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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: RooRoobird14
Everyone knows about Fox's Right Coast bias! DU told me so!
61 posted on 11/01/2001 2:53:40 PM PST by Timesink
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To: L.N. Smithee
I still remember that day in 1995 when they announced they were changing the name of the stick. Sad day. Fortunately, most announcers still call it candlestick instead of its new moniker, commercialstick park.
62 posted on 11/01/2001 3:09:41 PM PST by GoreIsLove
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
It kills me to say this as a Red Sox fan but, GO YANKEES!

It should.

63 posted on 11/01/2001 3:30:21 PM PST by rightofrush
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To: RooRoobird14
hello, i keep my tv muted because i think those two hate the yankees..........really i can't take them at all. mute the tv its much better and realxing........... good luck diamondback fan............ yankees 2001 world champions..........:]
64 posted on 11/01/2001 3:51:14 PM PST by angcat
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To: RooRoobird14
You don't have to be a Snakes fan to find Joe Buck's and Tim McCarver's announcing awful. We hear McCarver on regular-season Yankees broadcasts, and he's just as condescending and stupid. The worst thing about him is how he makes all these great pronouncements of what Torre should do, and when Torre proves him wrong, he never acknowledges it. Case in point -- Timmy was whining in the 9th inning that after Paul O'Neill got his hit, Torre should put in a pinch runner. No need for a pinch runner when Tino hit a home run, was there? Then McCarver whined about how the Yankees didn't have much of a bullpen for extra innings after Mariano. Well, they only needed Mariano for one inning last night, since Jeter went yard.
65 posted on 11/01/2001 4:04:18 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Sir Percy Hot Spurs
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...

And how do you explain the Yankees winning FOUR out of the previous FIVE World Series -- was the fix in there too? And why didn't the other teams throw their September games against the Mets, so that they could win, too?

66 posted on 11/01/2001 4:10:58 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: KellyAdmirer
You mean this look on Kim's face?


67 posted on 11/01/2001 4:12:16 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Irma
P.S. Posting those pics I admit was dirty, but we underdogs have to fight dirty sometimes to win. LOL!

Yes, but I believe the Geneva conference did limit how dirty you can fight! This is clearly a violation! LOL..

68 posted on 11/01/2001 4:14:00 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: motzman
One more thing about this columnist saying there was a pro-Yankee bias by FOX: if that were the case, then why didn't we get to see Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, and Yogi Berra before the game (I think they threw out the first pitch, but FOX didn't show it).
69 posted on 11/01/2001 4:14:59 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Mike Fieschko
I think it was Shaunessey in today's Globe who wrote that " 'Kim' is Korean for 'Schiraldi'."

Pokey78 on this board said that "Kim" was Korean for "Mark Wohlers"!

70 posted on 11/01/2001 4:18:33 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: RooRoobird14
I am a Met fan and although I am still in my heart rooting for the Diamondbacks I would like to see the Yankees win. We need our spirits lifted in NY after all the heart ache. I don't know if people around the country realize that here in the surrounding area of NYC we have to open our papers every day for the last 7 weeks and read about our friends and neighbors who have perished. It is quite depressing.
71 posted on 11/01/2001 4:23:20 PM PST by Sparky760
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To: RooRoobird14
Okay...do the math.

We are currently in a War in the Middle East trying to pound the Hell out of terrorists who blew up the World Trade Center in New York City.

We have a World series that involves one team from the desert and the other from New York City.

Uhhh...hello.

:o)

72 posted on 11/01/2001 4:23:49 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: Mike Fieschko
Three times was a little extreme.
73 posted on 11/01/2001 4:34:36 PM PST by winodog
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To: rightofrush
it does. it does. it does. I hang my head in shame.
74 posted on 11/01/2001 8:23:05 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Say 10 Hail Marys and 10 Pater Nostras and go in peace.
75 posted on 11/01/2001 9:17:53 PM PST by rightofrush
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To: rightofrush
it burns . . .
76 posted on 11/01/2001 10:02:32 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: RooRoobird14
Na, Na, Na YANKEES rule.

You people sound like a bunch of 3 year olds !

The D Backs got their aSs's kicked three in a row!

Go buy some cheeze because you need it with your whine and crackers!

77 posted on 11/01/2001 10:18:44 PM PST by america-rules
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To: winodog
What has Curt said about it?

Privately, I can only imagine what Schilling has said. You pitch a guy on three days' rest, he pitches better than anyone could hope, and you lift him after 88 pitches? The only move I've seen that's worse was putting Kim back in last night after he threw 62 pitches in Game 4.

78 posted on 11/02/2001 3:48:47 AM PST by NittanyLion
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To: motzman
The Yankees not splitting the first two games will be their undoing this time, IMO

Yep--and they didn't split because that wuss Clements won't pitch in an NL park. How do they not start their best pitcher in game one? Or even game two? All their excuses are pure BS ("he's hurt...he's not been that sharp lately")...I'm sure Schilling would've buzzed one by his head just for Mikey's sake. I hope he pitches on Sunday against RJ if they get to seven.

79 posted on 11/02/2001 9:07:24 AM PST by Pharmboy
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To: Pharmboy
I seriously doubt that the Yankees will beat Johnson or Schilling in AZ. I also doubt that Bremly will take J or S out unless they're getting roughed up.

This has been a great WS, primarily because these teams have never faced each other before.

The Yankees have been awfully lucky at Yankee Stadium...reality will hit Saturday night (I hope)
80 posted on 11/02/2001 9:17:15 AM PST by motzman
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