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

Joe Suck: The fans have done a great job voting Jason Heyward into the All-Star OF.

No and you suck.

And fuck your NBA analogies.

Joe: Does Strasburg deserve to be in the All-Star game, with only 4 starts under his belt?
Tim: Strasburg has three starts left before the All-Start game. I'll tell you what, Joe. If he wins all three of those games, then he deserves to be in. And if he doesn't win all three of those games, but his ERA is still around the 2.00 mark, then he probably deserves to be in.

Tim (about 20 seconds later): This may be an overstatement, but I'm gonna say it anyway: if Stephen Strasburg isn't in the All-Star game, it will be an INJUSTICE to America, to America and baseball.

whaa?

can't wait to see R.A. Dickey and Carlos Silva take on the AL's finest in the ASG

oh why god did they let tommy lasorda and reggie jackson in the both with tim and joe

I turned it off right there. I have limits.

^^^awesome

Kevin Millar almost makes me long for McCarver

100x worse: Joe Simpson has this series off, so the Braves team is Chip Caray + Ron Gant. Gant is so nervous, he can't keep himself from just jabbering nonstop. And Caray is awful as usual.

OK, Millar's Marv Albert impression is worse.

Tim McCarver backtracked Monday from the comparison he made Saturday between the Yankees’ treatment of Joe Torre’s legacy as manager to the way World War II despots, “primarily in Russia and Germany,” airbrushed former generals out of photographs “after they had shot ’em.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/sports/baseball/20bats.html

Ben Lindbergh of BP: "With a cold, Joe Buck sounds only slightly less like he wants to be broadcasting a baseball game than usual."

This guy doing the Braves-Giants game with Karros has such a strong lisp! It's weird that that's not an impediment to broadcasting if you have good timbre and can jabber on without saying "uh".

Must be Josh Lewin, who's far more tolerable than most of the others. Not sure why he's not doing the Rangers games anymore.

Yeah, it's Lewin. He's ok (by Fox standards).

i like lewin

karros blamed panda being fat on late night snacking

Lewin got canned because Nolan Ryan didn't like him, supposedly. Dumb move, his replacement (John Rhadigan) is terrible.

what the FUCK are these bozos saying? howbout just "we think Posada might quit after rhe game"?

I assume the league and the Yanks could figure out some sort of real punishment against Fox if they were more explicit, but Fox could spill it obliquely.

Joe Buck declared that the Mets won't be re-signing Reyes, obviously, bacause of their financial problems that he's read about. Such a turdsucker.

they're gonna re-sign reyes?

do you think it's a fait accompli that they're not? suddenly they're the A's?

no, i don't -- they could probably do well by being the A's tho

hey look, more prostate-charity Fathers Day mike time for gigantic crook Michael Milken

what is the opposite of chemistry? because that's what ernie johnson & john smoltz have

EJ is a standard-issue radio-style puker when he's away from his TNT basketball duties imo; Smoltz is interesting enough to overcome whoever he's with.

smoltz is great when he's talking about the pitcher

Will Boston ever recover from that beer vendor's tragic mistake?!

Red Sox not in the playoffs, but thank god we will get a little taste of it during the ALCS. Fuck you Fox. I rather have Pierzynski or whoever you spell it..

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Terry-Francona-will-fill-in-for-Tim-McCarver-dur?urn=mlb-wp22759

HOMER

Uh, hi, Mr. Meyers. I've been doing some thinking, and I've got some ideas to improve the show. I got it right here. (pulls out a piece of paper) One, Poochie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Poochie's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Poochie"? Three--

http://www.rob-clarkson.com/duff-brewery/poochie/02.gif

count yr blessings w/ Francona, ABC put Reggie Jackson in the World Series booth at least once.

Fingers crossed that McCarver's minor heart procedure somehow leaves him with mangled vocal cords.

i'm actually liking the Joe Buck game tonight (though i know in the past he has been intolerable).

Tim McCarver is the bigger problem with the Fox broadcast.

Joe Buck just said "game over" with the last out, WTF. haha

Posnanski on the decline of McCarver (and he's absolutely right about the Mets days):

I loved McCarver. Absolutely loved the guy. Every at-bat, it seemed, he taught me baseball. It was that way for a long time. I honestly believe that McCarver was one of the great pioneers in baseball commentary, the John Madden of his sport in many ways. He was the first I knew who could really break down what the pitcher was trying to do, why he was trying to do it, how the hitter was trying to counter it, and so on. He broke down the game in a way I can never remember any other color commentator doing it. And he was a good story teller too. If I'm listing the greatest color commentators in baseball history, he's right up at the top.

Trouble is, McCarver has been doing this a long time. And one of the sad truths is that sports color commentary tends to have an expiration date...

http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2011/10/baseball-on-fox.html

I wiki'd him a few days ago -- he just turned 70. Losing it rapidly.

Congrats to McCarver!

http://baseballhall.org/news/press-releases/tim-mccarver-named-2012-ford-c-frick-award-winner-broadcasting-excellence

hoo boy, if they had given it to him around '95 they'd be blameless

"What a play by Alexei Ramirez" -- Thom Brennaman (on a play made by the opposing shortstop)

If Don Sutton's kid and Eric Karros are the future of the Saturday game, this planet can't blow up soon enough.

Eric Karros is brutally boring.

7.7 career war

one down, one to go

RT @EricFisherSBJ: Fox Sports announces Tim McCarver will not work past the 2013 season.

hooray!

this year: mute button

ohh lord thank u for listenin to these prayers

they will only find someone worse to replace him, you realize that right?

Steve Lyons is available, isn't he?

free steve stone

McCarver and Mr Koo's Game (I was at Shea that day):

http://www.sbnation.com/2013/3/27/4153312/tim-mccarver-retirement