I don't know about Joe Buck making nice, but what I do know is that he has the tallest, most towering head I've ever seen. That's simply an incredibly tall head.

I think Joe Buck needs to say Manny being Manny a couple more times. Apparently catching a fly ball is Manny being Manny.

Who the hell is this new voice? Manny Mann Manny?

Beeker thinks Joe's head is gargrantuan and tall.

So now FOX is fucking interviewing people over the actual game being played.

SHUT UP JOE, YOU ARE AWFUL!

I doubt Jack would ever say these words "such an impressive guy."

TM: "He owns a batting cage"

I am picturing Joe in a batting cage, looking all tough and hardass, adjusting his watch...

And sucking, and maybe pulling a muscle in his sunken chest.

What hustle from Manny Manny.

Manny being Manny == walking around like a fat housewife bending over to pick up a corn chip.

Woah Woah, don't look now but Joe Buck made a funny and said something along the lines of I don't know if you've heard Tim, but Frank has a new show on TBS starting in November.

Wow is Joe a smug fuckwad...

The greatest moment of Joe's life...being asked out by Troy.

"Smiles...and singles...and Red Sox...and dreadlocks..and smiles"

Cue to obligatory Stephen King shot . . .

"Stephen King is not only reading a book but he's also written three since he's entered the park." - Buck

"Stephen King doesn't write under his name King. I think." - McCarver

Halfway through the game and Joe has been solid in my estimation. McCarver, not so much. But still better than the TBS crew.

Did anyone catch McCarver talking about the Red Sox playing the White Sox in the 2006 Playoffs?

What did Jack Buck ever do to have suck a smug fuck as a son?

I used to listen to Jackand Hank call the MNF game with my little GE clock radio when I was a kid, every week.

That was announcing. AA is prolly too young to remember those two guys.

They were great, truly great. cared about the game, knew the game, worked well together.

But that's radio, and the radio guys tend to do better work anyway.

Joe Buck could send smugness through radio waves.

96 to 97, 91 to 94.

It's cool to not use units of measurement, super cool.

Did anyone else miss the McCarver cackle??

(In best Terry Bradshaw voice) - Joe Buck, you funny!!

Over/under - Ben Affleck shots this series (set at 7 1/2)

Oh, absolutely over.

If there was ever to be a buddy cop TV show/film of Buck and McCarver, "Smug and Senile" would be a great title.

Joe, shut the fuck up about ARod. I don't know if you have noticed, but he's not playing in this series.

I wish people would stop kicking around this ARod to the Cubs rumor. I don't want the new ownership getting the impression that's what Chicago fans want. We already have our overpriced diva who disappeared in the Playoffs, thank you very much!

Going to the "issues" show...listen to the people calling this game talk about gossip and conjecture rather than the actual game and strategy.

It's like a fucking soap opera, Christ...

Jason Patric would have to be on that show, he and Joe seem to enjoy each other's designer-stubbled company.

This game is over.

Great line earlier...Buck talking about the "Did you hear Frank Caliendo has a show going on?" Great stuff.

Anyone want to predict the correct score for an AA T-shirt and or post?

And yes I'm trying to come up with gimmicks to keep you around.

It's "chowdah." Say it right.

"I predict a final score of 5-3 on a Brandon Podsednik walk-off home run." - Tim McCarver

You want to keep the score in the area where you are winning.

15-2

I like the way Joe machine guns out: 22PITCH

That was my handle in 'Nam, 22PITCH.

You guys can quit slobbering over FOX & the crew any time now....these man crushes are killing me... It's an 8-1 blow out...If it was TBS...you'd be killin' 'em

THIS IS OUR COUNTRY

Please God...

"A fly ball, a souvenir, a smile, an RBI, a strikeout, a smile."

- Buck, are you just looking at things in the room and saying you love them?

I love lamp.

You guys whine when the announcers stuff up, but at least 2 of you have completely misquoted them.

He said Gonzalez was as good as there is at short not Lugo.

Maybe it's time to flip over to ESPN and catch the wit and wisdom of Chris Spielman

That dude Blake has a throwback neckbeard.

Cool, it's like Bert Blyleven come to life.

Haha, love the Brick Tamland!

No, Joe, I don't give a shit about where A-Rod signs right now. Call the fucking game, bitch.

Jenson Lewis finished off the bottom of the fifth.

I bet he's hammered.

dort.

Could Wedge stop moving side to side?

It's reminding me of that shitty SNL skit with the Chaldean dancing guys.

I miss the TBS crew already.

Is there a worse curse for any child than to be born into the Spielman household?

"Jason left the trap door open and it squirted. Sometimes you don't get the glove down far enough." - TM

"You guys whine when the announcers stuff up, but at least 2 of you have completely misquoted them.

He said Gonzalez was as good as there is at short not Lugo."

Key difference is I don't make six figures to act like a dick on the Intraweb.

We had to wait for the 6th inning for Cleveland Rocks?

