Fox

[RedSoxRooter]

I have faith in Buck doing his best, but I think McCarver is going to piss me off more than he already has. It's gotten to the point with McCarver that I laugh at his stupid/wrong remarks. I hope Buck can be objective.

 

This from St. Louis Today: http://www.stltoday.com/sports/cards

 

Series puts Buck in no-win situation

By Dan Caesar

Of the Post-Dispatch

10/22/2004

 

 

Either the Cardinals or the Boston Red Sox will be victorious in the World Series. But Joe Buck, who will be doing the play-by-play of the telecasts on the Fox network, can't win. No matter how well he does his job, he's going to make some viewers angry.

 

Some Red Sox rooters are bound to say he's biased toward the Cardinals because of his deep St. Louis ties. Some Cards fans will be annoyed because he's not slanting things toward the Redbirds' perspective, as he does when he calls games on local TV.

 

"I've dealt with it a couple times already in the postsesaon, when the Cardinals played the Mets (and) Braves," Buck said in a teleconference this week. "I've said it a couple times ... I don't consider myself the kind of guy who's tucking himself into bed at night with his little Cardinals PJ's on.

 

"I take my history out of it and I do my job. The most important thing I do is try to be balanced and report it for both sides. I really take pride in that. I'm a professional. As far as the scrutiny, I put enough scrutiny on myself to do a good job and whoever has anything to say, they can say whatever they wish."

 

Fox analyst Tim McCarver also has strong Cardinals ties.

 

"Any question that is seriously questioning our bias is absolutely insulting," he said in the teleconference. "I appreciated and loved my connection with them and those teams I'll never forget, particularly (World Series clubs of) '64, '67 and '68. But obviously calling the Series will be a different thing because we try to be as unbiased as we can be. But the Cardinal tradition is one that I'm appreciative of, that I was part of it for 13 years."

 

Buck and McCarver worked the AL title series, in which Boston came back from a 3-0 deficit to beat New York in a series in which most games lasted at least four hours. Buck said he was able to devote only a small fraction of his time to following the Cards' seven-game victory over Houston in the NL, adding that he "saw about 8 seconds" of one game.

 

It's been a grueling stretch.

 

"I get worn out on this stuff," he said. "These games, they take a lot out of you. I'm worried some times about getting my rest, trying to keep my energy up for my job."

[yeszir]

Wow, I had completely forgotten about Buck's ties with the Cards. In any case, they've all already lost with me. They suck as broadcasters.

[mosox]

Originally posted by yeszir@Oct 23 2004, 02:45 PM

They suck as broadcasters.

Agreed.

[Johnny_RedSox]

they are terrible and it really pissed me off when al leiter was explaining how to pitch a change up and mccarver was giggling in th ebackground

 

al leiter also returned to the booth after reporting from the pen in game 6 i think and they had stupid remarks

 

these guys are clowns!!

[SchillingIsTheNatural]

I hate games on Fox more than the announcers.

 

...wait...here it comes...YOU'RE RISKING THIS PATIENTS LIFE.

 

I swear they only have 10 commercials to choose from. But yes Buck and McCarver are annoying.

 

How about Scooter?

 

Obviously being targeted toward young viewers. I loved it when Scooter was teaching about how to throw at batters. What kinda message are we sending to kids?

[ahhchon]

you guys gotta realize that 95% of the people watching know nothing about baseball. if we had good announcers people would be so bored because they cannot understand the statistics.

 

john

[Johnny_RedSox]

good point John!

[yeszir]

I liked Buck's "slipup" today when he, understandably *cough* called Renteria Varitek when referring to his error.

[schillingouttheks]

i missed it...:shrug:

 

but come on buck!!!!! i mean... :wtf:

[ahhchon]

Originally posted by yeszir@Oct 23 2004, 11:31 PM

I liked Buck's "slipup" today when he, understandably *cough* called Renteria Varitek when referring to his error.

i heard that too, but no one else caught it and said i made it up.. oh well.

 

john

[stocker323]

I think he meant that Varitek reached on Renteria's error, but he wasn't trying to say that Varitek made the error.

[noonanberg]

The fact of the matter is that the Fox crew just plain SUCKS. From Scooter to the commentators they're just awful. The Tek mistake isn't the first name screw- up. Anyone remember Pedro vs. Brandon Arroyo? I would take a little league announcer over Buck and McCarver any day.

 

SIDE NOTE: More proof of Fox's Yanks bias: After the ALCS they showed a shot of the studio for the commentators, what was in the background you ask? Yankee bobbleheads, helmets, pictures and gloves. Screw the curse and screw Fox. C'mon ESPN get the WS rights!!!!!!

[schillingouttheks]

i wish we had NESN still as an option for local broadcasting, that would kick ass. orsillo and rem-dawg are just awesome...