Joe Davis of Fox Sports
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Episode 390 of the "Sports Illustrated Media Podcast" hosted by Jimmy Traina features an interview with Joe Davis from Fox Sports.
Davis talks about taking over this season for Joe Buck as Fox's lead Major League Baseball play-by-play voice at just 34 years old. Davis, also talks about becoming the Dodgers lead play-by-play man after Vin Scully retired and how that will help him replace Buck. The versatile broadcaster also discusses being in the mix for Fox's No. 2 NFL job with Kevin Burkhardt moving into the No. 1 slot.
Davis also explains the differences in calling baseball and football, why it's important for a booth to have fun and how important it is for him to call a World Series.
The interview closes with a conversation about Davis's love of grilling.
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| 0:07.0 | I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks. |
| 0:13.4 | The book launched a thousand hot takes, |
| 0:15.3 | so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise. |
| 0:18.0 | I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on Musk |
| 0:21.4 | as I should be are always using anecdotes for my book to show why we should be tough on Musk. |
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