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                     MARK GUBICZA                       TELEVISION COLOR ANALYST

                      Former Major League Baseball veteran Mark Gubicza is entering his 24th
                     year with FanDuel Sports Network West. This season will mark his 19th year of
                     providing color commentary for Angels broadcasts. Gubicza will also continue
                     as an analyst for the Angels pre- and
                     post- game shows, “Angels Live”, which
                     he has done for the past 20 seasons.
          Gubicza previously co-hosted the FS Baseball Report,
        which aired nationally on Fox Sports, previewing future
        matchups, and breaking down current standings in
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        the league. In 2004, Gubicza provided analysis for
        Minnesota Twins games from Los Angeles. He made his
        first television appearance as an analyst for FSN in April
        2000 on Baseball Today and the National Sports Report.
        He also hosted the Southern California Baseball Report
        on AM570 for three years.
          In  his professional  baseball career, Gubicza spent 14
        seasons in the Major Leagues. Drafted in 1981, he spent
        13 seasons with the Kansas City Royals, becoming a
        World Series Champion in 1985 and 20-game winner in
        1988. In both 1988 and 1989, he was named to the AL All-
        Star team. He finished his career with the Angels in 1997.
        To honor his many accomplishments on the field, he was
        named to the Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame as well
        as the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame in 2006. He was also
        named to the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, class of 2010.
        Gubicza received the 2022 Southern California Sports
        Broadcaster Award for most outstanding TV Analyst.
          Gubicza and his wife, Lisa, live in Chatsworth, Calif. and
        have three children, Nicolette, Chad and Ashley.


                     PATRICK O’NEAL                       TELEVISION PLAY-BY-PLAY

                      Patrick  O’Neal  returns for his  12th season covering  the Angels for
                    FanDuel Sports Network West and will rotate as a television play-by-play
                    broadcaster  in  2025  while  also  hosting  pre-  and  postgame  shows  as  he
                    provides fans with in-depth coverage of various Angels games.
                      O’Neal, a fixture in Southern California sports for over 20 years, expanded
                    his role in the FanDuel Sports Network West broadcast booth, calling  play-
        by-play for select games since 2021 alongside Mark Gubicza, which included being on the
        call for Reid Detmers’ no-hitter in 2022.
          In addition to his network baseball assignments, O’Neal also covers the Los Angeles Kings
        for FanDuel Sports Network West. He has worked the sidelines for NFL games on FOX and
        provided NFL and College Football game breaks in 2013 and 2014.
          A Southern California native, O’Neal has been recognized with six LA Area Emmy Award
        nominations for Outstanding Sports Reporting, taking home wins in 2018 and 2006. In 2018,
        O’Neal was also named by the SoCal Sports Broadcasters Association as the Top Pre- and
        Postgame Host, an award he has won five times.
          He  attended  the  University  of  La  Verne  in  Southern  California,  where  he  studied
        communications and journalism. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Summer,
        and is the proud father of two daughters, Veronica, and Sophia.





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