Joe Buck’s book tour took him to late night on Monday night and Conan O’Brien’s TBS show. Buck and O’Brien talked about plenty of topics as Buck seemed to enjoy the opportunity to get back into the late night scene and somewhat relive his Joe Buck Live days as he cracked some jokes about the criticism that comes his way as a lead national announcer.

Specifically, Buck talked about some of the backlash from this year’s World Series from fans of both the Cubs and Indians that thought he was rooting against their teams. He referenced the meme about his faux wedding registry with Kyle Schwarber and a sign at the series that even labeled him as the Zodiac Killer. Note: Joe Buck is not the Zodiac Killer.

Buck is right in that as a national announcer, it’s tough to win in that situation, especially in baseball when fans get to listen to their home team’s announcers for 162 games during the season. In the NFL fans are used to watching games with national announcers every week. So to suddenly hear someone that is supposed to be neutral in the World Series or the MLB postseason can be a shock to the system.

Buck also talked about one of the more startling revelations this year in sports – the truth that it wasn’t in fact a virus that affected his voice for almost a year, but in fact the result of a side-effect from hairplugs surgery gone wrong. While the world didn’t know what was really going on at the time, Buck did confide in someone about his hairplug treatments – actor Matthew McConaughey.

“You fixed your video but you screwed up your audio.” That’s actually brilliant, Buddha-like insights from the actor. Now all I can think about is random celebrities going to Matthew McConaughey for advice like he’s the modern day Confucius. Maybe those Lincoln commercials really are metaphors for the meaning of life…

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