{"id":290087,"date":"2014-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/could-the-next-padres-stadium-announcer-be-a-point-loman\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T07:00:00","slug":"could-the-next-padres-stadium-announcer-be-a-point-loman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/could-the-next-padres-stadium-announcer-be-a-point-loman\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the next Padres stadium announcer be a Point Loman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Point Loman, Michael MacAfee, is among the top 50 candidates vying to be Petco Park\u2019s next public-address announcer. The group of finalists was selected from nearly 800 in-person auditions and online submissions.<br \/>\n&#8220;The diversity of our Top 50 is a reflection of the great diversity of San Diego,&#8221; said Padres chief marketing officer Wayne Partello. &#8220;We\u2019re taking this search very seriously because this individual will be the voice of Petco Park.&#8221;<br \/>\nPartello said that after reviewing the auditions multiple times, &#8220;We decided to extend the timeline to ensure that each candidate is thoroughly evaluated.&#8221;<br \/>\nThere will be a fan vote online and via social media in early April to narrow the field from 30 to the Top 10. Those 10 finalists will announce additional parts of a Padres game between April 11 and April 20 before the pool is narrowed to the Top 3.<br \/>\nAs their final tryout, each of the three will announce a full game.<br \/>\nPetco Park\u2019s next public-address announcer will be named during the series against the San Francisco Giants (April 18-20).<br \/>\nFor more information, visit www.padres.com\/announcer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Point Loman, Michael MacAfee, is among the top 50 candidates vying to be Petco Park\u2019s next public-address announcer. The group of finalists was selected from nearly 800 in-person auditions and online submissions. &#8220;The diversity of our Top 50 is a reflection of the great diversity of San Diego,&#8221; said Padres chief marketing officer Wayne [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":290088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Could the next Padres stadium announcer be a Point Loman?","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}