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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.

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Joe Buck
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: April 25
Sports Commentator
Sportscaster
St. Petersburg
Florida
Joseph Francis Buck
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You have to trust yourself.
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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.
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Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.
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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.
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Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.
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Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.
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I think I enjoy my job more now than I did when I started. When I started in 1996 on a national level, I was 27 and part of me was scared to death.
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But I tell people all the time that if you can do the job, then there's a spot for you. I refuse to believe that there isn't any room in this business. People leave jobs and jobs open up every year. If you can do the job, you'll find your way into the broadcast booth.
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It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching.
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No fat batboy is invisible.
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I think sometimes, you have to pick your spots about when a game gets intense or when the game's outcome is pivoting in that moment.
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You know what you gotta do cowboy?
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I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.
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I think Jeff [Van Gundy] is really, really good and fun to listen to. And I would be disappointed if - I know he offered to not be a part of the broadcast - he wasn't on the air. We'd all miss something. I think the [brother situation] adds the human element.
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I think he [Tony LaRussa] legitimately believes what he says. I don't agree with him. But I think he's being as honest as he can be.
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One of my best friends is Paul Rudd, and he's been in just about every one of Judd Apatow's movies.
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I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.
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I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.
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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.
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There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.
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