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Fox Saturday Baseball, Part 2

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WMC2005

A week ago, following the Red Sox game on Fox Baseball, someone posted how they cant stand Fox's baseball coverage and especially the work of broadcast team Joe Buck and Tim McCarver and much preferred Steve Lyons.

Today (Sat, 6/11), the Red Sox were back on Fox playing the Cubbies...Sox lost :eek:(. Thom Brennaman and Steve Lyons were the broadcast team this week. I was only able to catch the last 3 innings or so but I thoroughly enjoyed this week's Thom/Steve play by play/analysis over last week's Joe/Tim play by play/analysis.

Anyone else???
 
> A week ago, following the Red Sox game on Fox Baseball,
> someone posted how they cant stand Fox's baseball coverage
> and especially the work of broadcast team Joe Buck and Tim
> McCarver and much preferred Steve Lyons.
>
> Today (Sat, 6/11), the Red Sox were back on Fox playing the
> Cubbies...Sox lost :eek:(. Thom Brennaman and Steve Lyons were
> the broadcast team this week. I was only able to catch the
> last 3 innings or so but I thoroughly enjoyed this week's
> Thom/Steve play by play/analysis over last week's Joe/Tim
> play by play/analysis.
>
> Anyone else???
>

I agree. When he's not doing national broadcasts, Thom Brennaman does play-by-play for the Arizona Diamondbacks, and has since their inception. He's a pleasure to listen to and he and Lyons have great chemistry. On the local side, Brennaman teams with analyst Mark Grace, and they're quite a pair.
 
> > A week ago, following the Red Sox game on Fox Baseball,
> > someone posted how they cant stand Fox's baseball coverage
>
> > and especially the work of broadcast team Joe Buck and Tim
>
> > McCarver and much preferred Steve Lyons.
> >
> > Today (Sat, 6/11), the Red Sox were back on Fox playing
> the
> > Cubbies...Sox lost :eek:(. Thom Brennaman and Steve Lyons
> were
> > the broadcast team this week. I was only able to catch
> the
> > last 3 innings or so but I thoroughly enjoyed this week's
> > Thom/Steve play by play/analysis over last week's Joe/Tim
> > play by play/analysis.
> >
> > Anyone else???
> >
>
> I agree. When he's not doing national broadcasts, Thom
> Brennaman does play-by-play for the Arizona Diamondbacks,
> and has since their inception. He's a pleasure to listen to
> and he and Lyons have great chemistry. On the local side,
> Brennaman teams with analyst Mark Grace, and they're quite a
> pair.

Hmm. I recently got MLB.TV and personally I find Brennaman to be terrible with either Lyons or Grace. I don't think Thom would have ever made it in the business if not for his old man...personally I'll take Buck and McCarver (even though I don't like McCarver much).
 
> > > A week ago, following the Red Sox game on Fox Baseball,
> > > someone posted how they cant stand Fox's baseball
> coverage
> >
> > > and especially the work of broadcast team Joe Buck and
> Tim
> >
> > > McCarver and much preferred Steve Lyons.
> > >
> > > Today (Sat, 6/11), the Red Sox were back on Fox playing
> > the
> > > Cubbies...Sox lost :eek:(. Thom Brennaman and Steve Lyons
> > were
> > > the broadcast team this week. I was only able to catch
> > the
> > > last 3 innings or so but I thoroughly enjoyed this
> week's
> > > Thom/Steve play by play/analysis over last week's
> Joe/Tim
> > > play by play/analysis.
> > >
> > > Anyone else???
> > >
> >
> > I agree. When he's not doing national broadcasts, Thom
> > Brennaman does play-by-play for the Arizona Diamondbacks,
> > and has since their inception. He's a pleasure to listen
> to
> > and he and Lyons have great chemistry. On the local side,
>
> > Brennaman teams with analyst Mark Grace, and they're quite
> a
> > pair.
>
> Hmm. I recently got MLB.TV and personally I find Brennaman
> to be terrible with either Lyons or Grace. I don't think
> Thom would have ever made it in the business if not for his
> old man...personally I'll take Buck and McCarver (even
> though I don't like McCarver much).
>

Does Brennaman really talk like that? I never found him especially appealing. Buck plays the smart aleck angle too much. Costas had a tendency to do that in his Game of the Week days. Thing about McCarver is that he's gotten stale. Ideas that seemed revolutionary when he did Mets games are now threadbare. He does talk too much, and he says the same things he did in 1986. People have just grown weary of him.

What has always puzzled me about McCarver is not so much him, but is he the only one who can analyze baseball? Chris Economaki did every car race on TV but that's was more of a niche sport then. Can't believe there are so few decent baseball analysts to pick from.
 
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