If you're a sports fan, there's always a sportscaster you just can't stand.
Either they're egregious homers, pulling for their teams, or they're know-it-alls who are wrong more often than they're right.
Or maybe they're one of those broadcasters who won't shut up and let the game speak for itself.
Whoever they are, you can develop a strange fondness for the grating voice behind the microphone. You know they're going to bug you, yet you look forward to the irritation.
Tim McCarver is that guy for us. A decent Major League catcher for 21 seasons, McCarver started broadcasting in the '80s, and he hasn't stopped talking since. (Sportswriter Norman Chad once said of McCarver: "When you ask him the time, he'll tell you how a watch works.")
To be fair, McCarver obviously has his fans, as his long tenure as a World Series color analyst will attest. Still, we hope that today, on his 66th birthday, Tim gives us a present and sets down his microphone to let us watch the playoffs and the World Series in silence.
- Shut Up Tim McCarver - from those who just want a little peace and quiet.
- Tim McCarver.com - official site for McCarver's talk show. And, brother, does he ever talk.
- Joe Buck Sucks - you won't get an argument from us on Tim's partnet, pal.
- Fire Joe Morgan.com: Tim McCarver - some of Tim's better McCarverisms dissected and refuted.
- The New Yorker: Goodbye, Tim McCarver - but not in the way we'd have liked.
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