Emergency Podcast: Joe Buck on Vin Scully

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Episode 229 of the Sports Media Podcast features ESPN broadcaster and longtime World Series game-caller Joe Buck. In this podcast, Buck discusses the life and career of the legendary broadcaster Vin Scully, who passed away on Tuesday at age 94; the friendship between Scully and Jack Buck, the father of Joe Buck; Scully’s remarkable ability to call games solo; why Scully always felt relevant even as he aged; Scully’s connection to Los Angeles; the time when Tim McCarver told a national audience Scully was not at a ballpark he was at; Scully’s call of Hank Aaron passing Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax’s perfect game; why this feels like the end of a broadcasting era, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.2	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:50.9	Let's follow this under-emergency podcast, as I think, unless you are living in a cave somewhere.
0:55.2	You are a sports venue that Vince Scully passed away last night.
0:59.8	Unquestionably, the greatest baseball broadcaster of all time.
1:02.7	In my opinion, the greatest sports broadcaster of all time.
1:07.1	And then I think you really should extend it further to probably on the Mount Rushmore list of the greatest American broadcasters of all time and whoever else you want to put up there with Edward R. Murrow, Cronkite, etc.
1:14.9	The guest for this emergency podcast is Joe Buck, and there are really a few people who I think
1:22.1	would be better situated for this kind of emergency broadcast.
1:25.7	I mean, I don't really have to introduce Joe Buck.
1:27.4	One, he's been on this podcast many times, too.
1:29.0	You know who he is.
1:29.7	But just to give you his baseball background,
1:33.2	Joe Buck called 24 World Series,
1:35.5	22 MLB All-Star Games.
1:37.8	It's a local radio intelligence announcer for the Cardinals from 1991 to 2007.
1:42.5	His dad, of course, is Jack Buck.
1:46.7	So Joe Buck is really like sort of one of the linear connections to Vin Scully and can truly understand the impact that someone like
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