Joe Buck knew moving from FOX to ESPN would mean no longer announcing MLB games, specifically MLB playoff games and the World Series. Bill Simmons now wants Buck back on MLB games.
“I miss Joe Buck,” The Ringer founder said during The Bill Simmons Podcast. “We should be able to vote on this. Where it gets announced, ‘Buck and Aikman are thinking about going to ESPN. We should all have a vote the same way we would vote on laws or whatever. Where we’d be like, ‘Wait a second, so we lose Buck on baseball? And we lose him on those 4:00 PM awesome Fox Sunday games?’”
Simmons then took derided some of the announcers seen during the MLB Playoffs.
“I just would rather have Buck on Fox,” Simmons continued. “They gotta trade him back…I don’t even know who these announcers are doing the baseball games. There all like these generic white guys, I don’t know who’s who. It’s like, ‘I’m Joe, I’m Jim, I’m John.’”
Simmons concluded by asking why Buck couldn’t do the World Series for FOX and Monday Night Football for ESPN.
