It was Friday, October 21, 1988.

Only one interview today. But what an interview – at WOR Radio. Gotham’s version of WCCO (more or less).

I met the program director at the studios. We had a brief – maybe fifteen minutes – chat. He seemed to have been very impressed – especially with my voiceover tape.

At the end of the conversation, he asked “So if you’re gonna move to New York, I think I can use you as a staff voiceover guy”.

My heart quickened.

“It’d be nine hours a week at $25 an hour”.

I did the math in my head. $225 a week.

“Interested?”

I smiled. “I’d have to figure out how to make ends meet, but I’m interested, yes”

He agreed – I’d have a lot to think about. We shook hands, and I agreed to call with a decision next week.

I walked up to Times Square.

I could really learn to like this, I thought.

Then, I turned my thoughts to figuring how I could move to New York and manage to earn the rest of a living, on the pretty fair assumption that $225 a week wouldn’t go as far in New York as in the Twins.

I took the train back downtown and took a walk through the Village.  I wandered around ’til close to midnight; eating Chinese food and stopping in bars and walking up Broadway way into the thirties, and back, as it got dark.  It was a gorgeous night out. 

Somehow.

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