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Welcome back to why I'm interested. This is Greenie back with you and this week it is really going to be a pleasure for me to get a chance to chat with someone that I don't get to see nearly often enough anymore and that is my longtime friend Mike Tereco who I would argue is as talented as any

talent in our business. There is no one I would say is just flat out better than Mike Tereco is at at sports broadcasting.

I have for the longest time believed that Bob Kostis was the best and most talented broadcaster in sports because I thought there was nothing he

couldn't do as well as anyone else could do it and I would put Mike Tereco directly

in that category. He's obviously brilliant play-by-play and brilliant as a studio host and brilliant as a talk show host and what I will tell you about him now that was something that I have no I don't think for one second he would even remember.

But the last week of July of 1996,

when I was working as an anchor at CL TV, Chicago Land TV, the 24 hour local cable news channel in Chicago

and hosting talk shows part time on WSCR radio in Chicago, the All Sports talk station at the time.

I was invited to come audition

for a job as an anchor on ESPM,

which at that time, and I suppose to this day, is sort of like being called up to the majors if you are a young and aspiring sports broadcaster.

And the way it worked then was you came, they brought you out to Bristol, Connecticut.

I spent the night in the Clarion Hotel, which was across the street from the

SPN studios.

And then they brought me over

and I spent about two hours with a producer

writing up a sports cast and then I walked onto the legendary iconic Sports

Center set of the time and I actually did about a 12-minute sports cast and that was

my audition. So I remember I was walking towards the Sports Center said and at that time the preeminent

Sports Center anchor team of the moment was Dan Patrick and Keith Oldman.

And I remember thinking to myself,

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