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Charles Martin Slowes (born March 16, 1962) is an American sportscaster. Slowes is the radio
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announcer for
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baseball, and can be heard commentating every game on
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106.7 ("The Fan") and the rest of the team's
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.


Broadcasting experience

A native of
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,
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and
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, Slowes is a 1983 graduate of
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. He began his career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, where he worked alongside broadcasting greats Jack Buck and Bob Costas. He has also worked for
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,
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, CBS Sports Radio, Mutual Radio, Westwood One, Sports Phone, the
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and
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radio networks, and the minor league AAA Tidewater Tides. On April 15, 1989, Slowes called a ''
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'' on NBC between the
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and
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alongside
Larry Dierker Lawrence Edward Dierker (born September 22, 1946) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager, and broadcaster. During a 14-year baseball career as a pitcher, he pitched from 1964 to 1977 for the Houston Colt .45s/Astro ...
. Slowes was also the radio voice of the
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(later to become the
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) from the 1986–87 NBA season to the 1996–97 NBA season. After 11 seasons with the Bullets, he joined the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays in
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
as their radio play-by-play announcer, a position he held until
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
when he joined the Nationals the next year. Since 2006, he has teamed with Dave Jageler for Washington Nationals broadcasts. Slowes called the Nationals' run to the
2019 World Series The 2019 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2019 Major League Baseball season, 2019 season. The 115th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion 2019 ...
, at which the Nationals gave Washington its first World Series title since the Washington Senators won it in 1924.


Trademarks

Slowes's broadcasting style typically features
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calls of "Going, going, gone, goodbye!" and "Bang, zoom goes layers name" After every game the Nationals win, Slowes announces "A Curly W eferring to the Nationals' logois in the books" After a particularly poor baserunning decision by Nook Logan, Slowes gave a particularly memorable call, "What was Nook Logan thinking, what was he watching, where was he going?"


See also

* List of Washington Nationals broadcasters


References

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