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Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Sport
- Boston Globe
NESN's all-female broadcast booth ready for Tuesday's Red Sox game: ‘Once the first pitch is thrown, we just do our job'
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up In other words, she's there to do her job. Just like Tiedemann. Advertisement These women get it: This particular iteration of their professional life is noteworthy. It is the first all-female broadcast team and all-female broadcast booth for a complete game in Red Sox history, a crew specifically hired by NESN for Women's Celebration Night at Fenway Park that includes Kasey Hudson at field level, Natalie Noury and Jen McCaffrey in the studio, and Amy Kaplan and Anna Gregoire in producer roles. But for all of them, the 'job' part is what matters most. Advertisement 'It's exciting and some may think it's unique, but for us, if you look at our résumés collectively, we have decades of experience, and once the first pitch is thrown, we just do our job,' Rizzo said. 'Emma's calling the game, I'm doing my tidbits. We love the game, we do the work, and it's important to recognize that we appreciate the opportunity. 'But I can't wait till it's not a big deal anymore.' Ditto for Tiedemann, whose first foray into calling a game came by the side of her grandfather, Texas sportscaster Bill Mercer, but was honed by hard work, beginning with a post-college job doing play-by-play for the Mat-Su Miners of the Alaskan summer league to her current job calling games for the Portland Sea Dogs, the Red Sox' Double A affiliate. 'I started loving all sports as a little girl, but I really came to love baseball through play-by-play and calling games every day for a season up in Alaska, that's how I fell in love with the sport itself, learning from players, learning about the art of broadcasting,' she said. 'The groundbreaking stuff has come along with it, but the forefront for me is putting on a headset.' Emma Tiedemann has been the radio play-by-play voice of the Portland Sea Dogs since 2021. Jim Davis/Globe Staff She's right. But for now, we still mark, notice, and celebrate nights such as this, because they are what make the vision of a different, less-notable future seem possible, perhaps even inevitable. Only with intentionality such as NESN is showing here, efforts such as their Women of NESN initiative to broaden opportunity for those long shut out from this male-dominated field, are new habits formed. Habits where viewers and/or listeners don't judge by the sound of the voice they hear, but by what they are saying instead. Advertisement 'I'm a sucker for a pitchers' duel,' Tiedemann said. 'I love that game of chess, the pitcher having to adjust on the mound. On the Double A level [in Portland], pitching seems to take a leap, seeing a guy work the second or third time through the lineup, leaning on the fastball the first time through, the curveball the second time through. I love pitching. 'But we also have been very fortunate with Ceddanne Rafaela's defense, seen multiple home run-robbing catches. He's the only player that has changed the way I call fly balls to center field, where I've had to adjust to a player's defense. Balls that were doubles for most players, Ceddanne was making catches. He made me fall in love with that first step on a fly ball.' For Rizzo, 'it's more about the storytelling and relationships of players. I'm drawn to finding out what makes this person unique off the field, to take viewers someplace they're not allowed to go. Yes, they're millionaires who make a lot of money, but they're humans, not robots, and I love the human interest side of things. There are only 780 people that start on a major league roster every season — they are one of the 1 percent. It's difficult to do what these guys do and that's more of what draws me to the sport, the storytelling, being the liaison between the players on the field and the fans at home.' Advertisement That path, from the ballpark to your living room, is the one that drives them most. But another path, from those who've gone before them to those who dream of following in their footsteps, that one matters so much, too. Tara Sullivan is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at
Boston Globe
01-08-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Tuesday's Red Sox game will feature all-female broadcast crew
Worcester Red Sox and Hockey East reporter Natalie Noury will anchor the studio show, and The Athletic's Jen McCaffrey will be an on-air analyst. Veteran Red Sox producer Amy Kaplan will be at the helm of the game production, while producer Anna Gregoire will lead the studio production. It's the second time Tiedemann will join the Red Sox' broadcast booth, after she and former Sea Dogs play-by-play voice Rylee Pay Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Tiedemann and Pay were the second all-female broadcast duo in baseball history. Melanie Newman and Suzie Cool were the first, for the Single A Salem Red Sox in 2019. Advertisement Women are outnumbered by men in the field of sports media. As of 2021, women made up 19.3 percent of sports media staffs across the United States, The all-female broadcast team is part of the network's 'Women of NESN' initiative, an effort to increase the visibility of women and women's sports across the network. It began as an internal resource group for female employees at NESN seven years ago. Advertisement Tuesday's first pitch against the Royals is slated for 7:10 p.m., and the game will be shown on NESN and NESN 360. Emma Healy can be reached at
