This is completely different from the character he plays in the Holiday Inn ads:

Fictional Joe Buck: Sorry guys, I have to get going...

Real Joe Buck: Hey guys, I'll say wasabi for twenty bucks... No seriously guys, give me twenty bucks and I'll say wasabi. Oh, and I think Jonathan Papelbon's an erotic dancer, don't you?

"Well, I hope that show fails."

"It's on FOX. How can't it?"

So if you were an advertiser who in the past had paid tens of thousands of dollars to get Buck to mention your product on the air, wouldn't feel a little gypped if you found out he'd say random words for just $20?

Basically, Fox has billed Buck as a high-class escort who in fact is willing to give a happy-ending massage to any yahoo with an Andrew Jackson.

So if you were an advertiser who in the past had paid tens of thousands of dollars to get Buck to mention your product on the air, wouldn't feel a little gypped if you found out he'd say random words for just $20?

Maybe if friends he knows were paying him to plug products for only $20; but I think you're reaching here.

Also, "gypped"?

What a ####### fraud. Glad to see that he takes the games seriously.

What a ####### fraud. Glad to see that he takes the games seriously.

My thoughts exactly. What a joke.

I hate it when people like Joe Buck and Manny Ramirez and Albert Belle don't take baseball games seriously.

Maybe I don't take the hallowed pastime of talking on television about a game as seriously as you fellows, but my thoughts when I saw this interview were of Dan Quisenberry and the Royals radio guy having the contest where they'd have to work in irregular words into their postgame interview/radio show. I mean, Buck has a point - in a four and a half hour baseball broadcast, there will be some dead spots, so why not have a little fun?

And I really, REALLY hope he works "jub jub" into a World Series broadcast.

So if you were an advertiser who in the past had paid tens of thousands of dollars to get Buck to mention your product on the air, wouldn't feel a little gypped if you found out he'd say random words for just $20?

Maybe if I were working for Coke and one of the random words were "Pepsi". Otherwise, I would probably not give a ####.

Basically, Fox has billed Buck as a high-class escort who in fact is willing to give a happy-ending massage to any yahoo with an Andrew Jackson.

Yeah, that's not hyperbole.

Hell, my biggest problem with Buck is that he doesn't have enough fun on the air. His idea of fun must suck if you guys are ripping him for not being serious. Although I didn't WTFV.

I used to have the same kinds of bets with a friend of mine. We were both writing for newspapers. We'd pick a word, and whoever could get the word into his copy first won the bet. I only remember one word -- fulminate. I won on that one.

I also appreciated Conan saying he spent his whole time at "The Simpsons" trying to get the word jub-jub into the show. I spent seven years at the S.F. Examiner trying to get the word "suck" into a headline. Failed. Took care of it in my first week at Salon.

Also, when I was at the Examiner, if I was working the wire desk on a Friday night, there would be a story in the Saturday paper about Madagascar. It might be a one paragraph short, and I might have had to save it for a week, but it would always be in there.

Good times.

I spent seven years at the S.F. Examiner trying to get the word "suck" into a headline. Failed. Took care of it in my first week at Salon.

Too bad Tony Suck retired in '85...

Maybe I don't take the hallowed pastime of talking on television about a game as seriously as you fellows, but my thoughts when I saw this interview were of Dan Quisenberry and the Royals radio guy having the contest where they'd have to work in irregular words into their postgame interview/radio show.

I'm with you. A local KC station has a thing where they give money to charity every time they get their buddy Kevin Harlan to work in a word of their choice on that Sunday's NFL telecast. I think its hilarious.

Of all the things to complain about Joe Buck, I think this ranks pretty low on the list.

WTFV

I like that bunyon. When a did a bio of Jim Willoughby for SABR, I tried to fit in "next stop Willoughby" into it. It might've been in the original drafts, but it didn't make the final cut.

And "Jub-Jub" was an iguana, not a salamander. For shame Conan.