BROADCASTER WHO MADE ANTI-SEMITIC REMARKS BACK IN BOOTH

Remorseful Lyons Is Back (Scroll down)
Fox is making two significant additions to its announcing teams for the league championship series. For the American League Championship Series, the Mets' Al Leiter, who was terrific for Fox in last year's postseason, joins Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. For the National League Championship Series, Bob Brenly, a former Fox analyst who was fired earlier in the season as the Arizona manager, will join Thom Brennaman and Steve Lyons (who needs someone else to take up his air time).

Lyons was suspended without pay after insensitive remarks he made about the Dodgers' Shawn Green, who is Jewish and chose not to play against the Giants in San Francisco on Yom Kippur. On that telecast, he said that Green had "probably" taken the day off "for the heritage and not the religion." "He's not a practicing Jew," Lyons said. "He didn't marry a Jewish girl." Lyons should have stopped there, but he continued, saying, "And from what I understand, he never had a bar mitzvah, which is unfortunate because he didn't get the money."

Lyons was suspended without pay for the Giants-Dodgers game on Oct. 2 (Eric Karros sat in for him), but he was allowed by Fox to return for the playoffs without making an on-air apology, which he should do tomorrow night during Game 1 of the N.L.C.S. in St Louis.

In a statement, Fox apologized to those viewers who were offended and conceded that Lyons had "exercised poor judgment." The network said he "had expressed extreme remorse." A Dodgers spokesman, John Olguin, said in an e-mail message that Green had not been offended by Lyons's comments.