BB cards (LA Times) + doozy about Tim McCarver/Manny Ramirez (NY Post)

[Howard W. Rosenberg]

The first article is a harmless article about The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book, released in 1973:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-baseball-cards28-2009jun28,0,6719314.story

The second is not about cards, but has a biting hypocrisy-in-current-baseball theme:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07062009/sports/moresports/____but_give_this_anti_manny_spew_an_ast_177847.ht m

[Jay Wolt]

I agree w/ McCarver 100%

[HRBAKER]

It pains me to actually listen to McCarver but I do have to agree with him.

[FrankWakefield]

As a kid I liked McCarver in the lineup.

Later, most of the time I liked him as an announcer.

Later still I found he was less and less tolerable... becoming a pain.


McCarver's about right on this, though. No National Anthem, sell commercials. Manny = BS.

Tim doesn't mention Chris Meyers, but he's about useless on all sports telecasts. I'd just as soon suffer through another commercial or get back to whatever it is, rather than listen to him.

[Rob D.]

If you've never wondered how Tim McCarver is able to keep his job, you should check out these two links. Entertaining stuff.

http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2006/07/can-we-talk-about-this-one-thing.html

http://www.firejoemorgan.com/search/label/tim%20mccarver

[HRBAKER]

Yes Frank, as a young Redbird fan I loved him anchoring those great '64, '67 and '68 WS teams but unfortunately as an announcer he had to open his mouth.