This new guy is going to be just fine

While checking the mysa.com for news about the Missions, I found this story from last week about Brian Anderson. He was the radio announcer for the Missions is is now the new TV announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers.

Anderson's artwork at Wolff leads to Brewers job

A half-hour before Brian Anderson's first radio broadcast, amid the chaos of the first game at Wolff Stadium, a man arrived at the press box with a telegram for him.

Anderson was stunned, especially considering the recent St. Mary's graduate had never even seen a telegram. It was from his father in Austin, and it contained one simple bit of advice for a play-by-play man: "Paint me a picture."

He did at the Missions game that night — April 18, 1994 — and more than a thousand times afterward, from El Paso to Jackson, Miss., from 1994-98 and 2000-03. He developed a polished, traditional style, one that meshed well with veteran partner Roy Acuff.

Read the whole story to find out who sent the telegram and a lot of other good stuff about the new member of the Brewer broadcast team.