MLB Should Drop Fox
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Fox Sports is entirely incapable of doing reasonable baseball broadcasts.
Their camera work is substandard, their color commentator Tim McCarver is functionally retarded, and their play-by-play man Joe Buck -- who only has the job because of his father's name -- is boorish, never having a single interesting thing to say.
The direction and producing is of the worst kind, betraying a complete lack of knowledge or appreciation of the game: habitually missing plays, showing ridiculous camera angles, and -- the worst crime -- skipping entire innings of play to show other games.
Fox crimes also include showing -- live, during the on-field celebration after the World Series -- actors kissing for a publicity stunt for a movie and promoting "astroturf" ad campaigns during games.
The bottom line is that Fox ruins every game it broadcasts, takes much of the joy out of the experience, and makes Major League Baseball look like a bunch of ignorant chumps who can't get a real network to broadcast their most important games. For the sake of the enjoyment of the game and perception of the MLB, the institution we care about, we call on the MLB to immediately sever all of its contracts with Fox to broadcast any future baseball games.
Their camera work is substandard, their color commentator Tim McCarver is functionally retarded, and their play-by-play man Joe Buck -- who only has the job because of his father's name -- is boorish, never having a single interesting thing to say.
The direction and producing is of the worst kind, betraying a complete lack of knowledge or appreciation of the game: habitually missing plays, showing ridiculous camera angles, and -- the worst crime -- skipping entire innings of play to show other games.
Fox crimes also include showing -- live, during the on-field celebration after the World Series -- actors kissing for a publicity stunt for a movie and promoting "astroturf" ad campaigns during games.
The bottom line is that Fox ruins every game it broadcasts, takes much of the joy out of the experience, and makes Major League Baseball look like a bunch of ignorant chumps who can't get a real network to broadcast their most important games. For the sake of the enjoyment of the game and perception of the MLB, the institution we care about, we call on the MLB to immediately sever all of its contracts with Fox to broadcast any future baseball games.
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98.
Joel L
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Any petition that calls McCarver "functionally retarded" is something I can get behind!
City, State
CA
96.
Michael O
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I WAS DISGUSTED AND VERY ANGRY AT FOX FOR WHAT THEY DID THE OTHER DAY, MISSING WHOLE INNINGS OF THE RED SOX GAME AND FOR OTHER MATTERS TO WHICH I DO NOT WANT TO DISCUSS RIGHT NOW
City, State
BOSTON MA
88.
Brian C
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Fox panders, cheapens, and "dumbs-down" everything it touches; please save baseball's glory and pedigree from their polluted hands
City, State
Austin, TX
80.
Charles D
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Most biased announcing in the history of sports, the other night when the yankees lost mcCarver didn't say anything from the 7th on because the yankees were losing what a joke
City, State
Arlington, MA
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Vivian D
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I cannot stand FOX coverage of MLB. It makes me so upset I want to claw my eyes out.
City, State
Boston MASS
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