No city’s baseball announcers have a greater profile than Chicago’s. White Sox TV voice Jason Benetti calls baseball, football and basketball for ESPN. Sox radio voice Len Kasper calls baseball for Fox. Cubs TV voice Jon “Boog” Sciambi calls baseball for ESPN radio and basketball for ESPN TV.
But their national work can make for strange bedfellows. Sciambi called the Sox-Angels game for the first “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcast of the season. Kasper, the former Cubs TV voice, has called three Sox games for FS1 – one with former Cub Eric Karros – forcing him to keep an impartial tone.