Artie Lange destroys Joe Buck

"Lucky Pierre" would make a great sock puppet name.

 

god bless Uncle Floyd.

 

Most of the show was ruined by a hookers contest but the rest was just fantastic? How much time was wasted with that? This is why I gave up on Stern umpteen years ago. I have to fuck with 10 minutes of Quivers, 10 minutes of Stern talking about how small his dick is, 10 more minutes of Baba Booey, 30 minutes with a guy who's challenged to eat Howard's boogers (with a Coke chaser) for money, and an hour with a stripper taking an IQ test. Nobody needs to go through that to get a few funnies.

 

Just watched the off-TV part. Much better than what actually aired on TV.

Buck even had a couple decent zingers back at Lange. But good Lord, that segment would have sucked big-time without Lange.

 

Not to mention Joe Franklin almost EVERY day. I swear, that man had the most obscure guests in the history of talk shows.

And I, too, was one of the lucky ones to have grown up with a cable system that carried TBS, WGN and WWOR (back then, just WOR). In addition to tons of baseball, having WOR was one of the few places I could find a hockey game on when the NHL went to that ill-fated SportsChannel America (which virtually NO cable system carried) contract.

 

alas, there's no way we'll ever know. effin' lange hijacked it pretty much from jump street.

 

There are a few spots, especially in the after-show, when Lange sat back quietly. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking about the "We went to the same high school and are Royals and Chiefs fans" part between the other two guests.

Booooooooring.

 

Yep, here you go: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5309607/13998776

 

Heckling/tossing one liners at a comic is like resisting arrest: it may seem fun and righteous at the time, but you will be worse for the wear because the other guy always wins. Under no circumstances was Joe going to win that battle with Artie simply because Artie would cross any line to win.

Joe Buck wants to be a cross between Johnny Carson, Ryan Secrest and Mike Lupica doing a parting shot on Sports Reporters. A successful talk show host needs to be able to laugh at him/herself and go into every interview intending to make the guest funny, witty, interesting. Buck definitely fails at the former and doesn't seem that good at the latter. You're friends with Paul Rudd and you can't make him interesting?

 

This is four too many pages on Joe Buck's show or Artie Lange.

 

Buck, I did not even add all the West Virginia basketball, Pitt basketball and Ohio State basketball games. I basically had them on a season pass as well. Shit, I even think Raycom was on there as well because I remember watching a shitload of Maryland games.

I am also not mentioning college and NBA games on ESPN.

I did not need a ticket, a season pass or anything else that cost $150. All I needed was basic cable.

The biggest difference was my ability to follow almost every team in the National League. Let's say I really liked the Dodgers. I was able to see them, what 12 times against the Braves, six times against the Pirates, Mets and Cubs, so that is about 30 games, for free, I would see the Dodgers play? And if it was a shitty team like the Giants for example, I was still guaranteed 30 televised games.

You know how many chances I get to see the Pirates out of market without paying extra now?

Granted, college football is better now, but MLB, NBA and NHL were so much better back then.

 

So, basically, what you're against is expansion. Because that's the reason you don't see the Braves play the Dodgers on TBS 12 times a year. That, and the fact that cable superstations don't exist anymore, other than WGN.

I can pay $89/year and see 162 Braves games now on MLB.tv. Yeah, you might be able to see 30 Pirates games out of market "for free" (actually, not free; plenty of people didn't have cable) on the superstations in the 1980s -- but you'd also miss 130, and have little recourse to see them otherwise. Now, you can see every game you want, listen to any broadcast you want, catch highlights any time you want and read game stories from anywhere you want.

How in the world is this not better?

The NHL was better back then? Maybe for you. I grew up in Atlanta. I didn't even have a chance to see an NHL game in person for the first 17 years of my life. Nothing in the regular season was televised for us until 1993, when ESPN got the contract and started showing games every week. Hell, NBC and CBS carried only selected games in the Stanley Cup Final during some of the years before that.