After a week off to go get drunk down at Southern Illinois, I was back at the sports anchoring grind on Friday. Two weeks ago, I felt that I was slowly improving on my achoring skills, but still did not feel the need to practice too much. But after Friday's performance, I think I need to practice outside of work and before the preshow.
Everything was going smoothly with sports producing as it always does. I had a decent size sports block with a package about Eastern Illinois' new soccer recruits, men's and women's basketball, and of course a play-by-play of this past Thurday's Eastern Illinois men's basketball team.
Finished everything well before five o'clock, got ready, then headed down to the studio to kill it. As soon as it was my time to shine, I read the first story perfectly. But then the dreaded play-by-play came and of couse I stumbled. Right before going off cam, I dropped my script about the plays to be read. I recovered, picked them back up, and stumbled through the play-by-play. Since I don't give two fucks about Eastern Illinios athletics I do not know any of the athletes' names.
I believe if it was professional sports or even top tier collegiate athletics I would know all the athletes and would be able to ad lib the whole thing. But whatever, got through the rest of the show, and drank afterwards so it was all good.
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