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Joe Buck Biography

Joseph Francis Buck (born April 25, 1969) is an American sportscaster and the son of sportscaster Jack Buck. He has won numerous Sports Emmy Awards for his work with Fox Sports, including his roles as lead play-by-play announcer for the network's National Football League and Major League Baseball coverage, and is a three-time recipient of the National Sportscaster of the Year award. Since 1996, he has served as the play-by-play announcer for the World Series, each year, with the exceptions of 1997 and 1999.

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You have to be true to the game you're covering, whether its being lite at times - I certainly try to be that way - but it is limiting because you're fitting it in around what's going on in the game.

Covering, Game, Games, Lite, Times, Trying

And Johnny Manziel is only in a snickers commercial.

Commercial, Johnny, Manziel, Snickers

Whether it's a steroid conversation, or a player who gets into trouble, whatever it may be. Because of that, it makes you wonder what you can do if you had a little more space. That's the fun of the show for me - I have an hour worth of space.

Fun, Gets, Player, Space, Trouble

I get questions from Richard Sandomir at the New York Times or Michael Hiestand at USA Today about issues. . , 'well, there's a blog site that says you root too hard for the Red Sox. Or people don't like you because you're rooting against their team. . . 'I don't want to say it's bad. There are certainly things you learn from the internet. You certainly learn from people's opinions. I think you're going to get some of the negative a lot more than the positive, but I think you can learn from it.

New York, Richard, Team, Thinking, Usa

It's a different world for those of us who are doing this for a living. Certainly a lot different than my dad had to deal with when he was calling games on a national level for CBS. It's just a different world. I'm not saying it's better or worse, there's just a lot more access.

Dad, Different, Games, National, Saying, Worse

You have to trust yourself.

Trust, Trust Yourself

Anytime you go digging around on the internet and into your world, maybe you don't want to find out where your name pops up.

Anytime, Digging, Maybe, Name, Names, World

Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.

Hear, Kid, Kids, Men, Think, Thinking

Part of me was always trying to prove that I belonged and prove that I deserved the job and prove that I could handle it. And that takes the fun out of it.

Always Trying, Belonged, Fun, Jobs, Takes

The worst thing in the world is to feel like people turn on the TV and say, oh god, it's that guy again. I'm trying to avoid that.

Avoid, Guy, People, Say, Trying

You have to make that stand out from the rest of the three hours. There are times when I'm having fun and being loose, and there are times when I'm ultra serious - calling the Giants
Patriots in the Super Bowl is a lot different than calling the Giants
Cubs game last Saturday. There are different levels of intensity, and I try to respect that when I'm doing it.

Fun, Game, Games, Hours, Serious, Trying

[If you could have 10 minutes in a room with Barry Bonds]. . . I'd ask him for another half hour. And then I'd probably start with the obvious and see how honest he would get. I just think those guys are so protected, that you're not going to get much out of them.

Barry, Guy, Half, Obvious, See, Thinking

I started in radio. I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is.

Accent, Gymnastics, Picture, Play, Voice

You have to do well on third downs.

Downs, Thirds, Wells

Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.

Day, Modern, Modern Day, Robert, Zoolander

The camera is really the play-by-play person.

Camera, Cameras, Person, Persons, Play

Judd Apatow, Conan O'Brien. . . taking what you think is funny, and then adding another layer to it. That's kind of my sensibility. Those are the guys that make me laugh.

Conan, Guy, Kind, Laughing, Sensibility, Thinking

If you're the play-by-play announcer, I think it's your job to be better than just saying what's on people's TV screen.

Job, Jobs, Play, Saying, Think, Thinking

I got hired by the Cards when I was 21, and I could handle the job, but for the most part, I got hired because I was somebody's kid. When you start that way, you have a lot to prove.

Cards, Jobs, Kid, Kids, Start

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

Guy, Luckiest, Parent, Son, World

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