Will the bad news never cease?

Forget the impeachment, forget the imbroglio about Ukraine, forget Vladimir Putin scheming to make himself Russian Czar for eternity.

There's really serious bad news out there.

Taylor McGregor is leaving her position as a sports announcer for AT&T SportsNet in Colorado to take up one as a reporter for the Marquee Sports Network in Chicago, where she'll cover the Cubs.  She covered the Rockies in Colorado.

Will the tragedies never cease?

For those unfamiliar with McGregor, the tall blond sportscaster combined Kate Upton quality good looks (it's my blog. . . I can say that) with really excellent sports delivery.  Indeed, it was that delivery that makes her a great sportscaster. 

McGregor is one of Keli McGregor's daughters.  Keli McGregor was the president of the Rockies and died of a heart attack, due to an undetected viral infection, at age 48.  Taylor was 17 years old at the time.  Since that tragedy she went on to the University of Arkansas where, as in high school, she was a standout athlete in her own right.  At about the time of her graduation she was seeing baseball player Ty Hensley who was about to break out into the major leagues, but never really did.  Hensley plays with the Utica Unicorns now.

Hensley's star may have faded, although he's still achieved something I never will in actually being a professional baseball player, but Taylor's has risen.  After graduating she was located as a sportscaster in Casper Wyoming for awhile where it was obvious that she was headed for a lot more than broadcasting local sports.  Indeed, I've noted that before.

What a radical shift from not even all that long ago.  The other television channel, KTWO, was for some time the only local television station and its news department was a big deal when I was a kid.  Locals, for whatever reason, welcomed it when they got competition, but now they're back to being the only local broadcast station.  Both stations, for some time, have had the feeling to them of being training grounds for television news folks who are moving on to elsewhere, however, with those younger broadcasters being of varying qualities, sometimes great (like sportscaster Taylor McGregor who is now back in her native Denver and broadcasts particularly for the Rockies, at which she is excellent) and sometimes not so much.

I guess that gives Casper bragging rights really.  Just like we do over the small number or pro players from here or who played here at one time.

Sigh.

But watching Rockies baseball will never be the same.