Sunday, June 03, 2012
Tim McCarver
Well, things have gone better since my last post. We're now ahead of Blue Jays and only two games behind the Orioles and Rays. The Sox hit so many doubles! I can't believe they are winning with Scott Podsednik and Nick Punto in the lineup, but I'll take it. I don't want to pop that bubble.
Anyway, we're also just a half game behind the Junkees who lost a game against the Tigers last night that was the least inspiring game I've ever seen with the Yankees tying the game in the 9th on two walks, two hit batters, three stolen bases, an error, and one run and the Tigers winning in the bottom on a sac fly. Fox is apparently going to run a primetime Saturday night game once in a while. I didn't need to guess what team it would be. The blatant rooting for the Yankees by Fox is fairly well-documented, but it's just tiresome. I mean, who enjoys this?
Dare they criticize the GREAT Yankees whose 100% HALL OF FAME lineup managed to only score one run off a pitcher - Jose Valverde - who had no ability to throw a strike? After hitting two batters and walking another on four pitches, if a hitter hacked on the first chance he had, what announcer wouldn't be screaming bloody murder about that guy being inexperienced, or making a mistake, or whatever, but you could just hear silence from the FOX booth when both Curtis Granderson and Robinson Cano did exactly that. They muttered something like, "mumble mumble great hitter mumble mumble surprising." When finally someone glued Teixeira's bat to his shoulder to keep him from swinging, the Yankees got their tying run home.
Then in the bottom of the ninth, the Tigers simply got a pair of singles from the bottom of their non-star lineup. Anything in there about good hitting? Clutch hitting? No. The only praise was for "Nick," McCarver's buddy Swisher for cutting off a ball so that the Tigers didn't score from first on a single but instead had a guy on third with one out. Yeah, that was awesome, "Nick." Then, when Omir Santos, minor league baseball player, who looks like Miguel of the Bad News Bears, inside-outed a pitch to mid-deep right to win the game, McCarver petulantly muttered, obviously bitter and annoyed, "Biggest moment of his life." Which immediately made me wonder if Santos had any kids, was married, had ever saved a cat from a burning building... or just have a peek at a wikipedia entry.
Well, things have gone better since my last post. We're now ahead of Blue Jays and only two games behind the Orioles and Rays. The Sox hit so many doubles! I can't believe they are winning with Scott Podsednik and Nick Punto in the lineup, but I'll take it. I don't want to pop that bubble.
Dare they criticize the GREAT Yankees whose 100% HALL OF FAME lineup managed to only score one run off a pitcher - Jose Valverde - who had no ability to throw a strike? After hitting two batters and walking another on four pitches, if a hitter hacked on the first chance he had, what announcer wouldn't be screaming bloody murder about that guy being inexperienced, or making a mistake, or whatever, but you could just hear silence from the FOX booth when both Curtis Granderson and Robinson Cano did exactly that. They muttered something like, "mumble mumble great hitter mumble mumble surprising." When finally someone glued Teixeira's bat to his shoulder to keep him from swinging, the Yankees got their tying run home.
Then in the bottom of the ninth, the Tigers simply got a pair of singles from the bottom of their non-star lineup. Anything in there about good hitting? Clutch hitting? No. The only praise was for "Nick," McCarver's buddy Swisher for cutting off a ball so that the Tigers didn't score from first on a single but instead had a guy on third with one out. Yeah, that was awesome, "Nick." Then, when Omir Santos, minor league baseball player, who looks like Miguel of the Bad News Bears, inside-outed a pitch to mid-deep right to win the game, McCarver petulantly muttered, obviously bitter and annoyed, "Biggest moment of his life." Which immediately made me wonder if Santos had any kids, was married, had ever saved a cat from a burning building... or just have a peek at a wikipedia entry.
On April 27, 2009, Santos hit his first career home run, a grand slam off the Florida Marlins Aníbal Sánchez. It was the first grand slam hit in Citi Field. The home run also produced his first career RBI.
On May 23, 2009, Santos hit a two-run go-ahead home run off Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon at Fenway Park in the ninth inning with two outs which was the difference maker in the game.
On May 29, 2009, against the Florida Marlins, he hit a game-tying home run in the fifth inning, only to hit a game-winning single in the bottom of the 11th. Soon after the game, the Mets traded their other backup catcher Ramon Castro to the Chicago White Sox for pitcher Lance Broadway, ensuring that Santos stays with the team as the backup catcher to Brian Schneider.Screw you, McCarver. You're the worst announcer in baseball.
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