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Media bias against Diamondbacks: "Good ol' boys from FOX loose in our henhouse"
Arizona Republic ^ | 11/1/2001 | E.J. Montini

Posted on 11/01/2001 12:38:32 PM PST by RooRoobird14

Gawleeee, I sure am glad them two boys working for the FOX Network, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, is taking the time to educate us ignernt Phoenix fans about baseball, New York and C-ment ponds. A feller here told me that Buck and Tim must figure the onlyest reason Phoenix folks watched any of the World Series was to see if President George W. Bush might pause after throwing out the first ball to issue a pardon for one of our close relations.

(That did not happen, by the way.)

It has hardly been worth the effort to stretch an extension cord from the gas station out to our mobile home, then adjust the coat hanger on the TV in just the right way.

Tim and Buck spent much of the first game played in New York pointing out the particulars of Yankee Stadium. They said they figured some of us folks in the desert might never have seen nor heard tell of the place.

Buck and Tim even took a moment to remind us that Yankee Stadium don't have no C-ment pond, like our ball field in Phoenix. Which reminds me: Have any of y'all seen signs of the crick that feeds the pond in Bank One Ballpark? Cause I ain't.

Anyhoo, Buck and Tim has been real good about tellin' us how great them Yankees is. They even showed on TV the graveyard behind the fence at Yankee Stadium where they buried some gal named Ruth. Though they never did say what she done wrong to git herself buried in a ballpark instead of a proper cemetery.

Maybe she weren't a big enough Yankee fan, like Buck and Tim. Them two boys seems to love the Yankees more than we love guns, Hee Haw or prime time wrasslin'.

They make it sound like the Yankees all use golden gloves and (when Clemens is pitching) hurl lightning bolts, whilst our boys whittle their bats from fallen logs and fashion gloves outta stinkweed and duct tape.

One ol' boy in town tells me that Buck and Tim might not be feeling kindly towards Phoenix or the Diamondbacks on account of we wasn't hospitable enough to them and the other Easterners when the Yankees was here in the Valley.

He says we should of worked harder to make Buck and Tim feel more at home, maybe by digging some pot holes in the roads or having our sanitation workers pretend go out on strike. Or maybe we could've asked Arizona cabbies to charge Buck and Tim $300 to transport them from the airport to the wrong hotel.

If we'd done all that, perhaps the boys from the FOX network wouldn't be gnawing their way through our henhouse, so to speak.

Four whole games have come and gone in the series. I'd have wrote down these here impressions a lot sooner but my word processor was up on blocks and cousin Bubba from the computer lab was out huntin'.

In the meantime, folks back in New York been saying stuff like: There are ruts on the infield at BOB because they drag it with a plow. And: The only way Diamondbacks fans would get excited about the series is if Richard Petty was on their team.

(That last statement is absolutely false. We'd also get excited if Elvis was on our team.)

Still, try not to fret none. The fact is, we got some real fine broadcasters of our own. One goes by the name of Tom, though on account of we ain't too good at book learnin' in Arizona, he tends to spells it "Thom."

He gives the D-Backs their propers, however, which has a bunch of us headin' over to Wal-Mart to buy batteries for the transistor. We're watching the next ballgame on the radio.


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To: Warren
I think maybe congress passed a law making it mandatory the Yanks win the world series again this year.

You're sounding kinda "Sore Loserman", there.

21 posted on 11/01/2001 1:06:00 PM PST by bubbafree
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To: RooRoobird14
I hate to tell you , but the fix is in...The Yankees will win because of the WTC...It wouldn't be PC if they didn't...Sir Percy Hot Spurs...
22 posted on 11/01/2001 1:06:31 PM PST by Sir Percy Hot Spurs
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To: dittomom
I had many years to enjoy Schilling here in Philly. here's no doubt in my mind that he's the toughest competitor in baseball - tougher than Roger Clemens. He's a good man, and it was sad to see his gem end that way. It'll be interesting to see whether he can get himself up once again for a potential Game 7. Three times in one series is extremely grueling.
23 posted on 11/01/2001 1:08:18 PM PST by NittanyLion
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To: bubbafree
quit yer belly aching. How'd you like to be a Mariner fan.
24 posted on 11/01/2001 1:08:48 PM PST by Seattle-ite Nottagay
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To: bubbafree
No, I'm upset about the game. Last night was like a bullet through the heart (We're down but not out, make no mistake!!).

But it does get old listening to East coast media Clymer types spending 90% of their time slobbering over the Yankees.

25 posted on 11/01/2001 1:09:13 PM PST by RooRoobird14
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To: RooRoobird14
I hear those Yankee fans do rude things like throw beer on the opposing team fans, call them names, curse them, etc. (and that's when they're being nice--LOLOLOLOL!)

LOLOL, RooRoo! I was the COOK, so they HAD to be nice to me! Hahahahaha!

