One Of Those Special Moments

I hope last night you had an opportunity to watch the "Stetchlon Sports Show" as we honored the Midget 9/10 year old State Tarheel Baseball champions.

Just about every player it was there first experience being in a TV studio. If you have ever been to WHIG-TV before there is not a lot to it. Just a little room which has two cameras in it and a wall backdrop that can be change to give you different colored walls. Yes there are bright lights there to make the room bright enough to give a good picture when you are live.

If you have ever been to say WRAL or been on a Tour of CNN or any of the network studios there is not much too them either. They are bigger rooms where the cameras can be rolled from one show to the next depending on what is live or being taped. Watching on TV glorifies the picture but you never see any thing other than what the camera is looking at.

Last night felt like we were doing Jay Leno as we have a live studio audience. Mothers and fathers most sitting on the floor watching their kids being talked about on TV. Everyone there last night from the coaches, players and parents that was a very prideful moment as today they will run into somebody that will tell them I saw you on TV last night or will tell their parents "I saw Johnny on TV last night".

As for me as a broadcaster or blogger it is seeing their eyes when you can tell something special is going on in their lives. Whether it is being part of game telling everyone of a championship like for Gryphon basketball this past spring or watching kids be on TV for the first time. Those are the moments that I keep showing up doing ball games.

Then, when someone will look at you and thank you for reporting on the little league tournament when no one esle in Rocky Mount did, those are the times when you can say. Someone is listening or watching or reading. It just makes me want to find a game and try that find another special moment.