Very poor!

Joe trying to strategerize and manufacture an "issue".

Jow, just call the fucking GAME you Beeker-headed jagoff.

What's with all the babbling anymore...

You would think the radio guys need to talk more than the TV guys, yet Buck can't keep his mouth shut about a paper clip that he sees on his desk and the radio guys create a great mental image of the game.

Maybe Steve Phillips can help me get a good grasp of the game.

I'm goin to bed, baseball sucks.

I preffered the Fox Producers joke to the Mrs Gonzalez one

Thank God for the WebMD graphics. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known where the shoulder is.

"The inning starts with a wind-aided hit for Ryan Garko." - Buck

Cut immediately to a shot of the flag sitting dead on the pole.

(In fairness, I guess, they showed another shot with two flags whipping around pretty good. Bad call on the camera, I suppose.)

JD Drew's younger brother is the shortstop for the Arizona Diamondbacks. And boy is he young. -Tim McCarver

So you think they will talk about a pitcher coming on 3 days rest any time soon?

Where's Jose Mota's excellent analysis from the dugout?

Switch to TBS... how many minutes before the first Frank TV ad? Over/Under 10 minutes.

Did anybody see that shot of KG in the crowd wearing an Indians hat?

Oooh first commercial break I'm bristling with anticipation...

What no Frank TV ad during the first commercial break? I'm hurt.

Dawg, Frank Caliendo is the funniest man alive. I'd much rather watch those commercials (although they are overkilling it a little bit) than that SOB Dane Cook (who is not funny at all) tell me there is ONLY ONE OCTOBER!!!!!!!!! in his annoying voice. How he is liked by ANYONE is beyond me.

Through 3 commercial breaks.

This is Our Country 2
Dane Cook 0
Frank TV 0

Also TBS is going to commercials, coming back to Ernie in which he should just say, hey look, the AL game isn't over yet. We're going back to commercial break.

On ESPN Radio, Joe Morgan was talking about how the LDS should be best-of-7 rather than best-of-5. He began by noting "It used to be 2 out of 3." Really, now? Jon Miller tried to right the sinking ship, but failed, and then claimed, "They've been playing each other all year, and one of the teams didn't even finish in first. It doesn't have to be fair. [...] It's exciting."

Later, Joe was repeating himself too much: "In baseball, the clock doesn't run out. You have to get those outs. The time can't run out on you. [two minutes pass] You can't go into a four-quarters defense."

finer words have never been uttered...

"On ESPN Radio, Joe Morgan was talking..."

cheers to that... though McCarver has had his moments...

Never an easy save with Gagne. Never. Ever.

It isnt a save per se when you have a seven run lead in the 9th

Re McCarver and the Red and White Sox: Anyone notice him saying the Red Sox gave the ChiSox fits despite the fact the series was a sweep?

Dude that picture of McCarver and Buck is creepy, Buck looks like he just used a fresh patch of rogain, and McCarver looks like he wants to give that microphone a blowjob.

I wish Fox would just put Kenny Albert and Marv Albert together, I wonder how many 'YES, and the foul' calls we'd get..

I would just like to point out that Buck completely screwed up where Hafner's nickname comes from. It's a combination of project and donkey, rather than prospect and donkey.

Stupid and petty? Yes. But how can you be so bad at your job that you mess up simple facts that everyone knew were going to be mentioned, especially when you had four days to prepare for this game?

Oh, and it didn't take me long to remember how much I hate FOX. I was yelling at the flame thing that accompanies anything over 95MPH after the second pitch of the game.

I'm late to the party here, but I just wanted to say that I loathe Ken Rosenthal and his Jim Gray-like smugness.

look as a sox fan i love manny and david. but a night of verbal vomit from tim mccarver and joe buck would make me hate my team too...

what is the music selection?

Selected McCarver gems from Game One, 10/12/07
"Any other centerfielder besides Sizemore, Youkalis tries to go to third." (So Youkalis was automatically going to run on Melky Cabrera or Curtis Granderson or Vernon Wells on that play? Not true.)
On Pedroia's shot back at Sabathia: "The ball went back at Sabathia harder than he threw it.
A guy 5’7” hit that ball back at a guy 6’7” - go figure. . ." (OMG, Timmy)
With two outs for Cleveland in the top of the 9th, here is Tim's brilliant insight on what Boston needed to do: "One more hitter is the way you gotta figure it." (Pure genius.)
And not to slight Mr. Buck, as the Sox are congratulating each other he says, "There's the DH Manny Ramirez, shirt untucked." Yes, Joe, it's very easy to confuse Manny with David Ortiz.

Go Fox, Go. Please, go.

Since there isn't yet an ALCS Game 2 thread, here's my McCarver moment from that game. After Cleveland took the lead in the top of the 11th, Timmy says: "Now the cheering's in the Indians dugout."
I only got this because I turned up the TV sound for a couple seconds. I've had to pretty much stop listening to these guys for mental health reasons.