First of all, before the Hobbs family descends upon me with cries of 'Bryce is quick,' hear me out...
How annoying has it been to see Manny Ramirez tear it up for the Dodgers after dogging it with the Red Sox the last couple of years - yeah, I know, the stats were always good, but you knew he was never playing all out all the time (unlike the 'gamers' on the Giants)...so some enterprising reporter, I'm sure figuring he's totally wasting his time, asks McCarver what he thinks...read and be amazed:
"It's extraordinary -- the dichotomy between what he was in Boston and what he is in Los Angeles," McCarver said, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. "I mean, talk about wearing out your welcome in a town, and it was a long welcome with the Red Sox. But some of the things he did were simply despicable, despicable -- like not playing, refusing to play. Forgetting what knee to limp on. And now it's washed, it's gone."
Are you kidding me??? As if that's not enough, he takes it further:
"You can't ignore all of the things that happened in Boston," McCarver told ESPN's Bob Ley. Later, asked if "despicable" was the right word, McCarver said: "I'm fine with it. I was fine with it when I said it."
I'm speechless...I am without speech...read it for yourselves: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2008/news/story?id=3632077
Here's the $356-dollar question we must now face - is Tim McCarver not the worst ever? Was he so much worse than everyone else that all the lucid quotes like this won't change anything, or are there any other mere mortals who are within range of his insanity that he can now hear footsteps?
I leave you all to ponder that one...my head already hurts...
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One lucid thought that actually is formed and somehow finds its way out of his mouth...in order?! That does not un-do his past. I submit Pete Rose, 4796 hits and then the whole betting on baseball thing wipes it all out in one shot. Sox fans must feel like we did with A.J. only times about 100
Good point with the AJ Poopzinski parallel. That is a good comment from McCarver, but let's be real, when you compare McCarver to the team of Dick Stockton, Chip Caray and Buck Martinez, you're gonna pine for the days of Buck-McCarver.
Plus, it's a fairly obvious observation, that Manny in L.A. is way better than Manny in Boston--Manny being Manny or something...
In other words, let's give it a week before we back off the McCarver-hate trail.
Let me encourage you with this adage: a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then.
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