[Husker] Kansas City Royals (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> Denny, Fred (White) and now Ryan (Lefebvre) have all made summers enjoyable listing to Royals baseball even if they don't make the playoffs every year like they did in the late 70's and early 80's. 
> 
> Congratulations Denny on a well deserved honor.

No apologies needed, Gary.  It's a well-earned honor, and I, for one,
was delighted to read the news.

More than a few of us have spent many hours listening to Denny Matthews, 
so he's been a big part of the sports landscape around here even if he 
had no association with the Huskers.  Unfortunately, I don't think the 
Royals games have been on any Lincoln stations for a few years.  

Baseball play-by-play is IMHO one of the hardest jobs in sports broadcasting, 
because there's so much time to fill.  I can't even imagine how the 
old-timers did it off Western Union.  They do a couple of short takes on 
that in "Bull Durham" (without a doubt the best baseball movie ever made), 
though I kept having flashbacks to an old "I Love Lucy" episode.
--
Mike Nolan