(Attempting to predict the length of a rain delay) "It doesn't smell like a long rain." "I just said Pandoval. I combined Sandoval and Panda. I think I should coin that." "If you can throw strikes that look like balls, and balls that look like strikes, that's the right formula."
"If you can throw strikes that look like balls, and balls that look like strikes, that's the right formula."
I never understood the hatred of McCarver, I don't think I know anyone who likes him but he has never bothered me.
Sterling is bad but he nowhere approaches the level of pretencious douchebagedness that McCarver does.
Last night when McCarver quoted Enter Sandman's chorus it was like watching your grandmother doing a rap song at karaoke night. Funny and very awkward at the same time.
Last Saturday at Fenway when Mo Rivera walked in from the bullpen to close out a 5-2 win with his 31st save, the Red Sox fans to their credit gave Mo a standing ovation--nice gesture. So of course, once he was on the mound and about to shut the door, the insufferable twat McCarver was there to rain on this particular occassion by bringinig up (in his words) "maybe the most important game in Red Sox history" while referring to a blown save Rivera had in game 4 of the 2004 playoffs, i.e. "let's not forget..." Yeah, ok Tim. Further, he described the stage last Saturday as if it was such an "all-the-pieces-in-place" coincidence; the idea that a 40+ year old reliever pitching his entire career with the same team wouldn't face a divisional rival a slew of times over his career. I don't know if he carries bitterness at the Yes Network not renewing his contract years ago, but he (esp. when teamed with Buck) sucks the big one. And, here's a guy who equated the Yankees treatment of Joe Torre as akin to how "Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia treated their generals" -- a quote he later had to apologize for.
