Robert "Bob" Lorenz (born October 2, 1963) is an American

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. He is the primary studio host on the

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, and hosts the

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pregame and postgame shows on YES telecasts, as well as

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pregame and postgame shows for cablecasts. Lorenz also hosts other shows on YES, including Yankees Hot Stove, a show that tracks the offseason movement of the Yankees and the rest of the teams in

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. Lorenz has done play-by-play of YES Network's coverage of

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as well as Staten Island Yankees games.

Career

Early career

Lorenz worked for

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in Eureka and WPTV-TV in

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. He later joined

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. Also, he worked for TBS and

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hosting various sporting event studio shows. Lorenz hosted CNN's weekly baseball show, CNN's ''College Football Preview'', ''College Basketball Preview'', ''College Coach's Corner'', and CNN's ''NFL Preview''. He was also a back-up host on '' Inside the NBA'' on TNT.

YES Network

He hosts the ''New York Yankees Pre-Game Show'' and the ''New York Yankees Post-Game Show '' for

telecasts on YES, as well as pregame and postgame shows for

cablecasts. Lorenz also hosts other shows on YES, including ''Yankees Hot Stove'', a show that tracks the offseason movements of the Yankees and the rest of the teams in the major leagues. He has also done play-by-play of Staten Island Yankees games and, in 2008, began working play-by-play on Yankees spring training games, which he continued in March 2009. During the 2010 season, Lorenz worked play-by-play for the first time during the regular season, against the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners. Lorenz previously hosted ''Yogi and a Movie'', where he watched baseball-related movies with Hall of Fame catcher

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. Lorenz hosted ''This Week in Football'', a show focusing on the New York Giants and New York Jets, as well as the rest of the NFL, for six years. He has also been a fill-in host on the interview show ''CenterStage''.

Personal life

Lorenz briefly attended

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where he played baseball before transferring to the

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in Los Angeles. He holds a degree in broadcast journalism from USC.

References

External links

YES Network Bio
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