{"id":16921,"date":"2021-01-06T03:10:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:30:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:30:33","slug":"a-new-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/a-new-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jon-Boog-Sciambi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16923\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jon-Boog-Sciambi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jon-Boog-Sciambi.jpg 600w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jon-Boog-Sciambi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>The Cubs and the Marquee Sports Network announced on Monday that Jon &#8220;Boog&#8221; Sciambi has been hired as the new play-by-play voice of the Cubs.\u00a0\u00a0Sciambi has been the voice of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball for MLB on ESPN Radio and the play-by-play voice for Wednesday Night Baseball telecasts since 2014.\u00a0 He takes the spot vacated by Len Kasper, who moved over to the White Sox radio booth <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/holy-cow\/\">last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving the opportunity to come to Wrigley Field and call games for the Chicago Cubs every day is surreal,\u201d Sciambi said in a statement. \u201cIt really doesn\u2019t get better than that. Chicago is one of the best cities and Wrigley is the best ballpark out there.\u201d\u00a0 Prior to joining ESPN,\u00a0Sciambi had served as the lead television announcer for the\u00a0Braves from 2007-2009 and as the radio voice of the Marlins from 1997-2004.<\/p>\n<p>Sciambi teamed with current Cubs manager David Ross on ESPN telecasts, so he should have an immediate in to the organization.\u00a0 He will continue working for ESPN in some capacity under this new deal.<\/p>\n<p>In somewhat related news, missing from the list of contributors in the press release from Marquee was Mark Grace, the former Cub star who was suspended last season after making derogatory comments about his ex-wife during a broadcast.\u00a0 Not a huge loss for the network or the Cubs, since, in my opinion, Grace makes for a poor broadcaster, but losing a high profile gig must sting for the former all-star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs and the Marquee Sports Network announced on Monday that Jon &#8220;Boog&#8221; Sciambi has been hired as the new play-by-play voice of the Cubs.\u00a0\u00a0Sciambi has been the voice of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball for MLB on ESPN Radio and the play-by-play voice for Wednesday Night Baseball telecasts since 2014.\u00a0 He takes the spot vacated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,63],"tags":[125,120,7366,1317,9278,9277,8821,8823,114,8170,49,595],"class_list":["post-16921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-television","tag-braves","tag-cubs","tag-david-ross","tag-espn","tag-espn-radio","tag-jon-boog-sciambi","tag-len-kasper","tag-mark-grace","tag-marlins","tag-marquee-network","tag-white-sox","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16924,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions\/16924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}