year, I’d written more than 700 stories and hosted more than 100 radio shows almost entirely focused on one of the most memorable seasons for a franchise that first played ball in 1883.Spending 120 nights per year on the road is an immense privilege, but it’s also an incredible challenge. The 6 a.m. flights to beautiful cities and state-of-the-art ballparks are a remarkable luxury, but each road trip takes a toll.
Over the last few months, I’ve dealt with new medical issues that would have required me to move off the beat anyway. The good news: I’m on the road to recovery and feel better every day. I’m grateful to my employers who have worked with me through these unexpected challenges, but my diagnosis served as a reminder of how fortunate I was to hold the position for as long as I did.
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