Joe Buck is an asshat. This isn’t earth-shattering news. It’s not even news. This hasn’t changed my opinion of him one bit. He is the lesser son of a greater sire.

is that at least he’s not Joe Morgan.

I think Joe Buck is a fine announcer in his own right as long as he doesn’t try to sing. Is he his father, Jack Buck? No, but that’s hardly something of which to be ashamed. I think he has plenty enough interest in baseball. He may not be as interested as he used to be. He does other things like football for Fox. I think he should stay on the Fox baseball telecasts.

As if anybody cares, there was a guy named Tom Stocker, who was a great announcer for the AA Memphis Chicks and later the AAA Memphis Redbirds. He never got a shot to announce for a major league team. If his name had been Buck or Caray, he would have gotten an opportunity.

Hardly. Oh, he does disrespect the game with his comments mentioned above. However, MLB made his father, the immortal Jack Buck famous. Joe has never been anything but Jack’s son, who tried to follow in his footsteps. I’m with gary, Buck is an asshat, and I think his dad would say the same today, if he was still around.

To get away from sports for a while to reinvigorate his love for them.

And, no if he was not the son of Jack Buck he probably wouldn’t have all his success.

and I still consider him a pompous a#$hole. However, I have to give him credit…The football broadcast he does with Troy Aikman is the best in NFL. When it comes to baseball he is not good. It always sounds like we as fans should be lucky to hear his voice. The Cardinals allegiance doesnt help.

I hate him, he’s so negative.

Both should be reassigned if they really think like this. It is both of their jobs to watch sports every night so that they can speak knowledgably about them on a daily basis. Insulting to me as a sports fan that this crap can happen.

He’s said that he prefers football to baseball many times.

On the other hand, I’m sure he likes baseball better than Howard Cosell did in the 1970s and he broadcast the World Series too. So this is really nothing new and nothing to get too up in arms about.

Why the hell does baseball and Fox allow this to happen. Fox is garbage with EVERYTHING, one-sided pompess asses that only care about money, more money and more money. With Joe Buck they don’t have to worry about any slip ups and his voice is good in the booth, so for them it is “To Hell with the fact he doesnt like baseball”. Its absolute garbage if you are a baseball announcer that does not care about baseball. Just another reason to hate Fox and another reason to hate the Cardinals.

Thought he was OK, neither good nor bad.

But someone with this attitude should NOT be the primary voice of the game on a national network. Period.

Eh? Joe Buck doesn’t like baseball? Well, maybe baseball doesn’t like Joe Buck. Ever thought of that?

Baseball does need to make sure that whoever it has, managing, coaching, announcing, etc…That they truly love this game. Baseball is something special that lives in the heart of many fans. There are too many people who would love to be out there doing the jobs of those who hate it. Stop killing the magic, and just let it shine!

Cowherd has been trashing every sport but football for a long time and now Buck has joined him. Definitely if I was Bud Selig I would do something about it and get a baseball fan in the booth. Let Cowherd and Buck have their 24/7/365 love affair with football, let someone who cares about baseball announce baseball games.

of Buck and Tim McCarver makes me want to puke. Moreso McCarver, who talks to the view like they’re in kindergarten. He’s such a smarmy dick, I was glad when Deion Sanders not once, but twice dumped buckets of water on him during the 1993 playoffs.

I lost all respect for him when he went on the way he did about Randy Moss and his “fake” mooning in that Green Bay playoff game a couple years ago. You would have thought Moss just shot somebody in the crowd the way he went on.
Even if he would’ve have really mooned the crowd, that wouldn’t have warranted Buck’s reaction. The guys a poser.

and baseball (and their fans) hate them.

he has to engage in what can only be described as painful banter with his doddering, indecipherable sidekick, Tim McCarver. Between McCarver’s inane “observations” about the game, and Buck’s smarmy flippancy, I really get the sense that I’m watching something else…this is not the game I grew up with! This is some bizarro NFL game with bats and smaller helmets.

I call him a “connect the dots” sports host because there is not one shred of originality in what he does. He’s even admitted as much – that he’s there only to talk about what’s popular and whatever will net the most listeners so ESPN can have the highest ratings and sell more ads at a higher price.

I also call him “the Atkins Diet of sports hosts” because, like the trendy diet program, listeners will lose interest and seek out the next new fad.

I really miss announcers like Phil Rizzuto…Tony Kubek….hell, I’d take Vin Scully over Joe Buck any day. It’s too bad my generation is defined by the Joe Bucks of the world. Even Ralph Kiner made telecasts extremely entertaining. Sigh….................

Marty’s rant on the Cubs and their fans was the most unprofessional thing I’ve heard from a sports announcer. Even worse than Harrelson’s hominess.

I think he’s carrying a grudge about his offspring being bums rushed out of Chicago a decade or so ago.

According to Richard Sandomir in today’s New York Times, Buck now claims that he was just kidding.

On Thursday, Buck said in an interview from his home in St. Louis that he was joking about his TV habits—even if neither the host nor the guest sounded amused. He was too flippant, he said. And so, a little verbal damage control.