The way Buck kept mentioning the possible tie over and over again made me think he honestly wanted the game to finish in a tie. He seriously could not give a shit about baseball and it’s a joke that he’s got the biggest play by play gig in the majors.

And technically, he’s just an awful play by play guy, even without the disdain, monotone and the unbearable smugness. He is just not any good at calling a baseball game. It’s painful.

I listened to the start of the game on the radio during my drive home yesterday. They had FOUR friggin’ people broadcasting. Four? Why the hell do you need four people on a RADIO broadcast? Give me two voices, and call it a day! The extra two are just idiots collecting a paycheck, and providing redundancy.

As for the Fox broadcast team, I think Joe Buck just has a stream of consciousness going on. He doesn’t stop talking! The entire time, it was just talktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalk… I eventually just muted the game. Then I turned it off anyway.

Joe Buck Admits He Doesn’t Enjoy Baseball Anymore

The prosecution rests.

Also, stfu, TIm McCarver.

From FJM:

“We had our friends at Stats, Inc. check and see whether more multi-run innings came with a lead off homer or a lead off walk. You would think that a lead off walk would lead to more big innings than a lead off home run. Not true. A lead off home run, this year, has lead to more multi-run innings than lead off walks. It’s against conventional thinking.”

The loonies are running the nut house.

BTW, I thought xanthan was Stats Inc? He’s friends with Tim McCarver? What’s the deal?

I could tolerate maybe seven innings of Buck’s blatant Yankees dicksucking before I actually got angry. How the son of Jack Buck, one of the greatest announcers in sports history, could be such a godawful broadcaster, is just unfathomable.

Network Sports broadcasting (including ESPN) in general is not geared towards the rabid fan, but the more casual fan who isn’t into the minutiae of sports. FoxSports puts on a very shiny/sparkly broadcast, which is ok in small doses, but it gets old quick for those who just want to watch the game.

What would make the ASG more watchable would be to have no announcers or sideline reporters at all. just the sights and sounds of the game with a few graphics showing the score and some stats on the players would be fine with me.

I can’t stand him at all. Probably the biggest argument against Nepotism

People would like to question Joe Buck, but they don’t, because they can’t figure out how.

You see, he’s a Cardinals fan, and as we all know, they’re infallible.

i couldn’t stand listening to those two!
y did they pick them to announce the game?

Watching the game last night was more than a chore. My mother in law, in an attempt to somehow bond with me has taken up an sudden interest in base ball. She was watching the game with me and was thourouglly confused by all the nonsence coming out of Joe Buck’s mouth. If Fox is trying to appeal to causal fans they are failing.

Best moment of the game was when Joe and Tim were talking about Jeter (I think) Joe commented how he is “a professional hitter” then McCarver pipes in and says he is “such a professional player, not just his hitting but his fielding as well” At that point my mother in law said”well thats kind of a dumb comment, aren’t they all professional players?” It is pretty bad when even a novice points out some of the asinine things that comes out of the Fox announcers mouths.

I liked the way Joe Buck pronounced Justin Duchscherer’s name.

The Yogi interview was really painful. God bless Yogi, but having him in the booth for the half-inning was painful.

The announcing was terrible, but at least I learned that it’s possible to fellate a stadium.

Bad broadcasters and bad gimmicks. Just SELL the game and stop trying to MARKET it. There’s a difference.

The game doesn’t need all the flashy graphics or the stupid little animated characters or the over dramatization of EVERYTHING or the constant injections of shitty popular songs that happen to fit a particular theme.

And we can also do without the barrage of Fox show tie-ins. You exist to benefit the game, not the other way around.

One more thing – remember when they gave an orchestral score to the 9th inning of a game, which just happened to be at AT&T? Worst. Idea. Ever.

We don’t have cable any more and I’m not paying for MLBtv but I could have watched the game had I wanted to. Usually I catch at least part of the all-star game. It reminds me of my childhood, when I used to absolutely love the all-star game.

However, I knew it would be infruriating what with this being the last year of Yankee Stadium and the game being played there. I just knew I couldn’t stand the OMG YANKEE STADIUM…LEGENDARY…HOLOWWED GROUND,.kYANKEES>>>HISTORY…MOG!!#($)#!

Truth: Joe Buck and Tim McCarver are just a symptom of the American media appealing to the lowest common denominator of entertainment. Rather than a broadcast that informs and inspires the audience to learn more about our great sport, FOX and MLB takes the easy way out and makes it a dumbed down slobberfest, because it’s the easiest god damned thing for them to do. It’s a production, in every sleazy infotainment connotation of the word. If the popularity of this sport increases over the next fifty years, it will be despite these, and other short sighted calculations trickling from the mind of Mr. Selig.

This unfortunately is a real book. I wonder if he has read it :-)