"There's a new rooftop bar that just opened up down here. Got to see Taj Bradley again, who won most outstanding pitcher in this league last season, and now he's in the Rays rotation."Ĭongratulations again to Thank you and your voice will be missed in The Gump! □ /L63O7mTPsy- Montgomery Biscuits June 19, 2023Īs Adams-Wall contemplated his then-imminent and now-in-the-rearview final call with the Biscuits, he said it would be emotional. "I remember when I went down for my interview, Josh Lowe giving me some crap when when he saw me on the field, like, 'Who let him in here?' He was here in 2019. "I look at the Tampa Bay Rays roster right now, and about half of them at one point came through the Biscuits," he said. And so I feel extraordinarily grateful that that happened."Īdams-Wall was feeling some understandable anxiety as he simultaneously closed out his Biscuits tenure while preparing for his job with the Rays, but it's not as though he's going into a wholly unfamiliar situation. But Joe gave me that chance and so did Aaron. I did some in college, right? Football, basketball, hockey, but never baseball. 2, learned how to broadcast baseball, even though I had never broadcast a game of baseball in my life. It has been the best experience of my life, though. "And so then I became one of the first people, I think, in human history to move from Los Angeles, California, to Montgomery, Alabama. And then I started to talk to Joe, you know, we became good friends."ĭavis, a man with Biscuit connections, put Adams-Wall in touch with Vargas. And I'm sitting there wondering, 'How am I the same age as this guy?' I'm the lowest guy on the totem pole. My second year doing that job, the lead play-by-play guy on our crew was Joe Davis. And I was working on a remote production crew, working college football games. "I was working as a production assistant at Fox Sports in Los Angeles. "I ended up with the Biscuits because of Joe Davis," said Adams-Wall. Yes, that Joe Davis, who succeeded Vin Scully in the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast booth and also serves as Fox Sports' lead baseball broadcaster. He called his first game with the club in 2015, working alongside lead broadcaster Aaron Vargas, who had taken over for Joe Davis. Summing it up, Adam-Walls said he was "very happy" - of course, he's going to the Major Leagues! - as well as "very sad." The melancholy amid the joy was having to say goodbye to the Biscuits organization and its fans. The Montgomery Biscuits dugout, as seen during the June 16 game against the Biloxi Shuckers. I want to finish strong, but I'm also focusing on what the Rays are doing, because that's going to be what I'm doing going forward." It's also tough, though, because I'm trying to do a good job here. "I heard from a lot of people I hadn't heard from in a long time. It went public yesterday," he said between swigs from a gallon-sized jug of spring water. Hasn't really sunk in, even though I found out last week. It was between games of a doubleheader, and his antepenultimate outing as the Biscuits' broadcaster was imminent. This writer caught up with Adams-Wall last Friday at Montgomery's Riverwalk Stadium. He will make his Major League debut Thursday.īroadcaster is headed to He will join as the pre & postgame host!Ĭhris is so, so deserving of this and we wish him all the best! /d9SJyOfqjF- Montgomery Biscuits June 15, 2023 Adams-Wall is a homegrown talent, arriving in Tampa after spending the past seven-and-a-half seasons doing play-by-play for the Rays' Double-A affiliate, the Montgomery Biscuits. He's going to the pre- and postgame show, to be exact, hosting both as the newest member of the Tampa Bay Rays broadcast team. After a long stint with the Double-A club, Chris Adams-Wall finally got the call: He's going to The Show.
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