Play-by-Playcast Ep. 78 (Jake Zivin / Portland Timbers)

The first MLS broadcaster to appear on Play-by-PlayCast, Jake Zivin joins us from Portland, Oregon this week.  Zivin talks about his move from the TV 'sports-on-news' world into the TV play-by-play world in a full-time gig with the Portland Timbers.  A big-time soccer fan, Zivin got his start in broadcasting working behind the scenes with ESPN while in college...studying numbers, not broadcasting.  His path took him from the midwest to the pacific northwest and the rest is history.  Jake also talks about the actual mechanics of calling a soccer game on both radio and TV and talks language of soccer too -- internationally and for an American audience.  It's an episode of the pod like we haven't had before, so soccer fans get ready to sink your teeth into this one.