Joe Buck Admits He Rarely Watches Sports And Doesn't Enjoy Baseball Anymore

• DetroitRob

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  I didnt like this guy before this happened...I really dont like him now. This guy gets the opportunity of a lifetime and says he'd rather watch the Bachelorette(LMAO) What a FAG!

  Posted 7/3/2008 [reply] [flag]

• ethanator1088

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  Awful Announcing is sooo on top of things it is disgusting. If he did not post this, I would never know that Joe Buck and my wife have so much in common! :-)

  Posted 7/3/2008 [reply] [flag]

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Another Reason To Despise National Announcers
Published 7/2/2008 by Dave Doyle at The Mets Report
... I saw this at Awful Announcing this morning, and this has to take the cake. Joe Buck was on ESPN Radio with the equally awful Colin Cowherd. Buck goes on to say that he doesn’t watch sports because he’s too wrapped up in “The Bachelorette”. He says that baseball requires too much time because there are so many meaningless games played every day. And this is the guy getting paid the big bucks (pun) to cover baseball for Fox? Watch below and you’ll most likely be as flabbergasted as I was. ...

Joe Buck Prefers the Bachelorette to Baseball and Does Not Really Enjoy Calling Games
Published 7/2/2008 by Will Brinson at FanHouse
Filed under: MLB Media Watch, MLB VideoI knew there was a reason why I have always been so down on Joe Buck, and now, after hearing him talk to Colin Cowherd today (via Awful Announcing), I no longer have to blame it on: "works and apparently enjoys the company of Tim McCarver." As you will hear on the following clip, Joe got on the horn with The Herd and basically said that he does not even really pay attention to the games he covers anymore (1:30) and that he, as a professional sports announcer, prefers the Bachelorette to Major ...

Even Joe Buck doesn’t like baseball anymore
Published 7/2/2008 by houroc at SportFiends
... That being said, I can’t understand this. In this video I found via Awful Announcing, everyone’s former favorite baseball announcer sounds off about how he doesn’t watch baseball anymore. Wait a minute. This guy is supposed to be an expert who gets paid to watch baseball and he would rather watch the Bachlorette than the sport he covers. ...

Buck: Bored By Baseball, Has To Cram For Games
Published 7/2/2008 by Signal to Noise at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... AWFUL ANNOUNCING has the recorded audio , and is appropriately flabbergasted at the whole mess — because he’s right: this is why fans hate so much of the sports media right now. The rationale for Cowherd and Buck both not being able to enjoy the sports they supposedly cover has to do with having adult responsibilities (wives, families, etc.), which translates to not having the time — and that “society has changed”, making them weekend viewers. Buck notes that the games take too long, and that he’d rather watch “The Bachelorette” than sit through a baseball game on television. ...

Video Picks: Rays Nation, Painful Baseball Injuries, Joe Buck, Baron Davis
Published 7/2/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
... Gah! Well, on Tuesday the Diamondbacks placed Snyder on the DL with a “left testicular fracture,” and the catcher is slated to undergo surgery today. If there’s a worse injury than “fractured testicle,” I’d like to hear it. Elsewhere, Awful Announcing is a little ticked over an interview Joe Buck did with ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd (who we interviewed a little while back); here’s the clip from the interview that’s inspired quite a bit of discussion around the blogosphere today: ...

Joe Buck Is Just No Longer Enthused About America's Pastime [Joe Buck]
Published 7/2/2008 by DAULERIO at Deadspin
... player has irked him while pantomiming a moon toward hostile fans. But it appears Mr. Buck is also a little burnt out by everything. In an interview with Colin Cowherd this morning, Buck says watches "barely any" sports and says that when he announces baseball games "it's just not as special and unique as it used to be...that's just the way it is." MLB must be thrilled to have such an enthusiastic guy in the booth during their nationally televised games. Joe Buck Admits He Rarely Watches Sports And Doesn't Enjoy Baseball Anymore [Awful ...

