I Can Finally Put Into Words Why I Hate Fox!

http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2010-articles/december/eric-shanks-is-an-idiotits-called-a-focus-group.html

Somebody else has put into words the way I feel about Fox, and I'm not going to take credit for the thought, either.

In case you haven't heard (and you very well may not have), Fox has decided to put in music during random parts of their NFL games at the direction of Fox Sports' new president, Eric Shanks, the guy behind the glowing puck in their hockey coverage. Worse yet, Shanks has proclaimed that the music will be used during the Super Bowl -- when hundreds of millions of people around the world will be watching.

Am I looking forward to Super Bowl? Hell no. You know why? Because Fox is covering it. It's going to suck no matter what teams play, because we'll have to listen to Joe Buck and random dramatic music that will probably be played during the most tense moments of the game, ruining the moment.

A commenter in the post I linked above basically gave the reasons I've been trying to explain why I don't like Fox Sports right now (I don't hate Fox the network or News Corp. It has nothing to do with that. I just don't like Fox Sports.)

Yes, Fox used to be cool. They were the pioneers of the scoring bug and the electronic first down line. But now they are just living on their past innovations and now just being arrogant and proposing outlandish ideas to try and enhance the sports on TV experience, which, for now, high definition does it enough.

I don't watch NASCAR, hell I don't even watch that much baseball, but I'm sure they suck because Fox is failing. Joe Buck simply cannot do play-by-play whether its baseball or football. Yes, he's boring, but actually that does not bother me. Pat Summerall (before he went senile) was dry and boring too, but he's one of the best announcers ever. Buck just doesn't have the "feel" for the game that so many announcers have. In football, he almost never bothers to announce yardage or who made the tackle. And Buck has said that he does not like doing baseball play-by-play, so why should he be kept? But if Buck likes football play-by-play then he should continue to do that, but do the obscure games like he used to (fourth in the batting order from 1994-98. Usually working with Tim Green).