National Sports Journalism Center

"If Facebook, blogs and other inventions of the Internet age had existed in the 1950s, would someone have created an IHateVinScully.com Web site to grouse about his bias as a Dodgers announcer during the Yankees-Brooklyn World Series that he called? Or how about a site called ShutUpMelAllen.com to gripe about his supposed pinstriped preference when he was calling some of that same series?" Richard Sandomir thinks it’s possible. Very possible. He also writes that, "Fox’s Joe Buck and Tim McCarver are in their 12th World Series together — time enough to become Exhibits A and B in the culture of complaint, postseason edition. No announcer goes unscathed, not with myriad outlets existing to help fans vent their belief in the biases and mistakes of those who call the games. One can only imagine how Howard Cosell would react to being an object of derision by Tweeters." || Phil Mushnick of the New York Post writes that Buck and McCarver aren’t playing favorites in the 2009 World Series. Here.