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

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/

http://i.imgur.com/aiNEeR2.jpg

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.

great news!

...which puts HR one step closer to being employed by the Marlins.

Joe Buck admits that hair plug addiction almost ended his career

http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Joe-Buck-hair-plug-addiction-voice-loss-9874173.php

lololl excellent Onion headline.

FoxSports.com has gone all-video, so Ken Rosenthal can't write there

the people... demanded it?

a cunning plan devised by an executive who was abruptly fired last week for sexual harassment

https://deadspin.com/please-enjoy-21-years-of-joe-buck-hyping-forgotten-f-1819646868
this is pretty funny

look at the dance about 1:12 into that video

wtf

this inspires me to try to get to work on the most pointless baseball-related supercut of all time, though. in the 8th inning of just about every cardinals broadcast, dan mclaughlin reads out the attendance figures for the game in the same exact way, saying the total, and then reading out each digit, one at a time, e.g., "Forty-Two Thousand, Seven Hundred Thirty-One... 4 - 2 - 7 - 3 - 1". i've always wanted to isolate just the "4 - 2 - 7 - 3 - 1" part of that from each game so that he'd be reading out digits for thirty minutes straight with ambient baseball crowd noise in the background.

i'm glad it inspired you

while the other networks are showing reruns, you'll experience the passion, magic, and the mystery of ROAR. an epic new series premiering this monday 9 eastern, 8 central on FOX.

i remember seeing the promos for arrested development and thinking 'that looks stupid'

and you were right!

so that he'd be reading out digits for thirty minutes straight

This would sound like those infamous radio "numbers stations" of the Cold War.

nah it was p. good

xp or ned raggett reading the digits of pi

do it KM

joe buck is singing 'candyman' right now, occasionally substituting 'grandyman'

don't really care about the 'redemption' narrative, but this is good

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2017/10/25/16539596/alex-rodriguez-redemption-mlb-on-fox-world-series

Schmoo: We heard Smoltz talk about establishing the fastball, something McCullers obviously didn’t do in his crazy curveball outing. Do you think Hill actually needs to “establish the fastball”?

Jeff Sullivan: That expression doesn’t mean anything

lmao

https://i.imgur.com/GJlPoao.jpg

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/05/joe-buck-mlb-tnf-riddick-rowe-helwani/

JOE BUCK TO SKIP TNF IF MLB POSTSEASON CONFLICTS

Fox Sports play-by-play voice Joe Buck, who is set to work an unprecedented schedule this fall that includes the NLCS, World Series and Thursday Night Football, will prioritize baseball over TNF if the events conflict. Buck told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that if any of his baseball assignments are postponed to a Thursday night, he will skip TNF.

Even if all goes according to schedule, Buck’s fall schedule will be unusually hectic. During the World Series, he will potentially work nine nights out of ten in four different cities. As has been the case for most of his career, Buck will not work Sunday NFL games during the postseason.

worst timeline iirc