26 posted on 11/01/2001 1:09:44 PM PST by Irma
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To: Malcolm
Anybody but the Yankees; they've already won it a million times. Let someone else win it for once.....

Agreed! Plus I think it would do my husband a lot of good if he were forced to be a little more humble. LOL!

27 posted on 11/01/2001 1:11:26 PM PST by Irma
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To: RooRoobird14
One of the top games I've ever watched. Brenly taking out Schilling, then leaving Kim in after he had clearly lost it, rank up there with the great Series brainlocks. Kim left it all in the 8th inning, blowing out his strength when he struck out the side. Real rookie mistake. Look on his face after each of the home runs was priceless.

This Montini feller, he get out much? Doesn't sound like it. Want to eat some crow with that whine?

28 posted on 11/01/2001 1:11:27 PM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
It kills me to say this as a Red Sox fan but, GO YANKEES!

Puhleese, true Red Sox fans NEVER root for the yankees...go D-BACKS!!!

29 posted on 11/01/2001 1:12:09 PM PST by JPJones
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To: dittomom
interseting that he takes out a starter out (after 88 pitches) that is USED to throwing 100+ pictches a game, and leaves in his closer (usually throws 1 inning) to throw 62 pitches ?

If I have a chance to go up 3-1 in the Series, Schilling pitches til his arm falls off....oh well.....the yanks can't beat johnson, so it looks like a 7 game series.
30 posted on 11/01/2001 1:13:17 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: 1stMarylandRegiment
I'm a Cards fan too and a huge fan of Joe and his dad. This article is a bunch of hogwash. Plain and simple.
31 posted on 11/01/2001 1:14:11 PM PST by oldvike
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To: RooRoobird14
I hear those Yankee fans do rude things like throw beer on the opposing team fans, call them names, curse them, etc. (and that's when they're being nice--LOLOLOLOL!)

That's Mets fans you're thinking of. Yankee fans aren't --as a rule-- too rude to fans of opposing teams. I've been at Yankee home games against the hated Red Sox, and seen Red Sox fans treated decently.

On the other hand, I once knew a guy who rooted for Boston at a Rangers game in Madison Square Garden, and barely left with his life.

32 posted on 11/01/2001 1:16:12 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian
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To: stylin19a
Did Kim throw 62 pitches in 3 innings???????? Unbelievable!!

(I went to bed after the 9th inning ended......with a hot water bottle, a heating pad and painkillers......) LOL

33 posted on 11/01/2001 1:17:21 PM PST by RooRoobird14
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To: RooRoobird14
But it does get old listening to East coast media Clymer types spending 90% of their time slobbering over the Yankees

I agree. They showed Spencer's homer from every possible angle, over and over. But the Yanks are baseball history (won 1/3 of every WS ever played) and are in one of the few OLD ballparks left.

Your idea is a good one...turn down the TV audio and turn on the radio.

34 posted on 11/01/2001 1:18:41 PM PST by bubbafree
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To: RooRoobird14
Don't follow baseball, don't care who wins, but that's a gosh-derned tootin' funny article! Gawwwwwwwwww-leeeee!
35 posted on 11/01/2001 1:18:48 PM PST by geaux
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
There's no way you are a true Red Sox fan. I know two guys from Boston and one from Manchester. They would rather vote Democrat than route for the Yankees.
36 posted on 11/01/2001 1:19:34 PM PST by Bigoleelephant
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To: Pharmboy
As a Metropolitan fan and wannabe crack-committee member, I agree wholeheartedly with the left-wing clymer author. The whole tone of the broadcast has been pro Yankee/NY (which is somewhat understandable due to 9/11) and the reverential treatment of the Yankees is patronizing. The only players that matter on the D'backs are Johnson & Schilling.

The Series is tied, and it's been great to watch. The Yankees have been winning with late-inning dramatics, and the D'backs have been awful in the field in Yankee Stadium.

I think tonite's game is critical; if the D'backs can pull this one out, I don't think that the Yanks can win two in a row against J & S in AZ.

If the Yankees win tonite, they still have to beat J or S in AZ.

The Yankees not splitting the first two games will be their undoing this time, IMO.



But then again, I thought the Mets were going to win in 5 last year, so what the hell do I know...

Go Schundler!
37 posted on 11/01/2001 1:19:45 PM PST by motzman
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To: Sir Percy Hot Spurs
the fix is in...The Yankees will win because of the WTC

You get this threads TIN FOIL SOMBRERO!

Absolutely one of the most moronic things I've heard.

38 posted on 11/01/2001 1:21:54 PM PST by bubbafree
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To: Senator Pardek
The frustration mounts. I love it.

Well I used to be a Yankee fan. Then one day..........

;^)

39 posted on 11/01/2001 1:24:26 PM PST by Irma
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To: Bigoleelephant
They would rather vote Democrat than route for the Yankees.

Boston, eh? Kennedystan!

40 posted on 11/01/2001 1:24:32 PM PST by bubbafree
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