Get to Know Your Loons: Brad Golder

Full Name: Bradley Joseph Golder

Hometown: Marietta, Ga.

Residence: Midland, Mich.

Favorite movie: Shawshank Redemption, Major League, Austin Powers, My Cousin Vinny

Favorite TV show: Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development

Favorite musicians: Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, James Taylor

Guilty pleasure movie: Mean Girls

Music to work out to: Talk radio podcasts or books on tape

Most embarrassing song on your iPod: Lionel Richie love songs

Favorite actor: Morgan Freeman

Last movie at the theater: 42

Dinner with three people, dead or alive: Bill Clinton, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Favorite food: True Southern food (fried chicken, collard greens, black eyed peas, fried okra)

Favorite restaurant: LaZeez International Market and Deli

Farthest you've ever traveled from your hometown: London and Hawaii

Top three things on bucket list: Broadcast MLB games, broadcast major Div. 1 college basketball (especially my alma mater, Vanderbilt) and break 80 consistently on the golf course

Dream vacation: Travel with an unlimited budget to a tropical paradise

Favorite cartoon as a kid: Smurfs

Last book you read: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

If you could be anybody else in the word for a day: Brian McCann (Always dream of being the starting catcher for the Braves)

Person who taught you the most: Dad

Favorite baseball player, then and now: Dale Murphy; Clayton Kershaw and David Price

Broadcasters who influenced you: Pete Van Wieren, Skip Caray, Joe Simpson & Don Sutton

Favorite MLB team growing up: Atlanta Braves

Best moment as a broadcaster: Calling the Loons' wild playoff win at home against Fort Wayne in 2009

First car: 1994 Nissan Pathfinder

Current car: Ford Explorer

Best place to go in Midland: Dow Diamond, Midland Country Club Golf Course, LaZeez International Market

Favorite city to visit on a road trip: Fort Wayne, Ind.

Favorite thing to do on an off-day: Golf, barbeque

Favorite video game, then and now: RBI Baseball / Words with Friends (is that a video game?)

First job: Busboy at LaPeep breakfast restaurant

Favorite subject in school: U.S. History

Favorite sports besides baseball: Golf, basketball, football

Favorite offseason activities: Broadcasting football and basketball, traveling down South to see friends and family