He screams fake.

People see though that...

This. I don't get it.

Mute button. Works wonders.

He is the Rerun of PBP guys in other words.

I listened to Ryan and Denny last night and enjoyed it thoroughly. It was a lot calmer, and since it was an epic, historic game, it was great to hear Denny's call. I have a feeling if the Royals win it all, he may hang it up after this year.

Joe Buck wants to hold Andy Reid accountable for Alex Smith as well?

That it didn't know.

I think the Joe Buck situation is an accumulation

He's a nepotism hire
He's a shadow of his father
He has a hateable face
He and Aikman in the booth together look like the centerfold for 'Blue Boy' magazine
He screams 'sure I went to boarding school, but I can hang at your frat party'
He goes prudish in high profile settings [Moss' 'absolutely disgusting' TD celebration].
His praise is easy to tune out and his criticism is like nails on a chalkboard.

None of them in themselves make him the worst announcer on earth. But each one gives the viewer a unique and legitimate hook to hang their hate on, and it festers and festers, then comedians make fun of him, then Artie Lange destroys his HBO show, and before you know it he's a pariah.

I actually don't have a major problem with Joe Buck. I do have an issue with a lot of sports commentators so I do get why people don't like him and how it affects them. Harrold Reynolds has been getting on my nerves lately with his over-analysis and trying to find stuff that isn't there. Everyone else on MLB network I love.

He's a smug prick. 1980s teen movie villain level of douchbaggery.

Here's how Joe Buck announces an at-bat:

"
Ball one
The 1-0 pitch
Ball two
Here's the 2-0
(foul ball) A tremendous swing by Daniel Murphy. Wow. What a swing. He reeeeally got a hold of that one. Just an incredible swing. (notice he doesn't mention at any point that the ball was foul)
The 2-1
Strike two
The 2-2
And here's a groundout...Oh wait...He's safe.
"

In summary, here are my main complaints about Joe Buck:
1) He states the current count before every pitch, but offers no other commentary or description of the pitches during the at-bat.
2) He goes absolutely nuts about foul balls. All the time. Like, pretty much every inning he talks about how great a swing was on a foul ball. But he rarely says that the ball was foul. If I was just listening and not watching, I would think people were hitting doubles or home runs based on his praise of the swing.
3) He assumes outs. He calls "ground outs" and "fly outs" etc. and says "to end the inning" well before the play is over. I've heard him do this on multiple occasions.

Any announcers that dont like kc teams can swallow cum

Didn't bother me.

I listened to the stream until the 9th inning when I turned on the TV. I agree that this was pretty nice. I love the tension of post season baseball as much as the next guy, but I don't need to work myself into a stress knot.

Joe Buck's mash note to Madison B. last year was nauseating. Other than that I don't mind him or pay too much attention to his personality.

nice post...i think he gets a passing grade overall, but imo, he aint his old man.
but shit, i'd just as soon listen to him over a long time than ****in pete rose.
long time, i'm saying...rose can be interesting.
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Joe Buck is the typical corporate attention whore who will always selectively spin comments to favor the larger markets. Most of what he says might have its own form of accuracy, but it's obvious he's looking at market size when he decides to get happy and say nice things. And he's a St. Louis homer, so there's that too.

So he's a whore and a St. Louis homer too. IOW, a piece of shit. And I hope his wide is ****ing hobos when he's out being the anti-KC dickhead he is...

ROFL ROFL - I completely glossed over 'least' the first time I read this, and accidentally credited with a more refined sense of humor than you were entitled. ;)

Here's to beer, the cause of and solution to all of our problems.

I like that he manages to sound engaged without ever going hysterical.

Fine line between exciting and melodramatic.

I don't have a problem with Joe Buck, but Jack Buck was the most overrated PBP guy ever.

He sucked ass.

Not about skill, he was a fixture. You can tune in KMOX in ****ing Mexico, and I don't mean Mexico Missouri.

I saw Joe Buck suck a big, fat dick once. It was in the men's bathroom of an overpriced, super douchey Guy Fieri restaurant.

You sure you didn't just watch Midnight Cowboy once?

Actually, I was watching it on my phone, while I sat on the can in a stall, when I heard the slurping and gagging in the stall next to me. As one would expect, I peeked over the stall, and saw Joe Buck stuggling to take in every inch of some bald headed Puerto Rican dude. Pretty cool.

Did Dustin Hoffman slap your stall door and yell 'We're fellatin' here!'

The dude does his job right, no complaints from me.

Actually, no he doesn't. He's biased and he promotes one side over the other. He electively makes comments based on his bias!

I hear ya. I was one of the few that didn't have a problem with madden when he was driving everyone else crazy. Different strokes and all.

I've listened to him plenty. What I meant by he calls the game like any other announcer is: he calls the play by play, rattles off some stats, talks about the players playing in the game, tells a story, asks the other guys what they think, cracks a joke, takes us to commercial, etc. I'm also not a moron, I just have a different take.

After listening tonight I think it's more about the Royals having a star for him to obsess over more than anything. He just doesn't dwell on us enough because he doesn't have one person to focus on. The one guy we got is Davis and he's in for an inning or two max. I don't think he's as biased as people make him out to be, I just thing he's a terrible announcer with an even worse staff.

He just couldn't resist saying Bumgardner tonight...

I just think he's lethargic when announcing.

Reynolds was far worse during the first 6 tonight.

I ****ing hate Joe Buck and Fox in general. All he does is try to create stories instead of letting the game tell the story. That and try to be smart, clever, and funny while failing miserably at all of those things

Since NBC has Costas and Al Michaels I wish they would get it

Happy to say I watched the entire game muted.

Joyous.

