Original: Thorne succeeds Dan Shulman , who had called play-by-play for the network since 2002 ; Shulman , in turn , had been preceded by Charley Steiner from 1998 2002 .
Simplified: Thorne succeeded Dan Shulman , who had called for the network since 2002 ; Shulman , in turn , had been preceded by Charley Steiner from 1998-2002 .