I've read in several places that Tim McCarver is the worst baseball analyst out there, and I'd like to know why. It's not that I disagree with those sentiments, it's just that I've never really paid enough attention to him - to me, he's just kind of "there". So if you're an Anti-McCarver, fill me in...
Well, one of the things he does is give an explanation as to why something happens. Let's say a pitcher is wild on a given day. McCarver (or Dopey, as I think of him) will start talking about how it's because the pitcher's shoulder is flying open as he delivers. Then they'll show a replay, or even better, do a side-by-side comparison with a time when the pitcher's arm is NOT flying open from a different game. The two comparisons will look exactly the same - basically, Dopey is wrong about the guy's arm flying open on that given day. But as the incontrovertible evidence appears on the screen that Dopey is wrong, he'll keep talking about it like he's right. This happens all the time. He also has a way of calling a slider a curveball, or saying that a strike "obviously missed the plate" when replays show it didn't. Just stuff like that, which makes you wonder if he watches the game with his eyes open or not.
WharfRat wrote:Well, one of the things he does is give an explanation as to why something happens. Let's say a pitcher is wild on a given day. McCarver (or Dopey, as I think of him) will start talking about how it's because the pitcher's shoulder is flying open as he delivers. Then they'll show a replay, or even better, do a side-by-side comparison with a time when the pitcher's arm is NOT flying open from a different game. The two comparisons will look exactly the same - basically, Dopey is wrong about the guy's arm flying open on that given day. But as the incontrovertible evidence appears on the screen that Dopey is wrong, he'll keep talking about it like he's right. This happens all the time. He also has a way of calling a slider a curveball, or saying that a strike "obviously missed the plate" when replays show it didn't. Just stuff like that, which makes you wonder if he watches the game with his eyes open or not.
so you are saying that he is vertically-intellectually challenged?
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WharfRat wrote:Well, one of the things he does is give an explanation as to why something happens. Let's say a pitcher is wild on a given day. McCarver (or Dopey, as I think of him) will start talking about how it's because the pitcher's shoulder is flying open as he delivers. Then they'll show a replay, or even better, do a side-by-side comparison with a time when the pitcher's arm is NOT flying open from a different game. The two comparisons will look exactly the same - basically, Dopey is wrong about the guy's arm flying open on that given day. But as the incontrovertible evidence appears on the screen that Dopey is wrong, he'll keep talking about it like he's right. This happens all the time. He also has a way of calling a slider a curveball, or saying that a strike "obviously missed the plate" when replays show it didn't. Just stuff like that, which makes you wonder if he watches the game with his eyes open or not.
so you are saying that he is vertically and intellectually challenged?
Haha, yeah pretty much. Also horizontally, verbally and visually.
WharfRat wrote:Well, one of the things he does is give an explanation as to why something happens. Let's say a pitcher is wild on a given day. McCarver (or Dopey, as I think of him) will start talking about how it's because the pitcher's shoulder is flying open as he delivers. Then they'll show a replay, or even better, do a side-by-side comparison with a time when the pitcher's arm is NOT flying open from a different game. The two comparisons will look exactly the same - basically, Dopey is wrong about the guy's arm flying open on that given day. But as the incontrovertible evidence appears on the screen that Dopey is wrong, he'll keep talking about it like he's right. This happens all the time. He also has a way of calling a slider a curveball, or saying that a strike "obviously missed the plate" when replays show it didn't. Just stuff like that, which makes you wonder if he watches the game with his eyes open or not.
Interesting. I could have sworn that was Joe Morgan you were describing. But you didn't say he repeated himself 15 times, so maybe it's not him.
I don't really have particular examples, cause I don't watch Fox baseball during the regular season. Wait until the postseason and bump this again. I'm sure I'll have something to contribute...
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WharfRat wrote:Well, one of the things he does is give an explanation as to why something happens. Let's say a pitcher is wild on a given day. McCarver (or Dopey, as I think of him) will start talking about how it's because the pitcher's shoulder is flying open as he delivers. Then they'll show a replay, or even better, do a side-by-side comparison with a time when the pitcher's arm is NOT flying open from a different game. The two comparisons will look exactly the same - basically, Dopey is wrong about the guy's arm flying open on that given day. But as the incontrovertible evidence appears on the screen that Dopey is wrong, he'll keep talking about it like he's right. This happens all the time. He also has a way of calling a slider a curveball, or saying that a strike "obviously missed the plate" when replays show it didn't. Just stuff like that, which makes you wonder if he watches the game with his eyes open or not.
Interesting. I could have sworn that was Joe Morgan you were describing. But you didn't say he repeated himself 15 times, so maybe it's not him.
Well, Morgan and McCarver do seem like doppelgangers sometimes. Actually, calling Tim McCarver a white Joe Morgan is about right, more or less.
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If that is why then you must hate a great number of people...
McCarver is a senile old bat who can not remember half the player's names, will analyze things and then see the replay and quickly "rephrase" his analysis, and on the whole not really add anything interesting to a baseball broadcast.
He's also been accused of being bias towards the yankees. Even by his own partner, Joe Buck. In the last Yankee-Sox game they did Buck flat out told him that people hate him because he's always bias towards the Yanks. After he said it there was about 2 min. of dead silence. You could tell that McCarver was holding the cough button while he and Buck were having out right there and then. It was CLASSIC.
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