Fire Joe Buck

Buck is bad, Emmy Award or no.

It's pretty well documented that Tim McCarver is a terrible broadcaster (Family Guy even mocked him), but McCarver's special brand of awfullness sometimes overshadows just how bad his boothmate, Joe Buck, can be.

During FOX's June 18 broadcast of the Yankees/Cubs game at Wrigley, Yankee closer extraordinaire Mariano Rivera gave up a solo home run in the bottom of the 9th to Chicago's anonymous OF Reed Johnson, putting the Cubs within one run. Buck apparently didn't know the score, and when Johnson's shot landed in the stands Buck excitedly said that the game was tied. After a few moments he issued a correction that the score was, in fact, 4-3 Yankees. Maybe Buck stopped paying attention because, as he said in 2008, he doesn't like watching baseball.  

Fortunately the Internet has come to the rescue, as usual. There is a petition (started by the Mets blog, The Daily Stache) requesting that immortal Dodgers announcer Vin Scully (literally immortal - he called his first MLB game in 1950) call the 2011 World Series. Join the HR Department (proud petition signer number 3,698!) and help get Scully into the booth for at least a portion of the World Series because nobody out there is looking forward to up to 28 hours listening to Joe and Tim.