Joe Buck makes statement that should have MLB fans itching with excitement

Joe Buck is a football guy now. So what that he called MLB games for over 20 years with FOX? He's with ESPN, now, and he's now just a football guy.

But never say never.

"I’m pretty good with just calling football the rest of my life or the rest of my career,” Buck had said in an August 2022 interview.

It's worth noting that less than a year later, the legendary broadcaster has somewhat changed his tune, though.

“I think I will (do baseball again). I’ve never said that before. But I just feel like I’m 53, basically 54, I think it’s too early to say never at this point in my life. I think at some point, I’ll get the itch again," Buck told Matt Spiegel of Audacy (h/t Awful Announcing).

Buck doesn't see himself being a broadcasting mainstay for MLB like he was for years and years – he called 23 World Series and 21 All-Star Games for Fox Sports – but he can see himself having a more localized presence in the towns that matter to him personally.

“It would be local. Doing a handful of games in St. Louis, doing a handful of games if we move to Denver, doing a handful of games in Minnesota… It’s not going to be ‘Hey, welcome to the World Series! This is my 25th.’ I’m done with that. That’s enough," Buck explained.

Joe's father, Jack Buck, called St. Louis Cardinals games for many years and is a legend in the St. Louis community.

“The national stuff is more prestigious and it’s bigger and it comes with more money and it comes with more pressure. But the local guy is there representing the fan," Buck said, obviously interested in the idea. 

“I just remember my dad’s thing was two on and nobody out, ‘We need a triple play!’ You don’t say that when you’re doing – We? ‘We’ means John Smoltz and me. ‘We’ means those of us at Fox. There is no ‘we’ in national broadcasting.”