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Detroit Tigers PA announcer Jay Allen says during cancer treatments: 'It’s still a very good world'

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Jay Allen is the new voice of Comerica Park. We checked in with him as he prepared for Tigers Opening Day on Thursday, April 4, 2019. Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press

The way Jay Allen looks at it, if he had never received the cancer diagnosis in mid-August, then maybe he never would have realized how lucky he is to have all of these people in his life.

“Sometimes, you pull yourself out of the situation and say, ‘Wow, this is for me?’ ” the Detroit Tigers' public address announcer said this week.