I think we - and all right-thinking people - can agree that Buck is awful and does not deserve the prime spot among network baseball announcers. Combined with Smoltz, he's barely tolerable, but with McCarver, it was sheer torture.
--Dave Sikula On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 11:00:35 AM UTC-7, PGage wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:50 AM, 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> This could be a case of "a neutral announcer makes each side think he's >> rooting against their team," but I have to wonder if PGage and I were >> listening to the same broadcast. Buck and Fox couldn't have been more in >> the bag for the Cubs (and especially Javier Baez) if they owned stock in >> the team. >> > > Ha! It is always possible that the bias is in the eye of the beholder (I > admit to lifelong, intense but mostly good natured hatred of Dodgers). But > I do think in this case it is more objective. > > My criticism of JB is not so much that he has a rooting interest in one > team (although he clearly is a Cardinals fan, which would seem to make him > a Cub-hater by nature, and also seems to root for anything involving the > Yankees or Red Sox, presumably because it leads to better ratings). But > what makes him a poor broadcaster in my mind is he seems to have > pre-determined what the main story lines are going to be for a series or > game, based it seems on research done by staff, or maybe his production > meetings with managers and a few players, and does not allow the game to > unfold naturally (and is not informed enough by the full pattern of > previous events in the season). > > So, my charge is that his bias is rooted in this narrow, prefabricated > storyline that he has adopted (whether pro or con any particular team). He > will move off of that if events require it, but he is slow to do so, and > the storyline biases for a long time how he talks about the game, and what > he focuses on. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
