Kevin Egan on hosting MLS 360 and transitioning from calling WWE matches
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Episode 398 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Kevin Egan, the lead host for MLS 360, the weekly whip-around show on MLS Season Pass. In this podcast, Egan discusses the premise of MLS Season Pass; how a whip-around show for soccer works; his on-air colleagues Sacha Kljestan, Kaylyn Kyle, and Bradley Wright-Phillips; the transition from calling MLS matches to hosting; the challenge of maintaining a career in the US as a soccer broadcaster; what Leo Messi has meant to MLS; working for WWE for three years; the challenges of calling pro wrestling; why he left WWE; advice from John Cena; how welcoming Becky Lynch, Edge and others were to him and more.  You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Richard Dych. |
| 0:11.8 | My producer Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:13.3 | One guest this week, but a really, really interesting guy. |
| 0:16.4 | Kevin Egan is the host for MLS 360, and's their weekly whip around show on MLSDs and |
| 0:22.6 | pass essentially think of that as you would Scott Hansing doing red zone because it sort |
| 0:28.6 | of provides the same thing the difference of course is that Kevin works with three analysts so |
| 0:34.2 | it's sort of a conversational red zone, if you will. |
| 0:39.1 | But he has had a really, really fascinating career. |
| 0:43.3 | Prior to doing an MLS season past, |
| 0:45.9 | he's been a play-by-play announcer for MLS teams, |
| 0:49.4 | worked in Ireland for, you know, |
| 0:53.2 | sort of covering global news and was a play-by-play announcer |
| 0:59.3 | on both Monday Night Raw and Smackdown under the name of Kevin Patrick. So if you are a |
| 1:04.1 | WWE fan, you know who Kevin Patrick is, but his given name is Kevin Egan and now is a soccer broadcaster for Apple TV and hosts a |
| 1:14.6 | really, really interesting and fun watch. So I'm psyched to have him on, especially his |
| 1:18.9 | rivalry week is coming up in MLS. So Kevin Egan coming up on the sports media podcast. |
| 1:27.4 | All right, as I said at the top, you know, anybody's listening to this podcast. All right. |
| 1:28.1 | As I said at the top, you know, anybody who's listening to this podcast knows that I find |
| 1:33.2 | professional wrestling fascinating. |
| 1:34.9 | And so anytime anybody has even a sort of slightly has to dip their toe in that, you |
| 1:41.1 | know, they're always interesting to me, particularly those who have experience in traditional sports. |
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