The voice is polished and professional, seamless and smooth. So much so that you might never imagine the person behind it.
Frankly, for most of his career as a sports play-by-play announcer, that's the way Jason Benetti preferred it. He wanted to be just a voice. Not a face or a body for others to question and judge.
"I started to do this on radio because the inhibitions are gone,'' Benetti said. "Everybody meets me for the first time on radio without having seen me.
"You hear a voice, he's telling you what's going on, you don't know that person from the butcher or the milkman or your dog.''
Without seeing, without knowing, Benetti could be like everyone else. No one would stare at the bobbing gait of his walk and the lazy eye that cerebral palsy had left him with as a child. As long as he sounded the part on the air, that was all that was necessary. And he did.
Here's what Sean McDonough, the longtime play-by-play broadcaster for ESPN, had to say when he listened to a tape of Benetti's work: "I think he's better than some guys who are in the major leagues right now.''
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