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Watch close and you can see the pistons still reciprocating when the engine hits the ground, although it looks like most of them came out of their holes eventually.
Last edited by hi_im_sean; Apr 5, 2017 at 10:49 AM.
I think Joe is probably the only one that broadcasts in the shower.
Not in the shower, but many years ago, I did broadcast while sitting on the toilet.
In the early 1990s, I worked as a part-time board op at WKII, a small AM radio station in Florida. That station carried the Texas Rangers baseball games, which I was usually assigned to. Most games, of course, were in the evening, after everyone else had gone home, and I was usually alone at the station.
Now, the annoying thing about baseball is that they tend to announce pitching changes with extremely little notice. Literally, the announcers would be in mid-stride, and then say "And with a pitching change, we'll be back in a minute, on the Texas Rangers Radio Network." And, boom, that was your cue to hit the button to fire a commercial.
Which was a problem if you were using the bathroom at that precise moment.
This was back in the days of tape, of course. Carts, the were called. Tape cartridges shaped just like an 8-track cassette, which each held between 30 seconds and a few minutes. Basically, one commercial or one song.
After leaving a trail of **** more than once between the head and the control room, I spoke with the station's chief engineer, and we rigged up a solution. Two pushbuttons mounted on the wall of the men's room right next to the john, which remotely fired off Cart #1 and Cart #2. From that day on, all I had to do before going out to relieve myself during a boring inning was to make sure that 1 and 2 were both loaded with 30 second spots and potted up, and thus, if the coach decided to swap out a pitcher with two on and no outs, I could literally run the entire spot break without ever getting up off of the john.
Obviously, once the break was started, you had to hurry up, wipe, raise trou, and get back into the control room to re-load the cart machines, as invariably the third out would follow shortly.
Aaaaah, memories.
Last edited by Joe Perez; Apr 6, 2017 at 08:45 AM.
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