The camera is really the play-by-play person.

I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

[If you could have 10 minutes in a room with Barry Bonds] ... I'd ask him for another half hour. And then I'd probably start with the obvious and see how honest he would get. I just think those guys are so protected, that you're not going to get much out of them.

I started in radio. I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is.

Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

It's a different world for those of us who are doing this for a living. Certainly a lot different than my dad had to deal with when he was calling games on a national level for CBS. It's just a different world. I'm not saying it's better or worse, there's just a lot more access.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.