It seems as if Joe Buck alienates every fan of each game he broadcasts. I had people on my Facebook feed say they preferred watching ESPN Desportes, catching every tenth word, as opposed to listening to Joe Buck.

And the worst part is that he's not entertaining. Love him or hate him, Howard Cossel was entertaining. Dennis Miller was entertaining.

Joe Buck is just annoying.

Dane will probably know this because he's Dane, but I guess I never realized that the international broadcast had different announcers.
I mean, why? It was just a couple of white American guys doing a broadcast like any other. It's not like they had Latinos catering to a different demo and market. What's the point?


EDIT: Probably a different rights holder and Fox was just being allowed to use their feed.

Your edit is correct: MLB Network owns the rights to the International Feed and they allowed Fox to use their broadcast while the issue in the Fox truck was being resolved.

I like Joe Buck. I also like Troy Aikman.

I can't say there's a single commentator that I dislike.

You nailed it. This is mob mentality at it's worst. I'm not a big fan of the guy, but I don't have anything against him either.

He's been fine, IMO. I really enjoy Dan Shulman on ESPN Radio.

I think it was Funny or Die that did a whole skit about it. It's pretty funny. Joe Buck played along.
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I know several Card fans who hate him & McCarver. They love his dad & Mike Shannon though.

Harold Reynolds is the true dumbshit in the booth.

That guy is just a complete moron. Joe Buck has a "punch me" face and voice.

"Just a guy with a ball and a guy with a stick...best part of playoff baseball"

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Mike Greenberg does this. He takes some side issue, makes it seem like the most important topic in the world, and beats it to death. Meanwhile completely ignoring more interesting subjects.

I usually don't notice them too much...there isn't really a commentator today that annoys me too much.

The Cubs announcers have always annoyed the hell out of me, though...and that's probably because they were so homeristic towards that ****-ass of a team. I HATED, HATED, HATED Steve Stone!!!!

FIFY

Good thread. I, too, don't get the hate. I know he loved Baumgartner last year but I didn't think it was hate worthy.