![]() ![]() Career ĭuring law school, Benetti acted as the voice of High Point Panthers basketball games, Syracuse Chiefs baseball games, and high school sports for Time Warner Cable Sports Channel. Īfter graduating, Benetti enrolled at Wake Forest University School of Law where he earned a Juris Doctor degree in 2011. At Syracuse, he worked at WAER-FM and WJPZ FM where he called Syracuse Orange lacrosse and women's basketball. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and graduated in 2005 with bachelor’s degrees in broadcast journalism, economics and psychology. Not wanting to exclude him, the band director asked him to serve as the halftime broadcaster for their marching events. Benetti's cerebral palsy prevented him from playing tuba during marching band season. He ran school's NCAA tournament pool and joined the school's radio station, WHFH (88.5) as a regular disc jockey and play-by-play announcer for Vikings sports coverage. īenetti grew up a few miles south of Chicago in Homewood, Illinois, and graduated from the Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 2001. He underwent years of physical therapy and two surgeries to improve his ability to walk. It is believed that caused his cerebral palsy, which was diagnosed when Benetti was a toddler. During the three months in the hospital, Benetti had a respiratory illness while in intensive care that deprived his blood of oxygen. Now primarily contracted with Fox Sports nationally, Benetti was formerly the main announcer for ESPN's alternate "StatCast" telecasts, and additionally has worked for NBC Sports, Westwood One, and Time Warner covering football, baseball, lacrosse, hockey, and basketball.īenetti was born 10 weeks prematurely and hospitalized for three months. Since 2016, he has been the primary television play-by-play announcer of Chicago White Sox baseball and the alternate play-by-play announcer of Chicago Bulls basketball for NBC Sports Chicago. The game will also launch on Xbox Game Pass the same day.Jason Benetti (born September 9, 1983) is an American sportscaster. Though Major League Baseball’s lockout has now dragged into its third month, canceling the first series of the regular season, MLB The Show 22 will still launch April 5 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and, for the first time, Nintendo Switch. Sciambi started calling sporting events as a Boston College undergraduate in the early 1990s, where he worked alongside future national broadcast voices Joe Tessitore and Bob Wischusen. He also calls regular and postseason MLB games for ESPN Radio. Before that, Sciambi held announcing roles with the Florida Marlins’ and Atlanta Braves’ radio and TV broadcasts. Sciambi, 51, was named play-by-play announcer for Cubs broadcasts on Marquee Sports Network in January 2021. ![]() Singleton has worked with Sciambi on ESPN Radio broadcasts since 2011, and last year was hired by the Milwaukee Brewers as a part-time analyst for Bally Sports Wisconsin. After retiring from baseball, he joined the White Sox radio booth as an analyst for the 20 seasons, then left in 2008 for ESPN’s Baseball Tonight program. 300 with 17 home runs and 74 RBI in his debut season for the Chicago White Sox. Singleton, 49, played six seasons in the major leagues from 1999 to 2005, batting. ![]() “This isn’t easy work for any of us, but we all became a family and enjoyed the grind together.” “Working with San Diego Studio over the past few years has truly been one of the most memorable experiences of my career,” Singleton said, in the PlayStation Blog. MLB The Show 22’s commentary will also implement “audio stitching enhancements” that both improve the integration of thousands of players’ first and last names, and should increase the variety of play-by-play and color commentary that players hear. San Diego Studio says that more than 45,000 lines of audio will be delivered with a new conversation system that “allow for more natural banter between commentators that seamlessly integrates into the live action of each game.” SIE San Diego Studio said Singleton and Sciambi sat for 128 different recording sessions, and in a comment Singleton indicated that the work spanned more than one year. A PlayStation Blog post on Tuesday morning introduced fans to the new commentary duo. They’re replacing play-by-play man Matt Vasgersian, who had been with the series since its inception in 2006, and MLB Network analysts Dan Plesac and Mark DeRosa, who had been in the game since 20, respectively. Jon “Boog” Sciambi, currently the play-by-play announcer for Chicago Cubs TV broadcasts, and Chris Singleton, the former Major League baseball player and current ESPN radio analyst, are the new duo calling all of MLB The Show’s Franchise, Road to the Show, Diamond Dynasty, and other games. MLB The Show 22 has an all-new commentary team. ![]()
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