Welcome to the Sportswatch Team Blog. We’ll be posting comments, opinions and stories here that we hope you find interesting about local sports, our sports coverage and the athletes and people associated with sports in our area. We hope to answer questions and let you know some behind-the-scenes issues in local sports, both good and bad. I’ll begin with one of the most asked questions in my tenure here at WSEE.
“How do you determine what games to cover ??”

It’s pretty simple…..stories and game hilites that are of most interest to our viewers take priority. But there is more to it. A lot of it depends on how many photogs are available to shoot these games. Apparently, some fans believe we have an endless number of people to shoot games, which of course, is not the case. We must pick and choose those games that are of most interest and try to get hilites. Where the games are played is another factor. For example, do we send one photog a hour out of town to get one game, or keep the photog around here to get two or three games. Decisions that are made on a daily and weekly basis. Sure, it would be great to get all the games on a Friday night but I think we do a pretty good job of getting to as many as possible, and that’s what makes my job enjoyable.

We’ll be posting other comments and opinions in the future, but at least to begin our journey on this blog, a little insight into game coverage and what goes into making those decisions.

Some some random sports throughts as we wind our way through another summer here on the shores of Lake Erie. You did not get an appreciation of how tough Oakmont was from just watching the US Open on TV. See-ing it in person made you realize just how tough the course set up and the greens were playing. What a tough way to make a living......
Jack Nicklaus once said, "Golf is a game of precision, not power." Watching the Nationwide Tour event at the Peek brought that out. Lots of big hitters in pro golf, even at that level. The ones who kept it on the fairway and made the putts were the contenders, not the big hitters. I talked with Jeff Wood who AVERAGES, 320 yards off the tee. He was no where near the top of the leaderboard. Big off the tee, but couldn't score about the green. Nice event to cover though, up and coming pros in a tournament that is run first class.
I like to watch this summer's edition of the Erie Seawolves. Lots of offense and play fundamentally good baseball, perhaps one of the best bunting teams in the league. They have so good starting pitching too. That adds us to contender status and if they can keep the team together, I think they have a good shot at winning the Eastern League title this season. Remember that statement in Mid-September.
Once the All-Star break is over, I start getting anxious for the football season to start. Camps open in late July, the SAVE-AN-EYE game is Friday July 27th, NFL Pre-Season begins in early August. Just like that, it's football season. We plan to hit the local NFL camps and put together our half hour football special in late August. I've been doing a show like this for probably close to 20-years now and it never gets old, always fun to do .
Finally, speaking of half hour shows, I'm pretty proud of the product we put out week by week on our Sunday night show, Sportswatch Magazine. It's a lot of local stuff jammed into each half hour and we crank it out week after week after week. Hilites, in-depth interviews, special features. We talk to coaches, players, celebrities..you name it...we'll have it and we'll have it in depth on that show. No ten second soundbites here. You get the full story. Check it out at 11-pm every Sunday night and let me know what you think.