Larry Blucher Uncaged

I am a story-teller. For many years my stories were sports-related. I began collecting baseball cards at the age of three and I was hooked. It was my main topic of conversation growing up, so I decided I might as well get paid for it. Thus, I became a broadcaster.

I learned the basics at the University of Central Florida, getting a BA in Radio/TV Communication, and more importantly working on the campus radio station which helped me land my first paying gig at WLOF radio in Orlando. I stepped in front of the cameras while I still had the full head of hair that is so important for on-air talent- five years as a sports reporter/anchor at WFTV-9 in Orlando and two years at WPCQ-36 in Charlotte, NC. I returned to radio with a fun stint at 970-WFLA in Tampa, where I hosted my own sports talk show and won awards for my baseball Spring Training feature "Blucher From the Bleachers." Also, during my career I worked as a one-person news and sports department for Digital City Atlanta on AOL, a news producer/assignment editor at WGNX-TV in Atlanta, assisted my ex-wife in operating our paint-your-own pottery studio Glaze Under Fire in Winter Park, Florida, and I even wrote several screenplays of which I am very proud (although I have been unable to find a taker in Hollywood...yet).

I finally got around to pursuing my original dream of doing baseball play-by-play spending time as the voice of the Burlington Indians, the Wilson Tobs (where I made headlines for once broadcasting a game I was observing from a bathroom window), 

and the Brockton Rox (where I once broadcast from high over the field in a cherry picker, but when I was in the safety of the broadcast booth would occasionally be joined by team owners Bill Murray, Brian Doyle Murray, or Jimmy Fallon).

I'm not sure exactly why, but at some point, the sports world lost its appeal to me. I went from fanatical to completely uninterested in sports, although I do spend some time trying to understand why others remain as fanatical as I once was. Now my focus has turned from the playing field to the political field. Early in my life I considered myself a Democrat, later a Republican, but since the results seem to be the same lately no matter which of the two parties has a strangle-hold on America, I consider myself a Libertarian-leaning independent. I believe in thinking outside the lines and not allowing a political party to define how I think and how I act.

I'm not out to make everyone share my beliefs, rather just to question their own. It is a healthy exercise to have to formulate an articulate argument supporting your views. It often means doing more research on a subject, which is the beauty of the Internet...as long as you are willing to cross-reference while sifting through the vast expanse of information available on the Internet:

...okay, it's actually the Grand Canyon behind me, not the Internet, but I believe it is an apt analogy.



I recently earned my Masters degree in New Media Journalism at Full Sail University. Please check out my new website, www.QuestionableThings.com.