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Buck to do his 12th World Series and it is 20 for McCarver (FOX)
World Series on FOX
Pregame: 7:30 p.m.
Game time: 7:57 p.m.
Radio:
ESPN and Sirius – XM Homeplate Channel.
Yankees and Phillies broadcasts on Sirius-XM
Broadband:
MLB.com – Major League Baseball Digital Media
Tonight, weather permitting, Joe Buck will put on his headset, take his seat beside partner Tim McCarver and make broadcasting history.
He will join play-by-play legends Vin Scully and Curt Gowdy by calling his 12th World Series. The 2009 Fall Classic also marks analyst McCarver's 20th behind the microphone, adding to his record-setting achievement. His first assignment was the 1985 "Show Me Series" between the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis Cardinals on ABC.
Buck, the lead broadcaster for FOX, knows very well what this record means. His father, Jack Buck, called 11 World Series in his Hall of Fame career.
We talked about the record as well as the constant charge leveled at all broadcasters for seeming to favor one team over the other:
So what does this record mean to you?
Buck » "I don't say this to try and be funny, but I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I happened to work for the same people since I started as a 24-year-old. I'm lucky and I don't consider myself in that category with those two guys. Those two guys are the standard by which all others are measured. I'm certainly not in that category just because I've had some longevity. I've just been the lucky guy and longevity doesn't equal greatness, and in my mind greatness is the other two guys and certainly continues with Vin Scully to this day. I'm not even in that same sentence. I just feel fortunate to be able to call my 12th."
Every year, no matter who the teams are or who the broadcasters are, fans complain that announcers take sides.
Buck » "We get excited when good plays happen and get critical when bad plays happen. It doesn't matter which team we're getting excited about and it doesn't matter which team we are getting critical of. I think any fan that is living and dying with every pitch is an easily explained phenomenon. They want the voices they hear to think and act like they do. I think it's only human nature. When they don't hear that or they don't hear their local announcers who do the games for them during the course of the summer and they're hearing it from someone who has a different point of view, I think their radar goes up and it's like, 'clearly this guy is against my team.' I can tell you, I don't think like that."
FOX is adding colorful White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen to their pregame show. He will join host Chris Rose and analysts Mark Grace and Eric Karros. The FOX pregame show will air at 7:30 p.m.
More on the game from the FOX crew…
As he prepares to call his 20th World Series, Tim McCarver on the differences between calling a World Series game and playing in one: “It’s a lot tougher to announce a World Series than it is to play in one. I think Ozzie will find that out. Playing in it you can do something about it. From a preparation standpoint, you have to plan for far greater things that can happen to 25 different players and a manager. Your reactions are different because you are reacting from the standpoint of professional broadcaster as opposed to reacting from a player’s standpoint.”
Ozzie Guillen on concern over his use of language: “I don’t really curse and say bad things when I’m not with my team. I’m going to talk about my team. I’m going to talk about baseball. Don’t worry, I’m not going to curse. I only curse when Chicago media is around me.
Ed Goren on the national appeal of Yankees/Phillies World Series: “I love the Phillies storylines. I hope it works out where it’s Pedro Martinez coming back to the Bronx and if there’s an athlete in baseball who I really love to see on the big stage and get more exposure it’s Ryan Howard. He seems to be a great kid and a heck of a ball player. I don’t think there will be a negative affect on our ratings with the two East Coast teams. In fact, during Turner’s NLCS coverage, there were actually more viewers in Philadelphia watching that series, even though it’s a smaller market, than were watching in Los Angeles. On top of everything else you have a team looking to win back-to-back World Series....We just came off of a great ALCS. If we get the caliber of games in the World Series that we got for the ALCS, we don’t have to worry about the ratings. We don’t have to worry about anything.”
Ozzie Guillen on Pedro Martinez’s season: “We tried Pedro a little bit at the White Sox to see what he had. Whenever you have the caliber of pitcher of Pedro, you’re always going to be in the game. As long as he throws strikes and throws the ball where he wants to, he’s always going to have a chance. I feel very, very excited about Pedro. I know he went through a lot of difficulties. He went to the workouts to show people he can still pitch. He pitched really well and a lot of people did not believe in him. He went back to the Dominican Republic and continued to do the rehab assignments, continued to work hard and I think that gave him what he wanted. He wanted the opportunity to be what he is right now and one thing it says is when you work hard, it will pay off.”
Radio-wise ESPN has it covered with plenty of World Series programming starting at 6am with Mike and Mike building up all day till the first pitch will be called by Jon Miller and Joe Morgan.
Sirius-XM will have the World Series covered with all the shows from their popular Homeplate Channel. Also you will be able to hear both the Yankees and the Phillies home broadcasts.
MLB digital media will offer plenty of coverage on BROADBAND with interviews as well as multi camera angles for those who would like to direct their own shows at MLB.com
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