Joe Suck & Dim Tim: The FOX SPORTS IS SATAN thread

Buck is attempting to grow a crop of gravitas or credibility or something on his face.

maura johnston @maura

joe buck just said 'no duh'

Such an honor to be watching this meaningful Yankees-Giants game.

Yanks still have a 1.8% shot

i watched.

the Fox package is going to be interesting next year. there is good in this as i will be able to see more Giant games on Saturday. the bad news is there will be a lot less network games going forward.

happy 72nd birthday, dim tim

http://cdn2.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BUCK-MCCARVER-HIGH-FIVE.gif

Buck is a pregame drinker i guess

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2013/10/23/4864484/the-case-for-tim-mccarver-30-years-ago

A Year to Remember has been empirically proven the best highlight film of all time. Find me another example of this genre that employs musical montages set to "Karn Evil #9," "Wild Boys," and "You Belong to the City." Go ahead, I defy you.

lol, J0rdan and I saw most of this during a rain delay at Citi this summer.

I don't remember McC calling the 2001 Gonzalez hit in advance, but apparently it happened. I *do* remember Deion S dumping ice on him.

Al Michaels: “Howard (Cosell) was sour and dour and took all the joy away from everybody on the crew. He had an ‘I-don’t-want-to-be-here’ attitude. When Roone Arledge made the switch, I said, ‘I’ve got McCarver?’ This was the greatest trade of all time.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/sports/baseball/anticipating-his-next-play-tim-mccarver-is-closing-out-an-era.html

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who let them wear checked shirts of slightly different scales?

I watched the clip of the Salty/Breslow play, and Tim said they've been talking "since April about how LOTS of games are lost by pitchers throwing to bases."

He's really going out on top.

Paraphrasing from last night: "I would say about 70% of swinging strike outs are on pitches out of the zone...but it depends on the pitcher."

I think that's close to true of all swinging strikes?

angell demurs: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/10/goodbye-tim-mccarver.html

well, Roger's over 90.

http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/11/1/5056084/tim-mccarver-fox-baseball-replacement-harold-reynolds-candidates

The answer to all of this is MUTE btw

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/09/tim-mccarvers-broadcasting-days-arent-over-yet/

Tim McCarver retired as Fox’s leading analyst after the World Series. But he’s not dropping the mic just yet: Fox Sports Midwest is about to hire him to do a limited number of Cardinals games next season.

JESUS CHRIST, COME ON.

dodgers hired orel away from espn

i don't mind orel too much, based off of my limited experience listening to him. and although mccarver is the devil, he is probably better than al hrabosky in the cards' booth. and yes, that is very very sad.

Dodgers replacement for vin is currently Charlie Steiner so this Orel news is music to my ears.

Orel is pretty much with old-school will-to-win crap, like McCarver you'll never hear any advanced metrics from him.

charley steiner is 64! he's like the prince charles of dodgers broadcasters

Harold Reynolds, Tom Verducci to join FOX World Series broadcast team, per report

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/2/27/5455632/tom-verducci-harold-reynolds-joe-buck-fox-baseball-2014-world-series

Good luck TV non-muters

Fox sticking a toe in the sabermetric Rubicon for NLCS Game 1

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/10/02/fox-is-going-to-experiment-with-an-new-kind-of-commentary-for-game-1-of-the-nlcs/

Rob Neyer talks to Fangraphs about Saturday night's sabercast of Cards-Giants:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/discussing-the-nlcs-powered-by-jabo-with-rob-neyer/

This will be awesome or a huge train wreck, there's probably no inbetween.

train wreck > Harold Reynolds

will this be avail on mlb.tv, anybody know?

not 100% sure, but i think it's not. it's a miracle that they're even playing a few of the NLCS games on mlb.tv, so it seems unlikely that they'd add on a second channel.

i'm curious to see what sabermetrics taken seriously looks like on cable without brian kenny the excited beagle

Can we get a title mod edit posthaste? ILB should afford homophobia no sanctuary.

what

suck is not gender or orientation specific, esp when it means SUCKS BADLY

were the real fox guys making fun of them the whole time? i turned it on and immediately heard a return of the jedi joke

it's a miracle that they're even playing a few of the NLCS games on mlb.tv

international fans get 'em all :)

@keithlaw
I thought I heard that. “@kentonwong: @keithlaw Joe Buck believes the pitcher's spot is due up 2nd in next inning...”

He corrected himself about five minutes later.

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pretty interesting look at fox's decision-making regarding volquez -- kinda sounds like it was pretty much up to rosenthal?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2015/10/28/why-fox-held-the-story-of-edinson-volquezs-fathers-death-even-when-most-viewers-already-knew/?postshare=6331446053265266

Heard on MLB Tonight @HeardOnMLBT
I'm being straight up honest. I have no idea what run differential is. - Harold Reynolds

haha

https://twitter.com/based_ball/status/660658536242810880

(it takes a big man to change his mind 180 in one day)

https://www.facebook.com/deadspin/videos/10156195180925072/

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Untitled, Francis Bacon, 1989

i like Yankee fans in the Astro game better, ya troll

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/sports/baseball/john-smoltz-named-lead-baseball-analyst-for-fox.html?_r=0

Fox Sports named John Smoltz, the Hall of Fame pitcher, its lead baseball analyst on Tuesday, replacing the team of Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci after only two seasons.

Smoltz has called games for Fox the last two seasons but has chiefly worked for MLB Network. As analysts for Fox and Fox Sports 1, Reynolds and Verducci were seen as overly talkative and lacking strong chemistry.