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FOX SPORTS SCREWS UP WORLD SERIES OPENING CEREMONY

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Casablanca

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Fox Sports, The "Worst Sports Coverage in the World" screwed up the opening coverage of the World Series with the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies.

The went to a commercial rather than show the Red Sox line up and the opening pitch of Red Sox veteran Carl Yaztremski.

How much longer must we put up with Fox crappy coverage of everything from news [ noise ] to sports.

Fox Sports is a disgrace but look who own them ... [EDIT-inflammatory]
 
Hi everyone:
Casablanca said:
Fox Sports, The "Worst Sports Coverage in the World" screwed up the opening coverage of the World Series with the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies.

The went to a commercial rather than show the Red Sox line up and the opening pitch of Red Sox veteran Carl Yaztremski.
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What's so wrong with that? ANY network would do that.

That said, they could've introduced Yaz before he RE-INTRODUCED the Red Sox lineup.
How much longer must we put up with Fox crappy coverage of everything from news [ noise ] to sports.

Fox Sports is a disgrace but look who own them ... [EDIT-inflammatory]:mad:
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I think you just don't like FOX.

Just my opinion....

Cheers :D
 
If Fox really cared about baseball coverage, they would have decent announcers, respect the intelligence of the viewer and would send Tim McCarver on an mission of exploration to the Sun.
 
Hi everyone:
Vandelay said:
If Fox really cared about baseball coverage, they would have decent announcers, respect the intelligence of the viewer and would send Tim McCarver on an mission of exploration to the Sun.
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Unlike a lot of people, I can put up with Joe Buck as the announcer HOWEVER like a lot of people here, I think they should send Tim McCarver into retirement like they did with Pat Summerall & John Madden and replace him with George Frazier, the former Yankee who's now the Rockies analyst on FSN.

If they put one of the guys from the pre and post game shows in the booth, they could make it a three man tandem.

Just my opinion though...

Cheers :D
 
The ideal situation would be to have a SAP with the local team announcers and to send McCarver into space.
 
Vandelay said:
If Fox really cared about baseball coverage, they would have decent announcers, respect the intelligence of the viewer and would send Tim McCarver on an mission of exploration to the Sun.
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He already volunteered to undertake that mission. When NASA officials asked him how he expected to accomplish it, he said that he intended to land at night. ;D
 
Why not go back to what NBC used to do with the World Series?

Have a network guy (in those days Gowdy; today it would be Buck) paired up with one of the home team's announcers (D.O. or Remy at Fenway).

That's how America met great local guys like Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Vin Scully, Mel Allen, Bob Prince, etc., etc.
 
Bring back Joe Garagiola. Jack Buck just said Joe who is 81 is still doing some color work. 81??? Where did the years go?
 
Casablanca said:
Bring back Joe Garagiola. Jack Buck just said Joe who is 81 is still doing some color work. 81??? Where did the years go?
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Jack Buck said that? Damn! Even though he's dead he's got more on the ball than his son. ;D

Joe Garagiola has been a part-time TV analyst (mostly Sundays and strictly home games) for the Arizona Diamondbacks since the team began playing in 1998. He kept the job even after his son Joe Jr. left the team (he was GM during Jerry Colangelo's ownership) a couple of years ago.
 
We can't forget that the fact that Rupert Murdoch owns Fox/News Corporation sends liberals into
a frenzy. Even though at least some of their shows (Simpsons and Family Guy come to mind)
make many jokes at the expense of conservatives, etc. * and they employ
some people like Geraldo, etc. (Remember his on-air fight with BOR over immigration?) No,
no matter how many great entertainment and news shows have run on Fox over the years,
they're owned by Rupert so they must be eeeeeeevil. :)

But yeah, they should have shown first pitch. I'm amazed they showed John Williams and the
Boston Pops' doing national anthem. Didn't pre-empt that for ads. By the way, nobody did steal
a base, right, so I guess we aren't getting our free tacos from Taco Bell.

