The Nemesis
Semper Tyrannus
I don't get sick of the Raptors broadcasters. Nor do I with the Sharks. Yes it's half the # of games, but it doesn't take nearly that long for Buck and Pat to grate on my nerves
And it's not about what they talk about with gaps in the action. It's specifically the things that tend to get harped at on here, which led to the creation of the drinking game:
1) Their tendency to staunchly resist any kind of new advances or changes in how the game is played or analyzed (anti-stats (except the ones they like, such as wins) bias, dislike of shifts, constant complaints about pitch counts, smallball, etc) This is the biggest one and it's getting worse as time goes on.
2) the empty, mean-nothing bits of non-analysis (calling people "a baseball player", he's "a winner", and other baseless circular arguments that don't really say anything of value)
3) the fact that they often seem to be confused by, mistaken about, or oblivious to whatever's happening on the field far more often than they should (example, the other day someone (I think Biagini?) gave up a HR and Tabler was breaking it down. Over the multiple replays he kept going on and on about how it was a 4-seam fastball left up and talked about what the 4-seamer behaves like and how that contributed to the HR and so forth even though multiple replays showed clearly that it was a 2-seamer. Something that even this non-baseball-player who's sitting in a chair watching the game on TV picked up on and understood). This also extends to the fact that Buck has now been a play-by-play guy for however many years it's been and he still can't tell whether a ball is going to be a HR or a weak fly-out that dies 15 feet before the warning track.
4) The times they tend to repeat one another's points as if they aren't listening to each other or even actually having a conversation ("The last time X hit a home run was <date>", 30 seconds later from Tabler: "You know it's been since <date> that X has gone without a home run."
Buck was good as a color guy in his TSN days, but he's not meant for play-by-play. I would kill for Dan & Siddall to partner for an entire season. I loved or liked most of the earlier color guys they've had at various points in the intervening years between Dan & Buck on TSN and now (even Darren Fletcher. who, in spite of my earlier invocation of his name in terms of broadcasting nadir, was actually entertaining). The problem we have right now is that we have a color guy who wants to chat about stuff doing play-by-play and a color guy who doesn't know what's going on providing nothing to color the broadcast.
Just as a secondary example, when they had the guys in the booth yesterady visiting, Winfield knew well enough to be quiet when action was happening so that the other two could call the play, and instead of Buck & Pat picking up on that, it went dead silent.
Is it perhaps a slightly overblown concern? Yeah. Does it ruin my desire to watch Blue Jays games? not really. Half the time I try not to listen too hard to the commentary anyway. But I feel like they could very easily do better.
Grandma Jansen didn't seem too impressed there. She probably expected he should've hit a HR. 
