Life of a BA

When people ask me what I do and I tell them that I'm a "Broadcast Associate" (more commonly referred to as a BA) they usually look at me with a blank stare. I then proceed to explain to them that I work in baseball production for FOX Sports. Another blank stare.

When I tell them I do the graphics for the "FOX Saturday Game of the Week" with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver their eyes light up and they think I have the greatest job in the world.

Well guess what? I do have the greatest job in the world. I get paid to watch baseball games.

What they don't see is the maniacs that I have to deal with on a weekly basis, the cross-country travel, the long hours, the requests that grown men should be embarrassed to ask, not to mention the