Bobby is currently the General Manager and Assistant Publisher at the Daily Statesman after serving his term as Managing Editor. He wears many hats in the office, including coordinator of all things online, but his real passion is sports.

In the spotlight

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008, at 2:35 PM

The talking head was way up there!

Have you ever been on TV?

Doesn't it seem that wherever you go and there is a television camera nearby people are jockeying for position to get into the scene? Some people want to blend into the background and look like someone important with a cell phone stuck to the side of their head. Others are telling Mom "HI" and then the bold ones just walk right into the forefront wanting to be seen by all.

Sports venues are a great place to witness it all!

Without asking for it (seriously), I innocently went to a Cardinals game this past weekend and wound up with my talking mug on the BIG screen centerfield scoreboard at Busch Stadium in the middle of the 6th inning. Really didn't see it coming.

Prior to the game a camera crew was randomnly asking fans a simple question, "Which current Cardinal player would you like to see in the Hall of Fame and why?" I thought I gave a pretty good answer but never expected to see my head blown up to 80 feet wide on the scoreboard and hear my voice boom through Busch Stadium! I looked and sounded great talking about the things that Albert Pujols does off the field with his native country and Down's Syndrome and everything he gives back to the community and being nominated for the Roberto Clemente Award!

I've been on television for several different reasons over the years; sports, music, fire/rescue, meetings, etc. NOTHING BAD OR ILLEGAL!!!!!! I have even spotted myself on Sportscenter and the CBS Evening News but I must admit that the coolest experience was at Busch Stadium with 45,000 of my closest friends!

Do you have any good or bad "get on tv" stories?

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I was on KFVS12 during the job fair from a few months ago. I was babbling on about how bad the economy was and yada yada yada. Though I'm not usually one to wear make-up, I was VERY thankful I wore it that day!

-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 3:19 PM
Funny! I was on KFVS babbling on & on about a new school building we had just built - how much more quiet it was in the halls than the old building. It was Open House and I was glad I was dressed up!

-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 4:56 PM
I used to do public service announcements on tv. I remember one that I did at a St. Louis station. It began "In the next 60 seconds, let's talk about sex." Needless to say, the topic was teen pregnancies. My ex saw it and called me up just to let me know that he had seen me on tv at one in the morning.

-- Posted by ct on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 5:10 PM
Woodstock '94......Man, was I messed up. Don't know who picked out the white dress and the flower in my hair looked horrible. Makeup running everywhere, voice terribly off key. I let my band down and haven't been the same since.

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 11:04 PM
I saw Hoon on KFVS that time she got picked up for shoplifting at the makeup counter. She was holding a sign with some numbers on it under her face.

-- Posted by reggiewayne on Fri, Sep 12, 2008, at 11:19 AM
Not quite Television, but I did make an advertisement in a Better Homes and Gardens magazine when I was a child. We had gone to Disneyland in CA the summer before my 6th grade year. Someone in the crowd snapped a shot and several months later my dad was looking through a BH&G magazine and there I was...right there with Minnie Mouse. :) It said something about going a different route to avoid the crowds. I had some groovy red shorts on with big ole' flowers on them. Still have the magazine, but I ditched the shorts years ago! Thank goodness.

-- Posted by Amanda on Fri, Sep 12, 2008, at 1:32 PM
RW: Thas after Woodstock '94 when my life started going downhill.

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Sat, Sep 13, 2008, at 6:46 AM
I was on YouTube for skinny skiing.

-- Posted by Jim Morrison on Thu, Sep 18, 2008, at 1:30 AM
I have also been on the screen at Busch and the Redbirds park in Memphis for an interview. They gave me a bag of junk.

-- Posted by Jim Morrison on Thu, Sep 18, 2008, at 1:31 AM
Years ago my husband and I took our first born to the Semo Fair, and he was riding the merry-go-round when the KFVS crew showed up. We stood there like idiots, motioning for our son to wave at the camera. That night we watched to see if our precious boy was on TV, and there - in a split second shot - was my husband's whiskered face looking out from one of those oval mirrors on the merry-go-round! What a creative crop job!

My father-in-law actually saw the shot, but he couldn't be sure, since it was so fast. I wish I had that photo now...

-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Sep 18, 2008, at 7:37 AM
Hoon is a she???? come on!!!!!!!

-- Posted by changedname on Thu, Sep 18, 2008, at 8:39 PM
Naw, that's one of ct's theories, and I think the hoonster is just playing along for kicks. He's thoroughly male through and through. Haven't you seen him drooling over Sarah Palin??

He's gonna start a petition to make HER president and McCain her VICE. (As long as she keeps wearing skirts...)

-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Sep 18, 2008, at 9:51 PM
Not my theory! I knew from the get-go Hoon was a guy! Besides, didn't you read my conspiracy theory? That the regular bloggers are the alter egos for Statesman staff. Plus, if anybody wants to talk Woodstock, let's talk about the original one, which was so far above and beyond that cheap imitation Woodstock. No comparison!

-- Posted by ct on Wed, Sep 24, 2008, at 3:10 PM
Ok, I believe you. It was just a thought. I'm enjoying the bloggers, too, or I wouldn't keep checking in every so often.

-- Posted by ct on Thu, Sep 25, 2008, at 11:42 AM

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