Fox goes to another youngster for MLB primary role

[Bob Jersey]

Joe Davis, 34, gets the job.  "Smoltzie" will join him.  His first game is May 28th.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/joe-davis-fox-sports-major-league-baseball-1235228270/ (link)

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[PGage]

Variety frames the Al Michaels narrative as he got lured by Amazon and NBC replaced him with Tirico, but I think we know it’s more like NBC replaced Michaels with Tirico, and Michaels found a new gig at Amazon.

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[Tom Wolper]

Sports Illustrated has a sports media podcast where the announcers are interviewed and they can go in depth about this employment carousel. I don’t listen to the podcast because I don’t want to listen to Troy Aikman for an hour. They post excerpts though and I read them. What’s happening and why is really unprecedented and interesting and I don’t expect Variety or other general media outlets will want to spend a paragraph or two explaining it. If they rely on company press releases or agents’ statements that’s fine with me even if it’s not entirely accurate.

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[Dave Sikula]

Davis was faced with the impossible task of replacing Vin Scully, and has pulled it off far better than could ever have been expected. As a play-by-play guy, I think he's superb (even if he is hampered by overtalkative color guys). One of the highest compliments I can pay him is that, when he does a Dodger game on national television he calls it with no homerism (unlike too many others, especially the nimrods we have here in the Bay Area); one would never guess he's the Dodgers regular guy. Smoltz is awful and incapable of not rooting blatantly for the Braves, but I guess that's what is to be expected nowadays.

I think he's the perfect candidate for this job, but I do regret it'll cut down on his Dodger assignments.

--Dave Sikula