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

Howie Rose doing excellent job of filling in with Buck-level stupidity: Mets need to GET MORE DIRTY-UNIFORM PLAYERS LIKE SHANE VICTORINO

http://www.amazon.com/McCarver-Sings-Selections-American-Songbook/dp/B002OJGGH6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1252919362&sr=1-1

hey, they're actually showing NY the Twins-Tigers instead of a meaniningless Cards-Cubs game! How'd this happen?

Steven Goldman re the Dim Tim album:

I really, really hate to alert McCarver to the fact that "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is not part of the American Songbook, though Americans have sung it. It was written by two British fellows and made famous by Vera Lynn, the same chanteuse who is presently keeping the reissued Beatles CDs off the top of the charts in Great Britain.

The Amazon page has audio clips now!

Did McCarver just say that nobody had better muscle memory than Dwight Halladay?

he also insinuated that pelfrey is a better pitcher than cole hamels (and a borderline #1 starter!) in the inning where he comes up 6 runs

hey tim stop sucking pedroias dick

followed up by referring to the yankees singing sabathia as a "shrewd" move.

Hey why don't we go get one of the best pitchers in baseball and pay him a gazillion dollars?

Hmm, that would be pretty shrewd, let's do it.

this moment of silence is awesome.

hey, NL baseball to keep everyone (?) awake.

Who was silence for?

robin roberts probably?

I figured, but Phillie game wasnt on here til Boston rain delay.

roberts and the tigers announcer, forget his name

Ernie Harwell.

You heathen.

did anyone else catch the part where he was talking about Carlton Fisk and the famous game 6 home run. then describes a yankee Francisco Cervelli RBI as "and Carlton Fisk is very proud of this young man Cervelli, and his maturation as a catcher."

why would he be proud with no involvement in the organization? and why did Fisk drive all the way home to New Hampshire after the game 6 shot? did his dad die or something?

cervelli is making everyone proud

ive heard that story abt fisk but i cant recall the details

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.

AP:

Fox will be taking viewers out to the ballgame by adding a virtual crowd in parks during its baseball telecasts this season.

The network revealed on Thursday that it will include computer-generated fans in the stands beginning with their three games on Saturday. Fox begins its coverage with Milwaukee at the Chicago Cubs, followed by San Francisco at Los Angeles Dodgers, and concluding with the New York Yankees at Washington.

Simulacra and Simulation

joe buck leaving fox for espn!

i’m sure it’s for an incredible amount of money but i’m still surprised