The Official Tim McCarver Intelligence Thread

[mick]

Originally Posted by LMan

Your Tigers had better start hitting....

I'm thinking those Cardinal pitchers are pretty tough, but Pudge, Placido and Grandy are really struggling. Maybe the rain will wash thier bad stuff away.

[UMP25]

I saw that Thursday's evening forecast has a 100% chance of steady rain, and Friday's forecast isn't much better. This thing may stretch to Halloween.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by mcrowder

Anyone else think it's a bit oxymoronic that something labelled the Tim McCarver Intelligence Thread ended up being long?

No, it's more ironic.

An oxymoron is the inclusion of what are ordinarily mutually exclusive words or terms in the same phrase.....jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, honest coach, etc.

The title of the thread could be considered as containing an oxymoron, but the fact it is such a long thread, isn't.

[UMP25]

Tonight's McCarver "Duh!" gem:

You can't score a run on a ground out when there are two outs and a runner on third, but you can score a run on a ground out when there's only one out and a runner on third.

(Emphasis added.)

[mbyron]

I won't complain about that one. After all, they're broadcasting for a wide range of folks, including neophytes who don't know that a run would not score on a 2-out groundout.

OTOH, if you were expressing surprise that McCarver DID know this rule, then I concur.

[UMP25]

I'd guess that those who are actually watching the Series know a run doesn't score on a two-out groundout, but I was more entertained by McCarver's "understanding" of it.

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Since the runner establishes his own basepath between bases (and is not necessarily the direct line between bases), it is the fielder's responsibility not to alter the runner's path in any way. I didn't see the play, but Inge must have caused the runner to slow down or change his course in some manner.

In our clinic for new softball officials, we describe it this way:

If you pull your car in the driveway, and little Susie has left her tricycle in the middle of it, and has cuased to to either slow down, stop, or swerve to miss it, you have been obstructed...just substitute a base runner for the car, and a fielder for the tricycle.....

I had an errant throw on a R going into 3rd, with both the C and P going after it...the R continued on to HP...the P, realizing this, stopped her pursuit and ended up going down the baseline about 2 ft in front of the R...I banged them for OBS, even though the P ended up getting the throw from the C and tagging the runner - IMO, the P had slowed R up enough to keep her from getting HP safely...which I tried very patiently to explain to the coach before ejecting him......

and of course the idiot fans all think contact has to be made....


When McCarver was doing Phillies, Mets and Yankee broadcasts, he ALWAYS got OBS and INT mixed up....


and dont get me started on Morgan.....

[LMan]

Well, the Tigers started hitting!



..and stopped fielding.

[mick]

Originally Posted by LMan

Well, the Tigers started hitting!



..and stopped fielding.

Yeah, they've been a surprise all season, ... and they are still surprising.

[UMP25]

In light of a relatively new poster here named jimpiano, who believes Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver are intelligent, I am resurrecting this thread.

I hate it when these closet coaches pollute this forum.