The Notes On Buck/Fox vs TBS

This is for fun and you may prefer harsh opinions to these esoteric facts, but here goes. Alas I once loved baseball so much and the World Series played in the glorious daylight complete with radios, earplugs and variables concerning after public school, Hebrew school were a big part of it. Now I must draw on those memories to continue to weave the baseball fabric, embodied by World Series events and memories.

Buck and Fox did the ALCS in the 5 odd years of the ten since TBS gained LCS rights in 2007. Those series went 7, 6, 6, 6, and 6 games respectively. The winners were (you check the losing teams), the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox (2013 as a marker, more on “markers,” actually lack thereof, when I tell you about looking for a grave, in a recent sojourn to a cemetery) and Kansas City Royals. Only Texas failed to win the subsequent World Series broadcast by Fox with Buck as the lead announcer.

TBS bringing in the NLCS had series of 4 games, 5 games, 6 games, 6 games and 4 games. The Colorado Rockies (’07), Philadelphia Phillies (’09), St. Louis Cardinals (’13) and the New York Mets (’15) all lost the subsequent World Series. Only the 2011 Cardinals, in miraculous fashion and surely with Buck rooting for them, won it.

In a future, pre World Series post, a look at the 5 even years thus far.