Welcome to the Sports Media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyke. My producer is Bob Tabador. Our guest in this episode, he really doesn't need an introduction. He's a well-known person in the sporting universe.

Joe Buck is the voice of ESPN's Monday night football,

a veteran of 24 World Series broadcasts, I've been told.

He's here today because he will call the Dodgers and the Mets on Wednesday, April 15th,

at 10 p.m. on ESPN.

He will be joined in the booth by Ron Darling and Oral Hirschizer.

It's like a 1980s reunion there with Buster-only reporting.

This is an ESPN exclusive national presentation on Jackie Robinson Day.

So Joe Buck, obviously, one of the, you know, one of the

famed voices of baseball in the country, returns to call baseball once again. And on that occasion,

he is kind enough to join us on the sports media podcast. Welcome, Joe. Welcome, Richard. Good to

see you, buddy. Say that again? 10 o'clock. I think it starts at 10 o'clock. Yeah, you're right. I was trying to think I said this. No, I know, and it's a normal game. So for L.A., I was saying this to my wife the other day. I can't think of the last time.

I guess I'd have to go back to when I was doing the Cardinals on the day-to-day basis that I did a 7 p.m. game in L.A.

Obviously, anytime I was doing it on national TV, it was a 5 o'clock start, 515 start,

and now I'm back at nighttime baseball at Dodger Stadium.

So it'll be good.

I'm excited.

I think if your first question will be, why are you doing this?

I think the easy answer is, I'm bored.

I want to do it. I'm excited to do it. My level of

excitement tells me that I probably need to be doing it. So I can't wait. It's going to be fun.

So it's going to be my second question. My first question is I wanted to bring this up to you because

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