The Marshal Plan: Fox says it didn't know this escort service was wrong

Joe Buck and Tim McCarver received improper use of a U.S. Marshal escort at the 2007 World Series, but it wasn't their fault. Nor was it the fault of Buck and Troy Aikman to get the same treatment at the '08 Super Bowl.

Why complain when your stat guys says he knows some people who can get them to the airport or ballpark by flashing a few sirens at the right moment?

Truly disgusting. "Dignitary protection" needed? If so, it wasn't authorized.

"At select events, (a Fox statistician, Joseph Band, also an attorney with the U.S. Marshal office) did offer transportation to some Fox Sports personnel," Fox's Dan Bell said in a statement. "We were unaware, however, that those arrangements were in any way inappropriate, and regret to learn now that they apparently were."

The story that's gaining some interesting twists, turns and U-turns came out in the Boston Globe (linked here) and New York Times (linked here) and Washington Post (linked here). Woodward and Bernstein may as well be involved in adding their assistance in writing a screenplay.

More background at AwfulAnnouncing.com (linked here)