Joe Buck calls out national pastime, is called out himself
Published 7/2/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
... Interesting TV/radio/blogosphere debate going on today in the wake of comments by Fox's Joe Buck in which he expresses his ambivalence about following baseball in its current state. ...

Blog Patrol
Published 7/2/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... Joe Buck apparently prefers The Bachelorette to baseball. Uh, Joe, you probably shouldn't admit that. [Awful Announcing] ...

Joe Buck should be removed from MLB broadcasts yesterday
Published 7/2/2008 by 'Duk at Big League Stew
... Well, if there were any broadcasting justice and any chance to make my dream come true, rural Minnesota is where Joe Buck would end up after the comments he made on this morning's Colin Cowherd Show. Apparently not only does Joe Buck not enjoy baseball anymore, he says would rather watch "The Bachelorette" instead of the game that, for some reason, made him its preeminent voice. ...

Joe Buck hates Mom, Baseball, Apple Pie. Loves the Bachelorette.
Published 7/2/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Joe Buck hates Mom, Baseball, Apple Pie. Loves the Bachelorette. Y’know how every postseason in game chatter I am one of the few people who defend Joe Buck? That ends now after I read this Awful Announcing post. I’m borderline furious this morning and not just because I have to mention Colin Cowherd. Joe Buck was on ESPN Radio this morning, and you can’t make this stuff up, said he doesn’t enjoy Baseball anymore and chooses to watch the Bachlorette over nightly Sports telecasts during the week. ... Without going off my rocker I just want to point out that this is the ...

The Ennui Of Joe Buck
Published 7/2/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... FOX’s national voice for Baseball openly admitted to not enjoying the game he covers, cramming for weekend matchups, thinking that the games are too long and that the game just isn’t the same. Unbelievable. You’re getting paid millions of dollars for watching a game three hours. Cry me a river! What’s even worse than that was the fact that he was on for another 4 or 5 minutes talking about a Cubs-Red Sox World Series. Are you kidding me?! - Awful Announcing, 7/02/08 ...

Joe Buck is not interested--Awful Announcing
Published 7/2/2008 by susan mullen (noreply@blogger.com) at XM MLB Chat
Joe Buck on ESPN radio today said he's no longer interested in baseball. Which made Awful Announcing take serious issue, especially since Buck gets to do some big games this weekend. Via Neil Best, Watchdog.

Why is Joe Buck still calling baseball games?
Published 7/2/2008 by Gilbert at Obscure Sports Quarterly
... Joe Buck went on the Colin Cowherd show today and said some things you wouldn’t expect baseball’s most prominent and baseball announcer to say. ...

There was one thing I liked about my Milwaukee Brewers 2007 Choke Job
Published 7/2/2008 by Andrew (noreply@blogger.com) at The Grand National Championships
I have a vow never to listen to Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. I play fast and loose with my vows, I'll admit it. But this one has stuck. I will never listen to them broadcast a baseball game ever again. And with my local sports team about to make it to the playoffs? I was going to have to break the vow. But then the Cubs got in the way. And I've never properly thanked them for it. Thanks. Why the backstory? Because Joe Buck was on ESPN Radio today, and he said, we'll let's go to the SOT. ...

Buck tees off on baseball.
Published 7/2/2008 by Paulsen (noreply@blogger.com) at Sports Media Watch
... ." That statement alone is insulting enough to the viewers who do value the Game of the Week -- the three million or so viewers who tune in every Saturday afternoon to watch a broadcast that is apparently no longer what it once was. Today, Buck went further while on ESPN Radio . In addition to admitting he spends "barely any" time watching sports during the week, Buck said it is "a lot to ask of people" to watch baseball games that "take forever". While he noted that football games take as long as baseball games, Buck pointed out that football has "such an advantage being once ...

Joe Buck Admits He Barely Watches Sports, Doesn’t Enjoy Baseball Anymore
Published 7/3/2008 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
... Maybe this explains why some baseball telecasts aren’t too enjoyable (putting aside what happens on the field). When FOX’s top national play-by-play man says he barely watches sports and doesn’t really enjoy baseball anymore, you know we have a problem. Listen to his conversation with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio. ...

