I'm Class of '75 and have been watching Aggie baseball games since the diamond was between Kyle Field and Wellborn Road. During our thirty years in Round Rock we made many trips to Olsen to watch the Ags play.
I, too, was thouroughly entertained by DD at his Olsen Magic Show through the years. I didn't know he had even left CS when one summer in the nineties at the Astro Dome I realized that some very familiar sounds and events were taking place. For the first time that I noticed, the Astros hitters were strolling to the plate with walk-up music and there was a strangely familiar voice announcing over the p. a. ... low and behold I recognized the voice of our own Derrick Grubbs.
Fast forward to April 2000 to opening day of the AA Round Rock Express at the brand new Dell Diamond ... and who do I hear? ... DD the wild man Grubbs, the new and first voice of the RR Express and the Dell Diamond!
It was like the Days of Olsen 2.0 ... including The Rifleman and the bases loaded Jaws of danger. He stayed 5 or so years before answering the call to return to college baseball and the opportunity for more administrative responsibility and to teach.
It was one of those schools in Austin that I don't much care for, and after a little email banter that I started with "Say it ain't so, Joe. Say it ain't so!" ... I told him I understood his choice and wished him well.
Like a ... good penny? ... he's at UTA??? That was a surprise to find out, and I wish I could have been there hear his Maverick's Baseball spiel.
My good friend, Rick Hill, certainly gives DD his due in talking about announcing at Olsen and for Aggie BB.
How fortunate we are to have seen the beginning of the best of college baseball entertainment and information with DD and it's continuation and improvement with Rick. Both will be well deserving of future University recognition and awards.
Sam75