“Baby Shark” was a worldwide sensation long before Washington Nationals outfielder Gerardo Parra started using it as his walk-up song earlier this summer. Everybody knows that version of that song — with the possible exception of Fox Sports, which inexplicably played a different version Wednesday night during the Nationals’ 12-3 rout of the Houston Astros in Game 2 of the World Series. version is fun and upbeat, an unlikely-yet-perfect anthem for a Nationals team that was 12 games below .500 in May and is now two wins away from its first World Series championship. Fox play-by-play announcer Joe Buck told the Washington Post before the Series: "“I have listened to the ... out of that song for the last year. I didn’t need Gerardo Parra to introduce me to ‘Baby Shark.’”Yet as he discussed the cultural phenomenon during Wednesday’s broadcast, Buck declared, “There it is,” when the bizzarro version started playing.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 24, 2019 16:18 UTC