{"id":16321,"date":"2020-07-02T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2020-06-30T18:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:36:33","slug":"changes-in-the-radio-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/changes-in-the-radio-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes In The Radio Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/andymasur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16349 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/andymasur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/andymasur.jpg 563w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/andymasur-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a>Now that the start of the baseball season is set, WGN and the White Sox have announced that Andy Masur would replace Ed Farmer in the radio booth for the 2020 season.\u00a0 Masur, who was the pre-game host and had filled in for Farmer last season and was planned to fill in again when Farmer stepped away in spring training before the sport shut down because of the corona virus pandemic, spent 8 years at WGN, starting in 1999, before leaving to become the voice of the Padres in 2007.\u00a0 He returned to the station in 2014 and started working with the White Sox when they moved to WGN in 2018.\u00a0 He will join the returning Darrin Jackson, who has been the color man in the booth since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer, who had spent 28 years in the White Sox radio booth and was the main play-by-play man since 2006, <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/rip-farmio\/\">passed away<\/a> following a long illness on April 2nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the start of the baseball season is set, WGN and the White Sox have announced that Andy Masur would replace Ed Farmer in the radio booth for the 2020 season.\u00a0 Masur, who was the pre-game host and had filled in for Farmer last season and was planned to fill in again when Farmer [&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],"tags":[8837,5712,5054,231,2914,49],"class_list":["post-16321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-andy-masur","tag-darrin-jackson","tag-ed-farmer","tag-padres","tag-wgn","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16351,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions\/16351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}