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Kansas City Royals broadcaster Joel Goldberg waves to the crowd after delivering a speech Oct. 28 at the Sports Arena. 
HutchCC economics professor Matt Wilper introduces Joel Goldberg before his speech at the Dillon Lecture Series. 
Joel Goldberg gestures during his speech at the Dillon Lecture Series on Oct. 28 at the Sports Arena. 
Kansas City Royals broadcaster Joel Goldberg shows off his 2015 World Series championship ring during a press conference on Oct. 28 at the Sports Arena.
By Torie Price
Opinion Page Editor
IG: torielprice
Throughout his more than three decades of work in broadcast journalism, Joel Goldberg, Emmy-award winning broadcaster and reporter with the Kansas City Royals, said his “sanity and well being” are intact thanks to a few methods that he had developed.
“There’s always a story,” Goldberg said in a press conference shortly before the 175th Dillon Lecture Series speaker that Goldberg gave on Tuesday at the Sports Arena. “Someone’s watching somewhere.”
Goldberg has a solid understanding that his work as a broadcaster for the Royals is more than the game of baseball.
It’s about the soldiers overseas that get up in the middle of the night to get a taste of home. It’s those who find comfort and distraction in the game viewed in the poorly-lit waiting area of an emergency room. It’s the connection that sports such as baseball provide for all involved.
Goldberg’s view is that he believes he “(owes) it to whoever watching, whether it’s the best game or the worst game, to be engaged.”
Throughout his speech, Goldberg repeatedly spoke about the “fraternity” that baseball curates.
Noah McCombs, a Hutchinson Community College baseball player from the Kansas City area, agreed with Goldberg.
“You definitely get connections with people … with teammates,” McCombs said, going on to speak about how he gets to know his teammates through “messing with each other.”
Jace Phillips, a baseball player for Sterling College who attended Goldberg’s talk, also took note of what Goldberg said about relationships.
“The impactful relationships and carrying (them) over from sports into real life” and “genuine relationships get you far in your career and in life” Phillips said about what stood out to him directly following Goldberg’s speech.
The love of the game brings people together, but the relationships made along the way keeps them there.
“When it comes to trust, make it gradual, make it easy, make it meaningful,” was Goldberg’s final message for the crowd.
Goldberg said the ability to gain and maintain trust is applicable to all walks of life and it is the key to a successful life.
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