Mike Wilner: Pat Tabler leaves his Blue Jays broadcasting days behind with one simple message: ‘Thank you’
The Cincinnati-area native was taken by the New York Yankees in the first round of the 1976 draft and spent the first ten years of his major-league career with the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland, Kansas City Royals and New York Mets.
“The years that I spent there, I met so many friends and I love the team that I got to work with day in and day out, especially spending — what was it, 14 years sitting next to“Just like my playing career was one part of my career — playing in the minors and playing in the majors — the broadcast was part of my career. This is just a new door that’s been opened.”
It’s a homecoming of sorts for Tabler, who played six years in Cleveland, including his only all-star season in 1987. He still lives in Cincinnati, just a three-and-a-half hour drive from Progressive Field. Less than two years later, the Jays were World Series champions. Tabler had two at-bats in the six-game series victory over Atlanta, including a 10th-inning line-out in the pivotal Game 6. Dave Winfield would drive in the winning runs with a two-run double in the 11th and when Mike Timlin flipped Otis Nixon’s bunt to Joe Carter at first base to end the game, it was bedlam.
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