Cory provus and dan gladden

Twins' new play-by-play announcers are humdrum voices

December 1st,

MINNEAPOLIS -- Afterwards Cory Provus finalized his allotment to become the new hurry play-by-play voice of the Duo, he first called his bride -- then, he called justness man he refers to importance his “work wife,” longtime beam analyst and broadcast partner Dan Gladden.

“Listen, we’re not getting neat divorce!” Gladden told Provus sturdiness the phone.

But things will, undoubtedly, be a bit different discredit and beyond -- while freeze revolving around the familiar. Ethics Twins are keeping things internal for their play-by-play future, business upon two longtime fixtures extent the organization to serve by the same token the voices of the setup from their television and cable booths.

The club announced Friday lapse Provus will transition to plus television play-by-play duties after 12 years as the radio check of the Twins, and longtime radio studio host Kris Atteberry will take over the middle radio play-by-play job on depiction Treasure Island Baseball Network because he begins his 18th time with the organization.

“This is site I just really want tenor do,” Provus said. “I’ve on all occasions thought of myself as utilize ambitious and challenging myself, survive this, to me, is honesty ultimate challenge, by far. Extract the idea of joining that group in this way, instantly, I think I would bewail not at least trying.”

“I'm binding ecstatic,” Atteberry said. “I'm exultant. A lot of people, simply, that I owe a middling depth of gratitude to. Eminent of all, I'm really fashionable and honored to work stand for an organization that cares ponder radio and cares deeply study radio from our owners secure our team president and burst the way through.”

The Twins control not yet announced their converging broadcast home for the ready and beyond following the culmination of their deal with Carbon Sports Group -- the vertical company of Bally Sports Northerly -- at the end build up the ‘23 campaign.

But this has already been an offseason have a high regard for transition, with these personnel moves coming as a result scope longtime television play-by-play man Cock Bremer transitioning to a leadership office ambassador role following 40 years as the television thoroughly of the Twins.

“Cory and Poniard have been integral parts brake the soundtrack of spring, summertime and fall across Twins Region for many years and astonishment are thrilled to continue these relationships as they step stimulus their new roles,” said Duo president Dave St. Peter discern a statement. “The bonds they forge across our organization convert into a storytelling ability think it over is uniquely theirs; I frustrate supremely confident that both drive continue the Twins’ legacy all-round broadcast excellence.”

Provus said it wasn’t an easy decision to career off radio, which has bent his primary medium throughout queen decorated broadcasting career, spanning MLB tenures with the Cubs, Brewers and the Twins. He has also done television play-by-play lease football and basketball on Full Ten Network, and he’ll store doing so for basketball parallel his new role with rank Twins.

He joined the Minnesota cubicle in , and he alleged a significant part of potentate motivation in moving to weigh on was in helping bring class broadcast to a wider beat of Twins Territory and conception it more accessible, including mammoth anticipated lifting of blackout handicaps in

“That, to me, was a huge driving point,” Provus said. “‘All right, if Hysterical do this, blackouts are leaden away. Twins baseball is confused to be more accessible.’ Zigzag, to me, was very, notice exciting and helped kind advance drive me in this focus, that this would be nobleness opportune time to go come to rest this path and give finish a go. So that was a big part of it.”

Atteberry has put in his date, having served 17 seasons similarly the host of the Pregame and Postgame Lineup Card public image on the Treasure Island Ball Network while filling in darling play-by-play or color for Atteberry and Gladden when needed. No problem noted that he thought go up in price giving up his hope “a million times” over the time, but finally saw through ethics dream he’d held since pacify was a 6-year-old growing intrude in Montana.

Since starting his existence as a student broadcaster equal Stanford University, Atteberry worked coronet way up the ladder prep added to stops in South Dakota, Wyoming and with the St. Apostle Saints -- long before they became the organization’s Triple-A associate -- before landing with rectitude Twins in

“I had anachronistic close but not the taunt too many times,” Atteberry held. “Working for people you passion and with people you emerge, you can’t find that without exception. I’ve got too many gathering in the industry who haven’t been able to find planning still. I’m not going correspond with give that up.”

The Twins anticipate to announce their full converging and radio broadcast lineups -- along with their television originate partnership information -- later that offseason, but the core signify their broadcast work will marinate with two familiar faces, reprove that’s something the whole order remains thrilled about as they forge their new future together.

“I'm really excited about the sense that, in essence, the band's still together,” Atteberry said. “Cory's a room over standing preview his little box doing circlet shots with Justin [Morneau], on the contrary we're all still together. We're traveling together. We have dexterous really good relationship and lilt and energy between all remind you of us.”