Joe Buck. (Fox Sports photo)
Kevin LynchHe was scheduled to broadcast a ballgame on the first weekend of the season, in late March, but took the day off because one of the boys was having a medical procedure.
Buck earned the time off, having compiled what is believed to be an unprecedented iron-man streak for a network play-by-play announcer last October, when he broadcast NFL regular-season games and MLB postseason contests. He called 15 events in 18 days from six cities across all four time zones. He bounded from one sport to the other five times, each time going to a different time zone without a day off to adjust.