Hi, everyone, welcome to the Sports Spectrum Minute here on the Sports Spectrum podcast.

Today we look back to 2019, and Melanie Newman, who was a guest on the show back then and is now one of the pioneers in Major League Baseball.

She's a radio and television play-by-play broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles, one of only four

female play-by-play broadcasters that's active in Major League Baseball.

And she also is part of the national Friday night baseball broadcast on Apple TV Plus.

She's a pioneer in broadcasting, especially in the world of baseball.

And by the way, she's really good at what she does.

When we talked to her in 2019, this was before she had kind of blown up and had this

big-time MLB opportunity.

And she talked then about the importance of just waking up every day and thanking God for

the blessings that he bestows upon us.

Take a listen to Melanie Newman here on the Sports Spectrum Minute.

When you've got those time constraints and you're on three hours of sleep that just kind of,

it gets you through it.

But at night, regardless of what time I have or if I'm sleeping on a bus, I have a journal with me and I actually started doing this four years ago.

But all it is is one line a day of what was good that day.

And I call it a blessings book.

That's cool.

Yeah. So basically you look back on your year and all you have is just a list of the good

stuff.

So, you know, it can, it can rain and your car breaks down and everything else goes wrong,

but your friend brought you a coffee into work.

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