Boog Sciambi is about to embark on calling his first World Series on ESPN Radio. The package’s former voice — Dan Shulman — has wished him well before the first broadcast.
“I’m so excited. You’re finally getting a chance to call the World Series, other than of course Game 5 back in 2018 when somehow, remotely, you poisoned me with strep throat and got the call the last pitch but you know, water under the bridge,” Shulman joked in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter.
“Anywho, you’re so deserving of this. You’re so so talented. And I can’t wait to listen to you call the World Series between the Rangers and the Diamondbacks. I hope you get a seven game series. I hope it goes right down to the final pitch. And it’s as exciting of a finish as any World Series has ever been. You deserve that.”
Shulman stepped away from calling the World Series for ESPN Radio after the 2022 fall classic. At the time of his decision, he called his current role as the television voice of the Toronto Blue Jays made his work with ESPN Radio increasingly difficult.
“It just made sense to me that if I’m all in on the Blue Jays, I’m all in,” Shulman said in 2022. “That’s my home, and sentimentally, that’s where my heart’s at right now for baseball, and the opportunity to call playoff games across Canada on TV. So now it’s clean. It’s baseball in Toronto. It’s college basketball in the U.S.”
Sciambi steps into the booth occupied by Shulman since 2010. In addition to his work calling MLB games on ESPN Radio, Sciambi is also the TV voice of the Chicago Cubs on Marquee Sports Network.
