he was as bad as Sean “The Mortician” McDonough. Between him and McCarver, it’s almost impossible to listen to a FOX game. It’s definitely a reason I’ve stopped watching the Saturday FOX games. I’ll force myself to put up with them in the playoffs, but not in May or August.

So now we know he has no passion. It explains why his broadcasts are horrible.

Note that Cowheard seems just a much a joke. He’s doing a daily talk show, where I’m sure baseball topics come up. He says he grew up with the Reds and Cardinals, but the most he’ll do is “watch some Red Sox and watch some Yankees”.

Most announcers that do nationally televised games on a regular basis do not really follow the league. I am sure John Madden and Al Michaels are well versed in whats going on in the NFL, but that is not because they watch a ton of games. In all likeliehood, with the type of schedules they have they probably learn whats going on around the league from notes they read pre game and get all their personal takes on players from watching them once a week on Monday Night Football.

Joe Buck is a great guy. He’s a fuck terrible announcer that brings shame to his hallowed family name. But he’s a pretty likable cat other that! Funny. Willing to make fun of himself.

But terrible in the booth. Just God awful. He’s not helped by that country bumpkin catcher he has to dork around with, either.

That said, I’ll take Buck over Thom Brennaman and his sanctimonious bullshit any day of the week and six times on Sunday.

First of all, I mean I REALLY hate Thom Brennaman. His dad is a dullard, too. I really don’t care if that bothers anyone, but his dad sucks at his job and the son sucks at it, too. No big surprise.

Anyway the fact that commentators often don’t sound like they really follow the sport all that much is sort of what I hate about most commentators, and why I just can’t go against a guy like Hawk Harrelson. He really gives a damn, and that’s better than, “Man, Jeter is clutch, is he not?” or whatever shit Joe Morgan pulls out of his ass.

...that’s really mystifying to me when it comes to these lame brain sports announcers, is that there are just so many people who do follow sports religiously. In a game like baseball we’re talking millions upon millions of people. Now I know broadcasting/on-air announcing is a skill – as I yammer on about in my MASN rants – and casting the right person is not always an easy thing. But there is just such an incredibly large base of people to draw from for this sort of thing that it just makes no sense a network can’t find someone who is really on top of it – really knows their stuff, has passion for it, and can make the broadcast work. You might even be tempted to think that in a sport like baseball, filled with some of the most passionate, dedicated, knowledgeable fans around, that for a smart network, it would be a requirement for an announcer to have a deep passion and knowledge of the game.

I swear to God if I ever see Joe Buck in person I’m going to kick his ass. He should be taken off the air. I can’t believe he thinks baseball is a waste of time. You know what Joe Buck you’re a waste of life. This really pisses me off.

Especially that pinhead Rosenthal