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Brennaman to return to Reds’ booth Saturday
- Updated: July 30, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Reds television play-by-play voice Thom Brennaman is ready to put that voice back to work again. It’s been exactly two months since Brennaman has called a game on Fox Sports Ohio, but he will return from the broadcasters’ “disabled list” on Saturday when Cincinnati plays the Padres.
In June, Brennaman had vocal cord surgery.
“They took a bunch of scar tissue off my vocal cords,” Brennaman said on Friday. “You see a lot more of it in singers — opera, rock-and-rollers, the whole nine yards. It turned out great. It won’t be all the way back healthy for a little while. But thank God it’s a lot better this far along than we thought it would be, especially after we did the surgery. There was a little bit more to it than they thought when they went in to do it.”
Brennaman, 52, had to avoid speaking in the days after his surgery — which was likely no easy feat for someone who speaks for a living.
“It was funny. My kids bought me a board where you can wipe [writing] off. I had it hanging around my neck on a string for a few days,” Brennaman said. “My wife [Polly] and kids were thrilled to death because Dad wasn’t yelling at …
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