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"facebook dialogPinterestJoe_buck\n\n Photograph courtesy of Fox Sports\n\nGot a minute? Major League Baseball sportscaster Joe Buck talks about the upcoming season, working alongside his legendary father Jack, and why no one really cares what he has to say.\n\nQ: What do you think this season has in store?\n\nA: This will finally be the year of the Cubs. They've gone their full century\u2014they haven't won since 1908\u2014and are working on their second. They've got good pitching, a good lineup. If they can get over the curse, then I think they will finally win it.\n\nQ: What was it like to call for the Cardinals with your dad?\n\nA: It was a little awkward at first, because I didn't know what to call him on the air. Should I call him Dad or Jack? I just avoided the topic altogether. I look back on those seasons as the most fun in my career.\n\nQ: Why is everyone so hard on Bud Selig?\n\nA: I certainly don't fault Selig. He is running a multi-billion-dollar corporation and, for the most part, has been successful\u2014revenues are up, and attendance is up. It's gonna be an interesting year, here in '09, to see the attendance figures as the economy hits professional sports.\n\nQ: But what about the steroids?\n\nA: It is na\u00EFve at best to pin that on Bud Selig. That's something that has been evolving over the years. And the players have more blame in that than the commissioner, for sure. This is more than a baseball issue. Baseball is always the sport that takes the fall for this, because people hold it to a higher standard. That's a compliment to baseball, but\u2014if there is no testing\u2014who knows the depth of this problem across sports?\n\nQ: Did it blow your mind to become a part of the Clinton impeachment proceedings when your broadcast was picked up on the Linda Tripp\u2013Monica Lewinsky tapes?\n\nA: It blew my mind that Linda Tripp was watching an MLB play-off game. It's also a lesson, I think, that all of us announcers should realize\u2014that nobody's really listening or cares what we say. That was background, basically elevator music to her. Vanessa Rothschild\n\n READ MORE 60 SECONDS INTERVIEWS &amp;gt;&amp;gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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