![]() But it’s just funny when I look back at it now, I think that’s the reason why I went in the direction of pivoting toward the human interest side of the sport rather than trying to be the person who gets hyper analytical and breaks down the mechanics. Everybody always thinks, oh you played soft ball. But contact, hand-eye coordination-heavy sports, no. Then I did dance and cheerleading and stuff like that. I had one not great year of running track and field back in high school. We always joke, I did not inherit the athletic gene in the family. But you just organically came to love it. Most women who are really into sports either played sports or have a whole lot of brothers. And once we started going to baseball games, for whatever reason, my brain just latched onto that 10 times harder and I wanted to know every little detail about the sports. I never realized until I got older and would watch the way other kids were at sporting events and they would want to get souvenirs or cotton candy and my sister and I were the ones that were plugged into our seats, asking our parents about things that were going on, being in awe of our dad’s. So that’s what we did for fun-me, my mom, dad, and sister were just always at different events. We lived in the heart of SEC Country when it came to football. Living in Atlanta, there was just so much going on, especially given that it was the mid ’90s so we had the Olympics and the Braves were on a streak. How did you get into sports? I grew up around sports. We chatted with Newman over Zoom, where she discussed her unprecedented new role, muting haters on Twitter, and how the human side of sports is her jam. This game is so complex and so awesome, you see something new every day,” Tiedemann said.It’s hard to believe, but Melanie Newman, 29, is the first female broadcaster to do play-by-play for the Baltimore Orioles in the team’s history-and only the fourth female in the broadcast booth in all of Major League Baseball. Deeper than that, I love picking the brain of our manager (Chad Epperson) and our coaching staff and our players, literally learning something new every day about the game of baseball. Cameron said he expects with her talent, she will move on to a higher level of baseball sooner rather than later. Tiedemann is just the fifth lead play-by-play radio voice in the 30-year history of the Sea Dogs. When the team is on the road, she stays in Portland and works the radio board while Tiedemann broadcasts the game. I think that says a lot to everybody who is listening,” Pay said. It’s very obvious when she calls games how much she loves it. The way she understands the game is something that really impresses me. “She calls it exactly like it is, and she calls it in a way that’s simple to understand for everybody. Pay said she’s learning a lot from watching the natural eye Tiedemann has for the game. On Opening Night, Tiedemann and Pay each got to call a Sea Dogs home run, an early highlight of the season. Related Sea Dogs’ first female coach already having an impact on Red Sox prospects She had Cameron, Iacuessa and others in the front office listen to tapes and offer feedback. ![]() Tiedemann listened to tapes sent by approximately six dozen candidates, first whittling the list down to 20, then 10, before conducting Zoom interviews with the top candidates. There wasn’t a mandate to hire a woman, only to hire the best candidate. She feels she has a duty to really take that lead to pave the way for more women in the industry,” Cameron said. ![]() “She’s taken it upon herself to mentor any young broadcaster, but particularly young women. Tiedemann was put in charge of hiring his replacement by Geoff Iacuessa, the Sea Dogs general manager, and Chris Cameron, the team’s vice president of communications and fan experience. Last season, Tiedemann worked with and mentored Riley Edwards, who this season moved on to Kentucky to be the play-by-play voice of the Bowling Green Hot Rods, a Class A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays. I knew it was going to be worth the wait whenever we did play baseball,” said Tiedemann, now in her 10th season working in baseball. The Sea Dogs take such pride in their broadcasts. “I’ve always felt so supported with the Sea Dogs. Before coming to Portland, Tiedemann called games for the Lexington (Kentucky) Legends, a Class A team, for two years. Tiedemann was named the Sea Dogs radio announcer in March 2020, then had to wait for more than a year to call her first game when the season was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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