While I understand the pull of the Leafs and the Raptors, it always bugs me that the one station in town with the radio rights to the World Series only airs it in a (base) hit-and-miss way.
 
Game 2 was nowhere to be found in this market, with the Leafs playing Winnipeg Wednesday night and I had to tune into a less than wonderful signal on WMVP in Chicago. I know hockey is the priority for the Fan, but it’s too bad they couldn’t have farmed it out somewhere else.
 
Which is a long winded way of saying I missed the moment many are talking about today. There was a power failure in the radio booths of those doing the play-by-play of the game on ESPN, the Red Sox broadcaster and the Dodgers’ Spanish language feed. (The TV side was apparently unaffected.)
 
It came at a very dramatic time in the contest, with Boston loading the bases in the fifth inning. And that’s when ESPN Radio's Dan Shulman showed how savvy he was. He didn’t miss a beat, calling up master control on his cell and having them feed the audio out by phone until the problem was fixed.
 
Shulman, of course, provides play-by-play for the Jays home games during the regular season and I believe that with Jerry Howarth now retired, he’s the true shining star in that broadcast booth. He certainly came through this time when those around him were losing their heads.
 
Hopefully, some of his efforts in the next week will wind up airing here.    
 
World Series radio broadcasts lose power at worst possible time