People I (Sort Of) Know: Voice of the Atlanta Braves Ben Ingram

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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Chase Parham calls up Ben Ingram, the radio play-by-play voice of the Atlanta Braves. Ben is a Madison, Mississippi, native who got his start calling Minor League Games including with the Jackson Senators and Mississippi Braves. They discuss Ben's day to day in the booth, the prep that goes into a broadcast, his World Series clinching call from last season, some of the things he looks for during games and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's People I Sort of No podcast.
0:10.6	I'm Chase Pard.
0:11.4	Thank you for all the comments, all the listens on last week's debut episode with
0:16.1	Aaron Napier of HGTV hometown.
0:18.8	This week we're going to talk to Ben Ingram.
0:20.2	He's the radio voice of the Atlanta Braves.
0:22.9	He's been doing play-by-play for the Braves alongside Jim Powell and Joe Simpson for several years now.
0:29.9	He's a Madison, Mississippi native.
0:31.7	He's an Ole Miss fan.
0:33.1	We talk a little baseball as far as the rebels winning the national championship for the end of the show.
0:38.3	But a lot of the show today about his day to days in the middle of baseball season.
0:41.6	He has the call from the World Series last year as the Braves won the world title last year in the
0:49.8	2021-1 World Series over the Houston Astros.
0:52.6	So again, we talk a little bit about what his day
0:54.3	to day looks like, how he operates, how he preps, what he's looking for during a broadcast,
0:59.2	and much more. He's just a really interesting guy, obviously being a radio voice, someone
1:05.8	who has tons of interesting stories and many, many things. So we're going to get to that here
1:10.6	now on the people I Sort of the podcast.
1:13.3	Again, thanks to all you guys.
1:14.5	I really appreciate it.
1:15.4	I think you'll really enjoy Ben Ingram coming up right now.
1:19.0	He is the radio Play-by-Playboy Boys for the Atlanta Braves.
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