McCarverisms, 2006 Edition, ad nauseum
McCarvism No. 1
Game 4, bottom of the seventh, no outs, that scrappy white guy on second courtesy of Curtis Granderson falling down chasing an easy fly out. Taguchi drops a bunt and Rodney chucks it down the right field line.
Cue McCarver.
"buh-blah blah blah, buh buh blah blah buh blah blah buh, Polanco jumping for it but the Cardinals take the lead on yet another Tiger pitcher error."
Mind you, right before McBlatheron had his moment, Joe Buck had just announced the Cards had tied the score on the play. So not only is McClueless not paying attention to the game, he's not even listening to his boothmates!!!
McCarverism No. 2
Okay, in the lexicon of McCarverisms, this next comment wouldn't normally merit mention. However, it is a perfect illustration his use of the "mixed metaphor" and, at least for me, why his commentary is so absolutely annoyingly jarring.
While pop culture, and even State of the Union addresses, borrows frequently from the lexicon of sports (who hasn't hit a "home run"?), McLitChick gets all crazy on us and borrows idioms from other contexts and rather incongruously applies them to the sport of baseball.
With Curtis Granderson up with 2 out in the bottom of the eight (right after the Tiger's tied it up on Inge's double), McPitchGuru explains to the uninitated: "There's that tighly wrapped curveball from Wainwright to even the count to Granderson."
I'm sorry - unless Adam Wainwright is Santa Claus and Granderson has been awful nice - no pitcher is tossing balls wrapped, let alone "tightly wrapped," with anything. Maybe "tightly spun."
In other news, from the various shots of fans in the stands, St. Louis seems to be intent on laying claimliving up to the title of dorkiest fans on the planet. What's up with that dude with the Sandfrog-stache taped to his chin? You're a middle-age father with your kids in tow and you end up with the $3 soul patch taped to your chin??? And did the Fox producers really need to show him twice?
8 comments:
whether it's wrapped or spun, isn't a "tight" curveball called a slider?
Hey Phillyville. I know we're supposed to be enemies and all that, since I'm a Mets fan, but as they say, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." Or something like that. Anyway, I love your bashing of McCarver. I hate him, I hate Fox, and I hate their crap coverage of the WS so much that I'm not watching it. (Yes, I do watch the fall classic even when the Mets are not in it, and let's face it - most of the time they're not). I wrote about this on my own blog, too. Bloggers en masse need to point out how crap Fox's coverage is - and maybe MLB might sniff out a clue and actually do something about it. But probably not. Congrats for making deadspin, btw.
Many thanks - yeah, Mets fans... maybe you shouldn't read some of my other posts on my blog...
I assume the soul patch you were talking about was bright red? He was dressing up like Scott Spiezio, Cardinals 3B/LF, who died his soul-patch Cardinal Red. The middle-aged father, like a ton of other Cardinals fans, was having a little fun and dressing up like one of the players. I'm sure if you watch the broadcast you'll see a sea of fake (and real) red facial hair.
It was local fans having fun at the welcomed expense of their own player. I can't tell you how many times I'd seen fans wearing elbow bursitis sleeves at a Sixers game. Anyone who didn't know about Iverson would think it's strange, just like anyone who didn't know about Spiezio would think it's strange. It's actually kind of endearing.
Thank you for this. I freaking hate McCarver, and for the life of me cannot figure out why he is regarded as such a baseball genius. And would someone please tell him that for the last, oh, 50 years or so, it has been acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition. He will absolutely torture a sentence rather than ending it with a preposition. "In a clutch situation, David Eckstein is the kind of player on which you want to depend." I just made that up, but you get the idea. Also loved the way he gratuitously brought up a 38-year-old controversy about Lou Brock's play in the '68 WS, by way of defending Brock from, uh, whom, exactly? Nice. With friends like Tim...
For the Cardinals fans in the house - Sandfrog = Scott Spiezio's rock band.
So yes, I KNOW THAT THE STUPID RED SOUL PATCHES ARE IN HOMAGE TO HIM.
Amazing that the only person who doesn't get the Sandfrog reference is the Cardinals fan.
They are truly terrible.
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