From a Gas Station to the Big Leagues | Matt Hicks

Your Dark Companion Podcast · Jan 22, 2026 · 1h 12m

Some careers are carefully mapped out. Others start because you needed gas. In this episode of Your Dark Companion, Mike Rhyner and Grubes sit down with Matt Hicks, the longtime radio voice of the Texas Rangers, to trace a broadcasting journey that took more than two decades, dozens of towns, and one perfectly timed phone call to finally reach the major leagues. Hicks walks through his path from a childhood spent reenacting games on a cassette recorder, to college radio at Maryland, to grinding it out for 23½ years in the minor leagues — often for little pay, fewer guarantees, and no clear…