Why is joe buck hates

In a sports world where fans can rarely agree on anything, hatred of Buck seems to be a connecting thread for many of the fans who watch.

He may not be a perfect broadcaster, but the treatment he gets may have gone a little bit too far. He got his start calling St. Louis Cardinals games at only 22 years old and was calling football games at the age of Now 50 years old, he has been calling games for as long as many sports fans have been alive. Despite the hatred Joe receives, he clearly has people who like what he does. Burns said Wednesday that he hasn't received an apology from Jones after the Patriots quarterback's controversial play in Sunday's game.

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Home Extra Mustard. At least this Twitter user knew something was off. SI Recommends. By Michael Shapiro. By Nick Selbe. College Basketball. By Jacob Kornhauser, KornSports. Joe Buck is one of the greatest play-by-play voices of his generation, but until recently hasn't really gotten the respect he deserves.

For the last 20 years, he has called some of the biggest sporting events in the country. When it comes to baseball, a strange phenomenon follows Buck around everywhere he goes: every fan base thinks he hates their team.

Well, of course, it's not possible for him to hate every team in the league. So, why does everyone seem convinced he hates their team? It all comes down to the regional nature of baseball.

Over the course of its history, baseball has remained a regional game. It's a blessing and a curse as it keeps them from catching back up with football, but also helps them maintain popularity in geographical pockets throughout the country. But with so many games in baseball, each team needs their own TV crew. In football, that isn't the case. Teams are lucky to get more than a handful of nationally-televised games a year in baseball. What does this do to fans? It gives them homer announcer crews.

These crews fall on different parts of the spectrum in their "homerness", but they all are essentially part of a public-relations arm of the club they cover.