Adrian Garcia Marquez
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Adrian Garcia Marquez (born December 28th, 1973 in San Diego, CA ) is an American Sportscaster who works for ESPN Radio710 in Los Angeles, and Fox Sports en Espanol.
Garcia joined 710 ESPN in 2007 and currently serves a reporter and guest host. He joined Fox Sports in 2005. On Fox, Garcia is the play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball on Fox Sports en Espanol where he calls the Game of the Week during the regular season as well as the postseason and World Series. At Fox Sports en Espanol, Garcia Marquez has also called soccer action for Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana. He also serves as studio host for the international network. Alongside Garcia Marquez, the "Beisbol en Fox" team includes former Major Leaguers Jose Tolentino, Carlos Hernandez, and Manny Mota, as well as current manager of the Washington Nationals, Manny Acta.
The 2007 MLB season marked the debut of Adrian Garcia as a reporter for the Los Angeles Dodgers on FSN/PRIME TICKET.
As reporter, he contributed to “Dodgers Live” alongside hosts Patrick O'Neal, Kevin Kennedy, and Steve Lyons. On Dodgers game telecasts live, Garcia provided post game player interviews while also reporting on Dodger on-and-off the field developments. Garcia uses his bilingual talents, to provide Spanish-speaking players with familiarity and comfort in sharing personal game experiences and perspective. Garcia is a rarity in this business, a talent that can announce games, anchor shows, write columns, and report fluently in Spanish as well as English.
[edit] Career
From 2002 to 2007, Garcia Marquez worked for Telemundo. He served as the morning news anchor for “Buenos Dias”. His experience with Telemundo included being named to the first ever Olympic broadcasting team in Spanish for the United States, announcing baseball and basketball for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Garcia Marquez was also the weekend sports anchor for “Noticias 52”. On KVEA's sister station, KWHY, he hosted several shows such as "El Show de Los Lakers", "Dodgers en Domingo", "Mundo Deportivo", and The Rose Parade. The Mexican-American broadcaster also served as play by play announcer for Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim games on KWHY alongside veteran broadcaster Jose Mota.
Garcia Marquez is also a writer for the New York-based Beisbol Mundial magazine as well as a columnist for the Los Angeles based sports website, http://sportshubla.com/.
He also does play-by-play for the San Diego Chargers pre-season television games on Mi San Diego, the Spanish-language NBC affiliate in San Diego.
Garcia Marquez has an extensive background in radio. He currently serves as reporter and guest host for ESPN Radio in Los Angeles.
On Radiovisa 830AM, he was the play-by-play announcer for both USC Trojans en Espanol and the Los Angeles Clippers. He also hosted and produced "Calentando con Adrian Garcia Marquez” sports talk show.
Garcia got his play-by-play break with the Oakland Athletics in 2000.
From there, he was recruited by ESPN Deportes and spent almost two years at the national sports network.
There, he was the announcer, reporter and analyst for Wednesday and Sunday Night Baseball, Sunday and Monday Night Football and NFL Primetime, all in Spanish. The exposure on ESPN led to the Boston Red Sox appointing him the team’s Spanish radio voice in 2001. That year he had the rare opportunity to call two no hitters. One by Hideo Nomo on May 2, 2001 vs. the Baltimore Orioles and St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bud Smith's no no against the San Diego Padres on September 3, 2001.
From Bristol, CT, the native of San Diego, went on to Miami, Florida to become a sports anchor with Univision as host of Contacto Deportivo on Telefutura where he added his unique style of sportscasting to the coverage of the 2002 World Cup in Japan/Korea.
[edit] Signature Calls
"Sientate!!"-Strike Out
"Vuela la Pelota, Vuela la Pelotaaaaaaaaaaa...Bye Bye Pelota" - Home run
"Del arco al charco"-3 pointer
ESPN's Chris Berman once featured him on his "2 Minute Drill" on Sportscenter for some of Garcia's creative calls on NFL Primetime in Spanish.
Nicknamed "El Poeta" by former Houston Astros player and Mexican National team 1st Base Coach turned analyst, Jose Tolentino, for his poetic intros to games and calls of the action.
"Amigos bienvenidos al deporte de los batazos violentos y aficionados atentos...el de las Rrrrrrectas quemantes y magos con guantes...esto es beisbol de grandes ligas..."
