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Fox's McCarver, Buck, Aikman Got US Marshals Escort From Games
Baseball may be our national pastime -- and football our real national game -- but that doesn't mean taxpayers should be paying to make it easier for Fox Sports' announcer team to get away from the stadium more easily.
A new report by the Justice Department's inspector general finds that a lawyer for the U.S. Marshals Service arranged for the Marshals Service to provide a private escort for the limousines of Fox's star broadcasters, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, after two World Series games at Fenway Park in 2007.
The report also found that the lawyer, Joseph Band, had arranged for a US Marshals escort for Buck and colleague Troy Aikman, the former Cowboys star, after a January 2008 NFL playoff game in Tampa.
Band was working as a paid statistician for Fox Sports at the time.
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1) Go Sox!
2) Prosecute the malfeasers!
January 12, 2009 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I eagerly await John Boner and Mitch McConnell's fervent denunciation of this government waste that adds to the deficit...
January 12, 2009 1:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
for you attorneys,can the DOJ recoup this money from the so called stars or from Mr.Band ?
January 12, 2009 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Our tax dollars at work?
January 12, 2009 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Troy Aikman is a bargain at twice the price
Buck and McCarver should be sent to Gitmo
January 12, 2009 1:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hahaha... Good point; McCarver's been torturing us for years. ("Brandon" Arroyo would be happy to see him sent away...)
January 12, 2009 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
"We need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards." These alleged crimes occurred in the past. We want to have as wonderful a future as possible and investigating crimes from the past will obviously interfere with that goal.
January 12, 2009 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't understand what the problem is. Isn't sports part of the news department at FOX? They're part of the Executive Branch!!
January 12, 2009 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
You don't suppose that Buck and Aikman ARE the executive branch. They are the shadow government we've heard about for years.
January 12, 2009 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
YES! now if they can just extraordinarily render 'In Ma Opinion' McCarver and Jack Buck's annoying kid to Gitmo before they can terrorize next year's postseason, that will be some serious change to believe in.
January 12, 2009 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
This defies belief. I'm kinda surprised that McCarver would have agreed to such an idiotic notion. He strikes me as sharper than that. What an embarrassment for them both. Not to conservatives: STOP WATCHING 24! Hooded men are not about to leap out of black vans to drag you away to a torture cell simply because you can afford to waste your money on limousine travel.
God, so stupid.
January 12, 2009 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting that Milt Ahlerich, a former FBI Director, is currently Vice President of Security for the National Football League (NFL).
http://americanfraud.com/miltahlerich.aspx
January 12, 2009 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe Buck...ugh. His family vigorously supported the anti-gay marriage amendment in Missouri a few years back, spouting all that "sanctity of marriage" garbage...nevermind that Joe's mom (a big anti-gay marriage activist) married a divorced man (Jack Buck).
I keep waiting for "sanctity of marriage" folks to outlaw divorce. But sanctity apparently has its convenient limits!
January 12, 2009 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
When one considers that FOX is the fourth branch of the federal government when the President is Republican it all makes perfect sense.
They do work for the Administration, don't they?
January 12, 2009 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if one of those World Series games was the clinching one, when they let A-Rod and Scott Boras hijack the broadcast to announce that A-Rod was opting out of his contract. Frankly, everyone involved *needed* protection after that fiasco.
January 12, 2009 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe this was for job protection, so nobody could ever serve Joe Buck with a pink slip? What a horrible excuse for a sports announcer.
January 12, 2009 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought local police handled any problems with a local sports event. Could not MLB and the NFL and Fox all come up with enough money to arrange for expeditious private tranportation? I'd like to know whose idea it was to make such an arrangement. Fox is beyond hope, but I would expect better judgment and better behavior from McCarver and Buck.
January 12, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Buck and McCarver are h-a-t-e-d by Boston sports fans. Sure, it's wasteful and corrupt. But the Federal Marshalls were probably essential for their safety...
January 12, 2009 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've seen Buck and McCarver on the teevee. They're not THAT bad.
Fake moustaches, glasses and bad wigs would have done the trick.
January 13, 2009 5:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
When you get famous, you get to do stuff like this. Kind of like one of the perks of being sheriff is that you get to turn on the blue lights so you can get to your favorite bbq place a little quicker. Everyone chill out.
January 13, 2009 8:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sure, fratdog, it's all part of the world of wonder and adulation you jocksniffers live in.Joe Buck is President of the 'Joe Buck Society for the Promotion of Joe Buck.' Tim McCarver (ohhh, that strangulated high pitched voice) apparently is Head Cheer Leader. By Joe's own admission, his velvet voice, handsome looks, wavy hair, and knowledge matching God's are gifts that mortals have no business criticizing. With such going for him, why shouldn't the feds provide what little else he needs. Stay above the crowd, Joe! What worthless little twirps of nonsense those two are. Typical Fox. Shame Aikman had to get tied into it. He's a real football player.
January 13, 2009 8:38 AM | Reply | Permalink