Good Luck, Greg! Congratulations, Skeeters!

Greg Lucas (L) joins Ira Liebman and the Sugar Land Skeeters’ broadcast team.

This just came in today to The Pecan Park Eagle from Ira Liebman, the Senior Sales and Broadcasting Manager for the sugar Land Skeeters: Former FOX broadcaster Greg Lucas has been hired to do back up service as the color man on Skeeters’ home games in support of former Astros broadcaster Brett Dolan, who is now the regular color guy on Skeeters radio games. Neither Lucas nor Dolan will travel with play-by-play man Liebman on road games and no details were made available to us at this time as to how this all works into any of the new planned telecasting of Skeeters home games by ESPN. The fact that Greg and Ira are both holding ESPN mikes in the photo does strongly suggest that the powerful sports network will be involved in how any new broadcasting personnel may be used in expanding the Skeeters’ fine efforts at increasing their media presence in the Houston market.

Greg Lucas and Ira Liebman are both also friends of ours and colleagues in SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research. We congratulate both men, and Brett Dolan, for this movement into an exciting new era of local broadcasting, We also wish to congratulate the Sugar Land Skeeters for recognizing the gold dust that surrounded them in the presence of both Greg Lucas and Brett Dolan. These were brilliant hires in my book, but almost too obvious to miss. Ira Liebman already is doing a beautiful job, but these two new guys can only serve to help make Ira’s time and creative energy even more open and available. – So, congratulations to you too, Ira. You’re a good man and an important figure and voice in the Houston baseball , and vintage ball, communities.

Go Skeeters! Go Astros! Go Houston! And come on, Baseball! Let’s get it done!

Addendum, Monday, April 28, 2014:

According to Skeeters Special Advisor Tal Smith, ESPN3 will carry all of the Skeeters home games. Ira Liebman will be the lead play-by-play broadcaster. Brett Dolan and Greg Lucas will split the schedule, depending on their availability, and serve as the analyst and do some of the play-by-play. There will not be any home radio (ESPN has exclusive rights to the audio used on their ESPN3 telecast).

Ira Liebman will travel with the team and broadcast the Skeeters road games. They will be available through the Skeeters website.

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4 Responses to “Good Luck, Greg! Congratulations, Skeeters!”

sabertone22 Says:
April 28, 2014 at 12:32 am | Reply
Interesting, Greg is wearing a Nike shirt while Ira is wearing an Adidas shirt. I guess there is no official apparel as of yet? Congratulations Skeeters on showing the crosstown rivals how to get it done. We are becoming another Chicago (Southside/ Northside) with two teams competing for my baseball dollars!
Dick "Lefty" O'Neal Says:
April 28, 2014 at 12:42 am | Reply
A great hire and congrats to you too Ira!
Dick “Lefty” O’Neal
Mark W. Says:
April 28, 2014 at 7:04 am | Reply
I’m ready to see a cross-town exhibition game.
Jeff Share Says:
April 28, 2014 at 5:06 pm | Reply
I’d rather have Greg on the Astros TV games and let Ashby do the Skeeters. He’s been a big disappointment since he came back,