Ah.


The patented "Joe Rogan" method.

This is funny.

Go to the Toronto Blue Jays forum and they hated Buck during the ALCS because he was biased for the Royals.

Go to the Mets forum and they hate Buck because he is biased towards the Royals.

Go to the Royals forum and they hate Buck because he is biased towards the Blue Jays.

Go to the Royals forum and they hate Buck because he is biased towards the Mets.

II hate joe buck because he a pretentious guy who think he awesome because he related to jack buck who was a great announcer while joe seem condescending and prickish. He might be a good human being but i don't like him.

You too? I listen to Joe Rogan's podcast with the sound muted.

Don't know what that is, don't want to know, but assume you know what you're talking about here.

Can Kevin Harlan do baseball?

I don't really care about his player man love.

He's just monotone as **** and saps energy out of a game. Gus Johnson should announce every single game.

World Series would be watchable as **** with Gus Johnson in the booth.

Buck and his crew are always fawning over someone. They can't just call the game, they have to be lavishing praise on somebody at any particular moment

I just listened to the stream last night and it was great.

Denny wrote this game off early.

Right

I didn't care for him and his son I like even less.

Someone mentioned that in the GDT the other night, that basically every fanbase except the Cardinals thinks Joe Buck hates their team.

He does have a way of focusing too much on story lines and focusing on players.

I've never minded him much in the past, but him and Reynolds have been kind of annoying this series... and maybe more Reynolds, actually. Last night it was "So, is this who Murphy is now?"... the other night, Reynolds was going on about how hard it is to defend at the K and last night he made a dumb comment about how the Royals must have been stealing signs or something (I think he was just trying to explain how awesome the Royals are and kind of failed). There have been a few other things, too.

I wonder why.

Bring AJ Pierzinski back in the booth, we at least get some strategy

Maybe that's because Joe Buck is just so unbelievably annoying that everyone hates him and everything he says. It confuses the 'bias' issue.

Buck was choking on some Royal cock last night. LMAO

If I were a Met's fan, I would have muted it.

Made me realize that he's only a nuisance if he's not gobbling your team's junk. :D

Gus Johnson is awful.

Did Harold Reynolds give Frank White back the gold glove he stole from him?

Yeah if you read the internet, most all non-Royals fans are sick of the national media talking about how great the Royals contact hitting is. If this keeps up, the way people were making fun of Bumgarner last year, this year it'll be how Joe Buck loves the Royals hitters.

I'd agree that Gus Johnson is fun for something like March Madness, but he really wouldn't be a good fit for baseball. He's really not as good at calling a game as other national guys. He's just good at yelling. I think guys like Kevin Harlan are actually much better announcers at calling the action.

Gus Johnson needs to keep calling college hoops or the AFL or something and stay away from things people care about being called seriously.

I don't get the hate. I like Costas as my favorite baseball tv guy but Buck isn't bad

He's more of a irritating nerd, than an all out villain. He's no King Joffrey or anything. Just the guy at the party pimping Nickleback's new CD who makes you say 'Aww, just shut up already.'

buck's buck.
he ain't the best, but he ain't the worst.
he ain't his old man.
he ain't no giraffe.
i usually don't pay any attention to whoever's talking, anyway.
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Just thought I'd remind everyone the Kansas City Royals are in the World Series for the 2nd time in 2 years and have a 2-0 lead on the Mets. It needs repeating every 5 seconds to remind yourself its true

I'm actually quite a fan of Gary Throne. I would like to see him call more national games, though I doubt he'd be favorable to us after what we did to his O's last year.

Harold Reynolds is ****ing 1000% times worse and knows nothing. I wonder how he played baseball all those years and still doesn't know shit about the game.

It's mind numbing listening to Reynolds.

Thanks to Alex Gordon!

For a few years he was the main play-by-play guy for the MLB International feed... the one we got to hear in game 1 when FOX went down. Sometimes when you see old World Series highlight films you'll hear clips of his calls.

Buck was more excited by Gordon's HR than Denny. I don't get the Buck hate much at all because it seems like he talks great about basically everyone but I thought this was funny.

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...92a4ab9aab.jpg

Since the series shifts to New York I wonder if his troll focus will switch to New York also

I saw Colin Cowherd's rant the other day. It was slightly funny, but not accurate. He said that everyone hates Buck, but loves their own guys. I've seen plenty of people on here ripping the Royals announcers. On another note, Cowherd called Hosmer "Hasmer." He sucks too.

The broadcasters voice certainly paints the game and creates a certain "color" to the game... they are key for an enjoyable experience... with that said.. i miss madden after hearing these other guys

The fact that you like anything having to do with Costas makes me question your judgement.

I used to love Costas until he started grandstanding on non game related issues during games.

Yep. And the fact that you said 'used to', is why I don't question your judgement.

The dwarf has single handedly ruined the Olympics. I know that is more NBCs doing than anything but he is the face of that network.

This! Exactly this.

Also note another from Old St Lou see a pattern here.

Seattle Seahawks fans have jumped on the bandwagon. They started a petition against Buck & Aikman.

http://www.king5.com/story/sports/nf...asts/75147556/

Eh, I'm over Buck now. He's annoying, but the Royals are World Champs! **** it! :D

Considering fans from just about every team hate the guy I don't get why Fox keeps trotting him out there. LMAO

That's the thing, I am having a hard time grasping Fox's executives for trotting him out there on the MLB playoffs and the NFL.

Exactly,he's just doing his job. The networks are obviously happy with him and he'll be doing it another 20 years

So basically everyone hates Joe Buck? I can live with that.

This. One billion ****ing times this.

I couldn't stand his arrogance in his plan to save baseball.