*--for example, one Family Guy episode had Lois having a nightmare that she had put her
baby son Stewie into the washing machine. She wakes up all sweaty and says, "Oh my God,
I just dreamt I was going to drown my son! I'm just like that Texas woman who held her
son underwater and gave him brain damage. My God, I'm turning into Barbara Bush!"

See, that joke went out on the evil, conservative Fox network :)
 
I don't get all this McCarver bashing. He is still one of the better baseball analysts on television, and has been for 25 years. What is it about him that all of you don't like?
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
I don't get all this McCarver bashing. He is still one of the better baseball analysts on television, and has been for 25 years. What is it about him that all of you don't like?
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NO HE'S NOT!!! Sheesh! Tim McCarver has less of a clue than Reagan had in his last days. Madden is the butt of many jokes because of his overstating the obvious. Tim McCarver does it a million times more than Madden, PLUS he makes tons of off-the-wall comments that have NOTHING to do with the game. I say bring back the Harry Doyle character from "Major League". No, not just Bob Uecker, but bob Uecker as Harry freaking Doyle! Yayah!
 
raccoonradio said:
We can't forget that the fact that Rupert Murdoch owns Fox/News Corporation sends liberals into
a frenzy. Even though at least some of their shows (Simpsons and Family Guy come to mind)
make many jokes at the expense of conservatives, etc. *

*--for example, one Family Guy episode had Lois having a nightmare that she had put her
baby son Stewie into the washing machine. She wakes up all sweaty and says, "Oh my God,
I just dreamt I was going to drown my son! I'm just like that Texas woman who held her
son underwater and gave him brain damage. My God, I'm turning into Barbara Bush!"
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And just to tie this into a big ol' bow, even McCarver was lampooned on "Family Guy", thick accent and all ("In MY view... the way the Yankees were playing in the first half of the game, that's as bad as they've been now!"). I think it was the episode where Stewie and Brian get into radio.
 
I'm with Rollo... I cannot believe all this McCarver bashing. Tim is one of the best going today. He gives insight as to what is going on and can tell you why things work and why they don't. His playing days as a catcher give him that inside knowledge that a color man needs. Joe Buck is not as good as his father but he's still pretty good. You may like your own hometown guy, but there's a reason he's doing hometown.

As for the lineups.. They announced both teams equally. It would have been nice to see Yaz throw out the first pitch live, but therein lies the overcommercialization of the games. They had to go to break and we see the replay. Those of us who are big time baseball fans like the nostalgia, but I guarantee less than one-third of the audience even knew who Carl Yastremski was or what he meant to baseball and the Sox


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>>I think it was the episode where Stewie and Brian get into radio.

Yes, as a matter of fact I was watching that ep. on the latest Family Guy boxed set yesterday
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
I don't get all this McCarver bashing. He is still one of the better baseball analysts on television, and has been for 25 years. What is it about him that all of you don't like?
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How long have you been employed by Fox?
McCarver was not even a mediocre player (the best description of his playing career that I have heard was "Steve Carlton's jock strap holder") and as for his inane ramblings, they are insipid, random, and often seem the ramblings of a deranged individual making sense to only one person.
 
Lets not let our liberal leanings against FOX NOISE taint our judgement of the guys who are doing Fox Sports.
No, Tim McCarver, wasn't the best catcher around, but as the saying goes "Those who can, do. Those who can't teach."
The national broadcast color guy has to point out some obvious things from time to time because the audience is not full of Total Baseball geeks. They have to be able to talk to the casual fan.
In any case, what is he doing that is so terrible??
Besides, if he were that bad, I don't believe the upper mucky-mucks would keep him around.
Look at ESPN.. Joe Thiesman was the king of over-obvious and now he's the butt of Jimmy Kimmel jokes. Ron Jaworski is big upgrade in that department.

PD
 
Vandelay said:
How long have you been employed by Fox?
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I'm insulted by that accusation.

Vandelay said:
McCarver was not even a mediocre player (the best description of his playing career that I have heard was "Steve Carlton's jock strap holder") and as for his inane ramblings, they are insipid, random, and often seem the ramblings of a deranged individual making sense to only one person.
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If you truly believe that, then you either don't understand a thing about baseball...or you're not a real baseball fan.
 
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