Pat Foley is Checking One Huge Thing Off Of His Bucket List and Is Calling Another Game..
Pat Foley, has always had one childhood dream which has been to commentate a MLB baseball game, specifically for the Chicago Cubs.
"He said, �The one thing I'd love to do is call a TV and radio Cubs game [at Wrigley]. It's been a dream of mine,'" president Jaime Faulkner said to the Chicago Sun-Times. "And I said, 'Well, I happen to know a guy.'
Foleys lifelong passion of being a sports broadcaster starter when he was just ten years of age, he visited the Cubs broadcasting booth with his father. Pats legacy shaped it's path after he was allowed to stay in the Cubs broadcast booth.
«The last thing for me to do in my mediocre career is to call a game at Wrigley Field,» Foley said before calling his last Blackhawks game. «That's where the seed got planted.
NBC Sports Chicago CONFIRMS Foley's dreams will be coming true!
Via NBC Sports Chicago's Ryan Taylor:
«Now, it's all coming together. Foley will call the night game of a double-header between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals. He'll call the first three innings on 670 The Score before moving to the Marquee Sports Network booth for the middle three and end the game on the radio, according to the Sun-Times. «
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Do you wish Pat Foley would have stayed for another season to broadcast with the Hawks? |
Yes! | 136 | 86.1 % |
No, it was his time to move on! | 22 | 13.9 % |
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