Miami Herald
19-05-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Market volatility leaves some uneasy about 401(k) retirement investments
Bill Tiedemann is keeping a close eye on his retirement accounts these days. The 66-year-old resident of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, knows better than to make knee-jerk changes to the long-term plan. But a nosediving stock market still spurred some anxiety in him last month, as President Donald Trump's evolving but turbulent tariff policy caused wider strife among investors. At its worst, near Liberation Day on April 2, Tiedemann estimates his investments lost about 20% in value. In the weeks since, while U.S. stocks have seen major recovery amid a cooling trade war, he says they are now up about 5%. "I think we all are anxious," Tiedemann said. "But if you are smart with your investments, you don't move them." Many investors are breathing a sigh of relief as the S&P 500 returned to profitable territory this week, wiping out losses that had piled up since its February high point. Still in the red this year are the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, though both are closer to regaining the same ground held in January. Months before sweeping tariff policies roiled the stock market, Thrivent Chief Financial and Investment Officer David Royal expected greater volatility this year. The executive at the Minneapolis-based financial services provider based his theory on last year's relatively low volatility, paired with increased pressure on the Fed to keep inflation in check and the job economy strong. Although tariffs have been a driver, Royal said simultaneous risks of inflation and reduced economic growth expectations "caused even more volatility than I or probably anyone envisioned." He said it typically takes longer for economic weaknesses to show up in data than inflation, potentially making it "very easy for (the Fed) to get behind the curve." Royal has predicted conservative growth in the stock market for the full year. "But it's going to feel like you've gone through a roller coaster ride," Royal said. "I think that's what we're seeing this year: The mirror image of last year." Such outlooks are likely to test the mettle of people who are building 401(k) plans or depending on them for retirement. Lou Anne Sexton, 63, of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, retired from St. Thomas University in January and lately has wondered if it was the right call, financially speaking. Future uncertainty and volatility is a concern, she said, since she recently began to rely on her 401(k) to deliver. She said she and her husband meet regularly with their financial adviser to ask if they should change anything. The response so far: "Ride this out." It is in times like these that financial advisers can prove their value, said Bertie Cayzer, a senior portfolio manager at Plymouth-based Wealth Enhancement Group. Outside of a few overreactions, Cayzer said his firm has yet to hear much concern from the clients. Those properly managed in the latter stages of working life should really have no worries, he said, and the bouts of volatility offer opportunities to invest in cheaper equities and diversify. An adviser doing the work should help clients find their tolerance for risk and plan appropriately for their lifestyle. And at this point, "optimism and realism should counter pessimism," Cayzer said. Though 401(k) holders often set-and-forget their investment strategies, more people altered positions this year in apparent reaction to tariff-induced downturns, according to analytics firm Alight Solutions in Chicago. Alight, which maintains an index of 401(k) trading data back to 1997, recorded a shift away from equities like stocks and toward fixed-income mutual funds that rely on bonds for more conservative growth. Overall trading activity was higher than normal throughout the first quarter. Above-average trading levels persisted in early April as the U.S. trade war escalated. Investors left equities and later bought back in on the rebound, said Rob Austin, Alight's head of thought leadership. Still, such trading among 401(k) holders represents a small margin of the widely used retirement plan, Austin said, as in absolute terms only a fraction of a percentage point is traded on a given day. On the Monday after Liberation Day, Austin said retirement investors showed approximately 10 times the normal level of trading activity. Experienced investors know the market will drop time and again and stay the course, Austin said, but for those "who did take action, it's going to look really, really bad." "This year is really a microcosm of everything" we typically see, Austin said, adding "people are very quick to sell out of equities when the market drops" and it often takes time before comfort returns to buy back in. Meantime, some investors are taking the swings in stride. "I don't get anxiety over it," Brian Haan, 39, of Lakeville, Minnesota, said of the roller-coaster stock market. "I hold my nose, and I know that it will go back up." Mary Schmidt, 80, of Bloomington, Minnesota, and her husband are past the point of relying heavy on stocks. She has no sleepless nights when the market takes wild turns. "We kept ours as-is," Schmidt said. "We're diversified." Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