I Strongly Dislike Joe Buck
Published 7/3/2008 by Sooze (noreply@blogger.com) at Babes Love Baseball
... In any case, another guy that makes me feel this awesome is Colin Cowherd. *shudder* Just watch the video, via Awful Announcing, always looking out. ...

The Morning Tailgate
Published 7/3/2008 by Patrick Imig at STLSportsMag
... Joe Buck admits he doesn’t like watching baseball anymore, non-St. Louis sports fans revolt even more against him.  [Awful Announcing] ...

ARE YOU TRYING TO SEDUCE ME JOE MADDON?
Published 7/3/2008 by kranepool at Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog
... Do you need anymore evidence that Joe Buck is a dick? I’m sure you all have heard his take on baseball in his interview with Colin Heard that he doesn’t watch baseball anymore as it moves to slow for him and he bored, this is the FOX National baseball voice saying this. I’ve always felt that Doofus Joe was an a number one douche bag and this statement is right out of the Mike Francessa “I’m sick of sports talk I want the Meet the Press job”  so how does FOX keep him on the games now that what ever little credibility he had is gone. I know lots of folks despise ...

Joe Buck Prefers Bachelorette to Baseball
Published 7/3/2008 by rcade at SportsFilter
Fox's lead baseball announcer told ESPN's Colin Cowherd yesterday that he prefers watching The Bachelorette to watching baseball. "These games take forever," Buck said, "by the time you get through the sixth inning, if you're watching every minute, you've put two-plus hours into the thing. ... From our own perspective the Saturday Game of the Week ... is not as special or unique as it used to be." Read Story.

Morning Constitutional: The Greatest Sonics
Published 7/3/2008 at The Sporting Blog
... | FanHouse I'm sure A-Rod will have a really hard time finding beautiful women to keep him company. Joe Buck Admits He Rarely Watches Sports ... | Awful Announcing There are plenty of reason why I dislike Joe Buck, but him admitting that he doesn't have time to watch sports definitely isn't one of them. ...

Leave Joe Buck Alone!, Or Why Joe Buck is Not the Baseball Anti-Christ
Published 7/3/2008 by Eamonn Brennan at FanHouse
... Media Watch, Featured StoriesThis week, Joe Buck got pilloried. In case you haven't been around, Buck called in to Colin Cowherd's consistently irritating radio show to talk about modern sports media and the way fans don't watch weeknight games anymore. He also admitted the one thing sports personalities should probably never admit -- he's not all that enthusiastic about baseball anymore. Bad Joe. Bad. The response has been predictable. Awful Announcing, who originally pulled the audio, is outraged; Big League Stew's Kevin Kaduk is ...

Independence Day Eve Roundup: Joe Buck admits he’s gay
Published 7/3/2008 by B-Roy at The Sports Culture
Joe Buck, FOX play-by-play announcer, doesn’t really watch sports. He watches the bachelorette. (Awful Announcing) Conspiracy: Team USA basketball not fond of the all day i dream about sex company. (CNBC) The sloppy career of A-Rod’s off-field adventures must be a family thing: his wife Cynthia is bangin’ Lenny Kratiz (all together now, “ohhh! I want to get awayyyy! I want to flyyyyyy awayyyy yeahhhh yeahhhh!) ( ...

THE AFTER PARTY
Published 7/3/2008 by DCScrap (noreply@blogger.com) at Epic Carnival - Pop Culture, Sports, Celebrities, Babes, Rumors, Innuendo
Adriana Lima loves the Memphis Grizzlies. (MoonDog Sports) Grading the NBA Draft (by agencies). (The Sports Agent Blog) Penguins sign God and Satan. (Mondesi's House) Joe Buck is a tool. (Awful Announcing) Voodoo Sabermetrics: Chase Utley. (Babes Love Baseball) Dr. Favrenstein: Chiefs, Peterson interested in Favre? (Arrowhead Addict) Things more believable than a Brett Favre retirement. (The World of Isaac) Purple Jesus brings home the hardware. (NE Patriots Draft) Video of a one legged little league ...

