Why Doesn't McCarver GET IT???
By Doug Farrar
RE: FOX - Any network that would give Kevin Kennedy a job analyzing baseball without the words "at gunpoint" being involved...well, that's what you've got to deal with. Not satisfied with co-opting every PLAYER they desire as if it is their divine right, the Wankos now stoop to buying broadcasters. Wasn't it FOX's Thom Brenneman who said that Manny was everything that was wrong with baseball after he DARED to observe his own HR (gasp) in last year's ALCS? I'm going from memory here, but that sounds like what happened. Former ESPN broadcaster Charley Steiner is now hawking World Series Replica Rings on the YES Network? Hmmm…
Joe Buck is a nothing but a multi-purpose stooge. What I fail to understand about McCarver is that not only was he the starting catcher on the Cards' team that beat the Wanks in the 1964 WS, but he actually spent time in the mid-70's as a backup catcher for the Carmine Hose! That’s right, folks…and Bill Lee disclosed in his FABULOUS book, “The Wrong Stuff”, Timmy was nicknamed “Old Second Inning”, due to his habit of taking a dump before the second inning of every game. If you talk to people like Bob Gibson (who’s worthy of anyone’s respect), you’ll hear that McCarver’s a great person. It’s just too bad that he’s taken the “dump” aspect of his career to a new metaphoric extent as a broadcaster.
To paraphrase Mr. Lee, there’s an easy solution to this problem – send Rick Burleson and Rico Petrocelli up to the booth. A little “Red Sox Red-A**” behavior” would shut those lumberheads up!
