{"id":1637,"date":"2013-12-12T21:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2013-12-12T21:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T03:28:17","slug":"coomer-scores-cubs-radio-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/12\/coomer-scores-cubs-radio-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Coomer scores Cubs radio job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1638\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/12\/coomer-scores-cubs-radio-job\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1638\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1638\" alt=\"Ron Coomer\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ron-Coomer.png\" width=\"588\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ron-Coomer.png 588w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ron-Coomer-300x182.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ron-Coomer-150x91.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ron-Coomer-400x243.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ron-Coomer-200x121.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Ron Coomer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Cubs infielder Ron Coomer will succeed Keith Moreland in the Cubs radio booth alongside play-by-play announcer Pat Hughes, sources confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Coomer agreed to a two-year contract as color analyst to be announced Friday by the Cubs and WGN AM 720. A Chicago area native who played for the Cubs in 2001, Coomer, 47, most recently worked on Minnesota Twins' pre- and post-game shows for Fox Sports North.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2013\/12\/03\/down-to-the-wire-for-cubs-radio-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported here <\/a>last week, bosses of the Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk station had narrowed their search to Coomer and another former Cub-turned-broadcaster, Todd Hollandsworth, who works for MLB Network Radio and Cubs' pre- and post-game shows on Comcast SportsNet Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Moreland, who succeeded the late Ron Santo as Hughes\u2019 radio partner in 2011, announced he would not return next year, citing a desire to spend more time with his family in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cubs infielder Ron Coomer will succeed Keith Moreland in the Cubs radio booth alongside play-by-play announcer Pat Hughes, sources confirmed Thursday. Coomer agreed to a two-year contract as color analyst to be announced Friday by the Cubs and WGN AM 720. A Chicago area native who played for the Cubs in 2001, Coomer, 47,... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/12\/coomer-scores-cubs-radio-job\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}