TBS' Ernie Johnson spends October bedside, not in the booth

[Coach Hank Crisp]

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Ernie Johnson Jr. comes to you as an award-winning TBS announcer. You know the face and voice. He was supposed to be here, calling Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.

"I was looking at this postseason. … I'm always trying to live up to the standards he set," Ernie Jr. said over the phone from Atlanta.

But this was his Monday instead:

Be at the hospital by 2 p.m. Take over for wife Cheryl. Stay until 10 o'clock the next morning at the bedside of Michael, a 23-year-old special needs child, now fighting to breathe with pneumonia and muscular dystrophy.

"It's very important for him when he wakes up in the middle of the night that he sees me or my wife or one of our kids," Johnson said.

It's been that way for five weeks. This is October for Ernie Johnson.

So ended Johnson's baseball season. Look at all that 2011 has asked from a devout man who depends on his faith to get him through. Just as it did when he fought lymphoma five years ago.

"It's really been," he said, "a trust-God year."

The Johnsons have six children, four adopted. Michael came in 1991 when Cheryl traveled to Romania on an adoption trip.

"He was the first child they brought out of the orphanage," Johnson said. "It was obvious he couldn't speak and he had a lot of developmental delays and he couldn't walk.

"My wife's a gem and called from Bucharest and said, 'I saw a child today, and he's so much more than we can handle. But I can't go through the rest of my life wondering whatever happened to that kid.'"

[2Stater]

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Ernie Johnson Jr. comes to you as an award-winning TBS announcer. You know the face and voice. He was supposed to be here, calling Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.

"I was looking at this postseason. … I'm always trying to live up to the standards he set," Ernie Jr. said over the phone from Atlanta.

But this was his Monday instead:

Be at the hospital by 2 p.m. Take over for wife Cheryl. Stay until 10 o'clock the next morning at the bedside of Michael, a 23-year-old special needs child, now fighting to breathe with pneumonia and muscular dystrophy.

"It's very important for him when he wakes up in the middle of the night that he sees me or my wife or one of our kids," Johnson said.

It's been that way for five weeks. This is October for Ernie Johnson.

So ended Johnson's baseball season. Look at all that 2011 has asked from a devout man who depends on his faith to get him through. Just as it did when he fought lymphoma five years ago.

"It's really been," he said, "a trust-God year."

The Johnsons have six children, four adopted. Michael came in 1991 when Cheryl traveled to Romania on an adoption trip.

"He was the first child they brought out of the orphanage," Johnson said. "It was obvious he couldn't speak and he had a lot of developmental delays and he couldn't walk.

"My wife's a gem and called from Bucharest and said, 'I saw a child today, and he's so much more than we can handle. But I can't go through the rest of my life wondering whatever happened to that kid.'"

Johnsons Sr. & Jr., both class acts. This has got to be tough for him dealing with this right after losing his dad.

[bama87]

May God bless his family.

[Jamos]

When you read articles such as this one it makes you want to go look in a mirror and ask yourself how bad do you really have it, very sad. 

[Marshal Dillon]

When you read articles such as this one it makes you want to go look in a mirror and ask yourself how bad do you really have it, very sad. 
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