{"id":8167,"date":"2012-12-03T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T16:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2012-12-03T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T16:59:18","slug":"kruk-espn-sun-night-baseball-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8167","title":{"rendered":"Kruk, ESPN Sun. Night Baseball Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ESPN1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8165\" title=\"ESPN\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ESPN1-150x45.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) &#8211; John Kruk, a member of ESPN&#8217;s studio team since 2004, will be Terry Francona&#8217;s replacement in the booth<br \/>\nfor Sunday night telecasts next season.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kruk will partner with Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser, giving<br \/>\nESPN a new crew for the third straight season after 21 consecutive<br \/>\nyears with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. Buster Olney remains as the<br \/>\ncrew&#8217;s reporter.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shulman and Hershiser were in the Sunday night booth in 2011<br \/>\nalong with Bobby Valentine, who left to become manager of the Red<br \/>\nSox and was replaced by Francona, Boston&#8217;s manager from 2004-11.<br \/>\nFrancona left ESPN in October to become Cleveland&#8217;s manager.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) &#8211; John Kruk, a member of ESPN&#8217;s studio team since 2004, will be Terry Francona&#8217;s replacement in the booth for Sunday night telecasts next season. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kruk will partner with Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser, giving ESPN a new crew for the third straight season after 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}