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About Us
Ballparkradio.com
is a website created for fans of men's fastball
who enjoy listening to broadcasts of games live on the
internet. We provide our own live broadcasts, archival
broadcasts, and a gateway to online broadcasts of men's
fastball.
It is also a simple answer to the oft
asked question:
"Where do I find the broadcasts for men's fastball ?".
Rather than surfing the
internet, or hunting through your email for that link you
can never find, simply log in here, the easy-to-remember
website:
Ballparkradio.com,
where you will always find a "click to listen" link right on
the front page for whatever games are being broadcast.
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Photo: Jim
Flanagan,
from Southern California, and Blair Setford, from Mississagua, Ontario, Canada,
will be teaming up again in August 2006 to broadcast
their third consecutive ISC II Tournament of Champions,
this time from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, in Blair's
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The broadcast crew at Ballparkradio.com includes:
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Jim Flanagan, Editor of
Fastpitchwest.com
and founder of Ballparkradio.com |
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Blair Setford, ISC-II commissioner
and proprietor of the popular GHFL.ca
(Golden Horshoe Fastball League) website
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Joe Todd, ISC II broadcaster;
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Kyle Smith, ISC II broadcaster;
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Lance Winn, ISC II broadcaster (and
active player); |
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Chris Bach, ISC II sideline reporter
and updates broadcaster; |
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Steve Saborourin, professional
sports broadcaster, Ontario, Canada |
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Bill Hillhouse, color analyst, (and
active player); |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge:
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David Blackburn, for his assistance,
development, training and support. David is quite
literally the man that put men's fastball and streaming audio technology
on the map.
(Click "About Streaming Audio" menu
button at left for more about David's work) |
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Jon Onorato, the founder of
Sportjuice, our "streaming audio" provider that enables
you to hear our broadcasts, and most especially for
enduring the myriad of technical questions we ask.
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Ken Hackmeister, the ISC Executive
Director, for his leadership and vision to see the impact
that streaming media could have on the game of men's
fastball. |
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Bob McGowan, ISC II President for
his leadership and support with the ISC II Tournament of
Champions program, the largest broadcast program that
Ballparkradio is involved with. |
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The Tournament Directors, in
addition to Ken that gave us an opportunity to broadcast,
and logistics to make it happen, Ken Hackmeister (AAU &
Red Rock), Alex Linares (AAU), Roy
Stout (Red Rock), and Tom Ree. (Rose Cup), as well as Pat
Bucknell and Jim Williamson (NAFA) -- our ever first
broadcast back in 2003. |
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The Tournament Hosts, including Mary
Ancona at Disney, Josh Olmstead at Red Rock, Tom Ree at
Portland, and the folks at Chippewa Falls, WI and Fargo,
ND. |
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Greg Panos, former Boeing space
program computer wizard, who provides technical assistance
to Ballparkradio. |
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Blair Setford, my primary broadcast
partner in the booth, Blair has helped
develop and promote the Ballparkradio concept since its
inception. He continues to work both behind the mike
and behind the scenes to help deliver Ballparkradio
broadcasts to you, and heading up the ISC II broadcasts
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Maddy Flanagan, who, in addition to
acting as photographer of the events covered by
Ballparkradio, finds time to fulfill every conceivable
logistical task required for the productions, from
securing lineups, preparing scoresheets, tracking down
scores, player bio data, help solve technical glitches, not to
mention creating the Ballparkradio logo. She also serves
as our Spanish language translator. |
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And last but not least, all of you, our
listening audience, including your encouraging emails!
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Ballparkradio.com is a companion website to
Fastpitchwest. com
where you will find all the news and information on men's
fastball, as well as hundreds of action photos.
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What's New! |
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Next
Broadcasts:
ISF Jr. World
Championships,
June 26-29,
2008 from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
with Kyle Smith
and Jim Flanagan
12 broadcasts in
4 days!
All games PDT,
adjust for your timezone
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Game 52 - 12:00pm Australia vs. United States
Game 54 - 2:30pm Argentina vs. Botswana
Game 56 - 5:00pm New Zealand vs. Australia
Game 58 - 7:30pm Canada vs. Japan
Friday, June 27, 2008
Game 60 - 12:00pm Czech Republic vs. United
States
Game 62 - 2:30pm South Africa vs. Botswana
Game 64 - 5:00pm Argentina vs. New Zealand
Game 66 - 7:30pm Canada vs. United States
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Game 67 - Playoff 1 3:00pm - Third Place vs.
Fourth Place
Game 68 - Playoff 2 5:30pm - First Place
vs. Second Place
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Game 69 - Playoff 3 1:00pm - Winner P1 vs. Loser
P2
Game 70 - Playoff 4 4:00pm - Winner P2 vs.
Winner P3 |
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