Joe Davis inherited fairly a mantle in 2016, when the Dodgers put in him as their play-by-play broadcaster for highway video games, and the inheritor obvious to Vin Scully. Davis has since carved his personal path, all the time being cautious to not draw private comparisons to Scully, who’s with out historic peer amongst baseball play-by-play males.
Setting his unparalleled expertise apart, Scully introduced one thing else to the Dodgers’ broadcast sales space unmatched in MLB historical past: longevity.
Scully’s 67 years with the Dodgers started in Brooklyn in 1950 and led to Los Angeles with the 2016 season. No broadcaster has spent that lengthy with a single sports activities staff — a file licensed by the Guinness E-book of World Data.
Like Scully in his early years with the Dodgers, Davis has begun to just accept his share of nationwide broadcast assignments over time as effectively. Most prominently, Davis is Fox Sports activities’ lead baseball play-by-play commentator reverse analyst John Smoltz for the All-Star Recreation and World Sequence, having succeeded Joe Buck in 2022.
Davis’ different duties embrace calling NFL video games for Fox Sports activities, in addition to school basketball and soccer. The nationwide assignments presently restrict his schedule to 90 regular-season Dodger broadcasts a 12 months.
In opposition to this backdrop, would Davis’ nationwide duties ever lead him to surrender the Dodgers’ lead play-by-play chair altogether?
Not an opportunity, Davis stated in a brand new interview with Terrible Asserting.
“I don’t see it going wherever assuming that they’ll proceed to have me,” Davis advised Brandon Contes. “That is my ninth 12 months. It’s flown by. We love Los Angeles. My spouse loves it right here. There have been conditions the place potential alternatives to return to the Midwest, the place we’re each from, and each time that comes up she’s made it – ‘no, we’re not leaving right here, the climate’s too good out.’ It’s too nice. That is sort of residence now. We’ve got three youngsters who’re within the college 12 months.”
Davis’ roots lie within the midwest. He was born in Michigan. He attended school in Wisconsin. He grew up a Cubs fan. Notably, the Detroit Tigers’ play-by-play seat just lately got here open. In Nov. 2023, the job in the end went to former Chicago White Sox play-by-play man Jason Benetti.
The Tigers by no means offered Davis with a proper provide, he advised Terrible Asserting.
Though it won’t be superb for Dodger followers who want to hear Davis’ voice on greater than 90 SportsNet LA broadcasts every year, the present association works effectively for the 36-year-old announcer.
“The Dodgers, Fox, and my bosses there have been nice to me,” Davis advised Contes. “All of them know one another. So I’ve been so fortunate that they’ve labored properly and allowed me to coordinate the schedule. Because the Fox position elevated a little bit bit I used to be in a position to pull again on the variety of Dodger video games. If I couldn’t do this then possibly it’s be a unique story.”
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