Mike Wilner formerly hosted a postgame radio call-in show called BlueJaysTalk on the Fan 590.
12 Facts About Mike Wilner
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Mike Wilner graduated from the University of Toronto in 1994.
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Mike Wilner began his broadcasting career at the University of Toronto in 1988, and was named sports director there a year later.
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Mike Wilner began his professional broadcasting career at the age of 19 with the Class-A Welland Pirates.
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Mike Wilner later did play-by-play for various baseball teams including the Class-A Watertown Indians, and the Double-A Hardware City Rock Cats.
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On June 1,2010, Mike Wilner got into an argument during a media scrum with the Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston about Gaston's field level decision making.
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From 2014 to 2017, Mike Wilner performed play-by-play duties for select innings of all Toronto Blue Jays home games.
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In 2018, following the retirement of longtime Blue Jays play-by-play commentator Jerry Howarth, Mike Wilner called most Blue Jays games with Ben Wagner.
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Mike Wilner officially became the full-time radio play-by-play announcer with Wagner prior to the 2019 season.
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Mike Wilner continued as the Blue Jays play-by-play announcer through the 2020 season.
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On February 11,2021, Mike Wilner announced that he had become a baseball columnist for the Toronto Star.
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Mike Wilner is divorced, and together with his ex-wife from Buenos Aires, Argentina, they have two daughters and he resides in Mississauga.