Video Picks: Unfortunate Baseball Injury, Joe Buck, Canadian Soccer Fans
Published 7/4/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
... Normally, posting a video of Skip Bayless is something I’d never consider. And normally, posting a video of Skip Bayless talking about an interview on Colin Cowherd’s radio show is something I’d never, ever consider. But these are special circumstances; Bayless was discussing Joe Buck’s now-infamous interview with Cowherd, and he actually had a pretty good take on it (thanks to ...

For Those Who Blog We Salute You - 7/5
Published 7/5/2008 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
... to blows on team plane [The 'Ropolitans] Minor League Baseball in the Carolinas: Road trip itinerary taking shape! [Ump Bump] Tuesdays with Smitty: 4th of July Edition [Casey's Clipboard & Wally's World] Coming this fall…(well really later this summer) [Gridiron Goddess] Wanye Gretzky’s Daughter is a Fine Golfer [The Big Lead] Joe Buck Admits He Rarely Watches Sports And Doesn’t Enjoy Baseball Anymore [Awful Announcing] Our video goodness this week comes from our friends over ...

Brog: Patrick, Olbermann Reunite On NBC Broadcast
Published 7/7/2008 by Brooks at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... . He was too flippant, he said. And so, a little verbal damage control.” Safe to say Buck heard from Fox Sports TV management about his embarrassing comments made to ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd . Also interesting to note that Sandomir made no mention of the only reason anyone is talking about the comments at all. If it wasn’t for ...

The Brain Leak
Published 7/8/2008 by Ryan Faller at NationalSportsReview.com Master Site Feed
... More hot air filled the studios of ESPN’s popular late-morning topical program First Take on Wednesday, and it was spewed mostly by one rather usual suspect. Moments after FOX lead baseball broadcaster Joe Buck admitted to ESPN Radio’s ...

All-Star Comments, Thoughts, and Sweet Nothings
Published 7/16/2008 by Nick Cannata-Bowman at Giants Cove
... Having to listen to 15 innings of Joe Buck is akin to any number of analogies that describe an excruciating experience (i.e. watching The Happening more than once).  In a radio interview, Buck himself has admitted that he has no interest in sports outside of preparing for a Red Sox-Yankees broadcast.  Once again, this may be my ignorance floating to the surface, but a sports commentator on a weekly national telecast getting paid God knows how much should probably have at least a tertiary interest in the sport they’re covering. ...

All-Star Breather: The Giants Outfield
Published 7/16/2008 by E.L.M. at El Lefty Malo
... We were this close. By the way, the A.L. should have won in the 11th. Kinsler was called out stealing second; he was safe. Later in the inning Navarro was out on a close play at home; he was also safe. It was infuriating that Fox announcers Buck and McCarver barely made mention of how the umps missed two crucial calls in the same inning. Were they even watching? Maybe not — apparently Buck doesn’t like watching baseball. He says the games are too long. TV’s a part of the problem, he says. You think? Like when Fox forces MLB to start ...

Joba, Giambi Extend Winning Streak to Seven
Published 7/26/2008 by Mike at Green Pinstripes
... Andy Pettitte (11-7, 3.86 ERA) will go against knuckleballer Tim Wakefield (6-7, 3.69 ERA) Saturday afternoon on FOX.  Pettitte is coming off a brilliant performance against the Oakland Athletics, spinning eight innings of one-run ball in the Yankees 2-1 victory.  The Red Sox battered Pettitte for six runs (five earned) in 4 2/3 innings during a 7-0 win on July 3 at The Stadium.  Andy is 5-2 with a 3.70 ERA in 14 career appearances at Fenway.  Wakefield may be Boston's most consistent pitcher right now.  The knuckleballer has gone at least seven innings ...