Trust Mr. Charles Radbourn to recap that game: https://twitter.com/OldHossRadbourn/status/659229417407913984
Amen to that! But thankfully, we no longer have the voice of Captain Obvious, Tim McCarver.
I was watching a replay of the '69 Series (game 4) on YT last week because I was too young when it first aired. Curt Gowdy, Lindsey Nelson, etc…bet baseball fans didn’t know how good they had it then.
I don’t really see what the problem is with Joe Buck. He does a pretty good job.
Buck can’t shut up. Maybe working with McCarver all those years rubbed off on him.
But he’s still not quite as annoying as all those Fox graphics and house ads.
My favorites were Tony Kubek and Joe Garagiola. I also liked Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese, back in the day.
I suspect it’s more the graphics and ads. Back in the day, if the announcer wasn’t talking, you had some space. Now they use every possible opportunity to pitch some crap or throw in sound effects.
No, it’s Buck. He thinks his voice is paramount to your enjoyment. Like we would have no idea what to make of this game without him interjecting with every minute point that enters his mind.
I watched the first half the game at a bar where we couldn’t hear the TV. I watched the second half at home and Buck drove me crazy.
Yeah, it’s Buck for me too. Although I find a lot of the other crap bothersome as well. Buck just seems to exude a smug self importance that grates on me. Probably a case of too much of one person’s voice. Fox shoves him in your ear on every sporting event they broadcast.
The fact that Fox has the World Series for like the next 10 years means we probably have 10 years of Joe Buck. By the end of that you will be sick of him too.
I grew up listening to Jack Buck calling Cardinals games. The difference between Jack Buck and Joe Buck is like the difference between John Belushi and Jim Belushi.
It seem that the Blue Jays will not be giving a new contract to Alex Anthopoulos.
This is a real WTF? moment for me. LCS not good enough?
Rather, AA did not accept the contract offer. I’m not sure.if.that’s due.to salary or.concerns that the new.president would reduce his autonomy.
Mark Shapiro will probably do a better job anyway.
To say this is playing poorly in Toronto would be something of a massive understatement.
It is widely considered bush league bullshit, which is a pretty fair assessment. The expectation is now that Shapiro’s job is to slash payroll and run the team like he did the Indians, which is to say aim for something like 83-79 every year, enough to draw two million fans a year and make a safe profit. So not only will no big pitchers be signed or re-signed, but don’t be surprised when a major peice, like Bautista, is unceremoniously dumped. The 2016 team will probably finish with a losing record.
Moments after the announcement Rogers had forced him out, Anbthopolous was named Executive of the Year. Priceless.
I’m sure he is bringing that winning Indians mentality to the Jays. :dubious:
When Shapiro was last GM of the Indians the on field product was brutal.
So they made someone else GM, and the team got better. Shapiro was put in charge of the business side, and the Indians, despite being an okay team, can’t draw flies.
Yeah, he sounds great.
ISTR, up until the middle of this season, you’d have happily bought AA’s ticket out of town. Funny what winning an October series can do, isn’t it?
You’re saying more information can affect one’s opinion of something? Geez, that’s so crazy it just might work!
The problem isn’t losing Alex Anthopolous, specifically. Lots of people could be as good a GM as he is. The problem is the team looks shitty, conniving and cheap doing it.
You don’t follow the Jays and so I’d assume don’t know the entire story or context, but you need to in order to understand how bad this looks. The franchise publicly humiliated itself LAST winter by “secretly” going out looking for a replacement for team president Paul Beeston. Their first call was to Jerry Reinsdorf… Paul Beeston’s close friend, who called Beeston and said “um, I didn’t know you were retiring.” Beeston and the team were forced to conduct a really embarrassing and forced public song and dance routine whereby Beeston, who’s worked with the team since it was founded, said sure, yeah, retirement sounds great.
So anyway the team makes some interesting moves but it’s not a complete team and gets off to a frustratingly bad start. Then they start looking for a new team president, and you figure, well, sure, they need one now and if the team blows I guess Anthopolous and Gibbons are history. But then the team turns it around, Anthopolous fills the holes, and kaboom, they’re an excellent team and the city’s happier about baseball than it has been since 1993. Ticket sales skyrocket. TV ratings are through the roof. Merchandise flies off the shelves.
And… the GM is told he can’t be the GM anymore, and the entire thing is handled with all the grace and nuance of an accidental decapitation. Rogers claims they offered Anthopolous a generous contract and just can’t understand why he wouldn’t come back, while 8,915 sources (but not Anthopolous, who refused to explain why he was leaving and said not a single bad word about anyone) say he was told he would not have authority over personnel moves, which of course means he’s not a GM anymore. Anthopolous, for all you might think of his baseball acumen - and people are still pissed over the Dickey trade - is by all accounts a wonderful boss, and a number of media sources report Blue Jay employees are in many cases in tears, have taken time off sick, or are getting ready to find other jobs. He’s also beloved by the fan base; the importance of him being Canadian is huge in this market. Soon enough we’ll be hearing extreme dissatisfaction from the players, at least until Shapiro trades them, and I’d say you can bank on Jose Bautista being in a different uniform come April. After all, he’ll cost a lot of money in 2017, right? Edwin Encarnacion will also be traded. I’ve no doubt the offense will be gutted for cheaper options.
If you want to keep the fans happy, this wasn’t the way to do it. If doing this meant the Jays would win more, the fans would be happy anyway, and the new GM would be a hero. There’s no reason to think that, though. Shapiro teams don’t win, though he did pull a rabbit out of his hat in 2007. They’re affordable, though, and that’s what Rogers wants; a low but predictable return on their investment.
Of course, the team’s manager, John Gibbons, who I have always though was more than good enough at his job, will be fired.
I know nothing about Toronto’s TV deal, but assume Rogers owns their own broadcast rights. That seems to be an advantage for the Yankees and Red Sox, but is it so for the Jays? Is Rogers just being stingy? Why will they slash roster payroll?