...Randolph the Bronx Bombers won back-to-back World Series, and dreamed of someday playing for the team.

So when YES CEO Tracy Dolgin, Hopkins' former boss at Fox/Liberty Networks, gave him a call last fall and asked him to come on board, Hopkins--then working and living in Los Angeles--jumped at the chance. He, his wife and their 2-year-old son packed up and returned to New Jersey, with Hopkins joining the channel last December.

"The next best thing to actually playing for them is...

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