Speaking Ill

Tampa Rays’ radio voice Dave Wills died Sunday at the age of 58. He’d been doing Rays’ games for eighteen years. A native of south suburban Oak Lawn, Wills was a diehard White Sox fan who spent eleven years doing pre- and post-game radio shows for Sox games before doing Rays’ games starting in 2005. I have absolutely no memory of him. Chicago media more than made up for that, with numerous stories on Wills. The shortest one would’ve been greater than what was written on the recent deaths of Sox players Joe Horlen, Gary Peters and Dave Nicholson combined. Not to speak ill of the dead, but I’m curious. What would broadcasters broadcast if there were no athletes to broadcast?