Dick Enberg to retire after 2016 San Diego Padres season | Bob's Blitz

Dick Enberg to retire after 2016 San Diego Padres season

Dick Enberg made the announcement to the Fox Sports San Diego audience before Thursday’s San Francisco-San Diego game:

“In culminating 60 years of sports broadcasting, it has been a tremendous thrill to be the TV voice of my hometown San Diego Padres, and I’m tremendously excited that I will have a continuing TV role through the 2016 season, an All-Star Game year for San Diego,” said Enberg. “Our family is sincerely grateful to Padres ownership, Ron Fowler and Peter and Tom Seidler, and CEO Mike Dee for providing the opportunity for an extension through 2016. While I have decided that 2016 will be my last as the primary play-by-play announcer, I will always be a Padre, and look forward to a continuing role. Ultimately, with high hopes I’ll be one of the many in line that will someday soon embrace a World Series championship in San Diego.”

Oh my.

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