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Mike Potter ·
4 Dec 2009, 5:12 PM ·
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FIVE COUNTY STADIUM/ZEBULON The Carolina Mudcats are doing a little outsourcing.
Don’t worry. They’re not taking any jobs out of the country.
But the club has sold its broadcast rights to Play-by-Play Sports Properties, LLC, of which veteran play-by-play man Patrick Kinas is president, and will also be picking up another radio station on its network.
Kinas (pictured), joined by company chairman Joe Bourdow and Mudcats general manager Joe Kremer, made the announcement at a press conference in the home clubhouse at the park.
The main aspect that will affect listeners is the addition of WDWG-FM 98.5 out of Rocky Mount as a co-flagship with Raleigh’s WDOX 570.
“As far as I know, this is the only minor-league team in the country that has agreed to license its broadcast,” Kinas said. “The bottom line is we’re all about the success of the Mudcats. What we bring to the table is that we’ll bring the Mudcats back to where they were a few years ago coverage-wise, and the bottom line is getting more people to this great stadium and watching the Reds’ players here.
“We’ve essentially quadrupled our coverage range. You can drive basically an hour and a half on I-95 and not lose our signal. That’s about 2/3 of a game, if you’re going the speed limit. Last year, you couldn’t even hear our games in our ballpark (without tuning in to Kinas’ 0.1-watt in-house FM broadcast.)” Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
7 Jul 2009, 4:14 PM ·
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FIVE COUNTY STADIUM/ZEBULON Back for the finale of the Carolina Mudcats’ short four-game homestand against the Tennessee Smokies, and the home team finally has a bit of momentum following Monday night’s 8-1 whipping of the boys from Sevierville.
They’re still in last place in the Southern League’s North Division, but less than 20 percent of the second half has been played.
It’s getaway day for Tennessee, and although it’s going to be a hot one neither team is going to squeal about a noon start. The Smokies are home Wednesday against Montgomery, while Carolina will have the day off and leave for Thursday’s contest at Jacksonville.
In an aside it’s going to be a long day for me, as I’ll be covering the Durham Bulls’ home game with Gwinnett seven hours and five minutes after the start of this one. The trip is right at 50 miles.
Smokies manager Ryne Sandberg is in Game 2 of a three-game Southern League suspension for altercations with umpires.
And a particularly fun thing going on in the press areas is a “broadcaster camp” being conducted by Mudcats play-by-play guy Patrick Kinas, who also does play-by-play for N.C. State women’s basketball among other duties (I too, now have several jobs.)
The campers are rotating some play-by-play stints on the internet broadcast, and some of them off-air are doing simulations in another box. That, of course, has the potential of ending up like the scene in “The Naked Gun” when Dick Vitale, Dick Enberg, Jim Palmer, Tim McCarver, Dr. Joyce Brothers and the late Messrs. Curt Gowdy and Mel Allen all start commentating at once.
But about the game … well, Carolina wins 6-0.
The Mudcats get to Jay Jackson for a run in the first, as Carson Kainer hits a one-out single to right, advances on Juan Francisco’s infield single to second and later scores on a two-out balk. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
14 Jun 2009, 8:45 PM ·
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FIVE COUNTY STADIUM/ZEBULON It’s Game 4 of this crucial five-game series late in the first half, and the Carolina Mudcats are going to need to win two straight afternoon games to avoid losing a home series to last-place West Tenn.
And it’s hot, hot, hot.
(Spoiler alert: Mudcats win 4-3. That’s defensive hero Todd Frazier in the picture.) Here’s the grid.
My daily drive from Brier Creek (the Townhouses, OK?) is becoming routine after four trips. It’s basically get on I-540 East, follow instructions at the end of it when you have no other choice, look for the official brown sign that says “Five County Stadium,” and then turn right when you see the big baseball on top of the water tower.
As soon as I come through the gate I remember it’s “Family Fun Day,” since there’s a guy a bit older than me having a catch with a guy who’s probably his son. About 75 people are playing catch, and after the game the kids will run the bases.
It’s also “Pink in the Park” day, with the hosts wearing whites with pink trim, staff members sporting pink ribbons and all manner of pink Mudcats souvenirs for sale. Broadcaster Patrick Kinas, apparently the only other local media type at the game, is wearing a pink N.C. State shirt in memory of basketball coach Kay Yow who died of breast cancer in January after fighting it for 22 years. Kinas is also the veteran radio voice of the Wolfpack Women.
I complete my culinary circuit of the park with a cheeseburger and natural cut fries. The burger is a keeper (but really, how can you mess one up unless you have some old meat or knock it off the grill?), so now the rotation is Italian sausage to chicken tenders to cheeseburgers.
Let’s play ball.
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