WS Announcers

Although I would certainly agree that McCarver is appalling, Joe Buck works for Fox and has for some years; I have no idea why, he isn't a patch on his father. He has called games for the Cards in the past, late 90's IIRC.

Every sports outlet has gone on about Kenny and the Pine Tar, whatever their resumes. It's news.

Given that those same sports reporters have been almost unanimous in their predictions that the Tigers will win the series (USA saying 'Tigers in 3' and that their biggest challenge during the WS will be keeping a straight face), and Fox's 1st Game promo for American Idol included a WS scorecard listing the Tigers vs the Mets, I can't really get behind any complaints about a pro-Cardinal bias!

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I can't really get behind any complaints about a pro-Cardinal bias!

I dunno. I'm about as unbiased an observer as you can find for this series (I live in Georgia and am just happy the Evil Empire didn't make it ) I found it curious last night how many times they replayed the Tigers botched play at third. Even when I expected they should have been showing a replay of something that just happened they went back to that error.

Fox' direction in general is poor. Throughout postseason, they've cut to the announcers during an at-bat (why do we see them at all?), and repeatedly gone back to previous plays, games, home runs, etc in the middle of the action. Never been a fan of that style, as I'm quite happy to watch the game at hand.

Postseason play is watched as much by the casual fan as true baseball fans. So you get a lot of 'duh' commentary (keeps McCarver employed, that) and whatever the director's idea is of keeping it exciting for people not really engaged in the game.

At least we aren't suffering through that irritating animated ball any more.