{"id":9274,"date":"2015-02-20T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9274"},"modified":"2015-09-24T14:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:42:56","slug":"how-i-got-here-patrick-mccarthy-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9274","title":{"rendered":"How I Got Here: Patrick McCarthy \u201918"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The son of Phillies\u2019 broadcaster Tom McCarthy \u201990, Pat hopes to continue in the family business. He\u2019s off to a great start at TCNJ, where he does play-by-play for live web streams of Lions games. The sophomore communications major, who transferred from Syracuse, is also a relief pitcher on TCNJ\u2019s baseball team. <\/em><\/p>\n

\"TCNJ_Pat_011FINAL\"<\/em>I originally went to Syracuse because the communications program was too good to pass up. I made a lot of great memories there, but the distance from home just became too much. When I decided to transfer, I knew TCNJ was where I wanted to be.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve called everything from football to field hockey here and it\u2019s been an awesome experience. Had I stayed at Syracuse, there\u2019s a chance I wouldn\u2019t have gotten on the air until my junior or senior year.<\/p>\n

My partner in the booth is senior Chris Drabik. Our first broadcast together was the football game against Ursinus. That was also the first time we spoke to each other. We just got in the booth and went with it. Now that we\u2019ve been calling games together for several months, we\u2019re getting a rhythm down. We still struggle at times, but we\u2019re making strides. I think by the end of basketball season it\u2019s going to sound pretty close to a legit broadcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest role model in broadcasting is obviously my dad. He listens to all of my broadcasts and gives me pointers, which is pretty cool.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My biggest role model in broadcasting is obviously my dad. He listens to all of my broadcasts and gives me pointers, which is pretty cool. One of the most important things he taught me was to not be afraid to take my time. A lot of play-by-play guys who are starting out feel the need to rush their delivery to keep up with the action. It\u2019s more important to get the call right.<\/p>\n

I was a two-sport athlete in high school, but I was actually a lot better at basketball than baseball. Then one summer I started messing around in the outfield, throwing submarine style. I asked my coach if I could give it a try. He watched me throw a bullpen session and saw enough to give me a shot in a game. I ended up pitching two scoreless innings that summer.<\/p>\n

I kept working on my delivery at Syracuse, where I played club baseball, and at a sports training facility near home. What started as a joke has resurrected my baseball career; had I not done it, I wouldn\u2019t be playing baseball at TCNJ. It\u2019s been a godsend and a really cool experience.<\/p>\n

\u2014as told to Brandon Gould<\/em><\/p>\n

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The son of Phillies\u2019 broadcaster Tom McCarthy \u201990, Pat hopes to continue in the family business. He\u2019s off to a great start at TCNJ, where he does play-by-play for live web streams of Lions games. The sophomore communications major, who transferred from Syracuse, is also a relief pitcher on TCNJ\u2019s baseball team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lions-roar","category-on-campus","category-winter-2015"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}