Wisconsin sports fans hate Joe Buck ... even the baseball version

Scott Venci
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Fox Sports commentator Joe Buck has  been a lightning rod for criticism in the modern era of televised sports.

Whether it’s football or baseball, doesn’t matter.

Everyone hates Joe Buck.

For years, Green Bay Packers fans have endured the famed play-by-play announcer’s seemingly biased musings.

Milwaukee Brewers fans have been able to avoid him. Until now.

With the team in the National League Championship Series, Wisconsin sports fans are being force fed another helping of Buck.

But at least with social media, everyone can share each other’s pain this week.

“My disdain for Joe Buck is in full force,” a user named Crystal Hayes wrote on Twitter. “One out and mute.”

A three-hour game could be played out in the time it would take to read the pages and pages of anti-Buck comments on Twitter, Facebook or even Instagram.

None of this is news to Buck, of course.

"It's kind of the world I live in," Buck said on a podcast before the Chicago Cubs played the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series. "Baseball fans, in particular, are used to hearing their hometown guys and the team announcers go all summer, and then we show up. The deck is kind of stacked against you. I have to play it down the middle."

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Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture at Syracuse University, said during a 2017 Green Bay Press-Gazette interview that fans may pay closer attention to the announcer when their team is doing poorly.

"If they are doing their job, they are for the most part trying to be basically, usually objective," he said. "Which means half of what they say is going to be objected to by the supporters of either team."

Brewers fans (and Packers ones) still think Buck is biased against them. They won’t be convinced otherwise.

“Buck doesn’t just hate the Packers,” Mel Hansen wrote on Twitter. “He hates the Brewers, too.”

If that wasn’t clear enough, “#mute” was added for emphasis.

Twitter account Mattysclerosis wasn’t one to mince words, either: “#JoeBuck is the worst.”

Some Brewers fans were more colorful when describing their hatred, using f-words and s-words that have nothing to do with flyouts or strikeouts.

Was Josh Hader overused in Game 1? Did that lead to a loss in Game 2? Is pulling Wade Miley early going to work if a series goes the distance?

Buck had many questions for fans to consider. They had just one: Why is Joe Buck still talking?

“Man, there’s not a human being alive that doesn’t wish Bob Uecker was calling this game,” wrote Ryan Onstott.

It’s clear on Brewers Twitter that Buck hates the Brewers. There is no disputing he wants them to lose.

Well, unless you’re a Dodgers fan.

“#JoeBuck: Everything about the Brewers is great,” Andre from Los Angeles wrote. “And nothing but criticism for all things Dodgers.”