Episode 27: Episode 27: Adam Baum

My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Adam Baum. Adam is the daily beat reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer’s (https://twitter.com/Enquirer) coverage of the Xavier University (https://twitter.com/XavierMBB) men’s basketball program.
Adam grew on the Westside of Cincinnati and is very proud of his heritage and we talked extensively about what it is like to be a Westsider. He also acknowledges that there are many quirks as far as how serious people take their grade school sports but does not apologize for it as he explains that dynamic.
He graduated from Elder High School (https://twitter.com/ehsports) and played both football and baseball for the Panthers. Adam talks about what a thrill it was to play in one of the country’s most famous high school football stadiums known as “The Pit.”
Adam played on a state championship team for head coach Doug Ramsey. He also talks a statistical anomaly that he achieved that makes him stand out in the hollowed history of Elder football.
He also played on the baseball team at Elder for head coach Mark Thompson. He jokes about “back-dooring” his way to state championship ring working as the bullpen catcher for the team.
Adam tells a story about a lazy decision in filling out his class schedule for senior year at Elder ultimately lead to his journalism career.
As a freshman at the University of Cincinnati in the journalism department he landed a job with the Cincinnati Enquirer answering the score phone. That entry level position led to his role expanding to cover high school sports.
A couple of his more memorable stories include one about his dad who tragically pasted away just three weeks after being hired full-time onto the high school sports beat. Another was about Griffin James, a pitcher from CHCA whose father was battling cancer and Griffin promising to pitch a perfect game in his honor.
In 2018, Adam is promoted to take over the full-time beat covering the Xavier University men’s basketball team. Adam earns this position in part by doing a great job covering the Cincinnati Reds spring training that year as a fill-in after a number of staff defections at the Enquirer.
Of course, you can’t talk about Xavier basketball without getting into the Crosstown Shootout rivalry between the Musketeers and the University of Cincinnati Bearcats.
Other aspects of the beat we talk about are chasing down rumors to confirm or deny the factuality of stories that are out there. Also, the recruiting circuit has developed into its own sub culture that can be difficult to navigate.
We wrap things up talking about the newspaper business in modern times and how drastically in has changed just in the 14 years that Adam has worked for the Enquirer.
You can follow Adam and his coverage of Xavier on Twitter @AdamJBaum (https://twitter.com/AdamJBaum)
You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 (https://twitter.com/BradyLaber1) please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe
Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm (https://nobodysssafe.fireside.fm)
For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com (https://www.stoveleg.com) or send an email to [email protected]
Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com (https://www.bensound.com)

My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Adam Baum. Adam is the daily beat reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer’s coverage of the Xavier University men’s basketball program.

Adam grew on the Westside of Cincinnati and is very proud of his heritage and we talked extensively about what it is like to be a Westsider. He also acknowledges that there are many quirks as far as how serious people take their grade school sports but does not apologize for it as he explains that dynamic.

He graduated from Elder High School and played both football and baseball for the Panthers. Adam talks about what a thrill it was to play in one of the country’s most famous high school football stadiums known as “The Pit.”

Adam played on a state championship team for head coach Doug Ramsey. He also talks a statistical anomaly that he achieved that makes him stand out in the hollowed history of Elder football.

He also played on the baseball team at Elder for head coach Mark Thompson. He jokes about “back-dooring” his way to state championship ring working as the bullpen catcher for the team.

Adam tells a story about a lazy decision in filling out his class schedule for senior year at Elder ultimately lead to his journalism career.

As a freshman at the University of Cincinnati in the journalism department he landed a job with the Cincinnati Enquirer answering the score phone. That entry level position led to his role expanding to cover high school sports.

A couple of his more memorable stories include one about his dad who tragically pasted away just three weeks after being hired full-time onto the high school sports beat. Another was about Griffin James, a pitcher from CHCA whose father was battling cancer and Griffin promising to pitch a perfect game in his honor.

In 2018, Adam is promoted to take over the full-time beat covering the Xavier University men’s basketball team. Adam earns this position in part by doing a great job covering the Cincinnati Reds spring training that year as a fill-in after a number of staff defections at the Enquirer.

Of course, you can’t talk about Xavier basketball without getting into the Crosstown Shootout rivalry between the Musketeers and the University of Cincinnati Bearcats.

Other aspects of the beat we talk about are chasing down rumors to confirm or deny the factuality of stories that are out there. Also, the recruiting circuit has developed into its own sub culture that can be difficult to navigate.

We wrap things up talking about the newspaper business in modern times and how drastically in has changed just in the 14 years that Adam has worked for the Enquirer.

You can follow Adam and his coverage of Xavier on Twitter @AdamJBaum

You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe

Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm

For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected]

Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com