To Fox: Horrible Coverage Ruins Broadcast for Fan
By JoeDavis
I received this e-mail from a fan who watched today's game. He wishes to remain anonymous.
"This comment is directed to baseball announcer Joe Buck:
After years of enduring your pro-Yankee sentiment and trying to ignore it, I can no longer sit silently after your ridiculous commentary during today's Yankee-Red Sox broadcast. Your vision and opinion regarding the fight at Fenway was incredibly one-sided and irresponsible.
It was one-sided because you once again took the side of the Yankees and said Varitek had to be ejected. You never said A-Rod "had" to be ejected, even though he started the incident. He should have gone to first base and shut up. Instead, he shouted F*** you, F*** you to Arroyo. With Varitek trying to block his path to the mound, A-Rod then said, "Come on." What was Varitek supposed to do, back off? You never mentioned the obscenities uttered by A-Rod and they were clear to any lip reader watching your broadcast. You then were irresponsible to your audience and the youth of America by glorifying A-Rod's behavior and saying this would cast him in a better light with his teammates, etc. for fighting. What a crock of you-know-what. If that had been Nomar Garciaparra doing that you would have said he should have been suspended for the rest of the season. (By the way, we all know how great Derek Jeter is. Why don't you become his agent?)
But it was a Yankee, so it was OK for him to start a fight and cuss and now he should have a monument in Yankee Stadium because he is "good looking" and still fights. Fans are sick and tired of players charging the mound. And we are sick and tired of hearing your pro-Yankee comments that are aimed at getting New York in the World Series and helping your stupid ratings. McCarver is just as bad.
You also completely missed coach Lynn Jones, just back from a major eye injury, pulling David Ortiz off Sturtz and risking further injury to himself. For once, take off your Yankee colored sunglasses and call it like it is. Whatever happened to objectivity?"
