I agree on that. Buck is horrible, although not quite as bad as the Fox Midwest sports announcers for the STL Cardinals games.
As a fan of the Cardinals, all I can say about a Cubs win is ... blechhh.
As a fellow Cards fan, methinks you're taking the wrong approach. Now we can treat them the same way we treat the Reds and Pirates, without sympathy, real or feigned. The Indians are now the special snowflakes, well celebrated in great baseball movies, with their 68 year drought. And the next most sympathetic are the 6 expansion teams that have never won it all (Rangers 56, Astros 55, Brewers 48, Padres 48, Nats 48, Mariners 40). Oddly, if you step further back, the longest drought belongs to the Cardinals, the football ones, who last won it all a year before the Indians. Not that folks in St. Louis have much sympathy for them now.
Tonight was the first broadcast that I suffered through with Joe Buck. During the previous games, I turned down the volume on the television and listened to a radio. Buck was awful.
Smoltz was much better.
I am grateful for the victory as the Cubs manager seemed determined to prove that he was a master mind and all of his pitching changes and strategies seemed to backfire.
The Indians did a terrific job with an injured team that was missing some of its pitchers.