We were in the car the other day and my wife went to play her one of her favorite podcasts (Smartless) and the guest was Joe Buck, so I said, let's listen to something else. And she said, what's wrong with Joe Buck? And I really didn't have an answer. I said something about him trying to pump up the storyline of the day like it's the invasion of Normandy, but that could be any baseball duo on ESPN. I said it bugs me how every time a ball makes it through the zone without being crushed he says "Good Pitch" and "Good Swing" every time a guy takes a cut and fouls one off. But that was all I had, so I said, I don't know, I just don't like the guy.
So what is it? It can't be his hair or his height or his wife or whatever. That's lame. So is the daddy thing. Nobody seems to mind the Albert family or Carey family. Why does everyone dislike Buck?
BTW, McCarver was different. There were very good, specific reasons not to want to hear him call a game.