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Get Well Wishes To Jim Donovan

Dear Aaron Goldhammer:

Here's the prime example of how to succeed in Cleveland as an out-of-towner--

Come in, do your job, do it well, and eventually you'll get noticed, and go on to bigger and better things.

That's called the Jim Donovan route.

You don't need to come in, be condescending, act like you're the smartest guy in the world, and that you're more "wordly and sophisticated" then us poor midwesterners.

Get well soon J.D.

You're one of the good ones.
 
vjm said:
Dear Aaron Goldhammer:

Here's the prime example of how to succeed in Cleveland as an out-of-towner--

Come in, do your job, do it well, and eventually you'll get noticed, and go on to bigger and better things.

That's called the Jim Donovan route.

You don't need to come in, be condescending, act like you're the smartest guy in the world, and that you're more "wordly and sophisticated" then us poor midwesterners.

Get well soon J.D.

You're one of the good ones.
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Unfortunately, sliver-spooned people like Goldhammer (who in his first week on tRBS, infamously asked "Who is Micheal Stanley?") will never grasp that concept. That's why he will never be remembered in this town.

While NBC brought him to Cleveland (he and Tom Beres are the only two staffers left from WKYC's NBC O&O era), Jimmie embraced it. Few know that Jim was also on the ill-fated "Satellite News Channel" two years before he joined WKYC. And we identify him not as the NBC sportscaster who has called everything from NFL games to Olympic events, but instead as the radio voice of the Browns.

The fact he managed to keep his illness virtually under wraps for ten years is simply astounding. Especially for someone in the public eye as much as he is. Both he and Casey Coleman are true profiles in courage.

I wish Jim the very best and quickest of recoveries.
 
Gotta agree with my Second here.

As proprietor of a certain blog, I hear a lot of rumblings in the local media world.

Watching Jim Donovan live on WKYC at 11 last night, that was the very first I've heard of any illness, let alone one as serious as the one affecting him for as long as it has.

There are plenty of people who are NOT fighting leukemia that have trouble with keeping up with all the things Jim does.
 
Jim is a true class act and has become one of the greatest sports broadcasters of all-time. He's also been at Channel 3 since their years as a revolving door news station with weak ratings, which is no longer the case at the station.

Our prayers are for a speedy recovery for him. I have a feeling he will fight this big time! :)
 
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