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I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.
Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.
I love sharing my experience with others, especially students who are eager to learn the business.
I've heard, 'You're not your father.' Well, you're right. I'm not. We've had two different careers.
You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.
One of my best friends is Paul Rudd, and he's been in just about every one of Judd Apatow's movies.
There are a lot of people across the country, for as silly as this sounds, who obsess about hair loss.
My dad did call a lot of football, and in my opinion, he was the best football announcer on radio ever.
If I had a walk-up song in 2019, it would be 'Baby Shark.' It's haunting. It's mesmerizing. It's catchy.
You always want to do games for fans that seem to really care. That is the Boston fan. They're passionate.
I always try to shine the spotlight on what's happening on the field and not what's coming out of my mouth.
If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.
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.
Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.
If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It's the first thing I look at.
I'd be willing to do anything once. I did live bass fishing on TV. I've done horse jumping... so clearly I'm not very picky.
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.
Pat Summerall personified less is more. His play-by-play was so bare bones but so great because he had a great, deep-toned voice.
I was broadcasting Cardinal baseball in the major leagues at the age of 21, and that only happened because my last name was Buck.
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.
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.
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.
I learned as my dad's kid that unless you physically can't get there, unless you physically can't do it, you need to show up for work.
When I'm doing TV, it's more of a choreographed dance, in a way. So I've got to follow the pictures, or the pictures have to follow me.
We do scales, vocal exercises every day. I run the voice up and down, get as high as I can and as low as I can. I work on breathing, too.
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.
We live in a world where a lot of people are dissatisfied and can't wait, in 140 characters or less, to tell you how dissatisfied they are.
I have more fun now doing a game on a Saturday or Sunday than I've ever had. I love the fact that every year, it's gotten more and more fun.
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.
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.
If you're going to scream and yell and pull a groin when calling a catch, you have to really make sure what you're seeing is actually what's happening.
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.
I've met Jon Glaser who has a show on Adult Swim call Delocated and he's the main writer we hired for the show. That's really my brand of humor, I would say.
The best lesson I learned from my dad, Jack, is that nobody is tuning in to a game to hear you broadcast. They want to watch the game, so don't get in the way.
I'm lucky that I was born to these parents. I'm lucky that my dad wanted to be around me, that he took me to all these National League cities by the time I was 12.
I never thought I would get remarried, I love golf too much. I wanted the freedom to play whenever I'm not broadcasting. Then I met a woman I couldn't live without.
Jeter was no choir boy, Jeter has lived a life. But it's always stayed separate from what happened when he showed up at Yankee Stadium. And that's really to his credit.
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.
You'd be a masochist or a lunatic to be addicted to getting live hair follicles ripped out of the back of your head and surgically implanted into the front of your head.
You can make an editorial comment about the play while it's going on. You don't have to be bogged down by the details because the camera is showing the groundball to short.
You can let the size of the crowd, when you do Super Bowl, overwhelm you if you want, and that opening on camera is one of the most intense, awkward feelings you can ever have.
No matter how it started, I grew up with a great American love story. Two parents who didn't fight, enjoyed having parties and being together, and it was a great way to grow up.
I watched how happy broadcasting made him. And if you're close with your parent and you see they're happy doing something, it's only natural you want to follow in their footsteps.
I was not broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals baseball because I was accomplished. I was broadcasting baseball at 21 years old because I was Jack Buck's son. I had a billion advantages.
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.
If Jim Nantz is tweeting at me, 'Go back to baseball, you suck at golf,' then I've got problems. If it's somebody else who's just a voice out there, well, that just comes with the job.
I don't know that I've ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That's just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town.
I'm probably always guilty for rooting for a long series. Not either side - I don't really care who wins the game, but it makes for more compelling TV the more games you go deeper into a series.
When you've done it long enough - I've done something like 21 World Series - just about every fan base has turned off the TV when their team lost and I was screaming and yelling for the other side.
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.