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Spring trainings were always my favorite times of the year when I was a young broadcaster. My days were spent just hanging around and watching all of the activities, sitting back and enjoying the antics of the players, and, oh yeah, getting some sound bytes here and there.
Based in Miami, I got to cover the Baltimore Orioles who were in town, the Montreal Expos who were in West Palm Beach, but I was mostly assigned as the beat reporter for coverage of the New York Yankees in Fort Lauderdale. Yankees, not Mets.
As a baseball nut, it was Utopia for me. But I was kind of disappointed that I didn’t see a lot of the Mets since they were on the west coast in St. Petersburg, way out of our coverage area. But in covering the Yankees, I did get to see the Mets the few times they bussed it down to Fort Lauderdale.
Alan Karmin is an award-winning journalist and author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his life growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. Alan's family were avid Brooklyn Dodgers fans and when the Dodgers moved west, the Mets became the team to root for. The Mets have always been a true focal point, Alan even wrote a term paper in high school to analyze what was wrong with the Mets. While at the University of Miami, Alan honed his craft covering the, gulp, Yankees during spring trainings in Fort Lauderdale for a local NBC affiliate, as well as the Associated Press and UPI. He broadcasted baseball games for the University of Miami, and spring training games for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos. New York Mets Mania is a forum for Alan to write about his favorite team and for baseball fans to chime in and provide their thoughts and ideas about New York's Amazin' Mets.
