Paranoia Runs Deep (The McCarver Edition)

[G-Fafif]

Managers hate Tim and always have.

[Guest themetfairy]

My hatred of Tim was set to music

Tim McCarver

Ooh my old obnoxious one, toxic one.
When you gonna give me a score, McCarver?
Ooh you got a motor mouth, a motor mouth.
Gun it without knowin' the facts McCarver
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a pompous mind. Always get it up for the chance
To hyperbolize. Tim Tim Timmy yi woo. Tim Tim Tim Tim McCarver...

Look a little closer huh, ah will ya huh.
Close enough to notice the game, McCarver.
Keep the score a mystery, gets to me
Having no compliments for Mets, McCarver
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a pompous mind. Always get it up for the chance
To hyperbolize. Tim Tim Timmy yi woo. Tim Tim Tim Tim McCarver...

When you gonna give it to me, the count to me.
You love the sound of your own voice, McCarver
Is it inaccuracy, falsity?
Will you just shut up about catchers, McCarver?
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a pompous mind. Always get it up for the chance
To hyperbolize. Tim Tim Timmy yi woo. Tim Tim Tim Tim McCarver...



The original tune can be heard here -

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't have any opinion on the current version of Tim McCarver, but the guy who did the Mets games in the 1980's was the best thing since bacon in a box.

You'll never hear me say a harsh word about Tim McCarver. After the doldrums of Lorn Brown, he made Mets telecasts fun again, and he brought Ralph Kiner out of his coma.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I don't have any opinion on the current version of Tim McCarver, but the guy who did the Mets games in the 1980's was the best thing since bacon in a box.

And speaking of broadcasters coming out of the booth to manage, McCarver consistently received serious managerial offers while announcing the Mets until word finally got around that McCarver was not interested in managing a baseball team.

I thought McCarver was a great Met announcer.

[Guest AG/DC]

Oops. Another ira/magadan similarity. Now I'm the paranoiac.

I also loved what he brought to the Mets booth in the eighties.

I think Sandomir gets only part of the story there. How about calling the other coaches on the yacht? Does he really think he's going to get anything out of Doubleday?

Still, I'm glad the peanut shell thing is in the record.

[seawolf17]

I loved Tim as a Mets broadcaster, and I love his books; but I think he's been unbearable lately.

[Centerfield]

As I mentioned when Tim and Ralph were paired up briefly last year during a Fox telecast, those two had such incredible chemistry. It seems that by having to defer to Kiner and his incredible baseball life, McCarver was forced to reign it in a little bit.

His know-it-all style is a little grating at times, but I don't mind him. That TBS team during last year's playoffs had me pining for McCarver-Buck.

Plus I learned a hell of a lot about baseball listening to him on WOR.

[Gwreck]

The difference in the McCarver-Kiner pairing was, of course, that McCarver was doing more of the play-by-play and therefore didn't seem obligated to fill in with something at the spots alloted him by Buck.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

My problem with McCarver was that after he taught us all he knew, and it was a lot, we didn't need him to keep teaching us.

[MFS62]

themetfairy wrote: The original tune can be heard here -

MF, didn't need the link to the original. That song came through loud and clear.
Good job.

And thank you. Didn't remember the first time you had posted it.
Later

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My problem with McCarver was that after he taught us all he knew, and it was a lot, we didn't need him to keep teaching us.

Part of the problem I think is that announcers feel that when they're speaking to a different audience during network games - one that's both less hardcore and less familiar with the team - they need to alter their focus a bit and drive home those points that their home fans have heard a thousand times already.
I wonder if McCarver had stayed w/the Mets a while longer if he would have grated on nerves as much as he did with some Met fans.