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I Am Really Glad I Chose The Right Quincy
Forty-three years ago today I worked my first day on the air in Quincy. How that came to be is a little bizarre. I call it destiny! After a four-year tenure in Kansas City at what is now KCFX Radio (formerly KIEE Radio) I agreed to take an on-air and play-by-play position with WTAD here in Quincy. I never even applied for the position.
By chance Gary Schmedding, the Operations Director of WTAD, was in Kansas City and heard me on the air and out of the blue offered me the position. That offer only came after Mel and El Tappe of Quincy decided they didn’t want to continue to do play by play at WTAD which opened up a spot for me.
Odd winning formula: Make more runs than hits! By JohnW53 on Apr 29, 2021, 7:20am CDT +
In 4 of their first 24 games this season, the Cubs have scored more runs than they made hits.
They won 2 of the games, 4-3 vs. the Pirates and 16-4 vs. the Mets. They lost to the Pirates, 5-3, and to the Braves, 8-7.
In the win over the Mets, they made 13 hits. In none of the others did they make more than 6.
I wondered if that had been typical of the Cubs throughout the Modern Era. I suspected that they rarely won when their hit total was lower than their run total, especially when that total was in single digits.