{"id":428628,"date":"2023-03-07T00:54:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T05:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428628"},"modified":"2023-03-07T00:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T05:54:27","slug":"rays-to-honor-longtime-radio-broadcaster-dave-wills-on-april-22","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rays-to-honor-longtime-radio-broadcaster-dave-wills-on-april-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays to honor longtime radio broadcaster Dave Wills on April 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Tampa Bay Rays plan to honor longtime radio broadcaster Dave Wills, who died in his sleep early Sunday, with a pregame tribute on April 22 when they host the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Hall of Fame remembers <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaysBaseball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RaysBaseball<\/a> broadcaster Dave Wills, who passed away on Sunday. (Courtesy Tampa Bay Rays) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OakjOoSOBB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OakjOoSOBB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum \u26be (@baseballhall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballhall\/status\/1632520158865420288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It will be a fitting day as Wills, 58, worked for 11 years before coming to Tampa Bay in 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt was confusing, because we just saw the guy and it\u2019s just crazy how fast things can happen,\u201d Rays pitcher Shane McClanahan said. \u201cWe\u2019re thinking about him and his family. We\u2019re gonna miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The number of tributes, media articles and messages of condolences from around the major leagues are an indication of how much Wills impacted people\u2019s lives, manager Kevin Cash said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Tampa Bay Rays are deeply saddened to announce the passing of longtime radio announcer Dave Wills. <\/p>\n<p>A beloved figure throughout the Tampa Bay community and Major League Baseball, he will be missed dearly. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k9iiQOsL4u\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/k9iiQOsL4u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/1632414958418894849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Rays also said radio coverage will resume Saturday, with Andy Freed \u2014 Wills\u2019 partner since 2005 \u2014 and Neil Solondz calling the 3:10 p.m. game against the Marlins from Jupiter on 95.3-FM\/620-AM and the team network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays plan to honor longtime radio broadcaster Dave Wills, who died in his sleep early Sunday, with a pregame tribute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428629,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18017,18016],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Wills died in his sleep early Sunday","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428628"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428628"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}