Isn't there a similar show on SoccerNet where there's two fans (one from each side, maybe?) calling a game? I've even watched that sometimes, and I hate soccer.

Jeanne Zelasko in the booth?????? I'm no fan of McCarver, but this has got to be the WORST idea in the history of baseball.

Jeanne Zelasko's hair will share the booth with noone.

give the job to a couple of well spoken bloggers who know the game

There's a ratings hit.

I have spent years trying to avoid Buck and McCarver. Admittedly, the time lag between the radio broadcast and the TV broadcast takes a little getting used to, but it's usually just a couple seconds, and well worth it.

There's a real easy solution, which would also save Fox money: broadcast the feed from the local station. Maybe the home team's broadcasters one inning, the visiting team's broadcasters the next. Then we'd have announcers who actually know the teams - and they wouldn't have time to become as tediously predictable as Buck and McCarver.

If a network cancels a pre-game show that no one cares about, does it make noise?

Clone Vin Scully

Maybe it's finally time to consider my idea of no announcers? I'd be happy just hearing the PA announcer and various stadium sounds. Much more happy, actually.

> Admittedly, the time lag between the radio broadcast
> and the TV broadcast takes a little getting used to,
> but it's usually just a couple seconds, and well worth
> it.

If the problem you have is that the TV is ahead of the radio (which is what happens to me trying to listen on satellite radio) and you have a DVR, try watching the game with a slight delay so that the two sync up. (I have to admit that I haven't tried this, but it sounds good...)

Cant they just find some youngish guys who don't think that "staying current" is telling a story about how they saw Lou Gherig do the Lindy Hop?