Joe Buck will call the MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday night in Miami, a party city like few in the country, so when he hopped on “The Dan Le Batard Show” on ESPN Radio he was naturally asked to relay his finest story about a bad experience with an edible.
Buck laughed and then went right into a story about a trip to Cabo in 2011 while he was dealing with a paralyzed vocal cord following his hair plug mishap. As with every story about eating an edible gone awry, Buck’s story starts with he and his buddy not having any reaction for the first 45 minutes after eating a pot brownie, so they decide to each have another half brownie. This is, of course, when things go off the rails.
Joe @Buck joins us to talk about his Topps baseball card and his experience with "magic" brownies.
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As Buck tells it, he and a buddy hop in a car service to go to a bar when it hits him, mid text message. Buck ends up eventually freaking out and insisting on leaving, where he passed out and almost fell into the marina (transcript via For The Win).
“I’m trying to text somebody, and the letters start flying off my phone into my face, and I’m like, ‘Oh, this is not gonna be good.’ We show up. There’s a bachelorette party going on. I’m scared, I’m frightened and I’m avoiding them. And then I sit down, and I can’t feel my legs. And I talk to the guy that drove us down there, and I said, ‘I need to leave right now.’ He’s drinking a Coca-Cola, and I said, ‘I need to drink that, and I gotta get out of here right now.’
“So he helps me to my feet. We stagger. I somehow magically get down the steps and to the exit. I think we’re going to go right, he thinks we’re going to go left. He pulls me left as I go right. I pass out onto the ground, go under a rope with my head hanging off into the marina. I damn near died. I had a dream while I was down there. I popped up, and I went from completely out of it to completely sober, worrying that within the next four minutes, it was going to pop up on Deadspin that I just went down at a bar in Cabo.”
It’s a hilarious story and his discussion of his Topps baseball card is almost equally as funny. Buck, now one of the elder statesmen of the play-by-play profession has become one of the best interviews in sports media because of his willingness to tell stories like this one and laugh at his own expense.
