Jon “Boog” Sciambi is the Cubs’ newest play-by-play announcer, Marquee Sports Network announced Monday.J

Sciambi has become a familiar figure on the national baseball scene, as the voice of Sunday Night Baseball for MLB on ESPN Radio and regular play-by-play voice on ESPN’s Wednesday Night Baseball. Even with the new gig, Sciambi will continue to serve as multi-platform broadcaster for ESPN.

“There was no shortage of interest in this position, and deservedly so,” Marquee general manager Mike McCarthy said in a network release. “It is one of the premier spots in sports broadcast history, and no one is more deserving of the seat than Jon. His personality, energy and baseball credibility make him the perfect choice to succeed the legends who have preceded him.”

In his role at ESPN, Sciambi has provided play-by-play for the College and Little League World Series. On the MLB side, has been an on-site studio host for ESPN Radio’s MLB World Series coverage.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

I watched him during the Korean ESPN baseball broadcasts in 2020 and wanted to turn it off.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

That's because he was speaking Korean.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Given that he's staying with ESPN as well (my guess will be he keeps Sunday Night Baseball on the radio), I think that he's eventually going to do occasional segments on MVP as well.

That's because he was speaking Korean.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Bully Hendry would have signed Harper for 2.5 Billion over 30 years

he's NOT welcome.

Another typical boring broadcaster, this time all programmed up by ESPN.

We need a character in the boradcast booth, not these factory made types.

I read somewhere Sciambi is going to miss a little over 30 Cubs games due to ESPN stuff (baseball and college basketball). That sucks, especially for someone who was looking forward to him being the new voice of the Cubs.

He'll be out 1 out of every 5 games. That's ridiculous. Couldn't Marquee pay him more money for ESPN to go away? I guess Chris Meyers once a week is their answer.

I read somewhere Sciambi is going to miss a little over 30 Cubs games due to ESPN stuff (baseball and college basketball). That sucks, especially for someone who was looking forward to him being the new voice of the Cubs.

He'll be out 1 out of every 5 games. That's ridiculous. Couldn't Marquee pay him more money for ESPN to go away? I guess Chris Meyers once a week is their answer.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

I would think that would calm down as his other contracts come up for renegotiation. For basketball for example, he could probably still do 2 games a week and just miss a little bit of spring training.

I don't mind him missing Sundays to do the national radio broadcast. Many times the Saturday game will be on Fox anyway, and the Monday game is a night game. Both Pat Hughes and Steve Stone take vacation time in the middle of the season, and guys like Jon Miller managed to do both team games and Sunday night games for years. The bigger challenge is that they need to develop a younger voice to be able to do the 5th on radio most games and give both Sciambi and Hughes games off.

At least ZZ isn't going to be doing any TV.

The only guy left in baseball PBP who has the privilege to be totally critical of his own team is Howie Rose on the Mets radio broadcast, because Howie has been there forever and doesn't give a fuck, and knows that there is no way he will ever get fired.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Howie was great fun on the Islanders telecasts, but then he retired because he didn't want to commute to Brooklyn. Then the Isles moved back to Nassau like two or three years later. Solid work all around.