Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis comfortable as 'the voice of baseball' at Fox
LOS ANGELES — As Brad Zager remembers it, the decision was made within hours. On a Friday in March, news broke that Fox Sports lead MLB and NFL broadcaster Joe Buck would be leaving the network for ESPN. By the next afternoon, Zager, Fox Sports president of production and operations, was on a flight to Las Vegas, wasting little time in pursuit of Buck's baseball replacement. "It was a very, ...
LOS ANGELES — As Brad Zager remembers it, the decision was made within hours.
On a Friday in March, news broke that Fox Sports lead MLB and NFL broadcaster Joe Buck would be leaving the network for ESPN.
By the next afternoon, Zager, Fox Sports president of production and operations, was on a flight to Las Vegas, wasting little time in pursuit of Buck's baseball replacement.
"It was a very, very short turnaround," Zager said. "We knew we had the guy in-house that we wanted."
That guy was Joe Davis. And he was about to get the job of a lifetime.
"We met in the hotel," recalled Davis, who was in Las Vegas that week working the Pac-12 men's basketball
