communication studies<\/a> at ESU, where his adventures in broadcasting led him to four years at WESS 90.3 and a stint as the sports writer and editor for The Stroud Courier, the student newspaper.<\/p>\nDuring his senior year, while other students worried about their impending graduation, Nidoh researched career opportunities. Then he discovered the Major League Baseball\u2019s Winter Meetings.<\/p>\n
The Winter Meetings are an annual event. Every MLB team and their minor league affiliates meet in one location to discuss trades, transactions, and other business ventures. League executives, team owners, general managers, scouts, and people seeking employment with minor league organizations attend the meetings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe meetings were in Nashville that year. I went down there and applied and interviewed with anyone I could. I wanted to find a chance to broadcast, especially with a baseball team,\u201d Nidoh said.<\/p>\n
He waited about a month until he got a phone call from the Cincinnati Red\u2019s Single-A Advanced team, the Daytona Tortugas.<\/p>\n
The Tortugas, formally the Daytona Cubs, play in the Florida State League. They\u2019re one of the more successful teams, winning six league titles since 1995 and winning four division titles in the past five years. Current Chicago Cubs third baseman, Kris Bryant, started in Daytona.<\/p>\n
The Tortugas offered Nidoh a position that he admits forced him to step out of his comfort zone. Nidoh had gone to college about 45 minutes from his house, but now he had to move over 1,000 miles away for a new career.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a lot of emotions,\u201d Nidoh said. \u201cIt was daunting, exciting, and very scary all at once. I never really thought about moving that far, but you have to if you want these chances.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the move seemed terrifying at the time, Nidoh\u2019s experiences at ESU prepared him for the job.<\/p>\n
\u201cWESS and The Stroud Courier helped me a lot,\u201d Nidoh said. \u201cI met Dr. Rob McKenzie and noticed the passion he had for radio. I wanted to learn from someone who had as much passion as I do for broadcasting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nidoh spent two years as the sports director for the radio station, allowing him to put together a broadcast team for every ESU athletic event. He also covered the play-by-play for all sports for WESS 90.3. As a part of The Stroud Courier, he was the sports editor and forum editor, which gave him the opportunity to cover Super Bowl XLVIII.<\/p>\n
Nidoh also said his duties included \u201cdeveloping a relationship between the players and coaches and WESS.\u201d<\/p>\n
The interviews and years spent working with the radio station and the school newspaper helped Nidoh prepare for his new responsibilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do the play-by-play during home games,\u201d Nidoh said. \u201cI also host the pre-game and post-game shows.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every day is different for Nidoh. \u201cI do the sales, prepare game notes, and manage social media,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a lot of preparation before a game, but it\u2019s fun too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, as an alumnus, he brings his wisdom to the 2016 ESU graduates.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is for all of the broadcasting people, but I think anyone can use it,\u201d Nidoh said. \u201cPrepare to hear \u2018no.\u2019 Prepare for long hours and long nights. Prepare to do a lot of things that you would not expect to do. You have to find your own opportunities, no matter where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n
The advice relates back to Nidoh\u2019s tedious schedule, big move, and the chances he took. Now as the play-by-play commentator for the Daytona Tortugas, Nidoh can reflect on his times at ESU. His love for baseball did not end in West Scranton. It blossomed into a distinguished career in Daytona Beach, Fla. Only time will tell where his passion for baseball and his broadcasting abilities take him next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI knew my baseball days were numbered,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I still wanted to be a part of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,143,20,22,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication-studies","category-community","category-esu-success-stories","category-facebook","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14329,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions\/14329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}