Couple of interesting changes in the local broadcast booths this season:
-- Steve Stone is back in Chicago, although this time with the White Sox. In effect, he's pulling a reverse Harry Caray, who worked on the South Side before becoming a beloved Cubs announcer. Stone will be doing radio with Ed Farmer. I missed Stone doing Cubs games, but he had an interesting chemistry working with Steve Phillips and Gary Thorne on ESPN a couple of years ago. Strangely enough, Stone will be replacing Chris Singleton (whose dad is one of 500 people calling Yankees games on YES), who looks to be heading to Baseball Tonight.
-- Joe Buck won't do Cardinals games this season, ending a 54-year era of Bucks in the St. Louis booth. I'm not as much of a Joe Buck hater as some of my friends; I'm pretty ambivalent about Buck as an announcer. Of course, he's been showing up in a multitude of commercials (Dude!?!) and doing all sorts of other stuff that his cameo appearances with St. Louis seemed like just a ploy to keep the ties between the Buck family and the Cardinals alive. Besides, it's not like the primary network baseball voice has to have a local gig on the side, right?
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