The Pensacola Blue Wahoos open their 2026 season against the Montgomery Biscuits at 6:05 p.m. today at Blue Wahoos Stadium. The team and the season are our cover story this week.
Our reporter, Savannah Evanoff, sat down with Erik Bremer, whose father is the legendary lead television announcer for the Minnesota Twins.
The Voice of the Wahoos
Erik Bremer lives his life out of a suitcase.
You have to be willing to do that to follow your dreams, he explained.
Not unlike the baseball players he calls games for, Erik’s year—at least a big chunk of it—is a blur of hotel rooms and baseball games. With the sport, he’s followed opportunities to Mississippi, Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia—even Brisbane, Australia—and for the past four years, Pensacola.
And while this will mark the broadcaster’s fifth season with the Blue Wahoos and ninth in Minor League Baseball, Erik’s whole life has been baseball. His father, Dick Bremer, was the television broadcaster for the Minnesota Twins for 40 years.
“You see a parent enjoy going to work every day and getting into baseball games for free, it’s only natural that you’d want to do that yourself,” Erik said.
Dick will be inducted into the Twins Hall of Fame this summer, and Erik will go to Minneapolis to celebrate, he said. They will undoubtedly be joined by Erik’s sister, Hannah Bremer, who works on the Twin’s community management team.
“One of the things that made [Dick] so successful in his career, and gave him such a long career, is that he always put the game first,” Erik said. “It wasn’t about him; it was about the players, and it was about the experience that the viewers had. So if you keep that as your North Star, I think you can age pretty well in this industry, and that’s something that I try to hold fast to as well.”
Erik grew up watching his father on Twins TV. Today, his father watches him.
“Our careers overlapped a little bit, but now he’s retired, and I think as I talk about our dedicated fans, I can count him among them, because he’s listening or watching pretty much every night,” Erik said. “I think it’s probably hardwired in him to be engaged with the daily rhythm and routine of a baseball team. But now, rather than covering his own team, he’s just following the Blue Wahoos, so it’s pretty cool to have that and to have him in my corner.”
And Erik is grateful to be in this particular corner.
“I’ve worked in enough places in Minor League Baseball to appreciate what we have here,” Erik said. “In addition to being the best view in Minor League Baseball, right on Pensacola Bay, we’ve got a robust and dedicated fan base that lives and dies on every pitch of the blue.”
“So as a broadcaster, on principle, I’d like to think that I’d handle the job the same way, whether there was one person listening or 1,000 people,” Erik said. “But the fact that we have fans who care about this team and are following them on the road and just engaged with the team on a really personal level is something that makes my job even more meaningful than it otherwise would be.”
To see the Blue Wahoos 2026 home game schedule, visit milb.com/pensacola.
