Eric Espino: The beginning of his famous proclamations

When Eric Espino (businessman, former baseball player and sports commentator) began narrating baseball games baseball1995, uttering phrases or proclamations during transmissions it was not usual, but on his own initiative he came to the conclusion that game descriptions should a additional ingredient.

A baseball game, which lasts between two or three hours, where you just run and hit, can be something monotonousalthough this is not the case with the Espino transmissions, since they are their own professionalismwhich he acquired during his 20 years of playing baseball, gave him the ability to transport fans to playground.

“Girls, girls, girls are so beautiful”“Now is when the flowers smell”, “Delicious, delicious”“go along the coast”, “fine furniture” and “terrícola VIP”, are some of the shouts from Espino’s repertoire that have become part of the daily life of fans.

Espino, who started his career as a commentator in RPC radiohe explained for Panama America who first included during the broadcast of the declarationsbut that doesn’t mean, say, everything depends on what’s happening in the game, he warned that you can’t talk and talk and lose track of what’s happening in the game.

Before becoming one of the most popular baseball commentators in town, Espino already had experience calling games Victor Raul Vasquez (Radio Mía) and Rafael “Chequele” Samudio, however, he was given the opportunity to join RPC Radio “Lemo” Jimenez.

Because he accepted, during his 29 years of service He lived big moments in the history of local and international baseballhe went to the United States to comment World Series 10 consecutive years for RPC TV and also experienced difficult situations such as when he broke his left knee.

The native of Las Tablas said he suffered the injury while attending a broadcast of a match between Panama and Mexico in XIV Pan American Sports Games, in the Dominican Republic. Tried to skip dugout Quisqueya Stadium, he stepped wrongly on the mat and slipped.

After the incident, he was taken to the hospital and decided to have an operation in Panama, he has a plate and several screws in his knee. “(…) It was a very difficult moment for the race.I was incapacitated for about three months,” admitted Espino, who has a degree in pharmacy and has written a book “Our passion, baseball”.

Despite everything, he will be around for a while, Eric Espino commented during our conversation, although when asked if he was thinking about retirement, he answered yes, because as you remember, he played baseball as a hobby, a place that has now been taken by storytelling, since his business is the pharmaceutical field.

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As a baseball player, Eric Espino played 14 years for the Veraguas and 6 for Western Panamahe was the first to reach 500 hits in major league baseball history, the national leader in runs batted in and runs scored, and a founding member of the Panama Oeste first team in 1975.

Recently, in honor of his career, he retired the number 32 from the Panama Oeste team, which was not his first choice, he wore the number 13, in 1975 he was unlucky, because of this he changed, however, it is not to wish date numbers.

He won with the Veraguas team 1984 Major League Baseballhe was batting champion and MVP of the season.

Furthermore, Espino had the opportunity to play in Major League Baseball (MLS), he turned down the offer and decided to study and play at the national level.