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Voice of the Loggers, John Pappadopoulos

The "Voice of the Loggers", Mr. John Pappadopoulos (Pop-a-dop-a-lus), is joining the Loggers for the sixth season. "Pops" calls the action of all 68 regular season games on the Logger Radio Network and is the longest tenured play-by-play man in the Northwoods League. Pappadopoulos brings a great deal of play-by-play experience with him to the Loggers, most recently in the La Crosse area. "Pops" served as the voice of the La Crosse Night Train of the N.I.F.L. and before that served as the backup voice of the La Crosse Bobcats CBA basketball team. For the past four years, he has also worked as the news and sports director at WCOW/WKLJ. Before coming to the Coulee Area, the New Jersey native worked in Boston as an on-air sports caster on Sports Radio WEEI. During his ten years in broadcasting he has worked as a reporter or broadcaster for three different Minor League baseball teams and will now add the Loggers to his list. John met his wife, Polly,when he moved to La Crosse in 2000 and they have a daughter named Olivia.

Joe Breier, LRN Color Analyst

Joe Breier has been part of the "game day staff" ever since the inception of the Logger ball club. He enters his 6th year in a new role as color analyst, working with play by play specialist; John Pappadapolous on the Logger Radio Network. In the past you may have enjoyed Breier as he kept alive the memory of the legendary radio and television announcer Harry Caray on the field and in the stands. In his last two years, remote microphone in hand, Joe was the announcer for the Logger batters as they came up to bat. Breier, in the "Harry" role, has also been instrumental in producing radio and television advertising for the Loggers for the past 5 years. Over the past 5 seasons, he’s done so much on the field and in the stands that even Joe states "The only thing I haven’t done..is bat". Breier works locally for Honda Motorwerks of LaCrosse. previouse to that he was the program director for La Crosses very own 100.1 FM radio station. "I prefer to listen to all sporting events on the radio" says Breier. "Radio tells me more about what is happening on the field. Even if the game is on T.V., I still enjoy the radio broadcast twice as much". Breier looks forward to this season as a way to make an already great radio broadcast product even better for the Loggers. Joe has been married to his lovely wife Connie for almost 30 years and has three children, Heather, Jason, and Andrea. Joe and his wife also have 3 young grandchildren which Joe says has added a lot to our life recently. You will still see Joe as " Harry" for the 100th year anniversary of the seventh inning stretch. HOLY COW!