Hochman: A dream job becomes a reality - STLtoday.com
I can’t believe I’m typing this sentence, but I’m sitting in the press box at Busch, the “toothbrush” stadium lights illuminating the night, while I write my first column for the Post-Dispatch. I used to read Word Up Magazine, and Bernie Miklasz’s columns in the Post-Dispatch. Sure, we all read Bernie, but I wanted to be Bernie – the irresistible, unmistakable sports voice of St. Louis. When I became sports columnist for The Denver Post, it felt surreal – surreal. – that Bernie and I had the same job. As he’s moved on to a new venture, imagine how I feel now that I have Bernie’s actual job. it was a BMW … no, I’m kidding, and to be honest, I didn’t even get a car until Mizzou — my mom’s maroon Honda station wagon, which was perfect for lugging luggage across I-70 and for not getting dates). I graduated Mizzou in 2002, and I wrote in New Orleans and Denver before coming home, and man, what a time to opine. The Rams might actually make the playoffs — and then might actually leave. Oh, and perhaps the top prep basketball player in the land is our town’s Jayson Tatum, and homegrown soccer studs Becky Sauerbrunn and Lori Chalupny recently won the World Cup. Louis sports. I’ve lived St. Louis sports. Source: www.stltoday.com
