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Maybe I've just had a long day, but Joe Buck + Time McCarver = mute button.
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  • SabermanSaberman Posts: 677
    They are awful
    Are you sure about that five minutes!?
  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭
    Yesterday, McCarver said "Baseball, a game of oblique angles, has become a game of oblique injuries." image
  • lanemyer85lanemyer85 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭
    add Hawk Harrelson, Chip Caray, and Joe Morgan and you'll successfully name the Top 5 most guilty embarrassments.
  • GarabaldiGarabaldi Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭
    Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver are brutal
  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Maybe I've just had a long day, but Joe Buck + Time McCarver = mute button. >>



    Absolutely. They call games for people who have never watched a baseball game before in their lives.
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  • markj111markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭


    << <i>add Hawk Harrelson, Chip Caray, and Joe Morgan and you'll successfully name the Top 5 most guilty embarrassments. >>






    McCarver doesn't bother me. Chip Caray and John Sterling are the devil's afterbirth.
  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭✭
    Brandon Inge hit a home run to left as McCarver was saying that Inge would never pull the ball against Alexi Ogando.
  • lanemyer85lanemyer85 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Brandon Inge hit a home run to left as McCarver was saying that Inge would never pull the ball against Alexi Ogando. >>



    was that before or after he said the team who scores the most runs will probably win the game?
  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    only thing more painful was Francona not knowing that KPH is less than MPH. and one wonders why he was fired......and i know broadcasting is not his profession

    one exception (for me) was John Miller doing a National broadcast with the Giants playing.

    but yeah McCarver, Buck, Morgan all of 'em TBS FOX




  • KeepItWarmKeepItWarm Posts: 579 ✭
    How about Terry Francona? What a dope!

    Actually, I can't stand ANY of them. Eric Karros? AJ 'Flamer' Pyrsinski (spelling?).

    It's pretty shocking actually how little talent they have at their disposal.
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  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    Joe Buck just plain sucks. Not just in baseball, but in any announcing venture. Tim McCarver is just boring. I never really had a problem with Ken Harrelson. He's a homer, just like Harry Caray, Skip Caray, Jack Brickhouse, etc., but at least he is entertaining. Considering the boring White Sox product he has had to work with over the last few years, he's been the most entertaining thing on there. I put myself through college delivering pizzas down in South Florida, and I got to hear a lot of Boog Sciambi doing Marlins games. I am not surprised that he is becoming one of the bigger names in MLB announcing. He's pretty darned good. Of course, my favorite announcer ever was the Florida Panthers/New Jersey Devils announcer Chris Moore (not sure where he is now) who just made you laugh the entire game. Chris and Boog actually had a show for awhile on WQAM in Miami right after Hank Goldberg (the biggest d-bag on radio).
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  • lanemyer85lanemyer85 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Joe Buck just plain sucks. Not just in baseball, but in any announcing venture. Tim McCarver is just boring. I never really had a problem with Ken Harrelson. He's a homer, just like Harry Caray, Skip Caray, Jack Brickhouse, etc., but at least he is entertaining. Considering the boring White Sox product he has had to work with over the last few years, he's been the most entertaining thing on there. I put myself through college delivering pizzas down in South Florida, and I got to hear a lot of Boog Sciambi doing Marlins games. I am not surprised that he is becoming one of the bigger names in MLB announcing. He's pretty darned good. Of course, my favorite announcer ever was the Florida Panthers/New Jersey Devils announcer Chris Moore (not sure where he is now) who just made you laugh the entire game. Chris and Boog actually had a show for awhile on WQAM in Miami right after Hank Goldberg (the biggest d-bag on radio). >>



    RE: Hawk Harrelson. Even a large portion of the fanbase doesn't like the guy. He's beyond a typical homer. When the Sox are behind, or in any bad stretch, he just stops doing his job. Completely silent for minutes at a time, and he's the freaking play by play commentator. He pushed analysts (like the largely fan beloved) Tom Paciorek out the door. He doesn't really get along with Steve Stone, so the on-air chemistry is horrible. He's the modern rap version of a broadcaster, meaning no substance and nothing but catch phrases. He broadcasts for the White Sox and 90% of his story telling is Red Sox stories from the 60's... largely Yaz and Rico Petrocelli stories. He's also broadcasting in Chicago with a deep southern accent so that doesn't help either. People refer to him as Foghorn Leghorn. That said, when I listed my 5 most disliked, I was referring to national TV guys since WGN carries about a third of White Sox broadcasts. If I were to include everyone then John Sterling and Michael Kaye would shoot up that list as well.
  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    As a southern boy myself, perhaps that's why I like hwk. But, to each his own. I am sure that somebody out there loves Joe Buck too.
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  • WeekendHackerWeekendHacker Posts: 1,445 ✭✭
    There are announcers and anchors that I just flat refuse to listen to. McCarver is very high on that list - right next to Chris Berman.
  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,315 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm going way back but I sure liked and grew up listening to Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek.
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  • jdip9jdip9 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭
    I actually thought Pierzynski did relatively well in the few cut-ins they had with him in the game that I watched.

    Sean McDonough should be a lead play-by-play guy for the MLB playoffs. He's tremendous in any sport he announces.
  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,984 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm going way back but I sure liked and grew up listening to Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek. >>


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  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    I grew up listening to Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek. They seemed to have a good mix.
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  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    i go back to Curt Gowdy & Kubek. Didn't Pee Wee Reese do some, too Dizzy Dean???

    can't knock those guys 'cuz i was too young to form an opinion, lol
  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭


    << <i>one exception (for me) was John Miller doing a National broadcast with the Giants playing. >>



    In my opinion Jon Miller is one of the best announcers around and is always entertaining to listen to. It was a shame he often had to dumb down his commentary to accommodate Joe Morgan or whoever he was partnered with.
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  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    Just heard McCarver say "No advance by Beltre as the Yankees take the lead."... Gee, Tim.... are you watching the Yankees play on some other universe, because it sure looks like Texas and Detroit to me. Retire this feeble-minded old geezer.
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  • jimmygjimmyg Posts: 139 ✭✭
    I love both Jon Miller and Bob Costas, but, being an LA native, nothing says warm hot dogs like Vin Scully.
  • TheTalkingWalnutTheTalkingWalnut Posts: 444
    I miss Will McDonough. A lot. But I'm comforted by having had many years of Sam and JD calling Rangers hockey games. That was like a family. Jon Miller never did wrong as far as I can tell. The rest? At least they don't have Bill OReilly and Megan Kelly calling the games. It would be kinda funny, though... Glenn Beck on the sidelines with a hat made out of hot dog wrappers.
  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    Another gem from McCarver as they go to the seventh inning stretch "It's a five letter word, S-T-R-I-K-E"


    if you say so....
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  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭

    How McCarver still has this job is beyond me.
  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    Anybody else get the urge to throw baseballs at your tv when Buck and McCarver are talking?
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Another gem from McCarver as they go to the seventh inning stretch "It's a five letter word, S-T-R-I-K-E"
    >>



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  • WeekendHackerWeekendHacker Posts: 1,445 ✭✭


    << <i>How McCarver still has this job is beyond me. >>



    I couldn't agree more. His commentary actually detracts from the game and that's kinda hard to do. Just the sound of his voice forces me to mute the TV - not to mention the ridiculous comments he tries to come up with in a pitiful attempt to be witty.
  • lanemyer85lanemyer85 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭
    Baseball on Fox
  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    and last night something like... "Tony Larussa is taking off his glasses. That's a sign he's going to make a pitching change"

    Larussa eventually did make the change...but this kind of commentating has ZERO to do with the game.

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